If You Laugh at the Cat, the Terrorists Have Won.
ICanHasCheezburger? is a blog of funny animal macros, mostly of cats, but sometimes gerbils, bunnies, dogs and monkeys, too. By "macro," I mean "a picture with a hilariously anthropomorphic saying on it," usually in child-like 'netspeak to add to the cuteness.

A couple of days ago, cheezburger posted this macro of a Siamese cat, ostensibly after having eaten something very sour, with the caption "ME NO RIKE REMONADE." Cue fan, which the shit hit immediately. 632 comments later...

Accusations range from "racist!" to many, many tl;dr essays, yes, essays in the comments, most of them preceded with the disclaimer/qualifier, "Well, I am [insert ethnicity here], so..." Dreama explains for us plebes that the macro is inexcusably racist which causes other members to suggest that she change her user handle to "Drama" (hee!). Jimmy compares the macro to the Japanese internment camps of WW2, which causes a LOT of people to go all "Bitch, are you for real?" The comments are the straw on the proverbial camel for Ben, who declares, "I am just waiting for the asteroid to come and kill the rest of you." rubbr tries and fails to be the voice of reason: "...it's only a picture of a cat..." Squalo says that if you're complaining about this and not doing something about the terrorists, you should be ashamed of yourself!11!1!!1

All I could think was: "Aww. Siamese kitties have the CUTEST meows."

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	dana 2007-03-03 04:01 am UTC (link)
	My Ragdoll trills when he's not sure where I am, unless he's sleeping (and preferably as close to me as possible) he needs to follow me everywhere and gets distressed when I'm out of sight with the low level trilling. He's not too bright sometimes, because usually I'm in the next room. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dunc 2007-03-03 04:30 am UTC (link)
	The one that doesn't trill gets like that sometimes. He is what my father calls a 'lover', I call a 'whore', and everyone (up to and including random repairmen) agrees is needy. And that's why I have two giant kitties instead of just the one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dana 2007-03-03 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Everyone keeps telling me that when he gets older he'll stop being clingy, and while it's true that if I'm in the house I'm his favourite (I'm the one who feeds it ;) he'll happily glomp onto someone else in my absence. Which is why it's a good thing there is always someone in the house. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

chibikaijuu
2007-03-03 06:59 pm UTC (link)

Huh. My Ragdoll mix was extremely clingy (but only to me) when he was a baby, but now he's only randomly cuddly (and still pretty much only to me). Nobody else believes that he purrs. But he trills constantly - really the only time he meows any other way is when he's been trapped somewhere and wants out, or thinks he sees something chaseable.
He's also terrified of stranger. We think he's slightly damaged (he was really, really young when we got him from the shelter, and had obviously been removed from his mother too early. The other kitten was better socialized and manged to teach him how to groom himself and some kitty ettiquette, but only some - he still hasn't quite figured out the burying part of using the litter box - or rather, he uses the box and then goes through the motions of burying with the air outside of the box).

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	annabelle_lee 2007-03-04 04:54 am UTC (link)
	I'm not the only one to deal with that? Yes, there is a god!</i> My...uh, whatever-the-hell-she-is cat does that too, but considering she wasn't a shelter cat and was removed from her mother within a decent amount of time, I blamed it on her just being dumb. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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