Are lemmings tasty?

[LukkyKnight]

If somebody called you a tasty lemming would it be suggestive of interest or some sort of snide put-down?

Hypothetically.

 

[Silverlily]

I'm going to have to go with snide put-down, like calling someone prey, stupid prey, no less.

 

[Pyper]

I always imagined feral neets to look somewhat like lemmings.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I'm going to have to go with snide put-down, like calling someone prey, stupid prey, no less.

There's something that preys on lemmings? Holy crapweasel, no wonder they run off the edge of cliffs. I always wondered about that. It's fear? That explains a lot.

 

[horny_giraffe]

Those poor, maligned lemmings. I recently read on snopes.com that lemmings don't jump into the ocean and drown themselves. All these years, and they've become the joke of the animal kingdom.

 

[Freya]

If somebody called you a tasty lemming would it be suggestive of interest or some sort of snide put-down?

Hypothetically.

I'd consider it an insult. It's implying that you follow the pack wihtout thought of your own.

 

[Silverlily]

so says Google

Lemmings are mouselike rodents that live in treeless areas of northern Canada. The smallest of the mammals of the High Arctic, lemmings are key species in arctic ecosystems. For unknown reasons, lemming populations fluctuate drastically, peaking about every four years and then crashing almost to extinction. Because the small bodies of lemmings are important food for ermines, arctic foxes, Snowy Owls, Gyrfalcons, and jaegers, this mysterious cycle controls the rhythm of animal life on the tundra.





Yep, they're prey. And while they do jump into lakes and such, it's not mass suicide. Maybe they just like to swim.





edit - wrong C&P

 

[LukkyKnight]

So, you don't think they all share a common insight, but instead participate in some sort of mob mentality?

Even the tasty ones?

 

[Darkthought]

Re: Re: Are lemmings tasty?

I'd consider it an insult. It's implying that you follow the pack wihtout thought of your own.

Agreed.

And with the "tasty" part added in, I would think it would be a serious attack to your ability for self-thought and direction.

A nicely formed back-handed insult.

 

[tswyk]

what is it about lemmings and Saturday night?????

 

[Guest]

 

[Silverlily]

So, you don't think they all share a common insight, but instead participate in some sort of mob mentality?

Even the tasty ones?

Not only that, but individual ones tend to run in straight lines, not a lot of flexibility.

Definately an insult.

 

[LukkyKnight]

what is it about lemmings and Saturday night?????

Je ne sais pas, réellement.

 

[tswyk]

Je ne sais pas, réellement.

Combien le vin seulement que vous avez eu?

 

[scrymettet]

vous avez eu seulement combien de vin ?

Way too much

 

[LukkyKnight]

Presque la quantité parfaite, mon ami très sexy.

 

[tswyk]

Way too much

* giggle *

 

[tswyk]

Presque la quantité parfaite, mon ami très sexy.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Way too much

C'est une insulte à ma capacité, vous long galoot à oreilles de Candian. Rapportez-l'ou j'enverrai à la boucherie votre langue une deuxième fois.

 

[scrymettet]

Presque la quantité parfaite, mon amiE très sexy.

you were not talking to me, weren't you ?

 

[Guest]

this got me thinking....what does giraffe and platypus taste like?

 

[LukkyKnight]

E très sexy.

you were not talking to me, weren't you ?

J'ai donné au bureau. Apportez la vache.

 

[tswyk]

C'est une insulte à ma capacité, vous long galoot à oreilles de Candian. Rapportez-l'ou j'enverrai à la boucherie votre langue une deuxième fois.

 

[scrymettet]

C'est une insulte à ma capacité, vous long galoot à oreilles de Candian. Rapportez-l'ou j'enverrai à la boucherie votre langue une deuxième fois.

When was the first time ?

 

[LukkyKnight]

Either it's so long ago I've forgotten, scry, or it was in that statement itself - the one you quoted - which was what I meant to imply.