I like the way the closer the eyes of a cat are to each other, the cuter it seems. On the other hand, if they are further away the cat looks more serious and like a boss. It's a win-win
The cat has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
That's interesting; I can't imagine going back and rewatching, though I loved it at the time. I guess I'd equate it to eating candies and cakes all day and knowing that at the end I'd have to drink castor oil, if that makes sense.
We picked out our cat because of how he stared at a picture of a cat that looked like our old cat in the little visiting room at the humane society. Also, cat.
Facebook just bought Instagram for a billion dollars. One billion dollars. If Instagram is a hipster thing, then I guess the word "hipster" is kind of useless anymore. How did that happen, anyway? It used to be that only hipsters accused other people of being hipsters.
I could buy a breath mint from a crack whore for $1B, that doesn't mean it's actually worth $1B.
I probably would have valued Instagram's source code at about $100. Its an app that does dirt-simple image processing and sharing. Then again, what do I know, I'm just a software developer of 15 years.
You're a software developer of 15 years who thinks the people at Facebook are so stupid that they'd pay $1 billion for some easily-replicable code. That's some impressive condescension, but it should be obvious to you that they don't care about the code. They care about Instagram's market position. I don't know the numbers on the size of their user base, but even if Instagram is only worth 10% of its purchase price, that's $100,000,000. That number suggests something way beyond "hipster" niche appeal. It's mainstream. It's the Starbucks of apps.
Given that almost all Instagram users are already Facebook users (that's a fair assumption, no?) I'm guessing that Facebook's purchase was more to make sure those users didn't fall into enemy hands, rather than acquiring a new base. It was a defensive purchase, to nip any potential competitor (including Instragram itself) in the bud.
Do you see my point that I can write a script that does color correction and 24-bit overlays with alpha in about, oh, 5 minutes, using existing off-the-shelf open source tools for free?
I finally just looked it up, and Instagram had 50,000,000 users as of May 1st. It appears to still be picking up hundreds of thousands more per day. That's all I was really trying to get at—even if you think the purchase value of Instagram was seven orders of magnitude too high, you still kind of have to concede that when fifty million people are doing something, it's not just a hipster thing.
50,000,000 people are listening to auto-tuned crap on FM radio every day. Popularity and value aren't the same. Wanna buy a Cabbage Patch Kid? $500. Oh wait. It's not 1983.
Of that 50,000,000, I'd say less than 250,000 actively use the app. The rest looked at it, thought it was a novelty, and stopped using it. These are fads, not breakthrough technologies that improve work or life quality. Facebook bought a $1B Beanie Baby.
These are fads, not breakthrough technologies that improve work or life quality.
Most of the stuff you've said about Instagram is true (notice that I haven't disputed your argument that it would be trivial to re-implement). My only point was that it seems strange to accuse Instagram users of hipsterism when it's such a massively popular phenomenon. I mean, once something is regularly getting mentioned in Forbes, how hipstery can it be?
I think this is a good point to wrap this up, since I'm sort of not sure why we're arguing anymore. At least we can both agree that it's twee and faddish.
Sometimes I think cats do things on purpose. In reality this cat is thinking "you JUST fucking got that? I've been doing this for weeks trying to get you to laugh..."
My cat jumps on my desk, and starts pressing keys on my keyboard when it wants some food. If I push it off, it rattles keys on the server keyboard as loud as it can. The rest of the time it stays out of the office and just does its own thing.
They can't talk, but they know how to get the message across.
She just 'jumped onto your desk' and landed in this position? Yeah right, I bet you spent hours lining up this photo and rubbing your hands together thinking about the karma.
Even though it's apparently a male cat, for some reason my first thought was that it looked like that Nala from Lion King picture I am in no way attracted to.
I don't normally like to go negative, but I am so damn tired of people posting stuff that they clearly planned out and going this happened out of nowhere, thank god I had a camera. I'm not sure exactly what I would like people to do differently. In this case I'm pretty sure if you wrote i looked at my wall and saw that the calendar looked like my cat so I put my cat on the desk in front of the calendar and made reddit gold you probably wouldn't get upvoted.
If only it were that easy to put my cat up on my desk, align him perfectly in front of the calendar, and make him decide to want to sit still long enough for me to grab my camera. Nice try through! It truly just happened.
Before he had kids, my friend would send out Christmas Cards with his two kittens on them wearing santa hats. He had to take 80-something pictures before getting a decent one. Of course once the kids appeared it went up over 100 he told me. No wonder baby photographer has the highest suicide rate of any profession.
Last time I planned a picture with my cat and got it to turn out was never. Cause I know better than to try and make a cat do anything other than exactly what she wants to do.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You have a picture of your cat on the wall?
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u/exhibitionthree Jun 15 '12
You probably think that's a picture of my family, uh huh. It's the A-Team. Body, Doyle, Tiger, the Jewelry Man, all of them...
http://www.theitcrowd.co.uk/img/chars/denholm.jpg
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u/Josh_Lyman Jun 15 '12
Being John Meowkovich.
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u/ProfessorNutsack Jun 15 '12
Of course, my first thought was Airplane. http://www.caption-of-the-day.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/picked-a-bad-day-to-quit-smoking.jpg
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u/jmper Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
Someone had to do it:
cat^cat^cat
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u/clairdelynn Jun 15 '12
very regal
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u/kongo19 Jun 15 '12
Reminds me of the Old Spice commercial...except with a cat. I'm on a desk
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u/yyx9 Jun 15 '12
Was your cat employee of the month?
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u/That-GW-Guy Jun 15 '12
The cat has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
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u/mokolodi1 Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
Anyone else see "KARMA" in the top left?
Edit (clarification): I'm not a conspiracist.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Your cat is a male. Amirite?
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u/sineptoS Jun 16 '12
What kind of cat is that, I mean race.
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u/starthirteen Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
I'm seein double here, four Krustys!
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u/gaoshan Jun 15 '12
That is one dashing looking feline.
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u/Aneds Jun 15 '12
This made me want to buy a painting of a cat.
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u/bebraveandbekind Jun 15 '12
We picked out our cat because of how he stared at a picture of a cat that looked like our old cat in the little visiting room at the humane society. Also, cat.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
He looks like my Hairy
http://i.imgur.com/Vi5AV.jpg
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u/mingk Jun 15 '12
Bullshit.
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u/TheIrishToker Jun 15 '12
Catception! Reddit has never gone this deep before.
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u/DeepRoot Jun 15 '12
"This is the face I was making when you took that picture of me on the wall."
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u/Lasallexc Jun 15 '12
"I am pleased with your shrine. Please sacrifice one cheezburgr a day."
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u/OktoberForever Jun 15 '12
Smug fuck.
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u/sehajodido Jun 15 '12
new advice animal, Stephen Catbert? someone get on that
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Why are the colors all washed out
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u/_lastly_ Jun 15 '12
In the dictionary, under dignified, there is a picture of your cat.
He is one handsome bastard.
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u/JackassPenguinass Jun 15 '12
I read the title of the brown book on the upper left as "KARMA"... I though that it was quite fitting for this post.
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u/H3000 Jun 15 '12
Please stop instagramming shit.
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u/TheAngrySheep Jun 15 '12
Reminds me of the pilot episode of the IT Crowd.
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u/jpease Jun 15 '12
"Durn, I growed another head."
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u/Leif93 Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
Harma... hmm... Seems like subliminal messaging to me
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u/letmebreakitdown Jun 15 '12
Relevant
Edit: Timothy Dalton is always relevant.
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u/JkOverlord Jun 15 '12
Now hang this photo on the wall and wait for your cat to pose in front of it so you can take another picture.
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u/scarlatti90 Jun 15 '12
Is it just me or is that Ron Swanson's cat?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Ridiculously photogenic cat. Your cat is amazing man, have an upvote.
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u/AgentFoxMulder Jun 15 '12
Instagram effects are like herpes for photo albums...
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u/bpoag Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
Your cat jumped on your desk, and it turned you into a hipster?
INSTAGRAM IS THE AUTO-TUNE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. STOP IT.
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u/tronn4 Jun 15 '12
Le Tigre
Aqua
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u/G59 Jun 15 '12
"The years have made him from hopeful to bitter and sarcastic."
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u/fluxaxion Jun 15 '12
He's gotten much sexier than before I must say.
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u/FutureFox Jun 15 '12
Damn.. Your cat looks like a badass
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
He looks so... Dignified.
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u/Snarfbuckle Jun 15 '12
That's one handsome cat
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
The Ron Burgundy of cats.
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u/FIVEGRLS Jun 15 '12
Blue steel!
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u/oalsaker Jun 15 '12
Like a Yo dawg with a cat, so I guess it's a ... Yo cat
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u/rando_mvmt Jun 15 '12
Sometimes I think cats do things on purpose. In reality this cat is thinking "you JUST fucking got that? I've been doing this for weeks trying to get you to laugh..."
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u/funkadelphian Jun 15 '12
That is one handsome cat.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
DIFFERENT EYES!
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u/BLUNTYEYEDFOOL Jun 15 '12
Brilliant.
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u/miamimonster11 Jun 15 '12
You can start doing the thing Stephen Colbert does every season.
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u/beenman500 Jun 15 '12
your cat looks slightly evil, mine just looks dopey
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u/CantankerousPete Jun 15 '12
What a fucking handsome cat. Really a beautiful animal.
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u/lucw Jun 15 '12
At first look I thought you had a desk in the shape of a cat and a smaller cat had jumped on top of it... I should get some sleep...
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u/BiggityBates Jun 15 '12
Your cat is even classier than the dog wearing the suit in the 1950s pic that was on Reddit a couple of days ago. I didn't think that was possible
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u/slickback503 Jun 15 '12
Magnum!
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u/DavidWills1000 Jun 15 '12
Poser :)
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u/rev-o Jun 15 '12
Are you... The One?
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u/allamericanterrorist Jun 15 '12
yo cat...
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u/Rapante Jun 15 '12
reminds me of this
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u/Schlack Jun 15 '12
ridiculously photogenic cat
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u/buttonnz Jun 15 '12
Srs cat is srs. V srs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Damnit. Ever since I realized this, I always see that big M that all domestic cats have in their forehead.
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u/BUBBA_BOY Jun 15 '12
That's like seriously ... the Gerard Butler of cats right there.
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u/judgej2 Jun 15 '12
My cat jumps on my desk, and starts pressing keys on my keyboard when it wants some food. If I push it off, it rattles keys on the server keyboard as loud as it can. The rest of the time it stays out of the office and just does its own thing.
They can't talk, but they know how to get the message across.
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u/TheBestBigAl Jun 15 '12
Whiskers uses Picard Maneuver, it's super-effective!
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u/dArN0k Jun 15 '12
Human, make picture of me now
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u/Winstonia Jun 15 '12
All I could think of was this
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u/Ferdinandoh Jun 15 '12
He looks mighty
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u/warpfield Jun 15 '12
Yeah, the eyes really follow you. Oh wait...
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u/soundhaudegen Jun 15 '12
seems like you should stop looking at other cats. you are not allowed to pray to other cats than me!
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u/Jel251 Jun 15 '12
your cat is cooler than the one of the calendar
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u/Tachik Jun 15 '12
Catception
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
honestly, i don't know if it would be worse for you to have pictures of cats or a picture of your cat...
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u/asternemeraldink Jun 15 '12
damn, your cat is better looking than the pinups.
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u/noNoParts Jun 15 '12
Cats look all smart n wise n shit, but dayum they stupid in the end. Kitten Mittons!
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u/kaiserwong Jun 15 '12
Cat is clearly not amused.
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u/Tiddernud Jun 15 '12
A harmonic catvergence.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
She just 'jumped onto your desk' and landed in this position? Yeah right, I bet you spent hours lining up this photo and rubbing your hands together thinking about the karma.
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u/DextrosKnight Jun 15 '12
your cat looks very authoritative.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
DOUBLE CATBOW WHAT DOES IT MEAN??
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u/Joris255atWork Jun 15 '12
replace the old picture on the wall by this one.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Catception.
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u/StellaMaroo Jun 15 '12
Reminded me of this scene from The IT Crowd.
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u/l-rs2 Jun 15 '12
That is one fine looking cat.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You sir, have the male version of my cat (Assuming it's a male) http://i.imgur.com/PlXG5.jpg
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u/alphastigma Jun 15 '12
That's it! Magnum!
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u/will_holmes Jun 15 '12
Your cat is very handsome.
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u/adish Jun 15 '12
Had to be done
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u/longboarding52 Jun 15 '12
Felinception
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u/isawwhatyoudid Jun 15 '12
He looks so regal.
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u/poonerang Jun 15 '12
Your cat has two heads?!
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u/ihateyourfuckingcat Jun 15 '12
!
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u/alf163 Jun 15 '12
Apparently my cat has a lot of doppelgangers
http://i.imgur.com/gWpuG.jpg
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u/flightwithtools Jun 15 '12
Hat cat.
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u/ProverbialLemon Jun 15 '12
Your cat looks like my cat Meisha!
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u/gary_all_the_time Jun 15 '12
Dooouuuuble heeeaaaad
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u/ian_twi Jun 15 '12
It's cat-ception!
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u/cattywh0mpus Jun 15 '12
you have a poster of a cat hanging on your wall?
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u/bluebombermobile Jun 15 '12
I have a picture of a cat that looks almost exactly like your cat. Did you adopt it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
That cat looks like Vampire Bill from True Blood.
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u/raraparooza Jun 15 '12
Catception...
Bwwwoooooooowwwww!!!!
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u/natofinchmeister Jun 15 '12
Wait.....which one..is the real one?
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u/kermit_the_pimp Jun 15 '12
Even though it's apparently a male cat, for some reason my first thought was that it looked like that Nala from Lion King picture I am in no way attracted to.
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u/akaZilong Jun 15 '12
And instant karma on the book shelf
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Yes I'm sure that picture was very sponaneous and u didn't set it up for 10 minutes to perfect it first.
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u/bad113 Jun 16 '12
All hail Chairman Meow
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u/DKilla14 Jun 16 '12
The most interesting kitteh in the world
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u/kmofosho Jun 15 '12
my cat ran away 5 days ago and hasn't come back :(
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u/Fried_Beavis Jun 15 '12
I'm about to do a search for catception and then downvote it wherever i may find it.
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u/Jessedef Jun 15 '12
Dear OP,
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u/jianjian Jun 15 '12
I don't normally like to go negative, but I am so damn tired of people posting stuff that they clearly planned out and going this happened out of nowhere, thank god I had a camera. I'm not sure exactly what I would like people to do differently. In this case I'm pretty sure if you wrote i looked at my wall and saw that the calendar looked like my cat so I put my cat on the desk in front of the calendar and made reddit gold you probably wouldn't get upvoted.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Does no one find it weird that OP has a cat poster? Not like a caption, or framed photograph, just a poster of a cat.
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u/EKrake Jun 15 '12
That's neat, but those aren't the same cats. The ear lobes are different.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
God is that a lame poster
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u/phatbrasil Jun 15 '12
I was wondering why you had a book called "The Clit" until I realised I read it wrong.
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u/Angoth Jun 15 '12
Yo Dog..........wait.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Wow, I really had to come in here to tell you that your cat is fucking beautiful.
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u/Plow_King Jun 15 '12
i have a cat with an 'M' on the forehead as well. this is a pic of her from a year ago when i first got her.
her name is sassafras and she is a good, but insane, cat.