
WTF Disney?
At some point in my life, I learned that lemmings didn’t really leap to their deaths, but I never knew the role Disney played in creating the myth about these adorable little arctic rodents.
Why would they do that? What purpose did that serve? I don’t know about you, Deadsplinters but I need a double!
First we hear of Farcy’s neighbor’s bunny disaster & now this? Ok, I’ll pile on…The other day we found fur all over the front yard but no carcass. Last few nights I have seen rabbits on my doorbell cam in the middle of the night. Then a couple nights ago a coyote walks right in front and takes the same path as the bunnies. I think we have a few dens in our yard and the coyotes have finally figured out that we are a good hunting ground. Every morning when I check the cam I hope to not see one getting carried off and my wife hopes she does! She hates the bunnies for digging up the yard and eating plants.
As for happy hour, my beer guy started getting Weld Works beers this week. I had read lots about them and made a home brew based on Juicy Bits but to finally try it is awesome!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaCTvkxpY41/
There have been reports in my neighborhood of foxes carrying off house cats.
I’ve read that some experts doubt that a fox has the mad skillz to surprise and take down a full grown cat, and speculates that what witnesses report are foxes carrying off roadkill cats. But I’m thinking at least maybe elderly cats?
At any rate, I’m too cold for booze right now and settling for tea.
Yeah, cats are pretty fierce. I don’t know that a fox is going to mess with them. My daughter had a pet rooster when she was a toddler. One morning I found some bloody feathers and some fox fur in the yard. Poor Colonel Sanders must have put up a hell of a fight but we never saw him again. We told my daughter he moved away. She was heartbroken. It’s cold here too, I’m having my afternoon coffee.
We had a brief spate of cold weather but today it’s 82 here. Sorry.
Yeah, I would be surprised if a fox could take out a full sized cat. Maybe it was a small coyote? I read/heard somewhere that foxes are closer to the feline family than canine. This video makes me believe that.
Go, Sunshine!
At saveafox.org – they say that foxes are cats in dog bodies.
But the Fox seems very dog like in not understanding the cat, lol. Fox just wanted to cuddle and be pals. Cats all like swat swat, take that!
…on the one hand I’d be surprised…but in the other I was also surprised when I heard of there being cats that can & have killed foxes
…I guess it might depend on the cat & the fox in question but I suppose it wouldn’t be any more implausible that way around than the other?
Cats can be vicious, murderous creatures. We’re lucky they don’t kill us all in our sleep.
Poor little bunnies. Bring ‘em inside. Then they can’t dig up the garden or be eaten by coyotes. Win win!
That’s not going to happen! We had a cat take one of their babies last year right in front of my daughters. They freaked out! I had a friend that kept a pet rabbit in a studio apartment with them and it chewed through their phone lines. Lucky it didn’t eat through a power cord.
I still want a bunny someday. They’re so cute. I’d invest in cord protecters.
We couldn’t use our front door growing up because a big mama rabbit and her brood lived in our pine island. She would attack anyone on the walkway – most not making it to the door because she was so scary. We used to have a sign one of my sisters made that said “Beware of Attack Rabbit – Run Away – This is Not a Monty Python Joke.” Our yard was notorious among the trick or treaters. That rabbit lived there for quite a long time. I guess she finally died at some point.
That’s crazy, I’ve never heard anything like that. Well, good for Ma Bunny. You had other doors. I would have liked to see her terrorizing the trick or treaters.
omg disney is evil!…..oh wait i knew that
still…that worse than i expected
anyways….in the midst of all this doom and gloom and general scummery i found a present for @loveshaq
I was about to say, how have I not seen this! This is fucking awesome! Then I realized it just dropped! Thanks @Farscythe
lol no worries 😀
its my thing
But why would Disney want us to believe that lemmings do that? It’s a bizarre thing to make up!
They were amplifying an old myth for dramatic effect:
However, this particular myth is based on some actual lemming behaviors. Lemmings have large population booms every three or four years. When the concentration of lemmings becomes too high in one area, a large group will set out in search of a new home. Lemmings can swim, so if they reach a water obstacle, such as a river or lake, they may try to cross it. Inevitably, a few individuals drown. But it’s hardly suicide.
But the biggest reason the myth endures? Deliberate fraud. For the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness, filmmakers eager for dramatic footage staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. The images—shocking at the time for what they seemed to show about the cruelty of nature and shocking now for what they actually show about the cruelty of humans—convinced several generations of moviegoers that these little rodents do, in fact, possess a bizarre instinct to destroy themselves.
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide
I’m guessing this was before the Animal Welfare Act.
Hell, it was before the Civil Rights Act. The lemmings were damn lucky they weren’t Black and trying to get a job.
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OMG EUNICE JUST MURDERED MY COFEE!!!!
i fucking hate this storm…i just opened the door to have a sneaky smoke half outside
and whoosh…my jar of coffee learnt the skill of flight….sadly did not learn the skill of landing….glass and coffee everywhere
Mother Nature says smoking is bad for you, farscy.
mother nature just killed my coffee….
that is an offense i cannot let slide
im gonna smoke 6 packs a day and only drive diesel from now on
Everybody, make sure you don’t stand within 20 feet of farscy. Lightning bolts are an imprecise instrument of vengeance.
sound advice
that said i fancy my odds….there is no force greater than a farscy scorned
and im scorned as fuck right now
The loss of coffee is a tragedy.
right?
i mean…why the coffee?
theres like 6 jars of tea why kill mine?
i can only assume shit is now personal
The PARNC (some kind of not a doctor but lots of degrees) just told me to drink tea with honey. Fine, says I, and got some triple ginger tea and some whisky to add to it. My condolences on the loss of your coffee.
Whiskey is medicinal too. Good thinking on your part.
EVERYONE
Please observe a moment of silence for @farscythe‘s coffee loss. Dear coffee, your sudden loss was such a tragedy and you shall be missed.
*bows*
you are missed dear coffee…. you’ve always been good to me…propped me up when i needed the support….warmed me up when i was cold
i cannot believe you are gone
the world is a lesser place without you
It’s National Drink Wine Day in the US, so if you want to share in some good American cultural experiences, now’s your chance.
I’m a patriot dammit so hell yes, I’m gonna drink wine!