• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    13 days ago

    You know, that would actually be the funniest possible concept if it actually turned out to be true. We discover the whole wild kingdom is like pulling a toy story on us. All animals are sentient, Our dogs actually speak perfect english.

    It’s much like HHGTTG said about dolphins.

    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

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    13 days ago

    Of all the apes I’ve always thought orangutans would be the ones that were the smartest. Now maybe thats just because I watched Robin hood at a young age but I wouldnt put it past those bastards to just be like oh shit the humans are coming, look dumb.

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        13 days ago

        ‘A Clockwork Orange’ possibly comes from Malay ‘orang’. Although Burgess alternatively credited a cockney expression, but no record of such an expression exists.