George H.W. Bush, the 41st U.S. president and father of the 43rd, has died at age 94

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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    PJ_Soul said:
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    PJ_Soul said:
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    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute




    :/
    What are you confused about? This is a photo of Bush Sr's service dog mourning him. This is definitely the saddest thing I've seen from all this. *sniff* (I'm completely indifferent otherwise TBH).
    I made a sad smiley. Can't help that this messageboard uses some made-in-china bootleg shitty smileys instead of correct ones. 

    I made this smiley:

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    Haha. I've used it as "sad" since the 90s. Can't stand the regular :(  and :) 

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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,372
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute




    Def. the saddest thing i saw this week. :sad:

    this will cheer me up though
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    edited December 2018
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Didn't Bush Sr and Barbara even vote democrat in the election?
    Yes, they voted Democrat.  GWB also did not vote Trump, he did not reveal who he voted for...
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
    You are not bursting my bubble.  I know the dog is doing what he is trained to do.  I own a lab myself.  It did not take 6 months for my lab to be very attached to me.  They are extremely smart and affectionate dogs.    President Bush was a pretty good president...extremely qualified.  Sorry, he wasn't a Democrat.  Believe it or not, there was a time when US presidents could work with either party...and get shit done.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Meltdown99 said:
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
    You are not bursting my bubble.  I know the dog is doing what he is trained to do.  I own a lab myself.  It did not take 6 months for my lab to be very attached to me.  They are extremely smart and affectionate dogs.    President Bush was a pretty good president...extremely qualified.  Sorry, he wasn't a Democrat.  Believe it or not, there was a time when US presidents could work with either party...and get shit done.

    Not sure that party of the owner has anything to do with the dog's behaviour. 
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  • Indifference
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    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 


    Wow its the slate take - that's going over well on social:

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sully-george-bush-service-dog-slate_us_5c06140ae4b066b5cfa5011d

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Indifference said:
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 


    Wow its the slate take - that's going over well on social:

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sully-george-bush-service-dog-slate_us_5c06140ae4b066b5cfa5011d

    Ha!

    Too busy to read that article right now but I’ll look at it later. 

    I hate how how we romanticize and anthropomorphize animal behaviour. Dogs are social, pack animals, so of course they form bonds within the pack. Those bonds do not mean to them what they mean to us.  

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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    That reporter should go get a lab and see for herself, my lab became quite attached quite quickly as do most dogs...
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  • brianlux
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    Meltdown99 said:
    That reporter should go get a lab and see for herself, my lab became quite attached quite quickly as do most dogs...
    I'm much more a cat person than a dog person.  Dogs don't cover their shit and they bark too much.  However, when my wife and I first got together, she had a bench lab (an English variety of yellow lab) named Ariana (Ari, for short) and I fell in love with that dog and when she got old and we had to put her down, I cried a flood of tears.
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  • my2hands
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    Dogs are awesome... so are some cats lol
  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    edited December 2018
    oftenreading said:
    Indifference said:
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 


    Wow its the slate take - that's going over well on social:

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sully-george-bush-service-dog-slate_us_5c06140ae4b066b5cfa5011d

    Ha!

    Too busy to read that article right now but I’ll look at it later. 

    I hate how how we romanticize and anthropomorphize animal behaviour. Dogs are social, pack animals, so of course they form bonds within the pack. Those bonds do not mean to them what they mean to us.  

    Have a heart.

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  • HughFreakingDillon
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    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
    I doubt the dog has any clue who is even in that casket, or even knows there's a person in there at all. 
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  • stuckinline
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    Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today. The former First Lady will be coming over to the White House this morning to be given a tour of the Christmas decorations by Melania. The elegance & precision of the last two days have been remarkable!


    It's a funeral, not a house tour.

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,759
    edited December 2018
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
    How does this burst a bubble? I'm sure this dog understood that his charge was dead and is sad about it (no, I'm not anthropomorphizing. Dogs do indeed become attached to their owners and miss them - we all know that). 6 months is long enough for a dog and person to become attached IMO. I'm not reading any more into it than what it is: sad.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    stuckinline said:

    Looking forward to being with the wonderful Bush family at Blair House today. The former First Lady will be coming over to the White House this morning to be given a tour of the Christmas decorations by Melania. The elegance & precision of the last two days have been remarkable!


    It's a funeral, not a house tour.

    Does he mean Hillary? Maybe she's coming over for some "executive" time?







    How about the somber mood of the nation? Elegance and precision? Its all pomp and circumstance for him, isn't it? Remember North Korea? 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
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    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
    How does this burst a bubble? I'm sure this dog understood that his charge was dead and is sad about it (no, I'm not anthropomorphizing. Dogs do indeed become attached to their owners and miss them - we all know that). 6 months is long enough for a dog and person to become attached IMO. I'm not reading any more into it than what it is: sad.
    maybe not you, but tonnes of people are looking at this picture and seeing it as the dog in mourning over his master's casket, which, honestly, is ludicrous. obviously the dog CAN mourn if they see their master dead, but not a chance this dog understands who/what is behind him. 
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,759
    edited December 2018
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute





    I kind of hate to burst the bubble, but apparently Sully was with Bush for less than six months. He was a trained service dog who assisted with tasks like opening the door and fetching objects. This is a great photo into which people read far more than is there. 
    How does this burst a bubble? I'm sure this dog understood that his charge was dead and is sad about it (no, I'm not anthropomorphizing. Dogs do indeed become attached to their owners and miss them - we all know that). 6 months is long enough for a dog and person to become attached IMO. I'm not reading any more into it than what it is: sad.
    maybe not you, but tonnes of people are looking at this picture and seeing it as the dog in mourning over his master's casket, which, honestly, is ludicrous. obviously the dog CAN mourn if they see their master dead, but not a chance this dog understands who/what is behind him. 
    I disagree. I think the dog probably does know who is in that box and that he's dead. Dogs totally know when someone or something is dead, and he would definitely be able to smell who it is in the casket. I'm not saying that the dog is lying there crying inside over it of course. Mostly the photo is symbolic and that is what I think stirs some people's emotions ... I don't understand why anyone felt the need to kind of shit on that, but okay, lol.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,759
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Hachikō was born on November 10, 1923 at a farm near the city of Ōdate, Akita Prefecture.[3] In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo as his pet. Hachikō would meet Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home. This continued until May 21, 1925, when Ueno died of a cerebral hemorrhage while at work. From then until his death in March 8, 1935, Hachikō would return to Shibuya Station every day to await Ueno's return.
    Of course dogs miss their dead masters. I don't understand how anyone could think otherwise. It's clear as day.
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