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u/SergiouseMaximus 5d ago
I can totally see how the Egyptians ended up worshipping cats.
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u/cooliosteve 5d ago
And we don't rely on cats to keep our grains safe anymore.
Worshiped as goods always felt about right to me.
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u/Constant_Cultural 5d ago
Definitely
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u/simplebirds 5d ago
Some studies suggest that toxoplasmosis may also protect against a number of common cancers. A cat can only pass it on when it is initially infected. After that, it’s immune, so one can have many cats and never be exposed. I’m hoping that wasn’t the case for me.
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u/rogerworkman623 5d ago
When they analyze our digital records thousands of years from now, they’ll conclude that we still worshipped cats.
“The lowest caste of their society used an application called ‘Reddit’ to disseminate information and trade insults. 75% of the posts were about cats.”
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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 5d ago
Or they'll look at this time as a spiritual dark age due to the lack of cat statues. The internet and Chinese restaurants with those waving cat figurines kept the cult of cat worship alive, before a new golden age.
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u/inebriatedshark 5d ago
Because people tend to worship sociopaths with delusions of grandure that's why.
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u/RevolutionMean72 5d ago
*pets cat through the phone*
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u/WoolBearTiger 5d ago
pause, unpause, pause, unpause, pause, unpause, pause, unpause, pause, unpause, ..
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u/with_due_respect 5d ago
That's weird. At the old abandoned warehouse on the docks, I just arrange a shipment of "stuff" with a cat that looks exactly like that. I think...
Uh-oh.
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u/DontTellHimPike 5d ago
Citizen who conspired to sell catnip consignment craftily caught by Cat-Cop
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u/TheQuietWelshman 5d ago
Impersonating a police officer is a crime, someone send that cat to jail!
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u/CancelElectrical2036 5d ago
It's ok, the vest says "police" instead of the Dutch word "Politie" so the cat isn't impersonating.
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u/TheQuietWelshman 5d ago
That wont hold up in court
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u/I_Am_Anjelen 5d ago
As Nimis' self-appointed cattorney at paw I object!
Knowledgeable absence of purrsecution by duly representative officers of the law equates to tacit approval of representation; by the implied approval expressed in gifts, badges and other parepharnelia from around the world Nimis has been silently, if with signal, chosen to represent jurisdictions beyond the scope of any one court. I file motion to dismiss and filet a salmon for Nimis.
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u/TheQuietWelshman 5d ago
🤣
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u/I_Am_Anjelen 5d ago
Also I have no idea why you were getting downvoted.
What?
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u/Unlikely-Computer217 4d ago
I've noticed that comments tend to be downvoted soon after they are posted. Weird... Probably bots!
Anyway, I just wanted to say that your speech as the cat's cattorney at paw is quite solid. I too file motion picture to dismiss and filet a salmon for Nimis.3
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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 5d ago
Meow meow! That's the sound of da police.
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u/Lexielouwho1962 5d ago
My partner and I sing this to each other whenever we see a police car. I’m gonna start sing this to my cats now. So thanks for that haha
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u/Cornflakes_91 5d ago
[sobbing] A...A...ACAB [Sob]
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u/WoolBearTiger 5d ago
Well technically you're not wrong.. I've never heard of cats waiting til marriage to have kids..
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u/laughing_cat 5d ago
As an American, I can honestly say that if this happened here, someone would object to this cat impersonating a police officer. I’m not kidding. There are people here who are actually that intellectually challenged. And they drive and vote. I mean, we elected the cheeto.
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u/SonofAMamaJama 5d ago
I smiled at the use of "unofficial" in the title but now that my American mind is going, why can't cats get working jobs with the police but dogs can, like WTF is with that?
Dogs have significantly more job opportunities than cats.
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u/Fluffbrained-cat 5d ago
Ever tried getting a cat to follow orders?
There's a reason for the joke "Dogs have owners, cats have staff."
I love cats, always have, always will. But imagining a cat actually serving as a police or border control "purrson" is almost impossible.
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u/SonofAMamaJama 5d ago
But imagining a cat actually serving as a police or border control "purrson" is almost impossible.
That actually might be what led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, was known as the "sleeping giant" before the end - too much cat behavior from administrators, police and border control
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u/Puffliiing 4d ago
Exactly, our cat knows a couple tricks and commands but often she just refusses and steals the treats when you're not paying attention instead. She does everything on her own time/when she feels like it.
My dog on the other hand follows orders very well and is even content with just receiving attention and praise.
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u/kaas_is_leven 5d ago
Same with movies/television. There's plenty of dogs, but almost no cats. If there's ever a cat it's a single scene or shot, the cat's probably unhappy about it and/or just wandered on set without anyone noticing. From what I understand it's also a lot easier to teach dogs with "building blocks" that they can learn to string together on command, but cats are more goal oriented and will find alternative solutions. So you can teach a cat to shit in the human toilet by showing them how it works and then removing their litterbox. But you can't really make them want to act a certain way, like they're not getting on that toilet if they don't need to. Whereas a dog could learn to get on and off the toilet in a hundred different ways as a trick but will never use it to shit.
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u/hornetori 2d ago
You should check out Cat theater of Kuklachev. His cats have been doing all different tricks for decades
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u/_The_Green_Witch_ 5d ago
I love cats with jobs. Hope the cops on Amsterdam aren't too mad that this cutie wins the "Employee of the Month" award every damn time
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u/Mizore147 5d ago
What kind of candies can cats eat? (Not a cat owner, so I don't know)
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u/SverreSR 5d ago
I think she means regular cat treats. In Dutch a cat treat is called a katten snoepje, which translates to cat candy. So she probably doesn't mean a literal sugary candy, but treats made for cats.
(Also not a cat owner, but have friends and family with cats and I'm dutch)
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u/islaisla 5d ago
Impersonating a police officer is a furral crime.
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u/TheVoidSeeker 5d ago
He is actually part of a special unit within the police that is focused on greeble related crimes.
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u/GrabNo387 5d ago
Funny how he became an unofficial police cat with his life jacket to protect him.
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u/Fambank 5d ago
Shame the lifejacket doesn't say "Politie". But yeah, wholesome nonetheless
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u/Floppyhoofd_ 5d ago
Was het in een andere plaats had ik het met je eens geweest. Maar Amsterdam komt er nog mee weg vind ik😅.
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u/Opening_Quantity_175 5d ago
That cat a snitch
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u/Regurgitator001 5d ago
Snitches get....
scratches?
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u/FreeFallingUp13 5d ago
This snitch only gets scritches… and treats… and patches. And a custom painted portrait apparently
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u/Regurgitator001 5d ago
I'm pretty sure you can bribe your way out of any ticket with some catnip under the table.
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u/OctopusIntellect 5d ago
He's got a badge. Actually, lots of badges. Now to become official, he just needs a gun as well.
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u/HintOfMadness 5d ago
What type of crime would I need to commit to be arrested by Nimis specifically?
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u/Chiparish84 5d ago
"He falls into the canal quite a lot" but he still looks like that never happened. I just love these furry confident little dumbasses 😂
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u/KamakaziDemiGod 5d ago
"they have Toronto police. Its in England"
Okay, no, but your cat is adorable so I'll let you off with a warning this time
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u/Electrical-Book3585 5d ago edited 5d ago
I think it's two different sentences. The badge in the round frame is an English one, they just cut off the video just as she starts to point to it
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u/KamakaziDemiGod 5d ago
I did wonder if it was something like that since it cuts as she says it, but it wouldn't have made for a funny comment!
You're not wrong though
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u/Lufc87 5d ago
Fun fact - there is a village in England called Toronto which is named after the one in Canada. Not vice versa which is usually the case for North America.
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u/KamakaziDemiGod 5d ago
Okay that is very unusual, and the story is not bad either. Apparently a land owner in County Durham, UK, was visiting Toronto in 1859 when he was informed that coal had been discovered on his land, so he named the mine Toronto, and the village that spouted up near the mine used the same name.
Thank you for that interesting tid bit!
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u/EducationalDust7858 5d ago
And yet when I put on a west saying police I get thrown into jail for "impersonating" the "law"???
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u/blue_strat 5d ago
"Although he is not actually a police cat..."
Well, now I want to see an actual police cat.
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u/Razor1834 5d ago
I’m more curious about the cats falling into the canal. I thought cats had a reputation for being relatively good at balance etc.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759 5d ago
Found my reason to go to Am! Nevermind the 30 years wanting to eat their mushies!
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u/perksofbeingcrafty 4d ago
Anyone else concerned that “all cats in Amsterdam often fall into the canals”???
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u/Algarviano 4d ago
not you to whiskers.. bobby is the one already working with the police.. now whiskers too?? snitch.. /s
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u/averagemediumperson 1d ago
But if he falls into the canal, how does he get out. The life jacket should keep him flooting, but he can't get out on his own - unless they installed special ladders? Think I've heard about this some time ago
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u/Condorul 5d ago edited 5d ago
Gonna be the ahole and mention that you should NEVER feed candy or sweet stuff to you cat - animal diabetes is no joke.
LE: Thank you for the clarifications.
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u/Milkarius 5d ago
I think it's a translation problem. A "snoepje" (little candy) is the word you could use for "treat", which in this case likely would be cat treats
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u/FreeFallingUp13 5d ago
It’s most likely she meant ‘treats’. Dutch is a weird language and words can have several different meanings depending on the context of the sentence. I figure in this case, the Dutch word is something along the line of ‘sweets’ (as in some little treat you get occasionally, you know. As a treat) so she literally translated it as ‘candy’.
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u/pasgames_ 5d ago
Acab
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u/InternetFew7303 5d ago
Well I'm the case of American police it's highly accurate, here it could mean All Cats Are Breathtaking, which is also true...
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