Poll of the Day > Have you ever heard the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog?

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The scorpion wants to get across the river, so he asks the frog to carry him across. But the frog's like, "Well, what's in it for me?" And the scorpion's like, "How about five bucks?" And the frog says, "Make it 20." The scorpion's like, "Ten." The frog goes, "All right, fine, 15." And the scorpion's like, "All right, fine, 15." Then halfway across the river, the frog feels this terrible pain on his back, and... eh... the scorpion stung him. You know? And the frog's like, "Well, what the hell? We're both gonna drown now," and... they both did.

Moral of the story: The point is, frogs are bitches, and we do not negotiate with terrorists.

"But little frog.... I can swim."
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

"But little frog.... I can swim."

But yummy scorpion, I'm immune to poison and I like to drown scorpions:)

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wolfy42 posted...

But yummy scorpion, I'm immune to poison and I like to drown scorpions:)

No one ever wrote that story, though. And it doesn't really further the metaphor.

http://craneclan.weebly.com/frog-and-scorpion.html
http://l5r.fandom.com/wiki/Tale_of_the_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
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Klaus tells it to Allison in Season 2 of the Umbrella Academy, but he messes the story up.

InotiumBomb posted...

Klaus tells it to Allison in Season 2 of the Umbrella Academy, but he messes the story up.

Nah. He told the truth. Frogs are bitches and we dont negotiate with terrorists.

Yeah, I got the reference from UA.

And nobody needs to tell the story, but I hate that scorpion, so I wanted the frog to win (and eat it).

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Oh, that's where you got the quote from. I thought it sounded familiar.
I watched that episode last week.

wolfy42 posted...

And nobody needs to tell the story, but I hate that scorpion, so I wanted the frog to win (and eat it).

Speaking as a representative of the Bayushi family and the Scorpion Clan, you gunna get it.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Speaking as a representative of the Bayushi family and the Scorpion Clan, you gunna get it.

*Ribbit*

GULP

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https://youtu.be/5Afs2IsFsT0?t=189

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Yeah I heard it at some point as a kid

Also Kratos tells it in the latest God of War to his friend, Boy

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Mead posted...

Yeah I heard it at some point as a kid

Also Kratos tells it in the latest God of War to his friend, Boy

Wait...isn't the boy his son? Or is that like a spoiler from actually playing the game and his son isn't really his son and is instead like I don't know Kratos as a boy that got sucked through time and older Kratos is training younger kratos to become himself when he gets older?

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I heard it (the version I heard had a fox though IIRC), but I disregarded the moral on the grounds of bullshit.
A living being doesn't knowingly throw its life away "because it's its nature". There's always a reason, regardless of whether or not you know or understand or accept it.

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

I heard it (the version I heard had a fox though IIRC), but I disregarded the moral on the grounds of bullshit.
A living being doesn't knowingly throw its life away "because it's its nature". There's always a reason, regardless of whether or not you know or understand or accept it.

Yeah, I mean, why wouldn't the scorpion just wait till they got to the other side of the river and THEN sting the frog. Frog dies, scorpion scurries of, end of story. Moral? History belongs to the living, so the moral is, scorpions rule and frogs are dead.


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wolfy42 posted...

Wait...isn't the boy his son?

yeah but he mostly just calls him Boy

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Mead posted...

yeah but he mostly just calls him Boy

To be fair, Kratos does basically kill every living thing he meets, so eventually the name would be pretty appropriate as it would be the last boy alive.

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

I heard it (the version I heard had a fox though IIRC), but I disregarded the moral on the grounds of bullshit.
A living being doesn't knowingly throw its life away "because it's its nature". There's always a reason, regardless of whether or not you know or understand or accept it.

wolfy42 posted...

Yeah, I mean, why wouldn't the scorpion just wait till they got to the other side of the river and THEN sting the frog. Frog dies, scorpion scurries of, end of story. Moral? History belongs to the living, so the moral is, scorpions rule and frogs are dead.

That's what I always ended up wondering about tbh.

after they drowned I bet some bird saw them and was like aww yiss free food

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