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  • Oh man. You just reminded me of the time I had to give my cat a flea bath. That was like 20 years ago, but I still remfmber I had to wrap her in a thick towel to act essentially as a cat straight jacket. I kept her head free, but everything below the neck was in a towel.

    Oooooooh boy did she growl.

    I hated it, but it had to be done. We got rid of those fleas. And all it cost was traumatizing my baby…and myself. Because I know she hated it. I at least made sure the water was luke warm, so she wouldn’t be cold, or too hot. But still…she HATED that bath.



  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Pain
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    In 1942 England was dealing with bombings from Germany. Not yet rockets, these were bombs dropped by plane. So eventually he British took one of the destroyed fields, and propped up an entire city made exclusively out of wood. Wooden buildings. Wooden people. Wooden cars. Ect. Build fast, painted fast. Goes up over the coarse of 2 days.

    So when the Germans (nazis) returned a week later to take surveilence of where they need to bomb on their next run, they see this whole town that they didn’t even know about on their maps. They decided to bomb it.

    I forget what message Britain sent over the telegraph the next day, but it was something sarcastic.

    Then, 2 years later, Germany tried to pull the same stunt in Holland. They wanted the allies to bomb this air strip they just installed. Except it too was all wood, and fake. So when the Allies learned of this new air strip, they sent a bombing crew of 19 bombers. They flew overhead, and only 1 plane released it’s payload. It dropped it’s bomb, and then…no explosion. They had dropped a wooden bomb, with the words “wood 4 wood” carved on it.

    The allies were saying to the Germans “Bitch, we CREATED this trick! We know exactly what you did, and we aren’t fooled.”

    Now, you may wonder why send an entire fleet, if they knew it was fake. The other 18 bombers had real bombs loaded, just in case they needed them. They didn’t. They just released the 1 wooden bomb.

    I always thought that was hilarious. That and the ghost army of 1944.



  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Classic Move
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    I keep seeing on Lemmy Blahaj in reference to trans people.

    What I don’t understand is what makes trans people identify with Taco Bell? I honestly don’t know which fast food would have made for a better franchise to identify with, but never Taco Bell. Ugh. Taco Bell is the worst.

    Why not Dairy Queen?

    I just…hate Taco Bell so much. It’s nothing to do with trans people. I hated them since I was 4 years old, and had no idea what a trans person was. I just want Taco Bell to go out of business, and don’t understand what trans people see in that god awful place.

    Even McDonalds, as awful as that would be, would have been a better option. Why does it have to be fast food anyways?


  • OOOOH! Yes. That’s another good point that I never even thought about. I just naturally never used my hands, because I don’t like it anyways, but I always used a feather on a stick/string.

    Another thing I never use is laserpens. I used to. I feel bad that I ever did. It’s fun, but then you learn that cats play is only stimulating their hunting drives. And since they can catch the feather on a string, they feel a sense of satisfaction for having caught it. Whereas they can’t catch a red dot. So never catching it apparently gives them PTSD. They feel depressed that they can’t be good hunters if they can’t catch the red dot.


  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.world•Toxic relationship
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    If you’re looking for a way to stop this behavior, you grab them by the scruff of their neck. Don’t worry, it doesn’t actually hurt the cat. But it does trigger senses in them that they’re being disciplined. So you grab the scuff of their neck, and act like your wrist is hurt. (the one they were biting/clawing, not the one you’re using to grab the scruff of their neck).

    Once they realize they’re hurting you, and also realize you can grab them by the scruff of their neck, and are therefore more powerful than them, they’ll stop doing that.

    Of coarse, this is also assuming you’re being a good cat parent to begin with. I see so many videos online titled “Cats go crazy” or something similiar. They aren’t going crazy. Their humans are usually doing some shit to repeatedly piss off their cat. And eventually the cat says “FUCK THIS!!!” and lashes out.

    As long as the cat routinely feels safe, and loved with you, the scruff thing works. If your cat feels unwelcome in it’s own home, yes, it will lash out.


  • Hmmmmmm. So you’re saying there’s no sense in even getting upset over trivial small potatoes stuff. Ok. Ok, I can work with that. So if someone does something against you, you won’t even worry about it if it’s small enough.

    Alright.

    steals $40 out of your wallet

    Is $40 worth engaging in a fight to get your money back? Is it worth a fist fight where you might get a concussion? I’ll be long gone by the time cops show up. So I can just keep this $40? Cool.

    Hey, come back tomorrow with $40 again. I could get used to this.







  • You think they care about things like facts, or logic? No. This is, and always has been about control.

    Even the business side of things know piracy doesn’t actually hurt business, it helps it. They’ve conducted studies on this since 2004. They found that the vast majority of pirates are actually the biggest spenders. They found more often than not a pirate will download a movie, or an album or a game, or whatever. Then within a month buy that same thing they just pirated.

    Thats the reason you used to see these record labels try to stop piracy back in the days of kazaa and napster, and limewire. There used to be lawsuits where they’d sue some household for 20 million dollars. Knowing they don’t have it. Well what ended up happening is they ended up suing this elderly man who had no idea what limewire was. He didn’t know how to use a computer. And the only one who used the computer was the 8 year old boy, who now had to live with his grandpa, because both his parents were killed by a drunk driver. Now this record label was trying to put his grandfather 20 million in debt. For someone who had no idea who the black eyed peas. When they kept asking him about it, he asked why they kept asking him about soup if this was about music theft.

    As the case went on, it was revealed that between his parents, and other family members, he had a cd collection, including the albums accused of stealing, worth over $5,000 worth of cds.

    The whole thing turned the public against record labels, and painted them as the bad guys for trying to ruin peoples lives over music. To this day I haven’t heard of another time they tried that tactic.

    And the republicans know this.

    You have to remember one thing. The cruelty is the point. It doesn’t need to make sense. It just needs to punish their enemies. And at times even punish their own base. I saw a story last night where a guy who voted for trump was complaining that insulin used to be $6, and now it’s $80 under trumps new plan. And he said “I didn’t think it would happen to ME!”

    And thats where we are right now. Just leaving the fuck around stage. Now entering the find out portion of our journey.