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Randy D

For those of you who enjoy watching nature-related shows and documentaries, do you root for the prey or for the predators?



  I love watching these shows, and intellectually, I know that the predators need to eat too, I know it's nature's laws, but I do have a problem seeing prey being taken down by predators.  What's even worse is when the rest of the herd or the rest of the school of fish, etc., don't jump in and gang up on the predator(s)!  Once again, I know it's all instinctual they way they act and/or react, but if several water buffalo or several seals or several rabbits joined together and took on the lionesses or hyenas or hawks or sharks or wolves, the outcome might be different.  I do celebrate and cheer the prey that successfully gets away, especially when they are already in the jaws of the predators.

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Posted - August 21, 2020
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  • 10052
    Route??

    I'm going to focus on reading the post now and I'll reply additionally. 
      August 21, 2020 8:18 PM MDT
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  • 53504
      August 21, 2020 10:14 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I root for them all. 

    I hear what you're saying, and I'll admit that it depends on who is the predator and who is the prey. I have species bias, too. 
      August 21, 2020 8:21 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    If I had lived during the ancient days of the Romans Coliseum when Christians were being made  prey for the lion predators,  I would have been rooting for the lions. 
    hee hee This post was edited by Kittigate at August 22, 2020 2:25 PM MDT
      August 21, 2020 9:07 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    route root
      August 21, 2020 9:13 PM MDT
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  • 53504
      August 21, 2020 10:14 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I beat you to it this time, Stu! :)
      August 22, 2020 7:12 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    You're right! Thanks to the vigilance of concerned citizens like you, it is much easier for us grammarians in blue to do our jobs. And as you see, even those in uniform are not immune from error.
      August 22, 2020 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    If you and Randy haven't realized it yet, I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm part of the internal affairs division  of the GCA (Grammar Cops of America). I don't bother with correcting the spelling, grammar and punctuation of the regular, unassuming citizens of the internet. I'm only interested in policing the police.

      August 22, 2020 10:01 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    LOL.
      August 22, 2020 11:36 AM MDT
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  • 53504

     

      Step aside, Stu. I’m the one who gets to seduce her. It’s written in the script for next week’s episode of “Kops on Kall: da Grammer Presinkt Philes”.




    ~

      August 22, 2020 3:46 PM MDT
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  • 10052
      August 22, 2020 3:47 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    New TV franchise called Law & Order: Grammar and Spelling Unit (GSU)!
      August 22, 2020 3:50 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Yes!! 

    I see dozens of episodes revolving around idiots who write "your stupid" as their response to everything they disagree with. 

    "My stupid what?" would be my catch phrase!

    We could literally change the world, Stu.  :)
      August 22, 2020 4:04 PM MDT
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  • 53504

     

       i no rite

      August 22, 2020 9:42 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    Well, we all know how you pronounce route.  ;)

      August 21, 2020 10:04 PM MDT
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  • 53504
      August 21, 2020 10:15 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    Many people pronounce route like root.  I've always said route like out.  I think either way is correct.  Don't apologize for that.  You did make a booboo in your post, but others have covered that sufficiently.  

    Your friend,
    Thrifty 
      August 21, 2020 10:43 PM MDT
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  • 53504


      (Sniff, sniff. No, I’m not crying, I don’t cry!  I think there’s something in my eye, that’s all.)
    ~

      August 21, 2020 11:30 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    Awwwwww.......I've been missing my friends from back home.  Thanks. 
      August 22, 2020 2:33 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    I don't know why they have to show that, I turn the channel.  There is no pleasure for me in watching a zebra torn to pieces or little bunny fluflu being eaten. 
      August 22, 2020 5:55 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Never thought of it this way, but I guess you could say that it's a kind of nature porn.
      August 22, 2020 8:26 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    Oh, no! That's a really sick thought!!


      August 22, 2020 10:02 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    You're welcome!
      August 22, 2020 11:36 AM MDT
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