Fuck Those Too, Fuck All These, Fuck This Thing In Particular

August 16, 2022 3:15 PM

"Here is a thread of cats destroying our stuff throughout history, because they've always done it and they always will and for some reason we will keep loving them for it." (single Twitter thread)

Title reference.

posted by escape from the potato planet (21 comments total)

Again, cats were once worshiped as gods, and have never forgotten this.
posted by NoxAeternum at 3:25 PM on August 16, 2022 [8 favorites]

for some reason

I mean, we've got a pretty solid working hypothesis.
posted by penduluum at 3:36 PM on August 16, 2022 [1 favorite]

If the primary phenomenological experience is: "All of this is mine!" then I'm not sure whether there's an actual problem here.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 3:41 PM on August 16, 2022 [1 favorite]

"Fionavar Cat, quit destroying my bergamot!" came out of my mouth this morning.

They are indeed destructive little nuggets, and I'd never want to be without mine.
posted by humbug at 3:41 PM on August 16, 2022 [7 favorites]

APPLAUSE FOR TITLE
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 3:46 PM on August 16, 2022 [12 favorites]

"All of this is mine!"

"Except for THAT bit. I don't want that bit. But alllll the rest of this is MINE!"
posted by The otter lady at 3:52 PM on August 16, 2022 [6 favorites]

Oooh how would one acquire a print of that Ludwig Strimpl that one might hang in the downstairs bathroom with all the other cat pictures?
posted by saladin at 3:54 PM on August 16, 2022 [7 favorites]

Great. When they do it, it's cute. When I do it I'm a drunk asshole.
posted by Splunge at 4:13 PM on August 16, 2022 [12 favorites]

I would like a print of this magnificent painting, myself.
posted by May Kasahara at 4:14 PM on August 16, 2022 [3 favorites]

Title reference.
Oh. Now Hulk get it. Thank you.
posted by y2karl at 4:53 PM on August 16, 2022

Just this morning, I had to take a rug to the dump after my adorable, lovable little scamp of a cat used it as her toilet. Reading this account (linked way down in the thread) of a monk whose cat did the same to his book makes me feel less alone. "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night...And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come." Amen, brother.
posted by ourobouros at 4:54 PM on August 16, 2022 [9 favorites]

It all comes down to the power of purr.
posted by y2karl at 4:57 PM on August 16, 2022

"Fionavar Cat, quit destroying my bergamot!"

Huh! Bergamot is the name of my cat, who I wish would destroy my sofa less.
posted by aubilenon at 5:01 PM on August 16, 2022 [6 favorites]

Cats gonna cat. Same as it ever was.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:57 PM on August 16, 2022 [1 favorite]

Someone was asking about how to stop their cat from knocking their towels off the shelf. I told them to stop putting towels on the cat perch.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 7:54 PM on August 16, 2022 [11 favorites]

Tibbles the cat, who traveled with her owner to an untouched island south of New Zealand in 1894. There, she single-pawedly caused the extinction of the Stephens Island wren, a small, flightless bird found only in that part of the world.
posted by fairmettle at 8:14 PM on August 16, 2022 [3 favorites]

Short video of cats not giving even an inch.
posted by gwint at 8:49 PM on August 16, 2022 [10 favorites]

Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:59 AM on August 17, 2022 [2 favorites]

You think you're fine but then they develop new habits. Out of nowhere my cat decided shredding paper (including photos) is his thing now and so I've had to learn to put everything away.
posted by emjaybee at 12:23 PM on August 17, 2022 [1 favorite]

Anyone else see the title and flashed to this before actually reading the description? (Though if cats - or bunnies for that matter - were aquatic creatures, they'd probably act like that to let us know it's feeding time).
posted by gtrwolf at 8:18 PM on August 17, 2022

Exhibit A: my printer
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 4:02 AM on August 18, 2022 [3 favorites]