Entry tags:

childfree, cute overload, pet wank, wank overload

Misanthrope Overload?
Ah, Cute Overload. A site that posts pictures of cute animals, what could people possibly wank about there? As the wiki shows, plenty.

I think Meg, the blogger, loves poking the crazies. One of the most reliable sources of "commentroversy" has been her "Cats n Racks" series. Yesterday she posted a video of a cat kneading some boobies with the hopeful tag "Nancy, it's a good thing you brought this to our attention, we've been just starved for commentroversies." Sadly, the commenters behaved themselves and mostly filled the comments with anecdotes about cats kneading soft squishy objects such as nads, ouch.

Meg would not be denied her wank, though! Clearly she had to bring out something NEW, something GUARANTEED to send her readers into apoplexy.

So today she posts... A HUMAN BABY.

*ominous chord*

263 comments so far, including the following gems:
She almost made the worst mistake of her life: Good Gods I was about to send a link to cuteoverload to someone, thank goodness I checked in first. BABIES NEED NOT APPLY.

You don't understand what your blog is about Meg! I DO: human babies are not what cute overload is about!

Whereas animals are completely silent and made of plasticine: Ugh, what's with all this worshiping at the altar of the baby? Babies are not cute, they're noisy and leak fluids. Do not want!

Uhhhh...: When I look at human babies, I just imagine the adult they will grow into... but puppies and kitties, etc., are babies forever!

I also love this comment where someone ponders changing their dissertation.

And finally, some pwnage:
human babies are not cute. if this is to be a regular occurrence, everyone i know who goes to this site will stop, including myself.

[Well, I can already tell how much we'd miss you... - Ed.]

Pass the pa-sickies.

Edit: HT to dragonfangirl. cf_hardcore cheers the brave commenters for speaking truth to power, or something. What's wrong with the word tummy? :(

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	risha 2008-04-12 06:37 am UTC (link)
	Tell me about it! I can't even go into the bathroom for an extended period of time without four month old Sebastian (beagle) howling loud enough to wake the neighbors. Excuse me, I have to go clean up the new pee on the kitchen floor now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sparkysrevenge 2008-04-12 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	Good lord. Beagles are especially bad. Cute little guys, but good lord. There was one Beagle who lived next to my grandpa, she was beautiful, but wow, did she howl when she was outside. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

risha
2008-04-12 10:55 pm UTC (link)

Oh yeah. I realized after I posted that it sounds like I live in an apartment or something. We're actually in a single family house. We can hear him howl inside the house when you're half way down the block, no exaggeration.

And he can keep it up forever. We tried crate training at first, which was (in retrospect) fairly easy to do with our older dog. We gave it up after more than two hours of barking without him stopping for a moment.

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	annabelle_lee 2008-04-13 04:37 am UTC (link)
	Oh god, I definitely sympathize. When I was a kid, there was always a beagle in the house, so I know what you're going through. Gorgeous dogs, but my god, the baying is enough to drive anyone crazy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

risha
2008-04-13 05:04 am UTC (link)

I discovered fairly early on that whenever I said the word "beagle", the first words out of everyone's mouth was to warn me that they were loud. At about the same time, I discovered that everyone was absolutely right. He's lucky that he's adorable!

(They're also a pain in the neck to potty train, I've discovered. And in this case at least, very possessive. My ill mannered beast Duncan (a Daschund/Australian Cattle Dog mix), looks like an angel now in comparison.)

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	annabelle_lee 2008-04-13 05:19 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, we had such a hard time potty training our beagles as well. I can remember my mother going "Papers, [insert name here]! Puppy go papers!" over and over until the particular pup figured things out. It was cute and funny, but mostly strange as hell to anyone who wasn't family. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	risha 2008-04-13 05:23 am UTC (link)
	I'm just grateful that we have hardwood floors and a Swiffer Wetjet. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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