I think I'm adopted

[gemfyre]

Or my sister is.

We are nothing like each other.

She adores kids and is great at caring for them, I dislike kids and would probably accidently kill it out of neglect if I had my own.
I always prattle on about scientific stuff, she just looks at me funny and doesn't believe a word I say, I feel kinda sorry for her wanting to be so deluded about the world.
We just watched the carnivore episode of Life of Mammals, here she is turning away and almost in tears at baby guillemots and seals and gazelle and wildebeest being killed. Here I am watching with utter fascination, making sounds of jets crashing as the guillemots fall from the air and commenting on the cheetah/gazelle chase because I realised the gazelle was a full grown male, rather than a calf which they usually go for.
I also noticed that cheetah chase footage wasn't all from the same chase. They started with the cheetah chasing and impala but ended with it catching a gazelle and some of the chase footage was obviously different. She was like "just enjoy it and stop analysing everything" I'm like "But that's what I do, I'm a student of science. I'm not watching for entertainment, I'm watching to learn and put my knowledge to use."

So, which of us is the adoptee?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

i watched that. it was good. i asked my dad what the fundamental difference is between a can and a dog, and he kept going on about penguins and how they're different from dogs and bears. i don't know.

- i

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

But, penguins and guillemots are very similar.

Guilliemots are pretty much the north's answer to penguins, except they can fly.

[ssunbeamm.livejournal.com]

Lol...you just described my sister and I. Me being more like you. My sis like yours. We don't even look alike either. I mean at all! I look like my dad though...so she has to be the adopted one....he he he!

Oh and about those wildebeests being killed.....I did my whole thesis on it lol:
http://untamedimagination.homestead.com/dreamchaser.html

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

My sister is short'ish, blonde hair and brown eyes.

I am tall'ish with brown hair and blue eyes.

[sassamifrass.livejournal.com]

You have a sister? o_O I've never seen this strange creature! :)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I also have a brother *shock*.

He's more similar to me, but kind of middle of the road. He and my sister are more closely related because they have a different dad from my mum's first marriage.

You never see 'em because they are both married with families of their own.

maybe you both are?

[(Anonymous)]

Or alternatively neither of you are & you are related, I know several siblings who are ntohing like each other, it's the joy of genetics & nature/nurture etc I don't have very much in common with my brothers.

I'm also guessing your sister wouldn't get along with me awfully well if she's squemish about carnivore gore.

-LisA

[aurickandrien.livejournal.com]

I say that it's the television that is the adopted one, and that it's using it's clever subliminal messaging techniques so as to disrupt the sister-sister relationship just so it can get all the attention itself... well, it's either that or the television is a humble electronic one way communications device.