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Smurph 
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 Topic: Bird People
Posted: April 27 2012 at 14:38 |
This idea is taken from another thread about Ryan Seacrest. But I felt this could be a fun topic.
If people evolved from birds instead of apes... what would we all look like, talk like, etc.
Birth would suddenly happen from an egg, so we would no longer have to watch disgusting vagina-birth videos in health class in 9th grade.
Also, since we have pedophiles in our culture, I think there would be entire groups of bird people attracted to eggs.
Would we be less likely to eat eggs of other species? Would apes be normal food and all bird related foods be taboo?
How else would culture be different?
These important questions should be answered. And feel free to ask any others.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 14:50 |
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People didn't evolve from apes.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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darkshade
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 14:57 |
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We'd be asking the age-old question, "Why did the monkey cross the road?"
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Negoba
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:08 |
There already were intelligent bipedal land creatures in the bird lineage....velociraptors.
So they'd probably look kinda like that.
I must admit that the first thing I thought of with the topic was not 9th grade health videos.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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tamijo
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:13 |
 Equality 7-2521 wrote:
People didn't evolve from apes.
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No..they devolved from apes
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Smurph
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:20 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
People didn't evolve from apes.
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We are talking about bird people here. I'm not sure if we're even caring about the science of it. I'm just talking about how culture might be different.
And even though I'm 24 years old, I think of health class because we had these books called "TOTALLY AWESOME HEALTH" and they were just terrible terrible books. They were trying to get 15 year olds interested by using the phrase 'totally awesome' and they didnt just use it in the title.
Back to topic though- I feel like if we were Bird People, I'm not sure if we would have the technological advances we have today. Maybe possibly we would have developed opposible claws though? Would we have even invented cars or would we have went straight to inventing flying apparatuses that made our flying easier?
I'm not going to lie, I think I'm way too interested in this subject but its ok.
I wish we could talk about evolving from dinosaurs too but The Super Mario Bros Movie did that for us, and that MOVIE IS PERFECT.
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:21 |
You're going to fit into PA just fine OP Which means you will inevitably grow to hate this place and people but can't break the addiction Have fun :D BTW I didn't evolve from anything. I just am. You all should be thanking me for my presence but it hasn't happened yet 
Edited by JJLehto - April 27 2012 at 15:22
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The T
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:30 |
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If we had evolved from birds, there would still be an species made of humanoid idiots who would love to shoot us down from the sky so they could get their little gonads inflated with manliness.
Edited by The T - April 27 2012 at 15:30
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The Truth
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:31 |
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lol bird people
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tamijo
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:32 |
Smurph wrote:
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
People didn't evolve from apes. |
Would we have even invented cars or would we have went straight to inventing flying apparatuses that made our flying easier? |
Cars would be pretty stupid
Unless offcourse we were the kind of birds not able to fly,
If we came from Pingvins, we might have focused on land transport, like we do beeing primates, as we would be even more slow and clumpsy (is that correct eng. ?) on ground.
NB:
Taking part in this, makes me think i might be stoned, even though im clear as running water
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Smurph
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:39 |
Man so bird flu would have really screwed us...
Also, I think that the flying V would have a huge significance in our culture.
What kind of instruments would we have made?
Oh god I'm started to feel stoned as well, just thinking about this stuff.
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 15:41 |
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Ostriches are bird people man
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VanVanVan
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 16:02 |
Smurph wrote:
This idea is taken from another thread about Ryan Seacrest. But I felt this could be a fun topic.
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I saw that thread earlier and now I'm going to have to go back and find out how on Earth it got related to bird people. 
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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JJLehto
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 16:09 |
Smurph wrote:
Oh god I'm started to feel stoned as well, just thinking about this stuff.
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Yeah sure we believe that 
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Smurph
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 18:44 |
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Haha- What's funny is I wasn't when I came up with the topic... but definitely am now.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 18:55 |
I think airline fares would probably go down a bit.
btw, I like your gumption, Smurph. You ask the hard questions that need to be asked.
Edited by HolyMoly - April 27 2012 at 18:57
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 19:01 |
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Moved to Just For Fun
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colorofmoney91
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 19:32 |
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I was born of a divine being. All of your apes and birds evolution theories are asinine.
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Atavachron
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 20:42 |
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Well if this thread is gonna go anywhere we might as well discuss Pat's claim that we didn't evolve from apes, which is likely quite correct. Man appears to have "evolved" as a species of hominid parallel to the apes, as nature test-drove numerous upright omnivore designs that came and went.
One of the lingering debates is whether we are purely CroMagnon or if there are traces of Neanderthal in our genes. Another question suggested by the 'We didn't evolve from apes' theory is whether evolution itself exists in the way it's been established and we imagine it. Do species really come directly but slowly from other closely related species, or are there countless little anatomic designs that are only connected in the sense that Earthly entities require certain similar features?
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Flyingsod
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 22:07 |
Atavachron wrote:
One of the lingering debates is whether we are purely CroMagnon or if there are traces of Neanderthal in our genes.
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There are traces of Neanderthal here in PA. :)
tamijo wrote:
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Taking part in this, makes me think i might be stoned, even though im clear as running water |
Clearly stoned :) J/k , no offense meant. As for bird people eating eggs of other species.... sure. We eat babies of other species, why wouldn't they? Also, there would be no technology unless the progenitor species was corvine. Eggophiles is a funny thought. I picture a bird person beggar in a pose like JT's Aqualung cover except instead of having his hand in his sleeve he's petting an egg.
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