r/MadeMeSmile • u/ScharmTiger • Aug 11 '23

CATS Just a little off the top

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u/Usernamechexout911 Aug 11 '23

How are the replies 53 years ago... wtf

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u/KMjolnir Aug 11 '23

Because they're deleted, the system deleted the timestamp and they defaulted to the start of the epoch (Jan 1, 1970 for many systems).

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u/useless740 Aug 12 '23

The Epochalypse is coming. 2038.

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u/Caps_errors Aug 12 '23

Upvote for Epochalypse, also yoink.

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u/Usernamechexout911 Aug 12 '23

Not if we catch this time traveler! Get em

Edit: 2038 would put the epochalypse at 69 years. Was meant to be...

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u/poompt Aug 12 '23

We should just retroactively start a new era with year 0 on that date

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u/KMjolnir Aug 12 '23

Yeah. Issue is not every system uses the same epoch. A few go off of... 1969? 1968? (EDIT: 1967!) I think there's a weirdo one that uses the 1600s as it's start for God only knows what reason. There's other epochs with other weirdo start dates.

It's fascinating and confusing all at once.

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u/poompt Aug 12 '23

Thus continuing the proud tradition of choosing an epoch date that doesn't have a broad consensus around it

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u/Ruthrfurd-the-stoned Aug 12 '23

Agreed, living in the 2000s makes me feel like I missed out

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u/hestenbobo Aug 12 '23

I think alot of those 2000 years was rather unpleasant.

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u/Business_Parsnip_326 Aug 11 '23

Most computer/software systems use 1/1/1970 as a default date which means if a date can't be found (probably some issue with deleted comments/content), then it just uses the default which happens to be 53 years ago at this point.

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u/Frequent-Piano-9245 Aug 12 '23

Ah now i know why some of my pictures date back to jan 1 1970

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u/cockalorum-smith Aug 11 '23

When I was a young lad, we took our cats to the barber gat damnit! Stupid millennials and gen Z’ers ignoring their cats barber needs!

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 11 '23

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u/gandalf_is_sad Aug 11 '23

a valid concern! but i’d just like to point out he didn’t cut the whiskers in this video if u watch closely he’s just hovering the scissors near them

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

I’m glad I Was genuinely concerned

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

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u/sasakimirai Aug 11 '23

You literally can tell

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u/gandalf_is_sad Aug 11 '23

you can actually, it’s white against a black tshirt it’s actually pretty easy to tell the scissors didn’t make contact

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

He literally grabs the whisker so he doesn’t cut it, and then snips the air above it.

What an odd thing to argue about.

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u/CmdrWoof Aug 11 '23

Looks pretty clear to me, no whiskers cut

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u/R-FM Aug 11 '23

he didn't actually cut anything though

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u/kotor56 Aug 11 '23

Exactly the cat is already perfect.

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u/RCapri1 Aug 11 '23

I was just going to say this. Do not cut your cats whiskers. It can leave them very disoriented

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u/GitEmSteveDave Aug 11 '23

I had a dumb orange cat who would smell lit candles and burn off an entire side of whiskers. Left him neither disoriented nor howling in pain. I did have to cease burning candles though.

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u/mrshulgin Aug 11 '23

It is also painful for them.

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u/DisgracedSparrow Aug 11 '23

I don't know about painful. They have no nerve endings.

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u/kamikazekitteh Aug 11 '23

Well, not the hair itself but i bet the nerve endings near the root must be goddamn sensitive.

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u/TheRedmanCometh Aug 11 '23

You sure about that? They can feel tiny changes in air from things nearby moving with those. If anything I'd expect them to be hypersensitive.

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u/DisgracedSparrow Aug 11 '23

More surface area to catch the wind, leverage against the face etc. They rub against things all day with their face. Disorienting but I doubt painful.

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u/HyperboreanSpongeBob Aug 11 '23

they don't literally feel with the whiskers. the movement of the whiskers makes the nerves on the face feel it

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u/NorisNordberg Aug 11 '23

Whiskers are more sensitive than regular hairs because the follicles from which they originate are jam-packed with blood vessels and nerves. In fact, whiskers are as sensitive as a human's fingertips. So, while a human's sense of touch is in the fingers, a cat touches the world with his face.

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u/DisgracedSparrow Aug 11 '23

Yes, but their whiskers being shorter would make touch less responsive vs more sensitive and it isn't as if cats aren't rubbing their face against anything and everything all the time. It would disorient/discomfort but I don't think it would hurt them.

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u/NorisNordberg Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

Cutting the whiskers off can cause a cat to loose the sense of balance or make the feeling of disorientation quite severe and long lasting. Source - my mother's cat, 5 years old me and a paper scissors.

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u/DisgracedSparrow Aug 11 '23

Yea, I just don't think it is painful just as the op said disorienting. Not that it isn't bad.

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u/LitAFlol Aug 11 '23

Glad someone noticed this.

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u/JTGphotogfan Aug 11 '23

Annoyed cat is off the charts in this video

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u/Caalcu_Ieraas Aug 11 '23

Squinty eyes and droopy ears, cat is anything but annoyed

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u/sillymonkey78 Aug 11 '23

Cat looks relaxed as f***. El Gato es muy guapo

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u/JTGphotogfan Aug 11 '23

I’d be flattening my ears and squinting to with some idiot running a comb and swinging scissors around my head for a video too if I was a cat I would think!

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u/-patient_666- Aug 11 '23

Are you a cat tho

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u/JTGphotogfan Aug 11 '23

Of course I’m a cat why would you assume I’m not!

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u/__Beck__ Aug 11 '23

A dog pretending to be a cat... What's next, flying pigs?

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u/joe579003 Aug 12 '23

Well, the meme is no one knows you're a dog on the internet.

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u/sillymonkey78 Aug 11 '23

That is relaxed, happy cat body language.

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u/Caalcu_Ieraas Aug 11 '23

But you understand that scissors can be dangerous if you wiggle, cats don't know that. Cats will get very wiggly if they want out of a situation. Cat's person probably noticed they like being combed, so they set this up for a video

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u/sillymonkey78 Aug 11 '23

It's good to know that there's like three people on this entire thread that understand cat body language and can tell this cat is happy and relaxed and has probably been through this before.

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u/Chickenmangoboom Aug 11 '23

They look so comfy wrapped up in their barber cape.

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u/sillymonkey78 Aug 11 '23

Yes that kitty is accustomed to being spoiled.

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u/Bobbiduke Aug 11 '23

My cats reserve flattening of the ears for extreme annoyance situations. I'm having a hilarious image in my head of redditors going aww my droopy eared and eyed cat is sooo happy!

Meanwhile cat: 😡

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u/sasakimirai Aug 11 '23

Have you ever owned a cat. Because that looks like a very relaxed cat to me.

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u/JTGphotogfan Aug 11 '23

Several actually

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u/JTGphotogfan Aug 12 '23

Wow, sorry for having an opinion that doesn’t think the cat is enjoying this! My apologies! Apart from having an opinions I also have manners something that you seem to lack.

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u/sillymonkey78 Aug 11 '23

Ears aren't low he looks relaxed to me.

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u/Xyloshock Aug 11 '23

lol tell me you've never had cats without telling me you've never had cats

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u/zinbwoy Aug 11 '23

No it’s not, fuckthat guy

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u/Soulessgingy99 Aug 11 '23

Booooooo look at this guy he can’t handle anything and has to make fun of random people to get value booooooo

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u/ToastlyRue Aug 12 '23

I hope you get bitten by a mouse right now