Random Thought

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 04/26/2017 at 21:16 • Filed to: None

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Was on a walk the other day and saw some ducks. It occurred to me that a duck doesn’t know what a duck is.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 21:21

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The jokes on you. Ducks are the only birds that are self aware.

XJDano > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 21:22

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Does a duck know how to duck?

DipodomysDeserti > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 21:36

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Pretty sure my chickens are self aware.

smobgirl > DipodomysDeserti 04/26/2017 at 21:38

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My sisters chickens know what a chicken is. Or they at least know to come running if you say chicken...

RallyWrench > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 21:41

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But they know some people think they’re chickens.

Carbon Fiber Sasquatch > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 21:42

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You’re a quack

PowderHound > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 21:57

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From our local police report:

At 6:42 p.m., a duck was reported on the side of the road in Kearns Boulevard. It was described as being injured “or doing something weird.”

Ducks beings ducks without knowing they are ducks.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 22:17

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I welcome our new duck overlords.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 22:30

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So when a duck mates as far as they know it’s just a hook up with some random other species of bird? Interesting.

HammerheadFistpunch > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 22:36

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They do, however, know that they eat free at Subway

Jcarr > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 04/26/2017 at 22:42

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No, but if you told a duck that it was a duck, it would have no idea what you were talking about.

Berang > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 22:48

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Probably the only thing a duck knows is what a duck is.

Jcarr > Berang 04/26/2017 at 22:51

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Only if they speak English.

Berang > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 23:34

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What do you think they speak?

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Jcarr 04/26/2017 at 23:47

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Duck 1: You’re a duck, mate.

Duck 2: Feck. Out of your tree, you are. Wot a load of tosh..

Duck 3: Oy, don’t mean to earwig on your chat mates, but he’s right. You’re a duck. In fact, we all are.

Duck 2 : You lads are winding me up.. I’m gutted..

Because in my head, every conversation between animals just seems funnier when they’re speaking with cockney English accents.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Jcarr 04/27/2017 at 06:33

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They probably know on an instinctive level that another duck is a duck, but you’re right ;)

Surprisingly few animals know what they are. It doesn’t actually strike me as something that would be particularly useful as a survival mechanism, so I can see why self-awareness hasn’t cropped up more often.