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Talking animals.

  • 11-07-2012 2:55am
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    Where To
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    Is it acceptable in your opinion that cartoon animals talk when real ones don't?

    Having grown up in the country I have never really thought of this til now, we could always tell the difference between Bambi and Sunday dinner.

    But for today's city dwelling kids, they could go years without encountering wildlife so maybe we should think a little more of the lessons we are teaching our kids, and lower their expectations of the conversational abilities of our furry friends.


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  • #2
    EGAR
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    Meh, do me my donkey sounds like Eddie Murphy. Feck Hollywood.


  • #3
    books4sale
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    Real animals do talk, just we can't understand.

    If you're looking for wildlife that can speak our language then look no further then parrots.


  • #4
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he dressed up as a girl bunny?


  • #5
    mauzo
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    It annoys me in cartoons when some animals talk and some are pets. Like Pluto in mickey mouse. That's probably the least strangest thing about mickey mouse though in fairness.

    But no you're talking ****e.


  • #6
    Where To
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    books4sale wrote: »
    Real animals do talk, just we can't understand.
    Only to their own species though. They're no having a massive rave party like in Jungle Book.


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  • #7
    Chuck Stone
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    Where To wrote: »
    Is it acceptable in your opinion that cartoon animals talk?


    Not if they talk all uppity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw


  • #8
    Where To
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    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he dressed up as a girl bunny?
    Yes I did. Even when he wasn't dressed as a girl bunny. I didn't go out serenading rabbits in ditches though, which is what I fear could happen in future


  • #9
    af_thefragile
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    Real animals talk too!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZrUn03kXI


  • #10
    LH Pathe
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    Spare a thought for the iguana, on a scorched rock, overlooking an ever diminishing pool.. muttering utterances about how it used to really attract teh flies


  • #11
    REPTILEDAN88
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    books4sale wrote: »
    Real animals do talk, just we can't understand.

    If you're looking for wildlife that can speak our language then look no further then parrots.
    Or Mynah Birds, check out Youtube for videos of them.


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  • #12
    LH Pathe
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    They're not talking, they're mimicking you. Hook to the head will put paid to that


  • #13
    Cookie_Monster
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    I think OP is just testing the waters whether to reviel he is actually the cow in his avatar and stun the world that's he's learned to read and type.


  • #14
    Ghandee
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    Where To wrote: »
    Is it acceptable in your opinion that cartoon animals talk when real ones don't?

    Having grown up in the country I have never really thought of this til now, we could always tell the difference between Bambi and Sunday dinner.

    You eat baby deer's for Sunday dinner:eek:

    Where To wrote: »
    But for today's city dwelling kids, they could go years without encountering wildlife so maybe we should think a little more of the lessons we are teaching our kids, and lower their expectations of the conversational abilities of our furry friends.

    Most kids I know, (or even my own kids) have never watched peppa pig then attempted to ask the sow in our yard how she felt having thirteen young, essentially breast feeding from her for roughly 22 hrs a day.

    I think your reading too much into this tbh.

    Lastly, I'd personally be more worried on what our kids learn in Bible class.

    Take this story from judges 19:22-30.

    Within the Bible, one occasionally finds stories so horrible, one can wonder what their purpose is. Not only is this story utterly bizarre, but it is also absolutely disgusting. A man and his concubine are wandering the streets when they decide to seek shelter for the night, and find a man kind enough to let them stay. That night however, a group of men turn up at the door and demand to see the guest so that they may have sex with him. The owner is unwilling to let his male lodger be raped and so offers up his virgin daughter instead. However, this is still not good enough for the men, so the owner offers them his guest’s concubine and the men accept. The men brutally rape the woman and leave her on the doorstep where she bleeds to death. If that is not enough, when she is found by her husband, he chops her up into twelve pieces which he sends to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

    The moral of this story? I would hope none.


  • #15
    books4sale
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    Where To wrote: »
    Only to their own species though. They're no having a massive rave party like in Jungle Book.

    One word.....mushrooms!

    You ever see a bear chillin' while munching on a mushroom?


  • #16
    Where To
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    books4sale wrote: »
    Where To wrote: »
    Only to their own species though. They're no having a massive rave party like in Jungle Book.

    One word.....mushrooms!

    You ever see a bear chillin' while munching on a mushroom?
    I have, and I've also seen them buzzing on honey.

    I haven't, however, seen them stealing pickinick baskets, talk in silly voices, play jokes on park rangers or wear trillby hats.


  • #17
    Micky Dolenz
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    Pass it to the left, Man


  • #18
    Jester252
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    Have a problem like what the op mention. Every time we're at family dinner in my granny's with my little city cousin gets upset if we mention what we're having for dinner. So for the pass six months it meat all around


  • #19
    Duggy747
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBck3xcUJc


  • #20
    Where To
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    And as if by magic to prove my point,

    http://www.thejournal.ie/woman-chased-and-attacked-by-raccoons-516781-Jul2012/

    This poor unfortunate lady thought she was going to reason with a lovable rogue who lived in a hollowed out tree with his uncle and wore stripey t-shirts.

    Instead she encountered the ferocity of living breathing wild animals.


  • #21
    ScumLord
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    books4sale wrote: »
    If you're looking for wildlife that can speak our language then look no further then parrots.
    Dogs are probably the best at the human language outside of humans, they just don't have the vocal cords to reply, I'm not that convinced that what parrots are doing is anything more than a parlour trick. Dogs understand the meaning.

    I would have thought talking animals teach children some amount of acceptance of things that are not like themselves. There's also less worry about annoying any particular group of people and it's just common for parents to talk for other objects when they explain things to children.


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  • #22
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Where To wrote: »
    And as if by magic to prove my point,

    http://www.thejournal.ie/woman-chased-and-attacked-by-raccoons-516781-Jul2012/
    Lee says her American dingo dog began barking
    American dingo :confused:

    Real dingos don't bark


  • #23
    Where To
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    American dingo :confused:

    Real dingos don't bark
    American ones do apparently.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Dog


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