Maxim: People who appear to be listening when you talk about your pets/children/health problems/golf game are only doing so because they want a socially sanctioned excuse to talk about THEIR pets/children/health problems/golf game.
Of course this applies to lots of conversation, but I find it particularly acute around those topics.
There is "empathetic listening" and there is "waiting to talk."
If you have pets and you are listening to someone talking about their pets, odds are you're estimating how long you will be permitted to talk about your own pets.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
my cat is awful (pees on stuff, attacks my girlfriend. but cuddly and nice like 50% of the time) so I'm usually just envious when hearing about other people's kitties
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
he's just aping your behavior
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
pffft, fuck sake
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRWsh85P2T4
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
"My Dog Is Smarter Than Your Kid"
I Just Purposefully Rear-Ended You
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
yea dogs
cats too
pictures of peoples’ dogs and cats
― marcos, Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
You’re all monsters.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
^^ otm
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
Benson is one of many exceptions
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Q8IhDM_P4
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link
most dogs are pretty decent
especially their ears
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
my cat is awful (pees on stuff, attacks my girlfriend. but cuddly and nice like 50% of the time)
lmfao
― flappy bird, Saturday, 19 January 2019 05:13 (five years ago) link
Dogs are solid.
― Alba, Saturday, 19 January 2019 07:02 (five years ago) link
I love all the furballs
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 January 2019 07:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhYGmLRFXM
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
Dogs are fine, doggos and puppers will be shot in the street
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't want to have to care for one but dogs are alright. Fuck cats and their oversized egos though.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
I'd say more than half of my verbal interactions with humanity is smalltalk about dogs with other dog-walkers. I don't know if that makes me a doggo and honestly couldn't care less.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:24 (five years ago) link
I assume wins was referring to internet canine-speak: 'doggos' for dogs and 'puppers' for puppies, etc. (cf. the genuinely insufferable 'RarePuppers' subreddit).
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
I was. Insufferable is the word
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
I was talking to someone earlier with a chocolate lab called Fergus, she was saying how she's only just recovered from a broken knee after tripping over the dog-lead last year. Dog-talk gets real sometimes!
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:41 (five years ago) link
No doubt, but how do you feel about phrases such as:
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
oh that's some cloying shit. I wouldn't use them myself, but am probably just as soppy as ppl that use them though so feel awkward about judging.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
making a Fairly solid argument that tthe same societal sickness that led to Minstrel Shows manifests itself today as "Doggo Shit"— wint (@dril) July 17, 2018
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
there is this guy with 2 springer spaniels with bells on their colours that make a delightful noise as they clank about. I made an innocuous comment about it being nice to hear some live improv on the mountains. He really didn't like the comment and I think he thought I was taking the piss out of him. Maybe should try some doggo talk next time.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:09 (five years ago) link
collars
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:10 (five years ago) link
Haha, I'm pretty sure that 95% of the world population views references to free jazz or improv or abstract art in a negative light. Liking that stuff is 'unnatural' obv.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
There’s also the fact that most people are probably more likely to understand improv to mean zany comedy shows than cafe oto type stuff
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
I feel quite strongly that dogs are definitely funnier than 100& of stand-up comedians. Even if their routine does include very unsavory stuff like fucking settee cushions and tearing the sleeve of your best winter jacket.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link
there have been a few moments in my life where I feel like if it wasn't for my dog I might have stopped interacting with the world (especially during peak winter) and gone into a black hole of depression. So there is that as well.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:35 (five years ago) link
Dogs seem to enjoy themselves, where most animals don't, which is a plus. They are aldo smelly, dirty, loud and sometimes dangerous. A bit like a metal band in LA in the 80s.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
My sister has a dog - which hates me and all men - but I don't know any other dog owners. I know lots of cat owners though, forever billing and cooing over their boring charges.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
Two friends of mine – a couple – own a black cat each. One is anorexic due to some unnameable trauma, which it routinely unloads on bipeds such as myself, as well as on her feline roommate, who now copes via bulimia. Every time I visit them I come one step closer to acknowledging Satan's existence.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:50 (five years ago) link
Paulie from Sopranos was otm: snakes with fur.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:54 (five years ago) link
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, January 18, 2019 9:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Aw!! <3
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 19 January 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
Furbaby is by far the worst term. But I blame the humans and not the dogs.
I live for dog videos.
― Yerac, Saturday, 19 January 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Fuck cats and their oversized egos though.
― pomenitul, Saturday, January 19, 2019 3:10 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post
this is stupid btw
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
To each their Stockholm syndrome.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
*blows the 'stockholm syndrome reference' whistle*
toot toot
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
I suffer from Stockholm syndrome reference syndrome.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
if we start associating stockholm syndrome with people who love their cats, which words are we going to use when we visit stockholm and notice someone who is being held captive in a dungeon but insists that they're happy?
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
We must imagine Sisyphus happy
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Thou shalt imagine Sisyphus happy.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
I must imagine Sisyphus happy. And I do, I like thinking about that. Whoever is making me do that, it’s a good idea!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
I embrace my furry catpurr I mean captor
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
sissypuss
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:53 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok, sorry you never met a cat that liked you
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 January 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
I have, actually. Happens about 27% of the time.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
So glad this thread is now about dogs.
― Alba, Monday, 21 January 2019 09:39 (five years ago) link