[Yudster]

Tom the Orange Cat died of an intestinal tumour three years ago now - I still miss him, He was the best cat ever.

[bmstinton93]

Did you ever get another? I love cats and would hope to think we'd always get another if anything happened. When our last cat died in '99 we didn't waste too much time getting a new one.

[chrysostom]

He looks exactly like Garfield. I used to hate cats, but now I've come to quite like them. Still a dog man though.

[bmstinton93]

He's really not looking well:

Hasn't eaten or drank anything since at least Friday. We've been forcing him water with a syringe but that's about all he's had.

[Yudster]

Did you ever get another? I love cats and would hope to think we'd always get another if anything happened. When our last cat died in '99 we didn't waste too much time getting a new one.

We already had another - much to Tom's disgust we got a kitten about 8 years ago. He's lovely, but he isn't Tom the Orange Cat. Malachi looks like Six Dinner Sid, only less mean.

He looks exactly like Garfield.

He had a similar personality to Garfield too (although he preferred chicken and fish to lasagne). He was the only cat I know who used to look forward to going to the cattery - it was a holiday for him. He was never really built for defending a territory you see - he knew he should, and kind of made an attempt to be in charge of his garden, but the responsibility weighed heavily on him and he loved going to the cattery where all he had to do was sleep, eat and have a fuss made of him for a week or two. Pretending to be a real cat was quite a strain for poor old Tom.

[chrysostom]

His latest escapade was to put a stupid message at the start of one of his music videos, wishing for a guy who stabbed a headteacher to be freed from prison.

I usually try to defend his stupidity and put it down to playing up to the ignorance that he portrays, but this was truly shocking and really unacceptable. I've read a lot about this case, after I drove past the school 2 years ago and saw the plaque commemorating the victim. For anyone to give support to a convicted murderer in public is just plain stupid, not to mention potentially damaging to his parole hearing next year. For any UK 'hip hop' artist to be that lazy and stupid to get attention is truly ridiculous. Whilst I didn't dislike him before (despite all the reasons to), now I firmly regard him as an idiot.

Malachi

All I think when I hear that name is the central character from Children of the Corn *shudder*

[dimtimjim]

Whilst I didn't dislike him before (despite all the reasons to), now I firmly regard him as an idiot.

+1 - but with the word idiot made less child friendly.

[MK Chris]

He looks exactly like Garfield.

He had a similar personality to Garfield too (although he preferred chicken and fish to lasagne). He was the only cat I know who used to look forward to going to the cattery - it was a holiday for him. He was never really built for defending a territory you see - he knew he should, and kind of made an attempt to be in charge of his garden, but the responsibility weighed heavily on him and he loved going to the cattery where all he had to do was sleep, eat and have a fuss made of him for a week or two. Pretending to be a real cat was quite a strain for poor old Tom.

I like Tom the Orange Cat! Our ginger cat (Paddy) also had a similar personality to Garfield. Paddy was also a brilliant cat.



I've agreed to get a cat now as well - as long as it's ginger - this is going to be our new cat:

[The Deadly]

I much prefer a dog. A dog makes you feel loved and needed. Any cat I've ever had has been cold and miserable despite my best efforts to get on with them.

[Yudster]

I don't mind dogs but they are too needy. They don't really offer affection, its subservience - dogs are pack animals and the dynamics of the pack mean that the "underdogs" will always suck up to the pack leader. So its not affection, its fear of losing their place in the pack, ie not getting fed, not getting walked etc.

Cats don't need people. They will ask you for their food, because its your job to provide it - but if you don't provide it, they're perfectly capable of sorting themselves out. So when a cat jumps on your lap and has a snooze, or if it looks up and "prrrp"s at you when you walk into a room, if it trots over to see you in the garden - its because it WANTS to. That's affection.

[dimtimjim]

Wot she sed ^^.

[Nicola_Red]

I too am a dog person. I don't dislike cats, but I wouldn't ever want to own one.

[dimtimjim]

I too am a dog person.

Thats overly critical...!

[chrysostom]

Dogs are like young children, Cats are like teenagers.



I relate to Dogs much more than Cats, but I think that's because I'm not the most independent of people, and rely on constant attention/things to keep me occupied.

[dimtimjim]

My car goes into garage today, will be gone for a few days too...! Will either be approx £300 or £800, depending on what the problem is (of the two likely suspects). Keep ya fingers crossed for me please guys n gals.

[Nicola_Red]

I too am a dog person.

Thats overly critical...!

What does that even mean?


Anyway...if you people haven't yet seen 'Text from Dog', you need to:

http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

There was also an interview with Dog in the Guardian at the weekend:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... t-from-dog

[dimtimjim]

What does that even mean?

Its monday...?!

[MK Chris]

Dogs are like young children, Cats are like teenagers.



I relate to Dogs much more than Cats, but I think that's because I'm not the most independent of people, and rely on constant attention/things to keep me occupied.

Ha I like that. There's a very old thing from the interwebs years ago that is 'instructions on how to give a cat a pill': http://sucs.swan.ac.uk/~cmckenna/humour ... tpill.html very old, but always makes me laugh.

Anyway...if you people haven't yet seen 'Text from Dog', you need to:

http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

There was also an interview with Dog in the Guardian at the weekend:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... t-from-dog

Yes, the guy behind that is October Jones (@OctoberJones) who is brilliant (I know some of you know him already) - he also draws Peppy the Inspirational Cat on post-it notes and leaves it behind the pull-down trays on the train:


One of my favourite texts from Dog:

[Nicola_Red]

I really want to post one of mine now but tumblr is blocked at work and it's impossibly faffy to do on my phone. It's the one where he's been drinking Red Bull from the bin.

[Yudster]

I follow October Jones on Twitter. He's fab. As is Batdog.

[chrysostom]

My flatmate and I try to annoy each other as much as possible via text, so naturally as soon as I saw Texts from Dog it became my favorite thing that the internet has provided.

Only this comes a close second : http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ (WARNING: This link will eat a LOT of your day. Complete anything you have to do before clicking it).

[MK Chris]

I LOVE passive aggressive notes too - I've not looked for ages, so yes... could spend a while going through it!

[James H]

What's annoying me today? Database crash on a forum I run. Backups also missing half the tables, but weren't sending me error messages. Possibly 10,000+ posts lost. Many irate users pending...

[chrysostom]

The furore surrounding the Terry/Ferdinand case.

To be honest, the only basis for pursuing prosecution is that it was broadcast on TV - in reality a single incident of using the term 'black' in an aggressive context during a heated argument (with no previous convictions, cause for concern and where the victim didn't even hear the initial allegation) should be nowhere near the courts and would constitute a warning at most. It should be a matter for the FA to deal with (and dish out a ban)

The correct punishment should be a warning, but with so many eyes on the case - that would seem to trivialise the issue. People are complaining about a potential £2500 fine as not being enough, but should standard fines be on a sliding scale? Is it his fault he earns a lot of money?

Finally, those who are inferring that he should be mentioned among the KKK and the Nazis are terrible. Look what you've done Twitter dunces, you've made me defend John Terry.

[MK Chris]

The correct punishment should be a warning, but with so many eyes on the case - that would seem to trivialise the issue. People are complaining about a potential £2500 fine as not being enough, but should standard fines be on a sliding scale? Is it his fault he earns a lot of money?

I don't know enough about the case to comment on the other points, but is there not a strong argument that fines are punitive and therefore should in some way be felt by the individual receiving them; the only way to do that is to take earnings into account when deciding them I'd have thought.