MTRH, zZzZzZz, Canar, JohnV and probably many others... Why the cat? Am I the only to notice the ubiquity of those avatars?

Edit: Aha it was not only me. I realized there was an other off-topic post regarding the same issue! Link

Hello,

could anybody of these cat avatar guys tell me the mystery? I mean... there are more and more cats every day!



Regards, fileman.

Hmm maybe I should've started a poll.

1) A cat is a beautiful animal. Egyptians loved them and so does HA.
2) A cat is retarded and I'm sick of cats on almost every post.
3) Not all cats are retarded but MTRH's seems to be a bit crazy...
4) We need other felines to be represented too...

You will be able to add a poll to existing thread you created in Invision 1.2 - stay tuned!

Well, I think I was one of the first with a "cat" avatar, although it's a big cat..

I like "big cats", but otherwise I'd take a dog rather than a cat. (Wonder if all the cat people hate me now.. )

Hmm maybe we should have weeks celebrating different things in HA as MTV. Like "We love cats week" or "I love my xing encoder no other lame encoder would make it for me - week". I think sloth is a more attractive animal than a cat. I just hit the lowest level of off-topic babble

A sloth? Oh come on, atici! By the way, yours is the only avatar I can think of that so prominently features a walrus.

- M.

I love cats, I'm going to shoot my cat, and put the picture in my avatar.

Wasn't there a death metal band that put the photo of their dead lead singer (who just happened to commit suicide by blowing his head off) on the cover of their album?
I kind of remember such an incident

Well, with Member no. 6 I guess that should be true!

Too prevent feeling left out I've changed my avatar to a cat also.

I really got to keep the booze and cigarettes away from Snowball.

@atici

It is Mayhem, a Black Metal band, ironically their singer's name was "Dead" And the album with the picture of Dead's blown up head on the cover, "Dawn of the black hearts", is actually a (crappy) bootleg (Won't give away the LP anyway ). Euronymous, the band "leader", had taken the picture right after he found Dead dead

Sadly, the band played one of their last REAL concerts in Germany, when Dead and Euronymous were still alive, too bad it was in the former GDR and I was a bit too young at that time.

Regards,
Sebastian

Did a google search and found them! DEAD's corpse is gross.
Note to admins: I'm sorry if I violate the forum laws by including this but it's as good to make an album cover. Why not post?

[moderation #2] Edited the image away.

Maybe someone would make it into his avatar

Those who really want to see it can do a google search or visit Mayhem's website. I think too many people would be offended by it, as an avatar.

As I've mentioned before, mine's a cliche I brought around to follow the crowd and their cat avatars. I have a different "cat" avatar that I've been looking for a half decent GIF animation program to finish, that's all 'leet and old school, but for now, I'm sticking with this one. Here's the scoop.

Edit: And zZzZzZz's cat avatar is apparently actually his cat. Nice looking animal, I always thought.

1) Ancient Egyptians, not sure about the current crop. As for HA, well.....

2) Second that. Mine barfed this morning. Before I even finished my coffee. I wanted to kick her ass out of the house.

3) And ugly. I'd run that one over just to make sure it didn't breed...EVER!

4) Probably get edited if I really put down what I'm thinking.

we need more bears...

Hey, how come nobody ever uses a marmoset for an avatar? They're cute and cuddly....

- M.

I stood in awe in front of Mayhem's history.Definitely shocking , unbelievably true.

BTW I like JohnV's big 'cat'.

If you'd like some non-visually-offensive but morally objectionable cat pictures, check out http://www.bonsaikitten.com/

[moderation]Sick hoax site. See below.

[edit by Canar]Figured as much, seeing as how some of the 'test subjects' looked more like adult cats than kittens, as well as having no 'final product' showing bone deformation.

Changed my avatar to try to bring some balance in the force

That page is F$*#ING sick,

being a strict vegetarian and animal lover, how the hell can people get away with this without being arrested, put in prison. I'm quite a calm guy in real life but if i got my hands on someone who performs this, i don't know what i'd do.

Can't really say anything else, where is this page based and what kind of people would even want to have one!!!!

Thant's really upset me for the day now,

Kristian

BonsaiKitten is a hoax... The FBI allready investigated the story and came to that conclusion.


Edit: typo

Kristian, it's a joke.
The bonzaikitten website is a well-executed prank, that caused a lot of media attention a while back, people even started petitions to get the website shut down and the owner arrested. The pictures are manipulated, no cat was hurt during it's production.

Ah, that's OK then. I guess i was fooled, still not funny though!! You do hear of a lot of sick things people do for example the "stamp"/"stomp" videos that are made across the world and sold! They are real and really horrid!!

Kristian

If you love cats, check this for bad news.

Cats have good hearing abilities... and are prettiest than bats.

Isn't the cat in your avatar Pierre Boulez (boolez)?

I also felt a bit left out

He have a good hearing. And isn't he pretty ;-)

That's all in the eye of the beholder.

Do a search for a Silver Haired Bat. Part time resident of the state I live in.

Some Info

I know the VP of the company which formerly hosted the site.(I believe Interland now has it) He is marrying my sister. Anywhoo it is 100% bonnafied hoax. He had fun talking with the FBI on that one. There were also some other pages in a similar vein hosted there that the FBI asked about at the time. They all turned out to be jokes. If anyone wants to see a funny site type "fu fme" into google and go to the first link. I will not post the actual link because some might be offended by the funny poser positions.

As to cats who needs an avatar. Mine is in my nick.

Yes bats are actually quite beautiful creatures. To bad there is no such thing as domesticated bats. They would do quite a job on insects. Lets see a dog or a cat do that!

Well, my cat catches flies in mid air and is an excellent hunter of spiders.

Unfortunately she is too well fed to be any use with mice. She just played with one the other night until it escaped, although I don't know if she would act differently if I wasn't watching. Perhaps if I'm not there she would kill it and leave it for me to find so that I would know she wasn't sleeping on the job.

I have a cat now as well.

comic lobsters and especially giant red kangaroos rule! cats are pretty much too mainstream.

Hmmm... *purr*

I feel quite tempted to turn the avatar display off again (or to steal /\/ephaestous's avatar - [EDIT] damn, he changed it - it said "Je déteste chats" before... [/EDIT]) - if everybody has a cat as an avatar, it fails the purpose of providing easy visual identification of each member... Apart from that, the only one that looks *really cute* IMHO is Canar's (and perhaps also Mr. Bryant's). MadiZone, yours scares me!

I love cats! They are especially delicious simmered slowly with onions and tomatoes (this is known as cat-ciatore, of course). For added piquancy, add a few olives and garlic cloves during the final five minutes. Bon appetit!

-- Another helpful hint from the kitchen of Papa mrosscook.

The peer-pressure is too strong here...

I took my digi-cam, went outside and took a photo of our neighbour's cat.

I've always wondered if vegetarians eat Animal Crackers.

Don't worry, we now have a big mean dog around to keep things balanced.

Cats are cute.

My aunt's cat

*tantrum* Did you check the link? It explains nicely why I picked this avatar. It isn't meant to be cute... *bawl*

I suppose it's time to update my signature.

[edit] Bah. Nevermind. Easier to update my avatar. [edit2] And done.

I'm a new cat converted

Me too! Me too!

There is an interesting theory on this - read it in a book, so it must be true :)

Kittens play with everything and "fight" eachother to improve their hunting skills. At some point their mother will bring them live mice and possible other animals as more challenging targets. If the mother is a well fed cat, she will just let her offspring play the mice to exhaustion/death. But if she needs mice for food, she will teach how to swiftyly execute the prey - i.e. the killer instinct.

As your cat grows up, well fed and happy, it will notice how bad your hunting skill are. It will, as a token of appreaciation, try to teach you as it was taught - by bringing live animals into your house. If it was never taught the killer instinct, it will just set the mice free and show you how to catch it -- until you learn.

While my hunting skills will never be anywhere near those of my cat, they have improved a lot. I can usually catch a half-beaten mouse in 10-15 minutes. I have also learned to catch the mouse by the tail. The mouse will defend itself and it has very sharp teeth -- right into your hand.

Hey, love that pic (especially after a bit of color correction)... do you have a copy in higher resolution (just for personal use) I could grab from you?