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Actually live is too short to read long grasshopper stories.
But it seems that a lot of people run an excellent business based on a poor grasshoppers live.
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Wrong on every level but a useful insight into the mindset of a particular brand-politic.
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Wrong on every level but a useful insight into the mindset of a particular brand-politic. 
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I thought this was the humour thread, real life should be kept out of it (unless it involves blondes,of course) 
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I wonder if we can have the Squirrel and the Grasshopper retold as the ‘Carillion’ version?
Where it would go like this
Lots of greedy squirrels hatch a plan to build huge piles of nuts and dens for themselves and lots of creatures and so they get lots of grasshoppers to do their work for them and collect all their nuts with the promise that they will pay them a few nuts in time for Winter in a months time
The little grasshoppers do their work to the instructions of the squirrels but when they ask for their nuts in payment in time for Winter the squirrels say sorry you’ve not done quite what we ask for, you need to do more and we’ve got whole armies of squirrels to prove it and we only pay grasshoppers two seasons after Winter because we are bigger than you and you don’t really need the nuts now
Some grasshoppers go hungry and die, others try to continue to gather nuts but in the promise of more nuts
The Squirrels dens for other creatures get delayed and go bad but the Squirrels keep their nuts and dens and are nice and warm in the Winter
The Squirrels then go to the governor of the forest and say, please help us to give some nuts to the grasshoppers by taking nuts from lots of other creatures and less greedy squirrels as we haven’t got enough nuts to go to the grasshoppers and we are such a large group of squirrels that you need us for next years gathering
In my ending the governor of the forest should say get lost and banish the greedy squirrels from ever gathering nuts again but sadly I don’t think that will happen
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I thought this was the humour thread, real life should be kept out of it (unless it involves blondes,of course) What is the function of humour or comedy in society if it is not to hold up a mirror and force us to confront realities that we would often prefer to ignore? I have no issue with real life intruding into humour, or vice versa. Whether the grasshopper parable feels relevant (and therefore funny) probably depends on where you live and whether the reality it parodies is apparent in your everyday experience.
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All very good .. love the Apple one.
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Squirrels,cats,mice,grasshoppers. Whatever happened to the shaggy dogs?  Ah! The term “shaggy” was deemed too risque to include by the PC Police BBC branch.
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