>> ^Fletch:

When I get enough star points (about 12 years from now), I want to start an Anthropomorphic channel.


Never mind that! We need *poledancing

When I get enough star points (about 12 years from now), I want to start an *Anthropomorphic channel.

>> ^carneval:

"He's scared shitless."
Methinks this guy is projecting.
Projecting, and anthropomorphizing.

>> ^gorillaman:

>> ^zombieater:
"This is the way a normal penis was designed to work."
Uh... no. That is how the penis evolved and changed along with man.
I wish people would stop doing this. Did we just watch a creationist video? No, serious people use the word 'designed' in relation to evolutionary processes all the time because it's a useful shorthand.


Yeah, I know it's not a creationist video. It's just annoying for me. As a teacher and biologist, it's more than just a common shorthand, it implies a misunderstanding of biology and I feel that this misunderstanding by anthropomorphizing evolution can lead to problems in comprehension of the concept.



Perhaps I should just bite my tongue and fight the good fight when it counts, eh?

This lump of material is fascinatingly easy to anthropomorphize...

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I was hoping for a reimagining of my favorite bunny and cat anthropomorphic korean anime short. I demand a refund.

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I'm with you. Because they've got those equine faces, you just can't tell what they're thinking. Dogs and cats are suitably anthropomorphic in facial shape. On that note, I'd like to offer my favorite horse joke:

A horse walks into a bar, the bartender says "why the long face?"
The horse answers - "I'm an alcoholic and my wife left me."

Thank you.


>> ^Lann:

I don't trust horses. narrows eyes

according to urbandictionary: a pepper pig is "a female that likes to perform fellatio on men"

But I think he means "Peppa Pig" which is a young anthropomorphic girl pig on an English children's TV show...that hopefully likes to perform fellatio on men.

I like the rebuttal to environmentalists who anthropomorphize the earth into our Mother, much as religion gives us a Father. A reminder that nobody is guiding us.

Humans love to anthropomorphize everything. My favorite is the Raid bug spray commercial here in the States that show human looking, talking bugs being snubbed out by an ominous floating can of poison.

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Looks great, but having a humanoid shaped robot just seems like silly anthropomorphism- and out of touch with the current state of technology.

Asimo requires a semi-truck worth of support equipment and a crew of 10 to keep running - and something tells me he's not vacuum rated.

He's actually making a good point. There's a distinction between the average person's desire to anthropomorphize forces that he can't control (e.g. a storm came and wiped out my house because god is mad that I didn't give him an offering), and someone reporting in all seriousness that they received direct communication from God that details specific imperatives about how to live, and then having not only the listener believe you, but have people 2000 years later believe in the god and the message.

As he put it, get the context wrong and you're a crazy cultist, get it right, and people will be staying home from work on your birthday 2000 years later.

Edit: To put my own spin on the distinction, the first example is primitive scientific reasoning, the second is using belief as a pretext to engage in politics.

Reading over your comment now I regret downvoting it. When I was speed reading through I thought you were being flippant. I missed the context of your statement the first time. I just listened to a great radio documentary on crows (from CBC-Ideas) and their brainpower towards problem solving is more advanced than most primates. But they also usually do a gathering over a dead one as well. It's hard not to anthropomorphize these situations but on the other hand it may be specicentric to think we are the only ones that care about the loss of another. In short I apologize.

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Ok, I'm totally on board with the downvotes I'm getting on the "douchebag" remark (apologized for that earlier) but why this comment?

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I've heard cats grieve especially hard. Other animals will display this type of behavior, too. Raccoons, skunks and opossum are well known for trying to 'rescue' others who have been hit on the road. Deer will sometimes wait around when one gets hit. Dogs will also try to drag another dog off the road if it's been hit.

Unfortunately, this behavior usually just ends up causing more animals to be hit.

Such a thoughtful post. Thank you for your contribution.

Does it really take a lot of imagination to realize that you have to teach dogs to kill each other in this fashion? I'm sure eventually those men managed to overcome the dog's natural instincts and they got the bloodsport they wanted. Still not sure what is funny about what amounts to the first phase in training a dog for fights.

I can see how you might mistake mounting for 'love' since the video was so cleverly overdubbed with a love song but if you don't anthropomorphize it, it actually makes it even sadder when the humans take the last avenue of peacemaking left to the two animals, leaving them trapped with no alternatives to fighting.

Yeah, I don't see a big difference between cows and cats. They're both cute, and are easily anthropomorphized. As for you guys flaming each other (Burd, Bone): You taste like chicken.