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  1. wingpig
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    They were taking unusual viewpoints and addressing both dogs and people?

    Posted 4 years ago #
  2. gembo
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    Yes they think their animals understand English. they were also standing in the waY But i am a kind person bit like Dennis Hopper describing Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in the motion picture Apocalypse Now (redux or otherwise) directed by Francis Ford Coppola

    Posted 4 years ago #
  3. Frenchy
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    Yes they think their animals understand English.

    Mine unnerstan Doric.

    "Bide air, min."
    "On ye go, quine."
    "Roll ower"

    Posted 4 years ago #
  4. gembo
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    John Searle's dogs were conscious. Jeff Hinton once famously lost patience with Searle who was more than somewhat annoying in a debate about connectionism/AI. Searle - Are you saying my dog is not conscious? Hinton - no I am saying dogs are not conscious, but I am willing to accept your dog is

    If the first linkee is not enough then here is longer gibberish

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    Posted 4 years ago #
  5. I were right about that saddle
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    Himin! Gies at rowie back.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  6. unhurt
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    Saw a book in Waterstones this morning titled Teach Your Dog Gaelic.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  7. unhurt
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    Saw a book in Waterstones this morning titled Teach Your Dog Gaelic.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  8. I were right about that saddle
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    Somebody I didn't know very well once looked at me quizzically in the street and said 'Did you just speak to that cat in French?'.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  9. wingpig
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    In which country was the street you were in, and in what language did the person ask you that question (in case the quotes are figurative rather than literal)?

    Posted 4 years ago #
  10. I were right about that saddle
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    Scotland and French. Quite weird. I knew she spoke German and didn't realised I'd addressed the cat in the Language of Lurrrve..

    That is I knew I'd addressed the cat. I'm not mad.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  11. I were right about that saddle
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    in case the quotes are figurative rather than literal

    Yes. I ran into this problem in Overlander. Had to discard a section because the quoted dialogue would have been translated and therefore untrue.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  12. gembo
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    @IWRATS, if only you has asked John Searle about this problem he would have given you an incomprehensible answer you can just say "[in French] This is not a love song"

    Posted 4 years ago #
  13. I were right about that saddle
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    What kind of monster doesn't talk to cats and dogs?

    Posted 4 years ago #
  14. I were right about that saddle
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    I got to feed treats to a lovely ridgeback vizsla in John Leslies last night.

    Its owner was a cheerful Geordie who may have been slightly nasally overstimulated.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  15. LaidBack
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    Active travel in Old Town with Huskies earlier today...

    Longboarder & Huskies

    Posted 4 years ago #
  16. jdanielp
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    @LaidBack good photographing. I spotted similar antics at the Meadows the other week but forgot to report back.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  17. Frenchy
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    My dog nicked my burrito tonight.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  18. minus six
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    fit ye dein wi ma burrito ya feil gype

    you have to admire such canine chutzpah

    Posted 4 years ago #
  19. Frenchy
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    Language wis alang those lines, but wi mair sweering.

    It will be added to the list of times she's outsmarted me.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  20. jdanielp
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    Did anyone meet The Dalry Llama yesterday? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-51674019

    Posted 4 years ago #
  21. gembo
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    Good pun to start with. Hard to know whether they should try to continue with other beasts or knock it on the head,

    Al Pacacino from the Godfather could join in? He is on side of buses at moment though the series is causing some furore.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  22. LaidBack
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    Wrongly posted in wildlife thread...

    Walking through below Craigmillar Castle and met two lads being followed by a white cat with a harness for lead. Moved along 30 feet behind - from a distance it looked like a dog.

    Has this cat with attitude been spotted before? Know of cats that will follow owners at distance along wall etc but this one was following in park on the ground.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  23. I were right about that saddle
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    @LaidBack

    There is a family walks their dog in Inch Park and their cats follow at a distance if in the mood for it.

    When I was a teenager I discovered our cat would come about 500m from the house with me on still summer nights. Hard border though - wouldn't take one step further.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  24. Frenchy
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    Beautiful, but incredibly timid, podenco in Gracemount.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  25. Rosie
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    I lived in Royal Terrace once which backs on to sizable gardens, halfway up Calton Hill. There was a cat in the house (Gandalf), a bruiser of a beast, that you could walk around the park.

    Gandalf was a legend - once leaving a squirrel tail on the floor, one Christmas Day dragging in a pigeon, being seen jumping out of the hotel next door with a string of sausages in his mouth and when evil Toms invaded via the cat flap, would wake up the man of the house to see them off.

    Posted 4 years ago #
  26. I were right about that saddle
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    Lady sitting in the park with a large rabbit on a red leash.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  27. ejstubbs
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    Passed a group of four lassies on ponies up on the flanks of Capelaw Hill. Turned out that they were from the uni trekking club. Nice change to see them being ridden, as opposed to loafing around in their paddock near Old Swanston.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  28. minus six
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    carpet / clothes moths

    not especially domesticated but in the house nonetheless

    early june - i mourn the tragedy of each demise at my hands

    but give me another month and i'll be extinguishing their life force with einsatzgruppen ferocity

    Posted 3 years ago #
  29. gembo
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    What did they lay their eggs in before carpets and cloth?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  30. I were right about that saddle
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    Birds' nests.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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