idk, i just felt like sharing this cuz it sorta ticked me off.

Okay last night Meriah my sister's friend was over and we were playing twenty questions. Well my mom and my sister were anyway. we have the small little semi-spherical (is that even a word? Lol)game so in the beginning we have to pick a category: Animal, vegetable, mineral, other or unknown. Well my mom was doing her boyfriend shawn (which is sorta ridiculous since it can't guess a specific person) and jaiden told her to choose other. I said animal.

Almost immediately Jaiden and Meriah shot me down saying that humans weren't animals. In fact their exact words were "We're not animals!" and "Yeah, we're not little kitty cats." So i tried to explain to them that we were because by fact we had hair all over our bodies, we fed out babies with milk, and needed to breathe air. Which makes us mammals which is a type of animal. Again the kitty phrase was repeated by Meriah and Jaiden being Jaiden simply shouted "La, la, la, shut up!". So a little more than fuming that they wouldn't even listen to my reasoning and not give any on their standpoint (though i think it was along the lines of 'We're smarter than everything else so we can't possibly be stupid animals' i looked it up.

Definitions in Microsoft Works Word Processor Dictionary:
1. living organism with independent movement: a living organism that is distinguished from plants by independent movement and responsive sense organs
2. mammal: a land mammal other than a human being
3. brutish person: somebody regarded as vulgar or brutish
4. instinct-driven inner self: the instinctive inner self as opposed to the one subject to self-restraint
5. type of person or thing: somebody or something of a particular type (informal)

They of course pointed to the second one and said that made me wrong. So, I went on [link] (which my sister trusts a lot) and looked it up as, are humans animals?, and this is what i got: Technically, yes, in the category of Primates; we just happen to be the most intelligent on Earth. That shut them up, though their defense was, "Well, we're not as smarty know it all as you are." They are both in middle school. I think they should have learned by now we humans are indeed animals despite our intelligence.

And yes I know it was sorta of chidlish to look it up specifically with the intentions to prove them wrong but I was just really irritated they wouldn't even listen to what i had to say before brushing me off.