[Closed] I like cats but....

Did this really require a thread?

burchill - Member

Did this really require a thread?

Oh sorry, I didn't realise there was already a semi official road kill thread ongoing. I searched for catricide threads but it didn't return any results.

You didn't stop and go back to check?

jimjam - Member
Oh sorry, I didn't realise there was already a semi official road kill thread ongoing. I searched for catricide threads but it didn't return any results.

I appreciate your due diligence, but there are already plenty of other moronic threads available on the first page - you didn't need to start your own.

55 in a 30
Jokes about dead cats flying
Most caring word used "smushed"
****s given probably 0
Leading post title

7/10

burchill - Member

I appreciate your due diligence, but there are already plenty of other moronic threads available on the first page - you didn't need to start your own.

I'm guessing but if I go through your post history I presume I'll see that you've taken the time to admonish each and every one of these moronic thread starters in a similar fashion and also a long and worthy list of awesome threads that you've created?

schrickvr6 - Member

You didn't stop and go back to check?

No I did not.

I feel kind of bad.

I'm feline kind of bad, surely.

jimjam - Member
I'm guessing but if I go through your post history I presume I'll see that you've taken the time to admonish each and every one of these moronic thread starters in a similar fashion and also a long and worthy list of awesome threads that you've created?

Only the ones that stoop to certain levels.

... I couldn't eat a whole one.

but there are already plenty of other moronic threads available on the first page.

I know - they've knocked all the scintillating threads that you've started onto the second page 🙂

At least the local wildlife will thank you as well as the poor sod whos garden has been used as a toilet.

A robin has been saved at Christmas. A fox has had enough frest meat to last a few days. Good result all round.

Feel for you (and the cat). I did this once. Just bolted out of a hedge and went under my rear wheel. Never had a chance. Felt terrible. I scooped the poor fella up and took it to a vets to see if it could be identified by a chip, but alas, no chip. Then I went to the pub and had a massive drink of booze.

burchill - Member

Only the ones that stoop to certain levels.

Well hopefully the mods have been keeping a close eye on your sterling work and they'll see fit to put a little tittle beside your user name. "Arbiter of Thread Worthiness" would be appropriate I feel. Then anyone who starts a thread can sit and eagerly wait for you to pass judgement as to whether or not their thread meets your lofty criteria. It's only right given your diligent thread policing and quality control.

Looks like killing a cat is only the second worst thing you've done in the last 24 hour OP 🙂

maccruiskeen - Member

Looks like killing a cat is only the second worst thing you've done in the last 24 hour OP

I know, but in fairness the cat killing guilt is now off set by the bird and mouse saving. I can't forgive myself for bad thread starting though 😳

burchill earlier today after he delivered another reprimand

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I can't forgive myself for bad thread starting though

I ran over a Badger once. Am so glad I didn't start a thread about it...

I appreciate your due diligence, but there are already plenty of other moronic threads available on the first page - you didn't need to start your own.

I'm sorry, burchill, but what are you on? jimjam started an off-topic thread. That's kind of what this whole forum is for: discussion of bikes, and other stuff.

What right do you have to challenge someone over a thread they have started, if it's not obscene or nasty?!?

Do you go into a pub, listen in on someone's conversation, then attack them for talking about something you didn't want to hear about?!?

Go, make yourself a hot chocolate, and chill out. 😕

I ran over a vole once. I did start a thread about it.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/im-a-very-bad-man-caution-recently-deceased-fluffy-wildlife-content

Totally got away with it though.

Too tired to make a mildly offensive pussy joke.

I once started a thread.

Did it cat-apult off your front wheel?

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Lest we Fur-get.

footflaps - Member

I ran over a Badger once.

I hit a badger too. Bloody thing caused a load of damage to the front of the car, the ****er.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

I'll be back there tomorrow.

jimjam - Member
I'll be back there tomorrow.

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Had to have our cat, Smudge, put to sleep last night at the vets. Very upset wife and 5 year old daughter.
Due to age and health - not run over.
However his brother, Pickles, was run over 8 years ago. Driver did not stop. neighbour found him, knocked on my door and I had to scrap him off the road.

SaxonRider - Member
I'm sorry, burchill, but what are you on? jimjam started an off-topic thread. That's kind of what this whole forum is for: discussion of bikes, and other stuff.

What right do you have to challenge someone over a thread they have started, if it's not obscene or nasty?!?

Do you go into a pub, listen in on someone's conversation, then attack them for talking about something you didn't want to hear about?!?

Go, make yourself a hot chocolate, and chill out.

Hi SaxonRider?!?

I just thought it was slightly insensitive, given that the other side of this is (potentially) a family who are wondering where their beloved pet is, s'all.

Haven't seen 'what are you on?' being used for years, so thanks for lightening my mood.

burchill - Member

I appreciate your due diligence, but there are already plenty of other moronic threads available on the first page - you didn't need to start your own.

Julie?

Is that you?

arrpee - Member
Julie?

Is that you?

Yeah, I did go in a bit strong - I apologise jimjam. I blame having a rubbish cold, a lack of paracetamol, and dreading my office's Christmas party this evening (in case they talk about stuff I don't want to hear about).

It just touched a nerve for the above reason.

There's one that shits in my garden if you want to drive up and down my street for a bit.

Purrfect apology there Burchill, no need to have kittens over it - consider the critical responses above a furball warning.

Hope the OP is feline better after what is a bad stroke of lucky - I hope you are able to get on with your 9 lives.
Lets also paws for a moment to consider the paw owners feelings too, it's a shame there was no collar/ID markings on the cat as you would've at least been able to pop an apologetic note through their litter box.

If you need any further support feel free to PM meow.

I had to scrap him off the road.

CAT "C" write off?

Having lost one of the beloved family moggies recently, owing to someone driving too fast through the village and unable to respond appropriately to unanticipated hazards, I have to say I find this thread very distasteful.

Ah well. At least it wasn't a child, eh?

So much bad taste on this thread!
So much win!

🙂

I hit a cat last year, dashed across the road in front of me, having been fighting/playing with another cat in a garden on the far side of the road. I was under the speed limit as it was very near a set of traffic lights and I'd been braking in case they changed. Didn't have a chance to stop as a) it ran out too quickly and b) if I'd braked any harder the idiot flying up behind me (who definitely [i]wasn't[/i] under the speed limit and seemed to be [i]accelerating [/i]in case the lights changed) would have ended up in my back seat.

If it's any consolation, despite my utter antipathy towards all things small and furry and those who own them, I did feel exceedingly guilty and stopped when possible to go back and find the owner/apologise. The people whose garden it ran out of had no idea who it belonged to, seemed to be a stray, no collar or chip (I left my details). They gave it a small but respectful send off and shovelled it into the bin, apparently. I had a beer, but did not start a thread. Perhaps that was for the best.

I feel kind of bad.

schrickvr6 - Member

You didn't stop and go back to check?

No I did not.

You potentially allowed someone's pet to die slowly and in pain...so yes, you should feel bad.

You potentially allowed someone's pet to die slowly and in pain...so yes, you should feel bad.

Potentially I'm doing the exact same thing at any given moment of the day. I don't feel bad.

Oh that would be a good experiment you know, is the cat dead, is it not, if it could be either could it actually be both? I'm surprised no-one has done this before, i suggest we call it jimjam's cat thought experiment.

Op think on it like this, your ambivalence potentially means the cat is alive and ok. You could potentially have killed it by the action of going back and checking.

Potentially I'm doing the exact same thing at any given moment of the day. I don't feel bad.

Oh that would be a good experiment you know, is the cat dead, is it not, if it could be either could it actually be both? I'm surprised no-one has done this before.

tortuous joke is tortuous

But you should be mortified Jimjam:

shameless case of kit n run

McHamish - Member

You potentially allowed someone's pet to die slowly and in pain...so yes, you should feel bad.

There's a very small chance it died slowly in pain. I felt a pretty solid at the back wheel. The fact that the car behind swerved leads me to believe it was still where my tyre would have been.

Busy main road, no hard shoulder, my lane adjacent to a climbing lane so cars coming off that at probably 70 or 80 realistically, peak time, heavy traffic, it was dark and it was raining. Any over reaction or even realistic attempt to stop could have had serious consequences, including but not limited to the death of other people's brothers, sisters, mothers fathers, wives and husbands.

Next...

bodgy - Member

Having lost one of the beloved family moggies recently, owing to someone driving too fast through the village and unable to respond appropriately to unanticipated hazards, I have to say I find this thread very distasteful.

Ah well. At least it wasn't a child, eh?

Good thing I was doing 5 mph UNDER the speed limit isn't it. And yes, really good thing there wasn't a child running across three lanes of traffic in the dark during rush hour.