Not a good argument! There are plenty of nude male animal cartoon characters. Gromit, for one, Donald Duck for another. There were bulls in Looney Tunes, heck, Bugs Bunny was a nudist. I'll completely agree that my country is very very weird about nudity, though. I'm so far the other way that sometimes it's a shock when I run against someone who's more "normal" than me. I'm like, Oh, yeah, I forgot ... Hey, I just got a great idea for a title of something: "Bugs Bunny was a Nudist." Wonder how many lawsuits THAT one would bring. The thing that really bugs me is there's probably some poor dumb undereducated kid out there who now thinks boy cows give milk. Bad enough that people think seals balance balls on their noses! Seals are just helpless puddly bags of fat when on land. They couldn't balance a ball if you glued it to them. Sea LIONS, on the other hand ... I've seen "nature" shows for kids that got it wrong. No wonder people are confused. Oh, and one more thing: Polar Bears and Penguins do not coexist in the same habitat! They live on opposite ends of the earth, literally, the north and south pole, respectively. If they did coexist we'd have a lot fewer penguins and some very fat, happy polar bears. The only thing they have in common is their ability to withstand the cold due to an extra layer of fat, and seals. Polar bears eat seals, seals eat penguins. But only at sea. On land, as mentioned, seals are nearly completely helpless and easily outrun by a one-legged penguin with a chest cold.
Actually agree with you on all that. Just goto Bondi Beach. We do not have breast issues here. Also Seals and sea lions don't balance balls on their nose . They use their whiskers to hold The ball in position. The real predator here in the south cold is the killer whale.
This was taken from trusty IMDB's trivia page on the Barnyard movie. The "male" bovines having udders was explained in the October 2006 issue of Nickelodeon's official magazine, "Nick Magazine". In the letters page, one reader asked about the anatomically-incorrect cows(bovine) and whether or not it was intentional or not, and the magazine explained that the movie's director "thought it would be funny for the male cows(bulls) to have udders". There ya go, he thought it was funny, that should explain all, shouldn't it?
Well if we looked at on another Angle, it could discriminate on udderly challenged Bovines, and hermaphrodites.
I'm always amused by pruderies of all sorts. When the, now infamous "Annoying Thing" (caution link shows naked cartoon frog ) gained a new life as "The Crazy Frog" a certain small protuberance in the lower anterior region of its abdomen was pixellated out in the TV ads for the Crazy Frog ringtones. The pixelling out was because, I assume, the animator (Erik Bernquist) had declined to allow his work to be altered. What made me smile was the notion that an innocent looking lump of pixels could carry the capacity to shock and offend a British population of people raised on tabloid newspapers' page three girls in all their half-toned, topless glory. We're a cynically duplicitous bunch, we brits, ain't we?
I just noticed that while everybody was talking about nudists, seals and polar bears, three ads appeared in the bottom in the 'Sponsored Links' box: Polar bears of Churchill, some nudists beach and something about seals. What a coincidence. BTW, that "Buggs Bunny was a nudist" line made me laugh out loud. Good one!
Amazon.com Wierdness! OK - so anyone a regular shopper on Amazon.com? Well, I must admit that I spend a LOT of money there, mostly on Books and CDs. Anyway, you know how after you've been shopping, there a while, the site starts to make recommendations based on your buying and search patterns? Well the other day, one of the things Amazon recommended to me was a Home Defibrillator! Thats right, one of those machines you can use to jump start someones heart when they are having a heart attack. First of all, I didnt even know that Amazon sold such things. Second of all - and this is the weirdest part what is it about my buying and/or search patterns that caused Amazon to think I would want to buy a Home Defibrillator? It kind of freaked me out!
LOL Have you been buying any lifestyle books or CDs? SBW, the internet is Big Brother. Governments keep wanting to have automatic access to ISP and server records. So far many big companies have resisted; Google is notable recent example. The records would frighten the willies outa you if you knew how much detail they store ... right down to your screen resolution. Luckily, for we law-abiding majority, most of the criminally inclined are either ignorant of the Orwellian potential of the web's intellignece gathering potential, or else they are just too dumbly naive to believe they'll get caught.
That's completely bizarre, Sacha. Maybe you were browsing their heart healthy cookbooks? I look up textbooks for my job and now they think I'm a professor, or at least a student. I get the most boring recommendations ever, but since I'm also a mom I also get Mr. Putter books. Odd combination.
It's 11pm and I hear fireworks! Bangers! At 11pm!!! The year has flown! It's soon gonna be the 5th November, aka Guy Fawkes Day, aka Bonfire night in Britain. Can't say I'm relishing the thought of being scared outta my wits in the coming weeks from all the loud bangs and stuff. Actually, can't say I'm looking forward to Halloween too, as one year when I forgot it was October 31st, answered a knock at the door and almost had a coronary when 2 teenage guys screamed at me with Scream masks on. My reaction wasn't pretty.
Don't forget that we have Eid coming up on Oct 9 ... and Diwali on Nov 9. I love mulitculturalism .... Around here we have a lot of Sikhs who gather around, in the streets, outside their gurdwara's and have a massive firework parties at the height of Diwali. It can be a bit scary and even slightly intimidating to see a large crowd of turbanned men (mostly seriously drunk) throwing fireworks every which way. But somehow, every year, it is always the poor, white trash kids who seem to end up in ERs with 3rd degree burns and explosive amputations. I advise driving in Britland with the windows up at this time of year. PS Hallowe'en is not a thing I have ever encouraged. I always pretend to be out on Oct 31. PPS The downside to the increasingly extended UK fireworks season (which now reaches to Dec 31 since 1999 ) is that it does tend to scare the heeby-jeebies outa one's pets. I'm lucky in that my pets have always been quite calm under fire. (Maybe it's the way I react that helps them understand that it is not a threat ... just a good reason to stay indoors and snuggle. I love this time of year. I get endless puddy-tat snuggles. )
Heh, I can laugh about it now but I can still see those Scream masks and the teenagers almost peeing themselves from laughing because I freaked out. Last year I did make an effort and bought several bags of mini chocolate bars, lollipops and all sorts of goodies, and a whole tin of Cadbury's Miniature Heroes. I prepared around 60 goodie bags with the stuff I bought. Guess what? not ONE single person knocked on the door last Halloween. So there I was, an ex-chocoholic staring at a ton of chocolate. I split them up between all my nieces and nephews.
That was a good move, Hugz. My mum and I like to go shopping at Halloween. That way, we don't have to pretend that we're out because we really are out! Last year, though, we decided not to go shopping and bought lots of sweets for the trick-or-treaters. Of course, nobody came and we had to eat it up ourselves. Best halloween ever. Actually, no, I take that back. The best halloween ever was when me and a couple of friends decided to watch The Ring at someone's house. We had sweets, crisps and pop corn. Though we didn't eat much of it once the movie started. Ever seen The Ring?
Agh! Don't remind me. It was the only movie that ever stopped me from sleeping. As for Hallowe'en I pretend to be out because the kids, around here, are too unreliable. The first year I was in this house, I stocked up on goodies because there are lots of kids in the 'hood. No-one called at all Consequently, the next year I bought in nothing at all and the doorbell rang all night, mostly it was moody older teens who'd not even bothered to dress up (although older teens are quite often more than scary enough without costume or make up ). Since then I pretend to be out; easier for everyone that way.
