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16 Aug 2023, 10:59 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
Live pets are better for me. I was never much into teddy bears for cuddling.
I've had lots of them and they were cute, but I didn't even sleep with them in my bed.


Had two teddy bears when I was a child..a big one and little one ("Daddy Bear" and "little bear") that meant a lot to me. Later I switched to live pets. My theory is that cats and humans both trigger animal instincts in the other. We remind them of their mothers when they were kittens, and they remind us of human infants. So both species like to snuggle with the other. But we get it a little wrong...often flip the cats on their backs and cradle them in our arms...and talk baby talk and make exaggerated facial expressions at their faces(ie we instinctively but unconsciously try to teach them to talk...which they cant do). Male cats are more laid back and will often put up with that s**t. But female cats dont for a moment. So you have to let them curl up next to you while you recline...like a kitten would against its mother.



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16 Aug 2023, 11:08 pm

I don't like most teddy bears. They don't even look like actual bears.


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16 Aug 2023, 11:39 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
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For real.

It looks like an SNL put-on, but apparently it's a real commercial.


I thought it was satirical. I am shocked it is real, if you say so. 8O


There's some topics and positions that are impossible to effectively parody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law


Ah, I see, I think.

So, some things are impossible to parody because by their very nature they seem seem like a parody, even when they are not?


Yeah.

Related to the trope of reality is unrealistic.


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17 Aug 2023, 6:16 am

Maybe it's "guilding the lilly",but here is Jimmey Kimmel spoofing the thing that already looked like a spoof to begin with.


https://youtu.be/ulw332DQ52M



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18 Aug 2023, 9:02 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Maybe it's "guilding the lilly",but here is Jimmey Kimmel spoofing the thing that already looked like a spoof to begin with.


https://youtu.be/ulw332DQ52M


I find it both hilarious and stunning that this is a real commercial. :lol:


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