Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Dragons

It's been a while since my last blog, this time I've decided to talk about something that I'm deeply passionate about. What is that you ask?

Great question. Answer: Dragons. Deal with it.

It's ridiculous how many people you ask "Are you into dragons?" give you a weird stupid look like you're stupid or weird or something weird like that.

You know what really eggs my nog though? 1. is when people (little kids included) draw pictures of dragons with pointy tails. I mean really? Pointy tails. That's like, almost laughable. Dragons NEVER use their tails to hunt, they rely on deep, inherent predatory skills, stealth, and of course, raw, brute force to engage and overpower their prey. EVERYONE knows tails are only ever used in the defensive shielding of blows (mostly from enemies' claws) and in the incubation of eggs, but NEVER in an offensive manner. The very thought of a dragon using its tail to stab some other animal would be like Sinbad winning an academy award. Re-diculous.

2. Or when Northern European dragons are portrayed with a reddish-scale tone. Unbelievable. EVERYONE knows that they have a grayish-white colouration so as to camouflage themselves particularly in high altitude alpine regions.

Dragons don't look like this you idiot.

3. And then you see RIDICULOUS
renditions of dragons in like Harry Potter and Twilight and stupid bothersome movies like that and I'm just like "When are people going to grow up?" Dragons deserve so much more credit than that. Can Rob Pattinson tell you ANYTHING about dragons?
4. No. He's
an idiot.

Look, I don't want to come off like a jerk, I just want people to be informed about dragon nature. I wasn't president of the Penn State Altoona Dragon Enthusiasts Society (Est. 1999) for no reason. Listen, I could go on and on and on, but I better just stop now before I get too frustrated with people's ignorance for dragon culture. (*sigh*)

3 comments:

  1. What did the Penn State Altoona Dragon Enthusiasts Society do?

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  2. Patrick, I also share your frustration with the exaggerated portrayal of dragons in popular culture. There was never even any hard evidence that dragons could breathe fire... yet every dragon movie depicts it. However, I must disagree with you on one point. Though most dragons of the European sub-continent had broad tails used only for balance and defense. There are numerous ancient reports of oriental dragon species with slim, muscular tails wielding a razor sharp boney point. These dragons evolved this way to fight off the larger predators of the region... such as tigers, samurais, and mongolians. This point also was incorporated as an offensive hunting weapon to swiftly kill their main source of food from a distance... the deadly and agile Panda.

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  3. There are NO dragons in Twilight! And YOU talk about people wearing you out with their ignorance. (sigh)

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