My course has ruined Disney

In October I decided I was gonna regress to my childhood and had sudden urges to buy on DVD and watch loads of Disney films that I remember from my childhood. As Handcuffs pointed out, I am indeed a kid at heart.

Anyway since then I have bought 9 of them ... which has probably cost me near £100 and considering I'm on a student budget I really should have been spending my money on better things. Like alcohol. These include:

1. 101 Dalmatians (real life one)
2. 102 Dalmatians
3. Lion King
4. Bambi
5. Dumbo
6. Pocahontas
7. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
8. Homeward Bound: Lost In San Fransisco
9. Fox & the Hound

And so far I have cried at number 1 (when the puppies get stolen and Perdi looks sad - top notch acting by the dog there, you can actually see her tears), 3 (Mufasa dying), 4 (Bambi's mum dying), 7 (the reunion at the end) and 9 (when Todd's owner gives him away and sings that really sad song) ... and I haven't even watched Dumbo yet. Is this normal?

Anyway this is nout to do with my course, that is something I wanted to include and show that I am excessively soppy and pathetic when it comes to animals.

So getting to the point, I studied a module for my course this year in Animal Behaviour, so mating, feeding, social, communication etc. Obviously it is not Mr. Disney's fault that he has not studied Animal Science but nevertheless, having just watched Bambi I could not help but notice the various behaviours that were correct and incorrect. It was completely involuntary too!

Automatically I noticed that Bambi getting up and walking(ish) straight after birth is precocial - being relatively mature and able to stand, not needing too much parental care. Next thing was the male deer in the meadow prancing and rutting which is mating behaviour and also social to establish dominance shizzle. To be fair everything was pretty much accurate it was just the fact that my brain kept pointing these things out that was irritating when I just wanted to watch the damn film!!!

However, there was one mistake I noticed (I hate myself right now). Flower the Skunk turns up at the end with his new kit (baby skunk, get me using proper terminology). I know that skunks are polygynous (male mates with lots of females ... maybe I should add a glossary to this) and that the females provide all the parental care and that the father would probably kill his babies. I mean you never know, maybe Flower the Skunk was planning on eating his son after the film had finished but I doubt that. Oh and also I'm pretty sure that a stag, a rabbit and a skunk would not be friends but let's not even get into that!

Finally, and this applies to several Disney films, they always shows animals in happy couples in love. In most cases it is only birds that form long-term monogamous pairs. So it's all well and good showing Bambi & Faline, Mufasa & Sarabi and Simba & Nala as sort of "married" couples but I now have the misfortune of knowing that the men are all shagging the rest of the females too which really takes the magic out of it.

Sorry if my course has just ruined Disney for everyone else too. At least now you can share my pain.

S'all for now, being bribed into help clean a room with the promise of a Chinese :) Om nom.
Cock
xxx

Fail

I'm a tit. What is the main nub and gist of the 30 Day Friend Challenge, aside from involving friends? It's that it lasts 30 Days. Where am I going to be in 30days time? Portugal. Did not think this through. But on the plus side .... HOLIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Woopwoop!

But nevertheless I shall shall prevail and then just maybe cheat and do the last 3 days on one day .. just don't tell anyone *shh*

So that's pretty much it ... also, as I have just discovered the joys of "pages" I'm gonna make a page and whack my Friend Challenge there rather than clogging up my blogging (ha, t'rhymes!). 

Ok ... bye

Cock

xxx

Losing the ol' blog virginity

So here I am, popping the blog cherry ... well actually that's not strictly true. I wrote blogs on myspace but they were atrocious and full of trivial, embarrassing teenage me's issues and although I would be damn impressed if you found them please do not try - if myspace has any sense at all it will have deleted them.

I'm at a bit of a loss right now to be honest. I just like setting things up, filling in info and choosing designs and I'm only blogging because as things stand I am looking at a very jobless, very moneyless and therefore very boring Summer. 

Actually I tell a lie ... two lies in fact - I do have a Saturday job working at a greyhound kennel and I love it there but sadly the money would not pay for one night out. Also I am going on a not-boring-in-any-way-at-all holiday to the Algarve, where I had my 1st birthday (apparently, can't say I remember). However, awaiting my return from this holiday will be a scary envelope, lurking on the doormat amongst other more friendlier, inviting envelopes telling me to sponsor Guide Dogs or that I've won an imaginary holiday. My second year university results ... but we shan't mention them.

Hmmm ... there is not a lot more to say at the moment. Although just to keep mine and anyone else who stumbles across this blog's interest I'm going to start the 30 Day Friend Challenge. I expect I'll get bored, it happens easily. 

Guess that's it for now. I'm off to the gym to burn off the 3000calorie large Dominos Meateor pizza that I scoffed the lot of last night ... and I wonder why I'm not losing weight!

Laters,

Cock

xxx

ps. I promised Cassandra Jane Humphreys a mention when she phoned earlier. So here's your mention. Also Cassie, I think you should know that a lot of your food has gone out of date so I have taken the liberty of eating said food in order to save you from any deathly bacteria that may reside within. Aren't I a great friend? :D