But, really? Today, yahoo ran a video of a ginger cat "couch potato" watching the news. The question to you (the fatcat-like consumer) is "is this cat really lazy or only resting?" There's nothing more to the coverage. Yahoo is eerily silent on the issue.
But anyway, what the hell? How is this something for next to my email and weather? Is this a dream?
Which leads me to another, slightly more revealing question. Why did I laugh until I nearly barfed? Why the hell is all of this cat internet stuff so damn funny? We all know about lolcats now. Lolcats are, like, household convo material. For a long time, I felt kind of neutral about lolcats. "Whatevs", I thought, "To each his or her own (cat fixation)". Then I started in, and got hooked. Now, nothing does it for me quite like a cat asserting that he/she is "in my hard drive, erasing my files".
What has happened to us? When I started this blog, I triple pinky swore to myself -try it, it's hard, you only got two pinkies - that I would never ever make it into a pop culture commentary blog. But I gotta make an exception here. I'm no expert, but why is the cat imagery coupled with the strangely plausible imaginary cat syntax so EFFIN' funny? Why do some people find the cat stuff funny and not the dog stuff (that's me)? Does the opposite happen? Impossible. The dog stuff is just dumb, right?
I don't trust dog people.
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5 comments:
I am new to this LOL animal world, but after an initial (drunken) foray, I am extremely confused. I don't think either are that funny, both dog and cat land seem perplexing. Why do they talk that way? Are the people crafting these images assuming a unified socio-economic sphere for these critters? Are there no posh cats? I feel as though cats would be more articulate if they could speak. Dogs would be bigger suck ups. I just find the codification of these images really puzzling.
i think it's the absurdity of the wierd ass repetitive syntax and images that is so ridiculous. Like, it's always "haz" instead of "have" and it's always "i'm in yur__________, ____________yur______________". For some reason, that is just so funny to me. It wasn't at first, but the exposure did it - I think it's the fact that people are obviously careful studies of this stuff...
The dog stuff fails for me because I always think dogs are just dumb, so dogs saying dumb stuff isn't all that surprising. I agree that if cats were talkers they'd be way smarter than dogs, and that's what makes the sadistic imposed syntax so hilarious - it makes them stupid, undermining their essential dignity.
I don't understand why the cats speak bad english? Is the suggestion that cats can learn english but not quite? It seems really misplaced to me.
i see now that katie has already discussed this and you've already answered. i feel ashamed.
I'm in yur blogz, analyzing yur socio-economicz.
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