Ok, I realize I'm a little more of a stickler on the right terms and such for animals or anything pertaining to them.
Cub? Bears and lions.
Pup? Wolves and other canids- EXCEPT FOR FOXES- those are Kits when they are lil'uns.
Fillies and Colts- horses.
So on and so forth.
A flock is a group of BIRDS, a school is a group of fish, a pack is a group of wolves, So on so forth.
What's really the needle in my side about all this?
the fact that some of these small simple things that I learned when I was LEARNING HOW TO READ (Because I wouldn't learn to read about anything else, I wanted animal books, AND SO I WAS GIVEN INFORMATION!!!) <.< Anyways, Some people don't know these things and make mistakes.
Not saying I'm a fucking genius on this stuff, not saying I know fucking everything- I just enjoy studying animals, so when someone makes an incorrect statement, sometimes I have a burning desire to correct them.
Like, you know, when someone thinks that a baby goat (A kid, name of a baby goat is a KID) , which CLEARLY DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE A FUCKING LLAMA, is actually a baby of the llama next to it. YES, BECAUSE WHEN GOATS GROW UP, THEY MAGICALLY FUCKING TURN INTO LLAMAS. IT'S IN EVERY FUCKING SCIENCE BOOK IN THE WORLD.
Soooo I try to just say nothing if they seem like the type that would really hate being corrected- sometimes it slips out anyways.
"That's a goat. And that's a llama. They're two different animals."
Oops.
LIKE THAT.
Aaaand then people lash out- no one LIKES to be corrected, and no one wants to be, it's fucking understandable. BUT THEN IF THEY PULL THE "I HAVE STUDIED THIS ANIMAL EXTENSIVELY, I KNOW BETTER THAN YOU" Oh it is ON.
SORRY, BUB, BUT ALL THE STUDYING IN THE FUCKING WORLD ISN'T GONNA TURN THAT ADORABLE KID INTO A LLAAAAAAAAAAAAAMA. JESUS.
Then it's
"That species isn't my strong point." Excuse #1.
Then they try to find a redeemer, prove they know something.
They fuck up.
I can't help but point it out.
AND IT GETS WORSE.
JUST ADMIT YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT. YOU FUCKED UP, IT'S FUCKING OK. JUST STOP DIGGING YOURSELF IN A HOLE.
....
Horses are now your forte and you're calling the babies "Calves".... Not Fillies or foals or colts or anything like that. CALF/CALVES IS A BABY COW. MY GOD, YOU ARE DRIVING ME NUTS.
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I wanna THROW things at people like this!