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Is this the reason we have cats?

  • 26-08-2011 11:14pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 45


    A friend of mine told me that the reason we have cats is because years ago in egypt during the time of the pyramids, people used to wash there clothes in the Nile river using an ancient type of soap.

    The soap would flow down the river further into africa where the tigers and lions would swim in it, the soap would then cause the tigers and lions to shrink just like clothes shrink in a wash.

    And thats why we have cats?

    I think it might be bull**** but maybe here is some truth to it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    O lawd...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭The Express


    Not too sure about the whole egyptian story meself, but to answer your question:

    I think we have cats 'cos cats have kittens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Robocop


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Erm.... I have cats because I like cats...:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Sounds pawsible


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭darrcow


    i love pussy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 RinkyDinkSlink


    Absolutely! And if we send loads of soap to Egypt and make people wash in the rivers again then in a few years time we'll have little pet elephants too. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    It's time for bed I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    That sounds like one of the stories I made up, like convincing my little brother cats were a type of worm.

    They're descended from a type of African wildcat that was domesticated.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 406 ✭✭FesterBeatty


    Did your friend wash his hair in the nile too?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Bahahahaha.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    I don't want to live on this planet any more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    twirlagig wrote: »
    Erm.... I have cats because I like cats...:confused:

    Eeeeeewwwwww!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Cats are the nuts. Cute furry and vicious. Love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    That sounds like one of those stories I made up, like the one I did to convince my little brother cats are a type of worm.

    They're descended from a type of African wildcat that was domesticated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    It's time for bed I think.

    But.....its friday night/saturday morning???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Best thread ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,819 ✭✭✭Evade


    The Nile flows Northward. The soap would end up in the Mediterranean not the middle of Africa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    A friend of mine told me that the reason we have cats is because years ago in egypt during the time of the pyramids, people used to wash there clothes in the Nile river using an ancient type of soap.

    The soap would flow down the river further into africa where the tigers and lions would swim in it, the soap would then cause the tigers and lions to shrink just like clothes shrink in a wash.

    And thats why we have cats?

    I think it might be bull**** but maybe here is some truth to it.

    YES! Especially since there are so many Tigers in Africa...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    All rivers flow toward the sea-not thousands of miles inland.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭.E_C_K_S.


    How many disco biscuits are you and your friend after OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    The soap would flow down the river further into africa where the tigers and lions would swim in it, the soap would then cause the tigers and lions to shrink just like clothes shrink in a wash.

    And thats why we have cats?

    I think it might be bull**** but maybe here is some truth to it.

    Yes, but the Tigers were too clever. Instead of swimming in the sloppy scum they migrated to Siberia, Bengal and Sumatra.

    On second thoughts, I'd like you to explain how the soap would flow further into Africa. Thanks in advance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,481 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Reminds me of the time I convinced my younger brother that cats were female dogs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Evade wrote: »
    The Nile flows Northward. The soap would end up in the Mediterranean not the middle of Africa.

    Damn you to hell. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    EGAR wrote: »
    YES! Especially since there are so many Tigers in Africa...

    Damn you to hell, too.:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    I imagine this is also where dwarfism came from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Damn you to hell, too.:mad:

    Already there, hell is this thread :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    LOL this thread :D that's all I can say here....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Everyone knows that cats grow in window boxes amongst onions preferably and here is the proof:

    270863_234882719869197_100000424117521_894902_7829176_n.jpg


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    you think we have cats, interesting



    Q. why didn't cats invent the can opener ?

    A. they domesticated one instead.


    cats carry toxicplasmosis , this affects human brains, it may well be part of the taming process


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 45 Krizdarkfall


    Well its kind of makes sense.

    Cat where worshiped in ancient egypt,ever wondered why?

    I think the cats realised that the humans where causing them to shrink so they started to moved closer to egypt to see the source of the problem.Then once there numbers where strong they attacked egypt and almost won the battle.

    The egyptians looked at the cats as a worthy enemy and began to worship them for there warrior-like skills.

    Look it up on the internet ,it kind of all adds up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    This reminds me of the way we have lizards because all the dinosaurs shrank when they went into the water that one day when it was really hot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    hahahahaha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Diageio_Man


    C.A.T = cat. T.A.C= tac.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    We have cats because at one stage in ancient Egypt there lived a baron Princess that longed for a child but she couldn't conceive. She became so bitter and crazy because of this that she befriended a hairy rat and took it in and treated it as her own. Since then several crazed women have adopted these hairy rats because they're foreveralone.jpg. True story.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Diageio_Man


    im pretty sure thats not how it panned out now mr zohan run along.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    They're cute little triangular eared bundles of joy, who possess both intelligence and independence. The perfect pet IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    They're cute little triangular eared bundles of joy, who possess both intelligence and independence. The perfect pet IMO.

    Dog for me :)
    always. Mans best friend. You could hit it and it would still come back to you. faithful and loyal. (not that you should ever hit said loyal friend in the first place)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Dog for me :)
    always. Mans best friend. You could hit it and it would still come back to you. faithful and loyal. (not that you should ever hit said loyal friend in the first place)

    I find that behaviour a little pathetic though. I prefer a strong willed animal who won't put up with any sh1ite.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    If we start washing cats and then stretch them when they come out if the water will we end up with lions? :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    I find that behaviour a little pathetic though. I prefer a strong willed animal who won't put up with any sh1ite.

    I can understand what you are saying :)
    But which animal would gladly attack any intruder in your house. Who would bring to your attention someone is jumping over the backwall or trying to break into said house :) ... a dog will :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    No and I'd know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    I can understand what you are saying :)
    But which animal would gladly attack any intruder in your house. Who would bring to your attention someone is jumping over the backwall or trying to break into said house :) ... a dog will :)

    Yes your quite right in the point you make and thats why I also keep dogs. Its just that on a one to one basis I'll always relate more to my cats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Typh


    I think some people just like to anthropomorphise cats to stave off debilitating loneliness, which I have difficulty getting as I can't help imagining a cat as anything other than an indifferent teenager who sits still for hours, smokes cigarettes without filters and occasionally sighs wistfully. They just seem so jaded... Give me an idiot guinea pig any day.

    To be fair, I think I would only ever have a cat to put empty smarties tubes on it's legs and make it walk like an AT-AT.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The egyptions worshiped cats because they where funny. an army attacked egypt and apparently tied cats to themselves so they wouldnt be attacked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,357 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Evade wrote: »
    The Nile flows Northward. The soap would end up in the Mediterranean not the middle of Africa.

    Congratulations for poking a hole in his otherwise water-tight theory!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Cats provide neither meat nor milk, zero function.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Reminds me of the time I convinced my younger brother that cats were female dogs.

    also reminds me of the time I convinced my younger sister that bats grew into nuns....


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If we start washing cats and then stretch them when they come out if the water will we end up with lions? :eek:

    No, just wrinkles. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭pushki


    Rhyme wrote: »
    Cats provide neither meat nor milk, zero function.

    cats do provide kitty milk from their 8 little kitty nipples
    my kittens tell me it tastes like morning dew spiked with arse biscuits

    and cats also provide company

    and bring me dead mice through the window... dead mice = meat
    duh!


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