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Guavanaut posted:I dunno, the private water companies in England have been saying that for years and now there's not a single river in England that's safe to swim or fish in. drat ratty you've been working hard
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lmao everyspecies gangsta until felines arrive
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Guavanaut posted:I dunno, the private water companies in England have been saying that for years and now there's not a single river in England that's safe to swim or fish in. Who could have foreseen that privatisation is not magically efficient? Man.
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Even the virgin dog fears the chad cat.
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forkboy84 posted:Who could have foreseen that privatisation is not magically efficient? Man.
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The only cat I've ever respected was the feral one who tried to claw my leg off in Morocco. All the others just passive aggressively poo poo in my gravel and give me the stink eye from the top of my shed. Anyway, London can be a bit of weird one. Not a big fan myself, but it's where the work tends to be. If you can integrate into a local community you'll generally do great, but it does have a very high turnover. I think the most recent figures are something like 1.6 million moving out in the last five years, 1.1 million moving in. I definitely wouldn't recommend buying straight off (even if that's an option given how overpriced stuff is) - spend six months in an area to ensure you're happy with it first. I hopped around boroughs for about five years when I got here before finally settling on 'screw this, just outside the M25 for commuting will be fine'.
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One other point about indoor vs outdoor cats. Our two cats were adopted when they were 7/8 weeks old. They had been feral kits from the inner city. We kept them indoors for the first 6 months to get them used to our house. They were small cats. When we let them outdoors their growth massively took off.
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I have read all the cat arguments in this thread, but for me it comes down to this, lookit dese fucken cheeks
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Niric posted:on the subject of things UKMT dislikes intensely, what's the thread consensus on how bad an idea it is to move to London in your mid(ish) 30s? I did it at the age of 43, just before a pandemic. Actually quite liking it so far tbh. I also brought my (indoors) cat 
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The Question IRL posted:One other point about indoor vs outdoor cats. lol that doesn't mean anything if you were feeding them quality food anyway i used the water example on purpose; i used to do water quality research (specifically on taste and odor bacteria but i'm familiar with the broader concepts). it's not something you'd be likely to notice as an individual, as pointed out. mehall posted:I have read all the cat arguments in this thread, but for me it comes down to this, p cutte catte
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Niric posted:Edit: on the subject of things UKMT dislikes intensely, what's the thread consensus on how bad an idea it is to move to London in your mid(ish) 30s? Honestly if I didn't have family here I'd move, but I think that's heavily influenced atm by living alone in a small flat during a don't-go-outside pandemic. As people have said it depends totally on if you can afford it, two people earning ~median wage in secure work is fine but definitely take your time choosing somewhere to live don't bite at the first seemingly okay thing you find. Red Scare unlocked their Zizek episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvHX0QOF-bc ~11 minutes is when they talk about the UK and he says something sort of obvious in retrospect but I hadn't twigged it, that the old lefty line 'antisemitism is anticapitalism for stupid people' has been inverted but now ignoring the stupidity element, that the establishment discourse is almost explicitly saying 'anticapitalism is antisemitism'. And they're obviously pushing it because that means being woke and good means being capitalist, because critiquing the economic system is dogwhistley Doing Tropes against Jewish people, it's "oh who is 'they' then?" but not just as quip, that dumb take is their new baseline. The grimmest thing is that the old lefty line actually communicated something real and important, if a basically coherent critique of economic inequality is reduced to 'oh the problem is X people' then it removes the ability to change that inequality, capitalist expoitation simply isn't based around being jewish or being a white cis man or whatever it's a systemic result of how capital works, and but that unnuanced take implicitly puts X people on the hook. Imagine in 6 years if that dogshit is allowed to continue, material conditions keep getting worse so more people become anticapitalist but you have a new cultural framework that says 'no stop being mad at that you're actually getting mad at the jews we're gonna sneer at you now' is it so insane to think this could cause actual antisemitism? Not this fake stuff the right have concern-trolled about, actual deep feelings of hate that is swelling from legit hardship but misdirected?
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mehall posted:I have read all the cat arguments in this thread, but for me it comes down to this, A persuasive argument.
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As long as it stays behind bars no one has a problem.
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Guavanaut posted:ratty shat in my local brook I poo poo in streams, ditches, dikes, brooks, drains, culverts, and trenches But I am not a pornstar
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I love how this all started from the thread talking about how terrible reddit was, someone brought up their endless cat vs birds arguments, and immediately the thread descended into the exact same argument about cats and birds with almost comic timing.
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“Cats, a disruptive apex predator, disrupt local bird populations”, I say, without evidence, as ecologists announce the anthropocene as a new geological era.
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NHS specs: the victim of Rose West you never hear about - an opinion piece by Octavia Ferrari, The Guardian
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Forget free school dinners; starving the arts of funding is the real emergency in these times - an opinion piece by Tristram Spafflater, The Guardian
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Purple Prince posted:“Cats, a disruptive apex predator, disrupt local bird populations”, I say, without evidence, as ecologists announce the anthropocene as a new geological era. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tibbles-the-cat-and-stephens-island-wren-2014-12/ The anthropocene is shaping up to me more like the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary than an era in its own right.
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Every comrade itt will have to hand over their cats for destruction when the corbynists get in
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State-issued birds for every citizen.
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crispix posted:Forget free school dinners; starving the arts of funding is the real emergency in these times - an opinion piece by Tristram Spafflater, The Guardian When we reach December 1st does he become Tristram Spaffnow? 
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Disnesquick posted:State-issued birds for every citizen. Honk if thatcher's dead
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All those Tories saying "The socialists want to make you eat your own pets!" were right.
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Dogs are better than cats. It's just fact
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Cats live longer, healthier, less stressful lives if they're kept indoors. If you like your cats, keep them inside. The bird argument is moot. Cats will gently caress their own diet up, get massively stressed with territorial disputes with other cats and animals, spend lots of their time running away from things in terror, pick up disease from ticks, fleas, biting insects etc. and are not unlikely to get hit by a car. I've kept cats my entire life, both outdoor and indoor. My indoor cats are stupidly happy and while my outdoor ones have never been miserable they just don't live as long.
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Salisbury Snape posted:Dogs are better than cats. It's just fact This is true. I would never advise keeping an outdoor dog, however. It will most likely get lost
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Just keep rats
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Ms Adequate posted:When we reach December 1st does he become Tristram Spaffnow? It's a "jam tomorrow" kind of deal
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https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1332742037557403652
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Communist Thoughts posted:Every comrade itt will have to hand over their cats for destruction when the corbynists get in Where does El Gato fit into this new regime?
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Mebh posted:I've kept cats my entire life, both outdoor and indoor. My indoor cats are stupidly happy and while my outdoor ones have never been miserable they just don't live as long. Counterpoint: we had an outdoor cat which despite being tiny and developing a bad habit of staring at walls in its dotage, lived to over 20 years old and scared the heck out of younger cats foolish enough to try to prove their dominance. When it died it just wandered off and was never seen again. It tended to kill birds by playing with them to death rather than the method our much larger, younger cat had of pinning them down and tearing out their throats. E: Someone I knew kept an indoor cat. It got bored and jumped out an eighth story window. Purple Prince fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Nov 29, 2020 |
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Ragdoll cats are chill as gently caress layabouts that are not allowed outdoors because they have zero self preservation instinct, much like me. E: Unlike me, they have a lovely coat.
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I would advise cats generally be kept indoors, though it depends on factors like the cat itself, their health, and where you live.
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So as most of you know I live in Canada now, and I have two new kitties. I do *see* other cats out and about, but aside from living in an urban area with cars and such, there are also coyotes and stuff out there, plus I think more in the way of ticks and diseases and stuff... plus for like 4 months of the year there's snow on the ground anyway... so yeah, these cats are indoor kitties.
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