Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 12, 2023

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    WHY is that woman crying? Mummy offensive? Don’t tell the British

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    monkeysky  over 1 year ago

    The “mirror neurons” cartoon is hinting at a secret fourth fact:

    Yawns are notoriously “contagious”, most likely because of how those mirror neurons combine with an involuntary action. This doesn’t even just affect humans: many social mammals also are likely to yawn when they see someone else yawn, and it can even cross species in some cases.

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    My brain neurons are mirroring other people? I hope they’re not taking up smoking.

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    Zykoic  over 1 year ago

    Zeh-bra

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    therese_callahan2002  over 1 year ago

    I sometimes speak in a southern accent if I see a TV show or movie that takes place down south.

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    Pedmar Premium Member over 1 year ago

    “I say, mummy, this Peppa Pig is cracking good! Now be a dear and pop off to the kitchen to fetch me a tin of biscuits.”

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    Arthur Hermanson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Our granddaughter is one of the Peppa Pig phenom. Not so much the accent, but the terminology. Holiday versus vacation, as an example.

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    Aussie Down Under  over 1 year ago

    Maybe the new accent will be Australian after the airing of Bluey.

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    tremaine53  over 1 year ago

    “Eye bot this parrot ear off an are ago! He’s DEAD!”

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 1 year ago

    Oy sigh, gibnee.. Peppa! ~ Tom Cruise, I do try

    Take care, may pubic candid yawn surveyor Walter “It’s All About The Uvula Exposure” Boredomord be with you, and gesundheit.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    Oh, the horror! Children speaking with a British accent!

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    k0rcj  over 1 year ago

    My ex was an Australian teacher. She used to get a lot of kids from Sri Lanka,Thailand, etc. Asked the kids where they learned “American” accent. Seems they all watched and learned from “Sesame Street”.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 1 year ago

    Mum should have had them watch Bluey, they could have an Australian accent.

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    minute_of_decade  over 1 year ago

    Why do people kept saying british accent ? English is the british language and so the proper way to speak. The US are the one with and accent, not the british.

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    Blimey,you don’t bloody well say?Where’s my tea and crumpets,Mater?

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    Patriot Dissenter   over 1 year ago

    Ready, steady, GO!

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    WCraft Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Next they’ll be having candy machines dispensing Snicker’s bars to those looking hangry

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Little ones who are still in the language learning stage of development have an easier time learning language and picking up accents. We taught our daughters French and Scots Gaelic (their mum’s a Scotswoman) when they were growing up. The Gaelic has come in handy as a private language and when we visited and the French was great when they were younger and has been most beneficial since we moved up here and they went to uni in the UK.

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    So many British accents. I’d take Cockney, so I could pick pockets and take the loot back to Mr. Fagen

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    cactusbob333  over 1 year ago

    I have been listening to the English language all my life, and I’m still not very good at it. I have overheard Chinese, and I get none of it. As for others, it’s all Greek to me.

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    SirSpongey  over 1 year ago

    I can confirm. Peppa pig and bluey have turned my sister at least 20% British from watching them. Please send help!

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    Prof. Mementomori's Solitary Confoundment Sideshow  over 1 year ago

    Another way to see things:

    Consider accents as part of the musicality of language.

    If clarity and communication are not impaired, what’s to fear or hate?

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    6turtle9  over 1 year ago

    YAWN!

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    JohnShirley1  over 1 year ago

    RBION, mirror neurons don’t mirror things people do, yawning or whatever, they “fire”, they react electrically. That’s not mirroring in the sense RBION seems to mean. RBION wants us to picture a neuron literally yawning, with a tiny little mouth inside our brains. Silly, silly RBION.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    Know of any British-speaking children in the U.S. after the Peppa Pig fiasco?

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    FireAnt_Hater  over 1 year ago

    Viewing this made me yawn. Really…

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Meh! I started speaking with a British accent at 13 when I had a history teacher who was an Oxbridge man. (In fact, I learned 50 years later that he had been a pupil of C. S. Lewis.) I’ve never quite lost it, really, because in high school I was in a production of “My Fair Lady”, and because I have about 20 years of doing Renaissance faires under my belt.

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