Goutte de Rosee
Rattie Virginia
Goutte de Rosee
Lemmings will always follow their leader
Even if it's right over a cliff. confused
No, actually, they won't. Although they
will sometimes get tired of swimming and end up drowning when trying to migrate across large bodies of water. And they
will jump off a cliff if a bunch of immoral filmmakers scare them into doing it solely in order to perpetuate the totally misleading myth/saying about them.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
sad
Was metaphorically speaking.
Sorry if that offended any animals lovers. sweatdrop
Don't worry, I didn't find it offensive.
smile But I have come to realize that it's important to not let lies about animals continue to be perpetuated. As this thread points out, people will believe anything. Lots of people seriously believe that lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off of cliffs because "everyone" says they do. Even though it's
never been true, the lie gets perpetuated because so many people keep on saying it. So I spoke up because there is no actual metaphor using lemmings. They don't do what is claimed, so there is no metaphor. I'm not offended by someone repeating a common saying. Instead, I just want to ensure Gaians are clear about the truth so that no one here ends up "stupid enough"
(just like the Camping believers are labeled "stupid" ) to actually believe a very popular lie about lemmings. Make sense?
Edit to add: And my frown earlier was aimed at those cruel filmmakers for doing that to those poor pet lemmings, not at you. I doubt the little kids who had previously owned them knew what the Disney filmmakers were going to do to their former pets.
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