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Mysterian · 27/07/2019 22:06

Do you reckon birds ever think to themselves "Fuck, I'm high up!!!" or have panic attacks in case they somehow forget how to fly?

Have all the colours been discovered? I mean has anybody actually mixed brown and purple?

If a pantomime cow gets lost and ends up in an abattoir and is shot in the head, would it count as murder? And if they realised, would the slaughter person have to then kill the back end too?

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Zoflorabore · 27/07/2019 22:08

Are you pissed op? Or on drugs? Or something else? That's my 3 questions!

Mysterian · 27/07/2019 22:10

I have an enquiring mind.

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WTCT · 27/07/2019 22:12

I have an enquiring mind.

😂😂😂

ithinkiammelting · 27/07/2019 22:25

1 no
3 don't be silly

2 actually yes, there are some isolated tribes which don't recognise certain colours.

And in this context, it is 'inquiring'

hth

Ormally · 27/07/2019 22:26
  1. Unlikely, unless something unusual happened (e.g. getting blown off course or caught in the slipstream of a large vehicle)
  1. Don't think colours are discovered, it depends whether you have human eyes, bat eyes, snake eyes as to how they appear... The words for colours in different languages and how human vocabulary carves up the generally accepted spectrum, now that can blow your mind though (see Welsh, Ancient Egyptian, a lot of others)
  1. Manslaughter? Misadventure?
MidnightMystery · 27/07/2019 22:33
  1. I don't think they do... but if I was a bird I'd be that bird Grin
  1. It's brown just another shade of brown.
  1. I have no idea.
Mysterian · 27/07/2019 22:39

Not brown. Purple and brown. I'll call it "brurple".

I'm writing this all down so I don't need to inquire again.

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Mysterian · 27/07/2019 22:43

I bet the birds are all saying to themselves:

"Flap up and down, up and down, don't look down, up and down, now glide...." or something similar.

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EleanorOalike · 27/07/2019 22:44

Did the very first human have a belly button?

GiggleMcDimples · 27/07/2019 23:08
  1. Yes, there are northern birds that ask each other "are you alright love?" Specifically in panic attacked bird circumstances.
  1. Don't know.
  1. Uhhhh yeah. They'd need to kill the arse end too, "he's behind you!!!"

I often wonder do I see the same colours that you see? Like, do I see purple the same way you do? Or do I see purple how you see green? And nobody knows because you've never looked through my eyes??

Ormally · 27/07/2019 23:15

You know what, when you think about it, surely the fault that the cow got lost would have to be laid at the door of the front end only? So the back end should not have to take responsibility.

Belly button: not sure

Stravapalava · 27/07/2019 23:21

That third one is funny!!

Al2O3 · 27/07/2019 23:27
  1. No. You need to watch Demi Moore in G I Jane. When she wants to quit, listen to the speech of her PTI. How birds never give up, when they are frozen to a branch, no food, no water, they have no self-pity. They are focused on survival. That’s all that matters. In real life, Arctic Terns will cross half the Earth in their first year. I have seen swallows hurl themselves against birds of prey to save their young. Rationalising fear is a human condition. But sometimes we don’t. We are primeval too.
  1. If you keep mixing every colour in theory it should turn white. But in practice, everything turns brown. Humans dabble with colour, but we are only pigments. We do best wondering why magpies and cows are black and white.
  1. Yes, obviously. No, obviously.
GibbonLover · 28/07/2019 00:49
  1. I doubt it, birds don't have the capacity for thought in the same way we do. That's why we refer to daft people as 'birdbrained'.
  2. Aubergine is the first colour that springs to mind but it would obviously depend on colour ratios. Artists all over the world have probably mixed these two colours and obtained a wide variety of results.
  3. That would depend on whether the slaughterman/woman realised that it was a pantomime cow or not. If they believed it to be a real cow, the lesser charge of manslaughter would apply. The human body is said to evacuate itself at the moment of death so, depending on what the front half ate recently, there might be no need to slaughter the back half.
RedHatsDoNotSuitMe · 28/07/2019 02:23

I don't want to answer your questions, I want to give 3 more...

  1. Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
2 How do I (or others) describe themselves (myself) in 3 words?
  1. What makes me tingle all over?
RedHatsDoNotSuitMe · 28/07/2019 02:24

btw, does anyone else read the OPs question and remember Woody Allen's moose joke?

("I shot a moose once...")

cakesandphotos · 28/07/2019 02:29

I've often wondered if my blue sky is your blue sky. It hurts my brain thinking about it

GiggleMcDimples · 28/07/2019 11:37

@cakesandphotos THIS!!!! I always wonder this too and nobody else seems to get it! Do I see blue the same was as you see blue? Or do I see it how you would see yellow? And nobody knows because I've been told that the blue I see is blue, and you've been told the blue you see is blue.

ithinkiammelting · 28/07/2019 20:15

Unlike other colours, you can't get purple by mixing light. It is not on the visible spectrum.

So purple doesn't exist Grin

Mysterian · 28/07/2019 21:18

@RedHatsDoNotSuitMe

  1. Just like me, they long to be, close to you.
  2. Me: Perfect, Brilliant, Modest,
  3. You're alone in a house. It's midnight. You think you hear something downstairs. You tiptoe down and walk to a door. You bend down to look through the keyhole and you see another eye looking at you.

Bellybutton? If the bible is right, no. So yes.

Purple doesn't exist? Cadbury's chocolate. [drops mic]

Maybe penguins could all fly once but developed genetic heightophobia.

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