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| Dogs can't look up | |
| By Anberlin | ||||||||
| 14 December 2007 | ||||||||
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A conversation between three school boys in their lunch break proves that dogs cannot, in fact, look up....  Anberlin x “Did you know right..." began Steven simply, "That dogs can't look up?" There was a pause for a moment as Eric considered this. Trust Eric. He might as well have been walking around with 'gullible' written across his forehead in capitals. Jamie snorted with laughter. "Bullshit. I've got a dog, and I know he can look up." He sat back in his chair, confident in his own superior intelligence to the other two. Always the best at everything, whether it came to sports or picking up girls, there was no way that he was wrong. "Yeah, but they don't." "Erm, yeah they do. I've seen Jazza look up hundreds of times." This was a lie, because truthfully Jamie had never taken the time to really monitor his spaniel's upper-bodily movements, but he was sure that his dog was in fact capable of looking up. Steve dismissed Jamie's testimony with a 'pfft.' "That's not what they said yesterday on Hollyoaks. It's, like, a known fact that dogs can't look up." Eric uttered a small sound of surprise. "Jamie's wrong then." Jamie gave an exasperated sigh. "I'm not wrong. It's just an urban legend, its not fact. You don't believe everything you see on TV do you?" Eric gave a faithful nod, while Steve gave a neutral shrug, considering the conversation thoughtfully as he consumed a bag of salt and vinegar crisps. Leaning forward across the desk lazily, Jamie tutted with the wisdom of someone who thought he knew the way the world worked. "You can't believe everything you see on TV. It’s all a load of rubbish. Everything, all the soaps, all the game shows and sitcoms...all it is, is what some bloke somewhere has written, and then given to a producer to make it into TV. It's not fact, it's just that guy's opinion, whoever he is." Steve nodded, tiring of the conversation. It was becoming too deep for him, and he was fast losing interest. Eric, however, determined to fight TV's corner. Television, after all, was his staple pass time. He was sure knew a bit more about it than Jamie did, having spent many hours in front of the TV watching the latest installments of his soaps every evening after school. "You believe the news though and that's on the TV." "Well, yeah...but that’s because it's about real things, and they have evidence. It's not just made up." Eric considered this for a moment, and replied bluntly. "How do you know?" Jamie, surprised, found he didn't know how to answer that. It was a known fact; the news was not made up. It couldn’t be...it was the news for goodness sake. "Because it just isn't. The world would go upside down if the news was made up, people wouldn't know what to think." "Right...but the news is still written by someone somewhere isn't it? Another guy, sitting at his computer, is writing about what he hears is going on in the world. It's only his opinion isn't it? He doesn't include everyone's opinion, so we're only hearing what he has to say...same as the guy who writes Hollyoaks. The news is based on real things? Well so is Hollyoaks. They've never had anything stupid on Hollyoaks, like alien abduction." "No, that would be stupid because no-one would believe it." "Right. But they've had about alien abduction on the news before. That's not real and not everyone believes it…but it was on the news." Jamie's eyebrows raised. He wasn't sure how Eric had done it, but he had managed to make some sense, however poorly supported it was. "Well yeah...but...sometimes the news gets things wrong." "Right...so Hollyoaks is based on things that aren't real and doesn't get it wrong, but the news is based on real things, and sometimes gets it wrong...?" "Sort of..." "Right." Eric smiled triumphantly. "So dogs can't look up." Jamie and Steven looked on at Eric’s victorious face, stunned and for once, lost for words.
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