I think this must be one of the most random things I’ve puzzled on

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Picked up a chicken yesterday (dead not alive), and suddenly thought how undignified it looked without it having the string tying its legs together

I mean...it’s a dead chicken. Not really dignified anyway but having its legs like that is just the cherry on the top for the poor chook

Bit you don't even know that. You popped to get some whatever they eat, you come back and they've vanished. No concept of what lies beyond the light above. Protected from tails of the great catcher because you're young. Now it's just you. Trying to convince a fish family to adopt you

@SleepingStandingUp

Bit you don't even know that. You popped to get some whatever they eat, you come back and they've vanished. No concept of what lies beyond the light above. Protected from tails of the great catcher because you're young. Now it's just you. Trying to convince a fish family to adopt you

I think you have a Disney film plot right there. Get it produced. The Lost Prawn or something.

I wonder if when pigeons etc see dead birds if they recognise their friends and grieve them. Came about seeing a headless pigeon on the field and a live one nearby

I think Bob would go looking. Like in Finding Nemo. Bob wouldnt swim idly by wondering. He'd pack his meagre belongings. Tell his neighbour to look after his coral and feed the amoeba.

It would be a lost cause of course. Then Bob would seek revenge. Via norovirus

Reminds me of that Victoria Wood sketch-Julie Walter's character said

Never touch prawns. Do you know they hang around sewage outlet pipes, treading water with their mouths open? They love it!

Finding Bobs Family
Bob Fights Back
Bobs Revenge

We used to often pass lorries of farm animals on the way to school. My 8yo was adamant that the farmer was taking them for a day out. She knows where meat comes from. She knows the fluffy lambs in fields may well end up on the BBQ for her dinner. But the ones on the trucks were definitely on day trips.

I was very relieved to find that you were talking about chicken as in your first paragraph I read 'a chicken' as 'the children' and I was

@PhannyPharts

I think Bob would go looking. Like in Finding Nemo. Bob wouldnt swim idly by wondering. He'd pack his meagre belongings. Tell his neighbour to look after his coral and feed the amoeba.

It would be a lost cause of course. Then Bob would seek revenge. Via norovirus

@Tlollj

Why are pigs called pork and cows called beef but lamb is lamb?

From memory, it’s the divergence of English and French. After the Norman conquest those farming the animals in the fields would have been the English, using old English words for the live animals (Pig, Sheep, Cow). Those actually eating at the table would have been the Norman ruling classes and speaking French to describe what was on the plate (Pork/Porc, Mutton/Mouton, Beef/Boef)

Oh missed your bit about lamb! Dunno, maybe we didn’t eat much lamb back in those days

@SleepingStandingUp

Finding Bobs Family Bob Fights Back Bobs Revenge

Revenge Prawn

The story of one shrimps journey to avenge his family.

Prawn of the Dead?

I'll get my coat ...

Finding Prawny

Talking of prawns, WTF were those prawn shaped rubbery sweets about
Why make them into prawns? They have no connection with the sea?

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I once spent a while pondering on the correct plural form for Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouses didn't seem right, but neither did Mickey Mice

I hate the English language at times.

Also - why does 'baby' change to 'babies' for the plural, but 'monkey' changes to 'monkeys' and not 'monkies'. 'bogey' to 'bogeys' and not 'bogies'?

And don't get me started on 'bigfoots' 🤔

@BIWI

Prawn of the Dead?

I'll get my coat ...

😅

Oh the pink shrimps. I like them and foamy bananas. I bet they have gelatine in though. ☹️

I loved the foamy bananas too @Sparklingbrook, real bananas make me dry heave, so it's a compromise I live with
Isn't the ies ending to do with where the vowel sits in a word?

@Bezzi

I was very relieved to find that you were talking about chicken as in your first paragraph I read 'a chicken' as 'the children' and I was

Now thats twisted

Indiana Jones and The Last Prawn

@Tlollj

Why are pigs called pork and cows called beef but lamb is lamb?

It comes from Norman times, when the aristocracy in England were Norman French, so the upper classes called pigs and cows by the French names - porc and boeuf, and we ended up calling the meat pork and beef (anglicised versions of the French), whilst the animals were called by the English names, because that’s what the farmers called them.

From Dusk To Prawn - the prawns have started biting back!!

It comes from Norman times, when the aristocracy in England were Norman French, so the upper classes called pigs and cows by the French names - porc and boeuf, and we ended up calling the meat pork and beef (anglicised versions of the French), whilst the animals were called by the English names, because that’s what the farmers called them.
But lamb is agneau-very odd.

It’s like so much of the English language - utterly illogical!