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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

    Let's keep Richard a cat here.

    It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

    I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

    Let's keep Richard a cat here.

    It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

    I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

    Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

    Let's keep Richard a cat here.

    It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

    I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

    Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

    I didn't think you used spell checkers! devil 

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 422

    barbult said:

    Wishful thinking on your part!

    Ah well, you can't blame me for trying.  And anyway, sooner or later Lola might want to join in, even if it's just to encourage Richard to keep up the training!

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

    Let's keep Richard a cat here.

    It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

    I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

    Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

    I didn't think you used spell checkers! devil 

    Well, not here because they don't work - unless you flip to Source mode, but then it takes exception to all the HTML.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Sorry barbult for the OT btw, I'll delete the pic if you wish.

    Let's keep Richard a cat here.

    It would be confusing to mix species 9and if the Catalympic team found out they might use it as a technicality to exclude me from the team, despite my obvious merits)

    I like your Catalympics better than my Catlympics, so I am going to switch. And it goes better with Catalonia (thanks background). Catalympics is easier to say and read. Spell checker still doesn't like it, though. Stupid forum spell checker.

    Too pedantic by half, most spell-checkers. Or maybe my typing  just drives them up the wall.

    I didn't think you used spell checkers! devil 

    Well, not here because they don't work - unless you flip to Source mode, but then it takes exception to all the HTML.

    Enable SCAYT works, but Check Spelling locks up and I lose everything I have typed. 

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,080

    there has been a spate of delivery drivers stealing cats

    better keep Richard inside

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    there has been a spate of delivery drivers stealing cats

    better keep Richard inside

    I don't think anyone can keep Richard inside or out of trouble. It is his nature. Perhaps those cats were just looking for adventure and hitched a ride on the delivery van. 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,080
    edited May 30

    barbult said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    there has been a spate of delivery drivers stealing cats

    better keep Richard inside

    I don't think anyone can keep Richard inside or out of trouble. It is his nature. Perhaps those cats were just looking for adventure and hitched a ride on the delivery van. 

    caught on security cameras sadly only one found in UK where the driver kept it and microchip betrayed him at vet

    a dog was found in aniother town and the speculation is they play a sick game dumping them elsewhere  

    one driver killed a 7 year old girl he snatched delivering her Barbie dolls

    people are sick angry

    anyway getting off topic now, sorry

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  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,631
    edited May 30

    I shop exclusively with Amazon. Amazon delivers most of my orders.

    Sometimes they ship products in boxes, sometimes in plastic bags.

    Sometimes there are boxes within bags.

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  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908
    edited May 30

    Headline: Catalympic hopeful slams box shifter for not shifting a box. "My dreams are in tatters" he said "much like that bag will be when I get my claws into it!" He added "Don't they realise how important boxes are to us? That's why the winner always stands on the biggest box at the end of the competition."

    I'm guessing you had an 'angry cat' pose and couldn't resist. He's so mad he's hopping from foot to foot, or should that be paw to paw.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Ron Knights said:

    I shop exclusively with Amazon. Amazon delivers most of my orders.

    Sometimes they ship products in boxes, sometimes in plastic bags.

    Sometimes there are boxes within bags.

    Or bags within boxes.smiley 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    background said:

    Headline: Catalympic hopeful slams box shifter for not shifting a box. "My dreams are in tatters" he said "much like that bag will be when I get my claws into it!" He added "Don't they realise how important boxes are to us? That's why the winner always stands on the biggest box at the end of the competition."

    I'm guessing you had an 'angry cat' pose and couldn't resist. He's so mad he's hopping from foot to foot, or should that be paw to paw.

    Excellent interview with the Catalympic hopeful. I don't know what a box shifter is. Is that a box shipper? The pose was labeled as a walking pose, but the expression certainly looked angry to me. You really nailed it with the winners box comment! 

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908
    edited May 30

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Headline: Catalympic hopeful slams box shifter for not shifting a box. "My dreams are in tatters" he said "much like that bag will be when I get my claws into it!" He added "Don't they realise how important boxes are to us? That's why the winner always stands on the biggest box at the end of the competition."

    I'm guessing you had an 'angry cat' pose and couldn't resist. He's so mad he's hopping from foot to foot, or should that be paw to paw.

    Excellent interview with the Catalympic hopeful. I don't know what a box shifter is. Is that a box shipper? The pose was labeled as a walking pose, but the expression certainly looked angry to me. You really nailed it with the winners box comment! 

    In the UK at least, a 'box shifter' is a name often given to a company that doesn't manufacture products, but instead buys products from other manufacturers and then sells them on to customers. Sometimes they will have their own box design which might give the impression that they manufactured the item. So they receive boxes, store them in huge warehouses, and send out boxes basically. They can be useful if a customer prefers to deal with one supplier rather than multiple suppliers. Sometimes they sell products cheaper because they get a discount from buying in bulk, also they can give a manufacturer access to many more potential customers, than the manufacturers own small website.

    It's strange with cats that even if you only put a sheet of paper on the floor, the cat will sit on it, as if it elevates them, even slightly, above the rest of the floor.

     

     

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    background said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Headline: Catalympic hopeful slams box shifter for not shifting a box. "My dreams are in tatters" he said "much like that bag will be when I get my claws into it!" He added "Don't they realise how important boxes are to us? That's why the winner always stands on the biggest box at the end of the competition."

    I'm guessing you had an 'angry cat' pose and couldn't resist. He's so mad he's hopping from foot to foot, or should that be paw to paw.

    Excellent interview with the Catalympic hopeful. I don't know what a box shifter is. Is that a box shipper? The pose was labeled as a walking pose, but the expression certainly looked angry to me. You really nailed it with the winners box comment! 

    In the UK at least, a 'box shifter' is a name often given to a company that doesn't manufacture products, but instead buys products from other manufacturers and then sells them on to customers. Sometimes they will have their own box design which might give the impression that they manufactured the item. So they receive boxes, store them in huge warehouses, and send out boxes basically. They can be useful if a customer prefers to deal with one supplier rather than multiple suppliers.

    In the US, I had never heard that term. Thanks for the explanation. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    background said:

    barbult said:

    background said:

    Headline: Catalympic hopeful slams box shifter for not shifting a box. "My dreams are in tatters" he said "much like that bag will be when I get my claws into it!" He added "Don't they realise how important boxes are to us? That's why the winner always stands on the biggest box at the end of the competition."

    I'm guessing you had an 'angry cat' pose and couldn't resist. He's so mad he's hopping from foot to foot, or should that be paw to paw.

    Excellent interview with the Catalympic hopeful. I don't know what a box shifter is. Is that a box shipper? The pose was labeled as a walking pose, but the expression certainly looked angry to me. You really nailed it with the winners box comment! 

    In the UK at least, a 'box shifter' is a name often given to a company that doesn't manufacture products, but instead buys products from other manufacturers and then sells them on to customers. Sometimes they will have their own box design which might give the impression that they manufactured the item. So they receive boxes, store them in huge warehouses, and send out boxes basically. They can be useful if a customer prefers to deal with one supplier rather than multiple suppliers. Sometimes they sell products cheaper because they get a discount from buying in bulk, also they can give a manufacturer access to many more potential customers, than the manufacturers own small website.

    Box-shifters also usually implies they just take the boxes in and send them out from a warehouse, no retail stores or additional services.

    It's strange with cats that even if you only put a sheet of paper on the floor, the cat will sit on it, as if it elevates them, even slightly, above the rest of the floor.

     

     

     

  • Ron KnightsRon Knights Posts: 2,631

    That almost sounds like Amazon to me.

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908

    I'm sure any similarity is purely coincidental.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

    That brings up another good question. Which types of "cats" are allowed to participate in the Catalympics? Are there separate competitions for different cat types? If not, I think the cheetahs are always going to win any distance running speed competition, without even "cheetahing". Richard would be at an unfair disadvantage.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

    That brings up another good question. Which types of "cats" are allowed to participate in the Catalympics? Are there separate competitions for different cat types? If not, I think the cheetahs are always going to win any distance running speed competition, without even "cheetahing". Richard would be at an unfair disadvantage.

    Maybe they have different classes, as with sailing boats (hmm, I might have an advantage in water sports).

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    barbult said:

    SimonJM said:

    I was, almost, expecting a feline typo along the way and box full of leopards not leotards to arrive ...laugh

    Ah, if only you had posted earlier! That would have been great, and a classic Richard typo. 

    I  say thank goodness he didn't post it earlier. Leopards can be cheetahs in the Catalymplics.

    That brings up another good question. Which types of "cats" are allowed to participate in the Catalympics? Are there separate competitions for different cat types? If not, I think the cheetahs are always going to win any distance running speed competition, without even "cheetahing". Richard would be at an unfair disadvantage.

    Maybe they have different classes, as with sailing boats (hmm, I might have an advantage in water sports).

    Yes, you are an Excellent Swimmer now. Wouldn't it be surprising to see a water sports competition at the Catalympics? Anything could happen I guess. You haven't received the official Catalympics Guide to Competitions yet. I'm anticipating the Curtain Climb, the Surface Sweep, and the Carpet Clawing, as I have seen mentioned in the Catalympics Training Guide, that I got a sneak peak at (as in that I authored).
    And to think that ALL of this started from a simple comment you made about moonlighting as a French onion seller because of your stripes. How did we get here? That's the fun of having not planning ahead and going with the flow.
     

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 908
    edited June 1

    We don't want any competitors eating other competitors, at least during an event. It creates an awful mess, and a huge pile of paperwork, although it might make some of them run faster.

    How about the 'Not being seen' challenge, and the 'Ball of wool tangle'.

    The ball of wool tangle is fairly obvious, the 'not being seen challenge' involves contestants hiding under, inside, or behind succesively smaller objects.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    There is alkso Cat Chess, as invented by Terry Pratchett and enhanced by Diane Duane.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103
    edited June 1
    My friend's cat squeezes behind the TV in the entertainment center where nobody can reach her when they try to put her in a carrier to take her to the vet.
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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,827

    Did anyone else notice this in the Steampunk Alley promos? Fits in well with all these deliveries. Wonder if he gets preferential rates?

     

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,103

    NorthOf45 said:

    Did anyone else notice this in the Steampunk Alley promos? Fits in well with all these deliveries. Wonder if he gets preferential rates?

    I didn't see that! The promos were so dark and hazy, I didn't spend much time looking at them. Good catch. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,645

    barbult said:

    NorthOf45 said:

    Did anyone else notice this in the Steampunk Alley promos? Fits in well with all these deliveries. Wonder if he gets preferential rates?

    I didn't see that! The promos were so dark and hazy, I didn't spend much time looking at them. Good catch. 

    I thought the ship had already sailed for this thread?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,080
    edited June 5

    barbult said:

    richardandtracy said:

    Just a small note, I tend to hold a Stanley Knife (Box Cutter in the US?) with the blade edge downwards (the edge parallel to the handle as opposed to the one at 60 degrees to parallel - as shown in the image). However, there are many ways to skin that cat do the job [oops, poor choice of words].

    I love the way helpful cat is helping, very true to life.

    Regards,

    Richard

    Maybe I have it upside down. I don't know how to use one. Can youi show it to me in a hand, reaedy to cut? 

    to be perfectly honest me either

    I cut myself more than the box

    at work we had safe box currers we couldn't stab each other with

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