Well, the humour of Spitting Image would be really aged, since it's political humour in and of itself (and specifically British politics, at that). It does seem to be around, though. As for puppets in the 70s and 80s, puppets were mostly confined to kids' shows, Hot Fudge (feat, Arte Johnson) and Kookla, Fran and Ollie, as well as the Saturday morning Krofft crap. The Muppet Show brought puppet shows back to being respectable for adults to watch. The early-20th century music and themes brought in the very old in and of itself.
Did Reagan deserve the rap he got at the time? Well, considering most of the Reagan-fear was over being nuked, and ... we're still here ... then, I guess not. BUT in an echo of today, they had us kids/teenagers pretty much convinced we wouldn't live to see 1990, because Reagan and Breshznev (oh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Two Tribes.) A lot of cold war stuff was blazed at us before Gorbachev came along and things seemed to .. .calm down (and we started getting crap like Enemy Mine and all kinds of "Russians are just like us" stuff in the media.) And one of the tenser times came when Leonid died and was replaced by two or three geezery old hard-liners, but none of them lived very long. But yeah, we had to watch If you Love This Planet in school, and do a report on The Day After, of all things. Does any of this nonsense echo? Only it's cold war/nukes, not "muh slavery" or whatever shit this is supposed to be about this time.
I don't think there are "limitations" at all with non-humans beyond the limitation of not being able to query them directly about things. I have had to deal with humans were who intelligent (ie, not mentally damaged or really seriously lacking in IQ) who had no language/fucked up language/didn't speak my only language. I can make dumb assumptions about what I see, too, and remember, people who do things to other species in labs are fucking psychopaths, adn Descartes was excusing psychopaths who wanted him to defend nailing dogs to tables in the middle of the street while cutting them open, alive, so they could show how "smart" they were. And the same dumb assumptions have always been made about those who look different, or can't speak proper. Humans in my observations do not react any more "intelligently" in an emergency situations than anything else does, and in fact, sometimes when they DO start to think, they do the exact wrong thing. So put your human conceit aside before asking me shit like this. They're different, but they're not retards. And dogs are more like children, than Downies, and they're not lacking shit any more than humans who have no mind's eye and no internal dialogue ....... and who can't think, so it's pretty arrogant to hold on to old assumptions when we know not all HUMANS have verbal thoughts. Impulse control? A well-trained dog has that, unlike the retards that used to attack kids on our way to school .... and they would get excused when we tried to report them.
Basically, it's just funny as shit to see someone jump out of their skin when you leap out of the bushes at them. And playing, pranks and gametime is always a form of life practice, for predator and prey alike.
Well, the humour of Spitting Image would be really aged, since it's political humour in and of itself (and specifically British politics, at that). It does seem to be around, though. As for puppets in the 70s and 80s, puppets were mostly confined to kids' shows, Hot Fudge (feat, Arte Johnson) and Kookla, Fran and Ollie, as well as the Saturday morning Krofft crap. The Muppet Show brought puppet shows back to being respectable for adults to watch. The early-20th century music and themes brought in the very old in and of itself.
Did Reagan deserve the rap he got at the time? Well, considering most of the Reagan-fear was over being nuked, and ... we're still here ... then, I guess not. BUT in an echo of today, they had us kids/teenagers pretty much convinced we wouldn't live to see 1990, because Reagan and Breshznev (oh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Two Tribes.) A lot of cold war stuff was blazed at us before Gorbachev came along and things seemed to .. .calm down (and we started getting crap like Enemy Mine and all kinds of "Russians are just like us" stuff in the media.) And one of the tenser times came when Leonid died and was replaced by two or three geezery old hard-liners, but none of them lived very long. But yeah, we had to watch If you Love This Planet in school, and do a report on The Day After, of all things. Does any of this nonsense echo? Only it's cold war/nukes, not "muh slavery" or whatever shit this is supposed to be about this time.
I don't think there are "limitations" at all with non-humans beyond the limitation of not being able to query them directly about things. I have had to deal with humans were who intelligent (ie, not mentally damaged or really seriously lacking in IQ) who had no language/fucked up language/didn't speak my only language. I can make dumb assumptions about what I see, too, and remember, people who do things to other species in labs are fucking psychopaths, adn Descartes was excusing psychopaths who wanted him to defend nailing dogs to tables in the middle of the street while cutting them open, alive, so they could show how "smart" they were. And the same dumb assumptions have always been made about those who look different, or can't speak proper. Humans in my observations do not react any more "intelligently" in an emergency situations than anything else does, and in fact, sometimes when they DO start to think, they do the exact wrong thing. So put your human conceit aside before asking me shit like this. They're different, but they're not retards. And dogs are more like children, than Downies, and they're not lacking shit any more than humans who have no mind's eye and no internal dialogue ....... and who can't think, so it's pretty arrogant to hold on to old assumptions when we know not all HUMANS have verbal thoughts.
Basically, it's just funny as shit to see someone jump out of their skin when you leap out of the bushes at them. And playing, pranks and gametime is always a form of life practice, for predator and prey alike.