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Re: Hooked on a Feline

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Post by nicwolff » Fri, Nov 06, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

ageofwant wrote: post #5

I'm here to complain about the utterly annoying 'redeem your shit' hovering diff that obscures the main page. If you are in anyway responsible for doing this to other people, please, take a bit of time and go fuck yourself.

I keep this "Kill sticky" bookmarklet in Favorites for hotkey activation https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky and hit it immediately when a page shows a modal, or to delete a fixed header that is making paging with the space bar suck. Worked perfect on this page.

Re: Hooked on a Feline

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Post by sbisson » Fri, Nov 06, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

Our first Maine Coon was called Jeoffry, a big old lovable six-dinner-Sid of a cat who had several homes down the street, but always came back to us at the end of the day. He would definitely arise and do his morning orisons.

His spiritual successors arrived last weekend (nearly two years after our other Maine Bentham, The Cat Of Marginal Utility died at 18), a pair of calico Maine kittens, sisters who are currently asleep beside me.

They are going to be big...

Re: Hooked on a Feline

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Post by trhway » Fri, Nov 06, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #9

m0zg wrote: post #8

Cats elicit an irrational response from me. My cat hates me when she's not hungry, and loves me when she is hungry, but I love her in either case for her honesty. She's one of the most honest beings I have in my life. It's irrational, I know, but I love my cat. She's honest about her intentions, and I appreciate that. I can count on her love when it 7pm and it 's time to fill her bowl with cat food. That's more love…

My cat will be the sweetest most delightful creature imaginable for hours then, for no reason whatsoever, turn round and attack me then run around our house like a demented hell creature for 15 minutes before repeating the whole process. I absolutely adore him!

that sounds like an invitation for a serious play to discharge some accumulated energy. My cat wouldn't attack me, yet he would noticeably periodically need a "rough" play time. I'd stick my hand into 2-3 hoses of the thick training pants (the result being kind of a stretched out - the cat naturally liked to work all his legs simultaneously - boxer glove) and that would be an "enemy" that the cat would fight with using all his claws and teeth.

Re: Hooked on a Feline

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Post by akuchling » Fri, Nov 06, 2020, 9:40 PM UTC

Siobhan Carroll's "For He Can Creep" https://www.tor.com/2019/07/10/for-he-can-creep-siobhan-carr...> adapts the same story and was nominated for the 2019 Hugos in Best Novelette, but didn't win. It's a fantasy where Jeoffrey has to drive away Satan himself in order to save his poet.

Re: Hooked on a Feline

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Post by dang » Fri, Nov 06, 2020, 10:30 PM UTC

ageofwant wrote: post #5

I'm here to complain about the utterly annoying 'redeem your shit' hovering diff that obscures the main page. If you are in anyway responsible for doing this to other people, please, take a bit of time and go fuck yourself.

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html