I’m with Cervaise. He didn’t know what a fucking animal is!!!
Holy shit! If that ain’t ignorant would one of you kind, nice people explain to me what the hell is? Politely, of course. I think the OP was more than nice. He actually explained it to his roommate. I suppose I’d get the Super Bitch Crown, because I would have stared at him, shook my head while muttering “No one could be that stupid” to myself.
I want a Super Bitch Crown for Christmas.
Your mom must be related to my mom. She did that to me too!
Grrr…I can’t SPELL it-how can I look it up if I don’t know how it’s SPELLED!!!
D’uh!
Haha…mine, too!!!
There should be a therapy group for this.
Well, the idea is, make a guess as to how you think it’s spelled, then check to see if you are correct. Then, if you’ve guessed incorrectly, you can try another spelling, and then…
Am I being whooshed here?
Neurotik I understand fully that you’re not the horrible person I thought you were, and I never said you were horrible either.
I just found it odd that you came back and answered all of us angrily AFTER you realized that you’d posted wrong, get it?
I’m just clearing up the fact that I wouldn’t have flamed you at all if I’d known that he was your good pal…but I DIDN’T, ok.
No biggie. Let’s all get past it and have some eggnog. I’m just surprised that you’re surprised that we reacted the way we did.
Fine. Done.
Well, see, I’m not surprised. And that response post wasn’t SUPPOSED to sound angry. In fact, I’ve never been angry this whole post. But whatever.
Eggnog sounds good. And gingerbread men.
[grumble] Really, who can keep all that sorted? The carpet’s been here since I moved in, the weasels are absolutely NO substitute for my stapler (and at least when you find the stapler somewhere unexpected it isn’t attacking your ankles), and you know, those tapeworms WILL migrate unless you watch them every minute…[/grumble]
I don’t believe his problem was telling a living organism from a non-living or artificial object. I believe it was getting confused by the definition of the word ‘animal’.
He was probably confused because mammals, birds, fish, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc, are all different subsections of living creatures - but didn’t realise that every living creature is considered an ‘animal’.
In fact, I’m not even sure if insects are considered animals, or are separately known as insects.
And the fact that I’m not certain matches his own uncertainty. Not necessarily shocking ignorance, so much as a mild confusion of terms and definitions.
::Biggirl reaches for her Midol and detached scrotums tiara::
Words fail me.
Animal is one of the 5 (or 6) kingdoms of taxonomy.
I’ve seen a reference to a 6th, but i’m not really all that interested.
Biggirl, I don’t see you actually clearing up any misconceptions here, just a lot of eye rolling. Is this a case of “Well, if you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you.”???
I always thought it was Protista. Huh…I wonder about the alternate spelling.
That’s because I’m a big, eye-rolling bitch.
Insects, fishes, octopuses, whales, horseshoe crabs, jellyfish, barnacles, birds, spiders, sea cucumbers, little wiggly worms and so forth are all animals. I do believe that everyone should have a basic knowledge of what is an animal, plant, or fungus. I also don’t really understand what the difficulty is - is an insect or whale that much like a plant or mushroom? No, they are, to my mind at least, quite clearly more like other animals.
Now, I normally try to be polite and gentle in my corrections, but there was one time I wasn’t. I was at Carlsbad Caverns in the spring. At this time of year one can sit at the entrance at dusk and watch the bats fly out. It’s a great show. Anyway, there was a little boy in front of me who was entranced by the bats and exclaimed “Momma! They look just like birds!” To which the mother replied, in a very smug tone:
“Bats is birds.”
Well, I just broke out laughing and earned myself a dirty look. I couldn’t help it: the factual error, the grammatical error, and the “I-know-it-all” tone of voice were just too much for me.
Yeah, everyone know that bats are bugs.
But are flying foxes bats? Are bats rodents? Are spiders and crabs related?
Yes, yes, and yes! Pretty cool, huh? My wife is repulsed at the thought of eating insects, but she loves lobster, which is just a big ol’ underwater bug.
Speaking of underwater, a sponge is an animal, too. But that’s kind of advanced.
Flying foxes are bats. Really big bats.
Bats are not rodents.
Spiders and crabs are related in that they are both members of the phylum arthoropoda (along with insects, shrimp, scorpions, ticks, barnacles, lobsters, centipedes…pretty much anything with an exoskeleton, jointed limbs and segmented bodies).
A question concerning in which kingdom something resides is a far, far different question that those concerning various classifications under the kingdom level. I really would hope that someone would group insects, bats, whales, and squid as something fundamentally different than a pine tree or morel. But it seems a common issue.
(BTW, yes, no, and yes, they are in the same phylum, arthropoda)
Yeah, okay: Yes, yes-ish (–dodging furiously–), and yes-ish.
:o