Wurzel

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Can you guess?

donny andi

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Got to be the bird not pushing a pram....oh it's not in the uk

ossett2k2

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The blond one,the others are just lumps of metal

Wurzel

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And another one.

SmurfyBhoy

Is it the AMG GT ??

ossett2k2

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Red fanny?

PaulC72

The one not parked in the space.

fat-thomas

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Subtle wrc sticker kit...you really do have to have special needs to drive around with one.

modrich

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Is she watching while someone else parks her car? Tut

David Lock

This one had me foxed


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c_maguire

The fox is one cool cat?
As for the others, I'd be embarrassed to own up to either of those chav-chariots.

Turbohot

This one made me furious!



I can explain why. I took this iPhone pic on one of my walks around my neck of the woods, although I don't always take my mobile with me on my leisurely pursuits, as it spoils my liberating activity. Anyway, in one farm, I spotted the odd one sheepishly sitting by itself away from the even ones. I got up the hill and observed the behaviour. The even ones just wouldn't let it get involved in their holy little clique. Poor thing got up when I was taking this pic and tried to walk towards its 'even' kind but they just bahahaha it away. None of them were nice to it. How sheeply is that!

I've been told by the local farmers that when an odd one randomly takes birth among hundreds of the ones alike, it gets treated with nothing but sheer racism by the even lot. They kick it out from their crowd and don't play with it and even beat it, sometimes.

The learning was that racism is not limited to the humans.

wrx300scooby

Good Evening Swati, hope you are well. You know what, it doesn't matter to be honest, sheep are sheep and they will do what they do. Seems like they are more like us than we'd like to admit

Turbohot

Good evening, wrx300scooby. I'm very well and enjoying beautiful weather, thanks for asking. Hope you're well, too.

And yes, agreed.

joz8968

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So, being racist is an entirely normal/natural impulse, then.

Turbohot

As an impulse, it seems to be that way. Being discriminatory doesn't limit itself to the humans only hence not unnatural, by the look of it. Any difference in the odd one may make the majority of the evens threatened or daunted. Until some commonality is recognised ad accepted by the even ones, the odd one is doomed. Humans are blessed with the superior cognition abilities so when we are irrationally prejudiced long term (as opposed to the automatic impulse, which we can re-adjust with our analytical abilities) we can be likened to the sheep or alike.

joz8968

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Excellent explanation. I wanted to express exactly that, last night. But you did it better.

As you say, relative to all other animals, it's humans' exponentially higher cognitive ability (big brain/intelligence) that leads said race to ultimately becoming civilised/cultured, hence we can see the folly of any kind of discrimination.

Well, as a race, sadly - nay, tragically - we're certainly not FULLY there yet. By any stretch. But we're trying. It's on-going.

Turbohot

Yes. Generally speaking on this discrimination, my positive view is that we have done it slowly, we have come a long way but we have started to accept some oddities. No more Oscar Wildes in jail, Obsma rules America and I've tasted beef in the UK. Still doesn't sit well with me, though. However, I think we're getting there.

On another positive, differences can be quite attractive and some intentionally like to be different. Many tattoo and piercing bearers say that they have tattoos because they like to be different. I think some of them like to be different to what they themselves are; not necessarily to others.

P.S.: I corrected from Thomas Hardy to the one I meant. I apologise for my mistake, it was an unconscious one. I think I have been strongly influenced by my recent Far from the Madding Crowd walks hence the parapraxis.

SwissTony

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I am more worried that herr fritz top right seems to be parked on the grass

legb4rsk

Hence the saying 'Black sheep of the family'.It all makes sense now.
Some old sayings actually have some truth behind them.

Turbohot

Yes, I used to think that it was based upon our human perception of the black sheep, sticking out like a sore thumb among whiter than the white sheep. I didn't realise it was so literal.

BoozyDave

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Yep, loads make sense when they are explained

P1ss poor = you are that poor and bad diet, when you wee it's orange. You wee in a pot and sell it to the leather tanners, they use it to dye leather brown

You haven't got a pot to p1ss in = you are so poor you can't even afford to buy a pot

These are from metalwork industy
Long and drawn out = you only have a thick piece of metal and need a long thin piece, warm it up and keep hitting it to make it thinner and longer (takes ages)

Jumped up = you only have a thin piece of metal that needs to be bigger in the middle, warm it up in the middle and hit the end, it 'jumps up' to the next guage of metal (like a little bloke trying to act bigger than he actually is)

Nose to the grindstone = work as hard as you can = people making knives/chisels on a grinder used to sit on the machine like a bike with the grinding wheel in front, by the afternoon their arms were tired and they lean forward more to keep the pressure on the workpiece

CrisPDuk

Nice Karman Ghia in the corner

CrisPDuk

With the sheep, I suspect aversion to dark coloured animals been ingrained over centuries for reasons of self preservation though. Sheep have p!ss poor eyesight, the only black or dark coloured animals they would normally encounter are sheepdogs, and wolves, neither of which are particularly nice to them.

I've encountered similar walking my dog, she is a predominantly white springer spaniel, I can walk with her through a field of sheep and they don't even notice her. If we are with my friend and his dog, a black cocker, the sheep will run to the farthest point of the field, even though the dog is on a lead

Turbohot

Yes, that's a possibility. Whatever the possibility for such perception, discrimination is there; regardless.

Have you seen or read The Kite Runner? Do you remember the scene when the refugee immigrant father refuses the treatment from the doctor who belongs to the race of his country shatters? There's a justification to that fight-flight self-preservation (but an irrational, of course) response, and such responses can become well-ingrained in the generations to come, yet it's tweakable in humans. Sheep can obviously not work out that the dark-coloured animal they behold with such grudge is their brother or a sister. Perhaps they just see a black blob, rather than paying attention to the details such as its identical (to them) 'bahahahahahahah' sound that the black blob makes, and other characteristics e.g. its strong identical BO and identical (but different colour)woollen coating to them.

Turbohot

Forgot to say that there's a possibility that a few among the white sheep (say 2%) may actually possess better 6/6 eye sight, but excluding and bullying the black one could simply be the case of following other white ones like sheep. Once again, some old sayings do bear such truth about them. Our wise forefathers and foremothers sussed well how plurally ignorant the sheep really are, and left us such wise saying to chuck out when and where applicable.