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AIBU to be livid how dolphins are portrayed compared to how they are?

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Otherwize · 06/10/2018 23:48

I am angry and sick and tired of how dolphins try and make out they are nice and friendly and cute when they are anything but. They are one of the most aggressive species in the animal kingdom, regularly involved in GANG RAPES of other dolphins that sometimes goes on for days, they also kill their OWN children so that the mother pays more attention to her husband dolphin so he can have sex with her without her being distracted by her child and they also are aggressive to humans when nobody is looking (I.e in the sea when nobody is around, not when they have an audience like at a sea world centre) But everyone says “aww dolphins are so cute and so friendly” but their not.

I think it’s because they look like they are always smiling and laughing that people think they are cute, but to me they look like they have evil eyes and cackling rather than laughing. People say alligators and crocodiles and snakes are evil what about dolphins? People only see the tame ones that like to show off to humans and do tricks and let us swim with them and stroke them and think all dolphins are like that but the ones in the wild are a different matter altogether.

Plus, people say that dolphins are clever because they use clicks to communicate with each other. Has nobody stopped to think that they may be clicking and conspiring amongst themselves?

I’m actually fuming, only because I just got back from someone showing holiday pics and they were going on and on about the dolphins and how they were so cute and I told them dolphins aren’t cute and they are dangerous and would they swim with and pet crocodiles? They Didn’t get why it was the same but any animal can turn against you and I have even saw footage of a dolphin purposely try to drown a human and drag them underwater. AND they also kill other sea baby animals and play volleyball with them, they don’t even eat them or are threatened by them, they just do it for a laugh. Why are they seen as friendly animals?

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MulderitsmeX · 07/10/2018 00:14

There's a Simpsons episode where dolphins enslave humans by pretending to be cute and take over the world. Seems like you're not the only one who can see dolphins' dark side Op Grin

Otherwize · 07/10/2018 00:14

Ok but when you get comments like

“Gang rape Grin”

But it actually happens, google it. But nobody expects dolphins would do a thing like that but they regularly do, it’s not funny

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Aintnothingbutaheartache · 07/10/2018 00:13

Oh ivy they’re not ‘evil bastardised fish’ they are evil fucking mammals

seventhgonickname · 07/10/2018 00:12

I know dolphins are clever but even clicking doesn't get them far inland.
Cats also have a cuddly image and are far more evil than dolphins.

MiniLeopardInTheHouse · 07/10/2018 00:12

First they came for the dolphins, and then they came for the kittens and puppies.

FekkoTheLawyer · 07/10/2018 00:12

I heard they beat up seals (no really - they fling them about patently). But then those sneaky seals with those big doleful eyes and butter wouldn't melt look...

IStandWithPosie · 07/10/2018 00:11

Wait, dolphins marry? Shock

Lollypop27 · 07/10/2018 00:10

This has to go in classics. I e just woken Dh up giggling Grin

coffeekittens · 07/10/2018 00:09

Fantastic 😂 thanks for the warning!

TheBananaStand2 · 07/10/2018 00:09

YANVU. Their clicking is so shit, just use words, if you are so clever!

IveGotAlpen · 07/10/2018 00:08

Best mumsnet thread tonight.

Shortyboo · 07/10/2018 00:08

Dolphins are complete bastards

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/10/2018 00:06

Killer whales (orcas) are a type of dolphin.

And they can be proper bastards. Not, however, as shitty as we are to them. And they don't know any better. We do.

RavenLG · 07/10/2018 00:06

People are laughing already which makes me think they have seen only the tame dolphins but they are agreesiivd animals
That’s not why people are laughing love.

Bunchofdaffodils · 07/10/2018 00:06

My daughter thinks they’re creepy , too, and can’t understand why everyone loves them.

HoneyDragon · 07/10/2018 00:06

I don’t get the cute thing if I’m honest. They are the greasy spivs of the sea.

GreenMeerkat · 07/10/2018 00:05

You're anthropomorphising.

ivykaty44 · 07/10/2018 00:05

Op you may find that people don’t want to know that dolphins are evil bastardised fish, it’s like finding out Jerry is on remand for GBH and Tom is on heroin

Notso · 07/10/2018 00:03

I agree. Dolphins WILL take over the world.

Zigazagazoo · 07/10/2018 00:03

I was all set to YABU but after reading all that, you know what, YANBU!

Tiptopj · 07/10/2018 00:01

This is my favourite mumsnet post ever!

Virgo28 · 07/10/2018 00:01

Dam, wish I'd known this before my partner went swimming with some wild spinner dolphins this summer.... Could of slipped them a bribe 😂

ColdNeverBotheredMeAnyway · 07/10/2018 00:01

Has nobody stopped to think that they may be clicking and conspiring amongst themselves?

They're saying "So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Otherwize · 07/10/2018 00:01

yes I have been on a little Gin which sparked this post after seeing my friends holiday pics. I don’t like how they are seen as cute and friendly when they aren’t. People are laughing already which makes me think they have seen only the tame dolphins but they are agreesiivd animals

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