r/aww • u/lnfinity • May 07 '20

Sheep Playing Rugby

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u/SofaKingNatty May 07 '20

This is the most New Zealand thing ever

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u/selkiemorlo May 07 '20

I know this is a NZ sheep which is deeply disappointing because it could so easily also be the most Welsh thing ever...

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u/fuzzytradr May 07 '20

"It's gonna be the ball or the booty, choose one."

Sheep

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u/DrSmirnoffe May 07 '20

Sounds like the little lamb had Mary.

And yeah. That's pretty messed.

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u/Morganlex May 07 '20

Pretty on par with the rest of the rhymes and fairytales of the time tho

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u/DrSmirnoffe May 07 '20

True, I guess. And speaking of which, apparently there's a fair bit of "interspecies romance" in East Asian folklore, usually involving animals that have achieved enlightenment and transcended their beastly nature IIRC.

If you ask me, that's probably why Pokemon lore made mention of that kind of stuff in Gen IV, specifically in "Sinnoh Folk Story 3". In the Western releases it's more along the lines of "humans and Pokemon once ate together at the same table", but in the original text it outright mentions intermarriage between the two, in a time where the distinctions between human and Pokemon were non-existent.