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tree (tree) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-06-18 15:51:00


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Pet intelligence wank
The Guardian: Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test.

You can imagine how well this goes with the readers. Besides the predictable flood of pet owner butthurt and anecdotes of clever / stupid cats / dogs / mice / owls, there are plenty of genuinely funny comments as well as a side wank on the validity of test methods and statistics, obligatory calls to talk about world hunger instead or discuss the intelligence of various nationalities, and, naturally, Hitler and his pets make a bonus appearance. I think one could play classical wank bingo in here, but some of the stories make it all worthwhile.


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[info]sepiamagpie
2009-06-18 10:08 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, my brother insisted over and over he needed a dog if my sister was to have a cat because that's how it should be*.

Currently he's neglecting the dog once he got bored while my sister cares for the cats and the dog. He still makes constant comments about beating up the cats when no one is looking. I'm not sure exactly what he's trying to prove, except he's a jackass.


*the fact I also had a cat meant nothing, apparently. But I have a feeling he doesn't see me as particularly masculine to begin with.

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tree
2009-06-18 10:19 pm UTC (link)
I wonder where this dog = male, cat = female comes from.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2009-06-18 10:21 pm UTC (link)
man, I have no idea. Because our dog is a girly girl and the cats are both pretty butch, as cats go. Hell, the little girl cat likes to slap women on the ass as they go by. Not that I approve, but she doesn't seem to understand my lectures on sexual harassment. Usually as she's burrowing her way into some girl's bra.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2009-06-19 01:34 pm UTC (link)
I don't know what it is about some cats and brassieres, but if one of mine is anywhere in Harley's field of view, she will leap on it and start snuggling it.

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[info]vzg
2009-06-28 09:02 pm UTC (link)
I dunno, but I had it in my head when I was little, even though I loved dogs to absolute bits and pieces (and still do). Somewhere around here I've got a drawing I did when I was six-ish of an anthropomorphic dog and cat couple with their canine son and feline daughter. Of course, seeing as how I was six I'm sure no one else would have been able to tell their genders. Maybe I'll just pass them off as a gay couple in the future.

And on the other side there was a skunk, a bee (in a cage, no less), and... something else. Possibly a worm. The animals I hated most back then. Now I like skunks and bees, at least to some extent.

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[info]snarkhunter
2009-06-20 05:09 pm UTC (link)
Not that it matters in the slightest, but I always though you were a girl. :)

Of course, when on JF or LJ, my default assumption of anyone's gender identity is that they are female.

How old is your brother? Maybe he'll grow out of the jackassery. My brother once tried to shave our cat, but he loved her as much as any of us did. (And he was mostly trying to shave her to upset me.)

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[info]sepiamagpie
2009-06-20 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Most people tend to assume that.

He's just turned eighteen. He was right sweet until seventeen, then he suddenly turned evil.

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tetradecimal
2009-06-20 07:01 pm UTC (link)
You and your sister sound like bigger men than your brother'll ever be, that's for sure.

Wait, is that right...?

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[info]sepiamagpie
2009-06-20 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Well, my sister is kinda butch.

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