but WHEN did cats start sitting like humans?

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i know it's a while now -- the rupert sheldrake morphic resonance signal went out and now it's a thing they can all do -- but when does it start?

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-08/16/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web13/sub-buzz-18977-1471365253-1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hgvNwMKQtA

mark s, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:15 (six years ago)

no one mentions this feature in historical texts and paintings omit -- because it had NOT YET STARTED

IT IS RECENT

IT IS POST-INTERNET

mark s, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:16 (six years ago)

just as important imo: where does it end

a photographer, satanist and ukip voter (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 10:16 (six years ago)

dude we know that

mark s, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:20 (six years ago)

http://earthporm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/funny-cats-being-jerks-24__605.jpg

mark s, Monday, 8 April 2019 10:21 (six years ago)

you're right: with nowhere for humans to sit xp

a photographer, satanist and ukip voter (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 10:21 (six years ago)

first they came for my in-tray and i said nothing

a photographer, satanist and ukip voter (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 10:22 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwASnhbsqKI

Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 April 2019 10:24 (six years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Caj2GnWTJtw/UBQyYefKx3I/AAAAAAAARPI/jU7HXIPi0N8/s1600/animals-sitting-like-humans-009.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MALjxmujy1E/UBQ0M6ht4RI/AAAAAAAARS8/EcStYxPl5SU/s1600/animals-sitting-like-humans-029.jpg

I would expect that the origin is coincident with the advent of cushioned furniture.

Kardashev scale sex tape (Sanpaku), Monday, 8 April 2019 13:48 (six years ago)

The cushion is a very ancient article of furniture; the inventories of the contents of palaces and great houses in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Cushions were then often of great size, covered with leather, and firm enough to serve as a seat, but the steady tendency of all furniture has been to grow smaller with time. Today, the cushion is considered an upholstery item.

and yet, as mark points out, evidence of cats' unnerving tendency to sit like humans seems lacking in the historical record

*x-files theme*

TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 14:04 (six years ago)

I’ve watched this probably 7 times in a row pic.twitter.com/p6kiVsIKJq

— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 9, 2019

mark s, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:43 (six years ago)

what the shit

he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:46 (six years ago)

read some of the replies :(

rob, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:46 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/ASJ6cX2.png

mick signals, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:54 (six years ago)

read some of the replies :(

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;_;

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:56 (six years ago)

read some of the replies :(


what the shit

he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:02 (six years ago)

kitten in a cage sets the alarm bells going right away tbh.

reminds me of my kitty when was a wee yin :c

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:09 (six years ago)

three years pass...

did we ever sort this

mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 11:01 (three years ago)

they're all at it

Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 May 2022 13:26 (three years ago)

pic.twitter.com/VLj4Q0P6CX

— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) May 13, 2022

mark s, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:56 (three years ago)

what goes around comes around, buddy

Society for the Preservation of (cat), Sunday, 15 May 2022 01:25 (three years ago)

pic.twitter.com/6Ai7kEmMW2

— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) May 16, 2022

mark s, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:18 (three years ago)

eight months pass...

All the best cat threads are on 77. But this is worth linking:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/us-army-corp-of-engineers-cat-calendar-is-so-bad-its-brilliant/

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2023 14:08 (two years ago)

oh my god

#homilytweet (cat), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:11 (two years ago)

surprise cameo from benedict cumberbatch in october, oh, my god.

#homilytweet (cat), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:14 (two years ago)

the captions. who wrote this. i love this. my mind is reeling

#homilytweet (cat), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:18 (two years ago)

it's amateurish. it's nonsensical. and it's wonderful

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 20 January 2023 18:35 (two years ago)

this calendar has become so precious to me over the past hour

Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Friday, 20 January 2023 19:01 (two years ago)

I know the thread is about cats *sitting* like humans, but, well.

I adopted Phil a week ago and he sleeps like this starting yesterday on me. Is this normal? I am a first time cat owner. pic.twitter.com/ZYTmEExsZE

— Michael's Cat (@michaelscat2) January 27, 2023

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 28 January 2023 14:22 (two years ago)

Phil is not a first time human owner

Brad C., Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:57 (two years ago)


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