They Sound Like Angry 12 Year Olds
May 23, 2018 4:38 AM   Subscribe

 
That dad: "Do you know how RARE this is?"

Me in that same situation: "OMG kids this is exactly how you sound when I tell you screen time's over, do you hear what that sounds like"
posted by middleclasstool at 5:04 AM on May 23, 2018 [14 favorites]


I think it’s pretty raaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaare!

*faux head butt*




Lol!
posted by darkstar at 5:29 AM on May 23, 2018 [7 favorites]


has anyone else been prompted by youtube to help subtitle this because I'm ten seconds in and I can't stop laughing help
posted by alex4pt at 5:37 AM on May 23, 2018 [9 favorites]


"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LynxdIn."
"No, I'd like to add YOU to my professional network on LynxdIn!"
#dadjoke
posted by The Bellman at 5:51 AM on May 23, 2018 [45 favorites]


I saw this on Twitter last night ("This is what your intense twitter argument sounds like to everyone else" or some such) and it's been a while since I had a real laugh like that unrelated to "ha ahha we're all going to die because of politics." So thanks, lynx!
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:58 AM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


I think the lynx in the FPP are broken.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:08 AM on May 23, 2018 [51 favorites]


When you run into that "friend" on the street and can't pretend you didn't see each other
posted by overeducated_alligator at 6:30 AM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


This was right near my hometown. I've seen a ton of lynx over the years, but never anything like this.
posted by Fish Sauce at 6:31 AM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


It's like a Lynx improv warmup game.
posted by bondcliff at 6:41 AM on May 23, 2018 [12 favorites]


Given this recent video post, I kept envisioning the lynx foreheads as two north pole magnets.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 6:48 AM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


Oh my goodness.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:55 AM on May 23, 2018


Ah, nature. So quiet, and peaceful, and serene..
posted by VioletU at 7:12 AM on May 23, 2018 [4 favorites]


Recommended family activity: record your cat as you play this video for them. Mine seemed very alarmed, but not enough to get up.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 7:13 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]


It's like they've encountered a mirror. Metafilter please let me post memes i promise they're funny
posted by FirstMateKate at 7:18 AM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


Yeah my cat started tearing ass towards the sound and bowled into my partner's foot, face-first and hard.

I am no longer allowed to play cats-are-yelling videos in the morning.
posted by wires at 7:19 AM on May 23, 2018 [5 favorites]


I am rather cynically suspicious that this has been dubbed.
posted by Going To Maine at 7:48 AM on May 23, 2018


It's great, though.
posted by Going To Maine at 7:48 AM on May 23, 2018


I find it uncanny how much they sound like growly-voiced men doing a bad voiceover. It really is weird to me how much they sound human.

(But still less unsettling than when cats meow like babies. Oh man, we looked after my grandmother's cat once when I was a kid, and I was alone with it in the house one day...when I heard a baby crying. I was so freaked out that (a) either a baby had impossibly appeared or (b) that a cat could make such a human noise. I still remember the hairs rising on the back of my neck.)
posted by dendritejungle at 7:49 AM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


Such graceful creatures.
posted by Vesihiisi at 8:33 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]


I was pleased a few weeks ago to learn that the taxonomic name of the Eurasian lynx is lynx lynx.

That led to a wiki wormhole on species with tautological names – I knew the big ones like gorilla gorilla and rattus rattus and bison bison but I was delighted to learn of a species of giant amoeba named by Linnaeus himself with the most hardcore name ever: chaos chaos. Alas, it has since been renamed chaos carolinensis, but for a few centuries it was able to rock out with its pseudopod out.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:57 AM on May 23, 2018 [22 favorites]


Trying valiantly not to bust up laughing at my desk. Cats are cats are cats.
posted by Existential Dread at 8:57 AM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


The escalating yell at 0:12 is rofl

Also, someone needs to create a mashup of this with goats yelling like people
posted by Existential Dread at 9:06 AM on May 23, 2018 [4 favorites]


ricochet biscuit: did you see Boops boops?
posted by Earthtopus at 9:54 AM on May 23, 2018 [5 favorites]


* But look at the feet on those felines *
posted by TrishaU at 10:03 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]


In this rare outtake from Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, Frank Oz outdoes himself, performing the voices of not one but two characters arguing with each other.
posted by gusandrews at 10:47 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]


angry 12 year olds, you say?

"You can't say Smashing Pumpkins is your favorite metal band. They're not even metal!"
"They got nominated for a grammy for best metal album!"
"Best HARD ROCK album, and they lost to Metallica."
"Metallica sucks."
"Smashing Pumkins SUCKS!"
"YOU SUCK!"
"YOU'RE A DOUCHE BAG!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"EEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
posted by es_de_bah at 11:26 AM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


Hard same.
posted by stet at 11:56 AM on May 23, 2018


ricochet biscuit: did you see Boops boops?

I have seen its snoot snoot.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:33 PM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


That led to a wiki wormhole on species with tautological names – I knew the big ones like gorilla gorilla and rattus rattus and bison bison but I was delighted to learn of a species of giant amoeba named by Linnaeus himself with the most hardcore name ever: chaos chaos. Alas, it has since been renamed chaos carolinensis, but for a few centuries it was able to rock out with its pseudopod out

My favorite is the wolverine: Gulo gulo. Gluttonous glutton. Amazing.
posted by Special Agent Dale Cooper at 1:10 PM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


So majestic.
posted by mogget at 1:30 PM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


I think the lynx in the FPP are broken.

I‘m laughing so hard!
posted by Omnomnom at 1:40 PM on May 23, 2018


"LAUUUUUUURELLL"

"YAAAAANNNNNYYY"
posted by biscotti at 3:51 PM on May 23, 2018 [11 favorites]


In this rare outtake from Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas, Frank Oz outdoes himself, performing the voices of not one but two characters arguing with each other.

Or Ze Frank.

“True facts about the lynx:

Yes, it has a mouth.

You might know it as ‘that yelly-yelly part.’”
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:59 PM on May 23, 2018


A baroque singer friend of mine posted this with the single word "Countertenors."
posted by Pallas Athena at 5:12 PM on May 23, 2018 [6 favorites]


I am no longer allowed to play cats-are-yelling videos in the morning.

But nobody said anything about cats-are-yelling-ringtones-as-alarms now did they?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:25 PM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


Even wild cats are polite in Canada.
posted by longdaysjourney at 7:46 PM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


COME ON FRANK WHY CAN'T YOU HARMONIZE WHEN THE HUMANS ARE WATCHING??
posted by numaner at 9:09 PM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


I think the lynx in the FPP are broken.

Pack it up people, we're done here.
posted by um at 11:21 PM on May 24, 2018


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