| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
http://www.members.shaw.ca/gf3/circle-the-cat.html | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
It's pretty easy. You have to trap it in a wide circle first and then home in on it. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.163.77 |
But once you do so, guilt overwhelms you and you want to let it out.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
No, it's a cat, not a dog. Nothing's too painful for cats, IMP(sychopathic)O. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Gary! I'm a huuuuuuuge cat fan - and I've just gone off you completely!  Strangely enough, we're having to do this for real at the moment. Our elderly moggie is going quite senile and keeps sitting in the middle of the road. We're constantly trying to usher him back onto the pavement! I think I'd better keep trying this puzzle - it might help me with the real thing!  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.185.45 |
I can see a cat schism approaching of a similar magnitude to the chav schism of 2004. Lines being drawn. Alliances and feuds starting. The paws before the battle commences and people let their felines rule their judgement. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.12.129.226 |
How dare you Mr Fry. How very dare you. Cat's are the most beautiful and loving pets you can have. Plus they're more independant so you don't have to look after them 24 hours a day and take them for walks. You open the back door and let them roam. Dogs are stupid and high maintenance pets. Cats are far more intelligent (one of the reasons they are more difficult to train, they're too clever to sit up and do tricks just because you want them to. they train you to do tricks for them first...) | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
I have to pledge my allegiance with the dog brigade. Much as I agree with Weber's comments on the differences between dogs and cats, that's exactly the reason I prefer the canine species. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
I much prefer docile devotion to arch manipulation in a relationship. Hence my preference for dogs.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
I have no love for either, I'm afraid. cats shit all over my lawn and dogs bark all day and night. And why do most owners feel the need to anthropormorpise these smelly beasts? They are simply dumb animals acting on instinct. You open the back door and let them roam....and shit in a neighbours garden. I throw rocks at them when I see one in my garden. It's good sport. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
(Looks like my latest attempt to be a calmer, better and more forgiving man has failed - ho-hum; back to the drawing board) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
>>>And why do most owners feel the need to anthropormorpise these smelly beasts? They are simply dumb animals acting on instinct. That seems to suggest that people can only love what is fundamentally human. A surprisingly anthropocentric view from a misanthrope. Contradiction abounds.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
Like the man says, I'm a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. And all I'm suggesting is that people are insane for assigning dumb animals with human traits.  (I wish there was a bared-bottom smiley) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
>>>And all I'm suggesting is that people are insane for assigning dumb animals with human traits I know. It's so offensive to animals. If only they could speak . . . | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.5.16 |
Yeah! And why is it dogs lick their own a**holes, anyway?... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
In the absence of their peers and in the company of only people, they're attempting to ingratiate themselves with the only proximate life-form thereabouts worth the effort. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Nah, there's no argument here at all - cats are far better than humans (and dogs). Full stop. No question. My best friends have always been cats (hmmm, just wondering now if that says something about me ...?  ) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.242.124 |
We tend to judge pets by their appearance and what their movements convey to us, filling in the gaps with our projections regarding what we would like them to feel. Whereas with friends and lovers, we respond only to the inner reality of the person, whose needs and feelings we establish through thoughtful communication and sensitive analysis. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
All my best friends are pens. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
No, Joel, it's the other way around. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Seriously, Wittgenstein would have a field day with your second observation. (So would Merleau-Ponty, for that matter, but I don't talk about him any more.) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
... but has anyone actually managed to trap this damn cat with the dots yet? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
We tend to judge pets by their appearance and what their movements convey to us, filling in the gaps with our projections regarding what we would like them to feel. Isn't that how most people respond to other people? All the best, Dexter | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.236.26 |
Zed and Gary – yes, I was being sarcastic. There's no emoticon for that. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
I think there's a secret emoticon stash somewhere. It has one for sarcasm and a bared-bum one, among others.  | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.109.19 |
I don't like cats, they seem cold and cruel. I am always mystified by how people can love a cat. I am a dog nan. A good dog is a pack animal and wants to be part of the family, or a partner to single person. In return for being fed and looked after they offer love, devotion and a fierce loyalty. They defend the home and their pack - Can't ask much more than that. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
They could put the bastard kettle on once in a while. Lazy fuckers. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.72 |
Cats are magnificent creatures. They may seem cool and aloof to the average dog lover, but once you get to know one, you have a friend for eternity. That said, I don't actually hate dogs. I quite like them, the bigger the better. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>>.. but once you get to know one, you have a friend for eternity.<<< That's what I was trying to say about cats, Hubert, with my silly comment about all my best friends being cats. Other peoples' cats seem cold and aloof, etc, but once you own one (or, rather, they own you!), you can see that they are just a faithful and loving as dogs. I'm quite amazed this has stirred up such a heated discussion - is no-one going to stand up for hamsters, or guinea pigs, or gerbils ...? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
... that should read "just AS faithful" of course.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Don't get me started on guinea pigs . . . | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.9 |
Spiders? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
... but has anyone actually managed to trap this damn cat with the dots yet? About 10 times. I won't say how many tries I've had | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
It's easy, man! | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
Did it on the first try. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
ha-me too. Poor fella. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Speaking of cats, they had found all these mangled cats in LA I think, some weeks back- did they catch the bastards? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.109.19 |
We have a spider... a Spider who lives in the conservatory...he's called Herman. He's my friend. gcw | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>>We have a spider... a Spider who lives in the conservatory...he's called Herman.<<< Perhaps you should go round with a duster a bit more often, GCW, get rid of the cobwebs in your conservatory.  | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.109.19 |
I have forbidden Soozy from dusting away his little home. I'm kinda fond of the little eight-Legs. gcw |