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poor kitty!
Oh noes!! kitteh needz a psy.. ksy.. sai… he needz a srhink!! wif lotsa ferapys… but no worriz… goveurnmunt payz!
Old Veturuns say: “Well, sumtams…:
Nu vets sez dat 2.
Ve-r-r-r-r-r-ry Ee-e-e-ee-n-teres-s-stink.
Is not Hogan’s Heroes?
wong 60s sho try agin
is rowananmartins laff in!
hoooraaay ambercat can has many cheezburger!
but stoopid!
luvs teh laf in. sok it to me!
sroun ahl veturnz wif kitteh fors
maek wel fors
duun da maek wel danz
soof sooof suuf
whuff snuf whuuf
shhh
sleep teh kitteh sleeep
we luvs u, veturunz we luvs u
Dont starts wif da storees Grampy, I dont wanna cry an get mu compoter all wet.
Aktshuallee, feds shud pay, but meny timz they donts! Thay MOR sting-e with cheesbrgrs than u thinks! Vets all the timz getting cheeted!
No, goveurnmunt probably won’t pay for it. That’s another promise that Uncle doesn’t keep.
In theory…
But it am k’ to laff at rashul steweotieped lolcats? KONUSHIWAH!
Pur kitteh.
sry … hard to find humor here
*Nods*
Gotta agree.
wut lolcat pihshur wus NOT chosen?
hyumoor R de weerd fings.
Yesh,…makes u wundur
can’t believe that made the front page. So disrespectful to so many.
So is a penis.
Ai donts no. Ooglee, yus, disrespektful, mebbe.
*LULZ*
yesh, those are VERY ooghlee! pleh!
XD
Ekshellent ansher, sir!
Is a theme shown on most TV shows. Soap (from the 70’s) had a character whose entire gimmick was that he thought he was still in a war, I think WWII. It’s not meant to be disrespectful, it’s just a way of pointing out the subject, or a view on it. There’s a reason the picture was behind a link – You have a choice whether you want to see it.
Zaranai – this picture was not originally behind a link. Teh burgers did that when people began making the negative comments.
I say – YAY burgers! Yur doin it rite!
Now just bring bak Teh Whyte Box kitteh, the Downloading Cat, and teh two little Jeebus kittehs – put them behind a link – and I”ll be happy to click on it to see tehm and enjoy the comminz!
It’s nawt the picture that is offensive……
Poor lil kitteh could have said something phunny instead.
Sometimes it takes a picture of a kitten with a silly caption to say something serious that hurts too much to say any other way.
You’re exactly right Clay. Something hurt too much to say, it’s just whistling past the graveyard.
I sopport the sajeshtchn to bring back dose kittehs an put beehighn a link iff nessessessary
I donut think dis capshon is offensif, it mai not be funneh but I still love too cee eet on ICHC. Most if nawt awl pichurs heer reeflect laif in sam wei, it wud bee deescrimyoonashon nawt to inclood it heer. Dis picshur maked me feel compashununt (an in a very reespectful wei). Wei I feel donut change if I speek Enleesh, Frentch, Georman or lolcat
i…luv u. veeeree mooch.
vewwy mooches luv yoo too
Spanish Civil War? Teddy Roosevelt… (not lak catz–lak dogz)
It’s even more disrespectful to forget
Dis jus makes me sad. No so funee aktually.
Dis maeks me sad too. Mai eyzes eben hab dis watery stuff in dem. I not noze why it hitz me dis hard
I don’t think this was meant to be funny. I think it was perhaps meant to make us stop for a moment and think about what is going on – now.
NOt that we don’t all worry about all of this a lot, I am sure. We are rapidly descending into third world status. I just erased a lot of things. This is perhaps not the place. I’m sure you all know them.
*hugs Janet*
Yes. Sometimes things pop up that don’t make us laugh, intentionally or by accident. I’m glad to see in our jaded world that so many are speaking up about their tender feelings on this subject.
This brings up lots of tender feelings for many.
As long as people state their feelings, and don’t attack others, I think this can be a meaningful thread and experience.
Yup.
I sure didn’t find it funny. But I didn’t find it disrespectful, either. Just very, very sad.
I wonder when the balance is going to tip, and we have more Iraq-cats having flashbacks in the US than ‘nam cats. I don’t think it’s disrespectful to say ‘I hope it’s a long time’… I hope my friends who were scarred by Viet Nam continue to live for a long time yet, and as few people as possible end up with flashbacks from Iraq.
Sadly, that’s not the way it’s looking right now.
-fred
Oh for the love of god.
My Daddy is a Nam vet and my husband is an Iraqi war vet. Both have flashbacks, it’s sad.
But I did send them this picture because it made me lol even though I deal with this.
Mebbe gud for some peepls to lol at dere sad stuff–mite make it eezier.
I fink teh kitteh is hilareeus, but teh capshun not so grate ackshully. Wish I cud fink of a better wun.
real men don’t have feelings.
It is funny tho. War isn’t funny. The guys in Nam took a lot of drugs like LSD to deal with being there *hoping kitteh isn’t on drugs*
Janet -
yoo be ver wize. Tank ooo.
*hugz da Janet frum da panfer kitteh*
It sure made me stop and think. I do not find it offensive, and neither did my grandpappy who was both in ‘Nam and in Korea. I think there are too many young ones that wont even understand what this refers too. And quite obvious, the politicians nowadays have already forgotten what it means. Kitteh has my vote.
Why do you think it was meant to be humourous? You didn’t have to look at the picture, and it wouldn’t be the first time the Burgers have put up a picture which is meant to make people think about something, rather than just laugh at a funny picture.
It is funny because it is well capped. The subject matter and history behind it isn’t funny, but c’mon, it’s a picture of a cute kitteh among some plants…
Initially it was up on the site without the disclaimer and click through link.
t3h horrer… t3h horrer…
payjing Kernel Kurtz, ur poastcoad iz reddy Kernel, Kernel Kurtz, ur poastcoad iz reddy.
I iz in ur kongos, iksploytin ur afrikinz for ivuree.
Sry, is moar of a hart ov darknis refrins, but kant halp miself.
Now, TAHT wud hab been a purrrrfect kapshun!
i thot dis pic was:
kitteh waikz up on dai afters in da gardenz hung ober n tryz 2 member wut happend in da blakowt….wer da keez…wer da kar….hoo waz dat nuther kitteh…iz mai preggers nao…
…butt dis nots frum mai purrsonal expereencez… o no! nots mai!
hee hee!
thank yoo!
WIN!!11!
Don worry kitteh, we will git u bestest care for post tramatik stress, wish we culd for all da vets out dar!
Cheezburger wuz klos. I culd smell it.
Yay!!! I like this wun!
ajent orinj mayk kitteh poyson
Therapee an hugz.
U needz ‘em.
I has a fren who was in Operation Desert Storm and he still has problems.
We gives him hugz, and he goes to therapy.
God bless our vetrans. Even if it’s a fight we/they/ anybody doesn’t beleive in,
Yeah. God bless vetrans.
Exactly Mellissa!!
ai iz in yoor Walter Reed, gettin treeted az if ai iz in Gitmo…. WTF?!?!?!?!?
That wuld be moar funneh if it wazn’t so close to troof
thee troof shall set ur fee……
Well said, Melissa! Just because we (I) don’t support teh war (war? – what IS it – you can’t have a “war on terror” with soldiers – it’s like have a “war on drugs.” GAAAHAHGAh.
As I wuz saying – duzn’t mean we don’t support the soldiers. Brave bunch of people over there being forced to do what shouldn’t be done. My opinion.
My brother was in Vietnam – and as I worked for the army (DOD) for 30 years, I’ve known an awful lot of military people. Over all a very fine lot of people indeed.
I think that it reflects on all of us, in how we treat the people in our country that need help. It is unacceptable, to not give our soldiers and veterans the support and help that they need.
How can we have enough money to wage a war, yet not have enough to take care of our military? How can we have enough money to wage a war, but not enough money to take care of our elders that need help? Or the children that need help?
Although the polls say that over 70% of Americans oppose the war, where is the outrage and protests that surrounded the Viet Nam war? I believe that the difference is that there has not been a shared sacrifice in fighting this war. For many people, TV, newspapers, and the Internet, are the only indication that we are at war. Other families will face the ultimate sacrifice.
The US is a giving and compassionate country. We need to realize that we’re all in this together. An injustice to my brother, is an injustice done to me. We can do better, and we will do better.
The election is only a year away. Decide who you want to lead your country, and do what you can to get them elected.
Sorry to get so serious, but soldiers not getting the care they need, is a serious subject.
Maybe this pic is well-timed, as we approach Armistice Day – in Britain poppies are sold by the Royal British Legion – actually, much of the actual selling is by cadets and Old Soldiers – to raise funds to support ALL service personel/their families who have been affected by any “conflict”, be it either World War, The Falklands war, the two gulf wars or the 20+ years of violence instigated by the IRA, though not restricted to Ireland. The concept came from General Haig who was basically disgusted by man’s inhumanity to man after WWI – “General”, note. The poppy campaign raises vast amounts of money, but there are vast numbers of people needing the help they can give and, as far as I’m aware, it’s just one fund-raising campaign of a few weeks in the whole year, though the British legion works all year round to alleviate suffering and give support.
I agree with Romeow; so many (myself included) express their doubts that our countries should be engaged in a “war” against an abstract noun, yet the few protests there have been are seen as foolish acts by foolish people. Where has our compassion gone? Where is our collective conscience? Why are we no longer prepared to stand up and be counted?
I am as guilty as the next person in this, my actions have not suited my words; more guilty, perhaps, as my father volunteered and served during WWII, prepared to give his own life for the greater good. So I make a promise to you all now: To wear my poppy with pride and to give up a couple of hours of my time next Sunday and join others in remembering, “Lest we forget”.
Well said, Ambercat, I wear my poppy…and people ask me, with my opinions on the war, why I would do that…my father served in the Korean Conflict (an exercise in futility, if ever there was one.) My brother and sister in law have served in the first Gulf War, Bosnia, Cypress and all points beyond and continue to serve…my nephew and my other sister in law are both serving right now in the Middle East…I have watched as friends have lost loved ones…The Royal Canadian Legion made sure there was a piper at the funeral of my father back in early 2001. It is just so complicated…the only thing I operate on at this time of year is the fact that these people stood up to be counted, even if I don’t agree with the stance, sometimes…These veterans of these “older wars” are passing on, there are very few left to tell the stories…they fought firmly believing that they were doing it so that we wouldn’t ever have to…I take my children every year to the Cenotaph on Rememberance Day to remember their own Grandfather, and to reflect…Lest We Forget.
Actually, perhaps people also need reminding that the Korean War is still in a stalled state of agreed ceasefire, rather than actually being over?
this is true…
“where is the outrage and protests that surrounded the Viet Nam war?”
There is no draft.
For as long as most military eligible people can type about how angry they are and then go to the mall, you won’t get the protests.
Iz troo. I dun liek teh war–it be stoopy an killin lots of innosent peeps an soldiers. But that doesn’t mean that I love the soldiers that I know or respect them all any less. The ones I know are great people.
My grandfather was in the medical-dental corps for the 82nd Airborne and parachuted into Normandy on D-Day. He came home and started drinking to deal with what he’d seen (now we’d probably say he had PTSD), and became an alcoholic. My mom has problems even today (she’s 53) because of his alcoholism when she was a child. I am incredibly proud of Grandpa and what he did, but I don’t like what war did to him (though I don’t recall ever seeing him drunk, and never even learned that he was an alcoholic until after he died).
So yes. God[s] bless all of our soldiers and veterans. And their families.
I am 100% behind our soldiers, and would like to put the politicians who put them in harm’s way 100% (literally and physically) in front of said soldiers!
pawrthot – I beleve, if we were to implement your strategy, modern warfare as we know it would end immediaely!
My father (WWI), my stepbrother (WWII), my stepbrother (Korea), my brother (Vietnam), my nephew (Desert Storm) and my grandson (possibly IRAQ) would or do find ‘Nam Kitty both heartbreaking and heartwarming. Flashbacks are real and life-threatening on many levels. Having something cute and funny is a lot easier on the heart and spirit than something ugly and nasty. Having so many people say so many positive things about people that have to do an ugly job is as heartwarming as the kitty. If you can’t laugh at life, you’ll always be crying.
My brother was a Dutch conscript, and he volunteered to go to Yugoslavia. He was stuck there way past his military service days, since they could no longer get out. He saw a lot of horrors, and the worst thing is, that the people in Srebrenitza now blame his batallion (Dutchbat) for not doing anything when all the horrific stuff was happening over there! I remember my brother writing to us telling us that they’d begged for air strikes, but higher command refused. He also told us that their commander was taken into the headquarters of one of the Serb commanders, who had brought in a pig, slashed its throat, and then told him that that’s what would happen to him and his batallion.
Anyway, there was nothing they could do, and now people treat the poor soldiers badly for what the generals did wrong.
I is can bee mitee jungel panthur. Goggie nebber see me til WHOOMPH I pownces wif my mitee jungel skills.
A-paw-calypto, u haz it!
and u haz alllll my chzbrgrz. teh winnah!
war not gud for lolcats an all living beans.
WHOEVER SUBMITTED THIS PHOTO MUST FIND THE CURRENT WAR IN IRAQ HILARIOUS.
CAPS LOCK IS LIKE CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME!
Strategic Planning: *plays Benny Hill theme music over slide show of Bush in Oval Office*
Damage to lives (of Iraqis and soldiers): *No music, no words, just horror*
Dear Pinkmetoo – I thiink you may have missed the poynt. Teh person submitting teh photo probablee thot the Iraq whateveritis is an abomination.
That’s very much the way I’m thinking too.
Um, yur caps lok is brokn.
Maybe you should step back and realize it’s just a PHOTO. Goodness, next you’ll think the submitter is launching a secret campaign against America, one kitty at a time. If you no like, you no look! Don’t deny others their LOL cats.
And good luck with the broken caps button.
I spies a dieffenbachia, which is not a good plant for kittehs to be playing around!
Iz fayk.
kitty loves the smell of philodendron in the morning
but still finds this post completely tasteless – and lord knows, since I’m the f*ing limit case of tastelessness here…
why not “zombie kitten – smells your brains” instead?
I guess it’s the Gemini in me – I almost always see both sides of everything. This could be very tasteless indeed.
Or it could be a “stop and think about it”pikshure. Our beloved leader is currently doing his best to justify attacking yet another country. Where and how is all this going to end?
Welll -THIS topic just took all the funnie out of us, din’t it?!
By the way – your “zombie kitteh” would have been a very funny cap!
Libra speaking here…both sides are my life. I can see the “humor: here, and I definitely see the NOT humor.
As to the “Why not zombie kitteh..”, I can’t remember the last zombie movie I saw with the zombies hiding behind philodendrons. They’re usually just outside the doors to the Mall…
I was starting to feel despondant until I read your post LadyKat……that cracked me up! “they are usually just outside the doors of the mall…”
I can has fave zombie poem by Kim Addonizio. I shares wif lolfriends. Scroll down to “Night of the Living, Night of the Dead”:
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2001/September01/addonizio.htm
Dude, I see both sides of this one too.
If you only take it as mockin war veterans, it’s totally tasteless.
If you take it as “stop and think”, it’s very thought provoking, and offering some good oportunities for black humour as well. As you say “I love…morning: Smells like VICTORY!” for example.
ur rite, if it wuz a liv diffenbachia; dose plantz are fakess, kitteh is safe heer. Plastik plantz no harm to bebekitteh…
Nom nom Nam Nam nom Nam nom.
poor kitteh.
we givez u hugs an therapeh
i can haz no cheezburger on dis one.
Also, teh Ajent Oranj wunz are poizon to plantz.
sorry but this is pretty lame, I find it hard to find humor in other people’s suffering
I have to agree. This only depresses me.
By “other people’s suffering”, one would hope that the remit of your empathy extends beyond the US veterans and those (comparatively) few Vietnamese who washed up on your shores, to inlcude the three million Vietnamese dead, the North Vietnamese whose country was pounded into rubble by the USAF, the people of Laos who still live in the most bomb infested country on Earth and the millions of Cambodians who died as an indirect result of misguided US aggression in SE Asia (no Pol Pot without Gulf of Tonkin resolution…)
It’s just a LOLCat picture fer jebus’ sakes…
Absolutely. ‘Nuf sed.
Munky I see you forgot to mention the russians in your tiraid against the us in Vietnam. You also neglected to mention the French who were there before the US. Oh and the Chinese who were also there And all busy bombing and trashing the country not to mention teh vietnamese theirselves. Vietnam was a horibly tangled web of Mess. Very Complicated and you can’t just make some quick easy blanket statement about it.
Which Russians? Chinese? IIRC, the Ivans only came along after the US had lost the war and were despised by the Vietnamese people for being, um, loud mouthed, offensive, drunkards and cheap to boot.
The Chinese and Vietnamese have been mortal enemies for aeons – let’s not forget that little border war they ahd back in ‘75, where the Chinese got their butts handed back on a plate.
The French? An Merkin caring about the French..?
Y’right, there are no quick easy blanket statements to make about the mess that was Vietnam BUT it was US interference that made it into a bigger mess.
But the biggest quick easy blanket statement of all is usually the one that runs ‘ghod bless our veterans’ without shedding a thought or a tear for all those ‘extras’ who happened to be living wherever any particular war was going on…
And I say again, it’s just a LOLcat picture fer jebus’ sakes…
cheep?? k. nao i r losted.
iz ok. doan wants 2 start ennyfing. just doan sees wai dey fot we wuz cheep…
Dude, it’s a well documented fact that the Soviets were in Vietnam, even if only technically in an advisory capacity on the ground. Certainly not all of the North Vietnamese AF and Anti-Aircraft capacity were operated by Vietnamese.
My Vietnam veteran father would find your statement much more offensive than the silly kitten in a plant.
google eyez kitteh has google eyez
8-OO-8
drats…still no gets how to do that…halp? tryin to do googly eyes i saw in earlier posts, if u wunnerin
I’m in yur jungel
stalkin yur prey
hakuna matata?
Whut a wunnerful fraze!
so sweet in a hailstorm of arguin….
{{{hugs}}}
This is a dumb caption.
You’re a dumb caption.
Nice. U needz to be!
Ur complex thots.
Sho dem too us.
you’re a towel.
no. I’m a wealthy publisher that is rejecting your novel. You’re a towel.
‘nam ‘nam ‘nam…
GOOOOOD MORRRRNIN’ ‘namkitteh.
jesse venchoorah kitteh sez “ai aynt gawt tiem ta bleeeeeed”
U haz tiem to nom nom nom?
ai haz tiem ta nom nom nom teh bleeeeeeding. . . buffy?
YES!!!!1! minicher giyint jungol kitteh iz channulin Govnir Bawdy, but has ize ov Governatir Ahnold…
ah b tinkin dat tis caption wus da result of ah purrson who saw da cheech n chong movies back n da dae.
sadli war is nawt n awr past fur enuff tew find it funni. wi must transend de idea dat war is a wai to solve conflik in ordur tew appreciate de absurdity. ifn wun could fite fire wiff fire, den miny ov awr tribbles wood hav bin furgotten lawng ago.
‘Member a poster from manee moonz bak?
War is nawt helthee for Hoomins or other libbing creetures.
Lern it.
Noes it.
Libs it.
And dat is mah Faist times at teh ridjmawnt hi ref foar the dai!
Viet Nam isn’t funny. Flashbacks aren’t funny. This isn’t funny.
Alas, this is very true. Yet, looking at it, I think it is exactly the kind of comment a Vet might make and find funny, because s/he would essentially be laughing at their own pain, and they have the right. I have PTSS — Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, rather than a disorders — for non-war related violence, and I see the sad humor in this, having looked like this kitteh a time or two. Knowing Vets as I do, my initial response is to point and say, “Kitteh got tracers!” But that’s not funny, either.
Actually, I think the tracers cap is pretty funny. Just not in a PC kind of way. But, then, humor doesn’t have to be PC. Among the myriad sources we draw humor from, using it as a method of dealing with uncomfortable or painful issues is pretty common. Trust me, I know every catholic/altar boy joke on the planet and tell them with relish and gusto. My husband doesn’t get it, but it makes me feel better. (if you ever wanna hear one that’d make Lenny Bruce blush just ask)
Vietnam was a serious mindfk for a whole generation of servicemen, many of which weren’t voluntarily serving. It left a huge imprint on our collective consciousness and has repercussions for our current conflicts. People remember it and grapple with it in different ways, often humorously. I’ve seen humorous refs in everything from Good Morning Vietnam to Alice’s Restaraunt to Happy Tree Friends. It’s not so evil to laugh at something just because you know it’s bad and people have been hurt. Come, join in our reindeer games. You might find you make yourself laugh.
WOW. I wuz too lazy, but u wernt. U sed it gud.
Humur is Purrsunnal. It dussunt mean it is POSITUV becuz it makes u laff.
U rite abowt making jokes abowt painful experiunces.
Menny will disugree, an dat is der rite an I unnerstan, but u made a gud post.
Agree with Kathleen. SANMS, u has expressed it beautifully – alw humor doesn’t have to be PC.
An yoo kan still lern much frum dis site, if nawt dis lolpic.
De wurst part uv da VA/PTSD ting iz, nao dey R sayin it a PRE EXISTIN condishun!!! Cuz dey cant tell hoo gonna get it an hoo nawt in saem sirkumstansis. Derfor problum iz yoo, nawt da f-ed up sichooashun yoo in…
I can haz VA fundeeng?
(It’s me, B! I logged into ma WP accownt.)
Aye wurreed bowt ma VA claym. Bin 4 yeers nao since Aye filed it…. waytin waytin waytin…..
But ef dey deny ma claym fur PTSD an Aye go awl fubar awn dem, wudent dat subst…substanch.. proov ma claym?
Ha, ha! U’d tink so, huh?
Sad too mee dat veturuns doo dere dutee fur teh countree , an den teh guvernment not takes care ub dem. Dat is a damned DISGRACE. A countree shud take care ub its veturuns.
Wedder u tink teh war wuz rite or not, countree made dere bois fite. An den not wunts to takes care ub dem?
dat not rite.
dens he sayz “Schtupid… but intrezting… yes?”
I’s not olds nuff to see teh rijnals, but did seed teh rerunz on teh nik at nite.
PS I’s frmr Jarhayd been twicet teh dessert, dadz ‘nam vet, used ta seez da spiderz in da dreems, but I sayz, iz funyz… maybes not FTW, butz funyz…
maybe better is:
Charleyz outs der, adn heez gettin’ strongger!
PPS I can has “Achilles in Vietnam?” is ver guud (’n short… hay, no Jarhayd jokz) compares PTSDs in Homerz Illeads wif samez in Vetnam… gess whatz… is samez. Verr guud buuk.
DEBILGOGGI Thank you and your dad for your service. My older son was a Marine in Desert Storm. My younger son was also a Marine but between the desert wars. I know first hand the absolute terror that all parents have in regard to their sons and daughters being in the military. I also know what it is to lose a son. It was not military related, but my younger son died at 23…that was eight years ago today.
Patticlan. Taht is so sad. Losing our older folks is bad enuf – but a 23 year old son! My heart goes out to you. No platitudes – I’m sure you’ve heard them all. Just – I’m so sorry. Must be unbearably hard.
mai heartfelt sympathies Patticlan.
{{{Pattticlan}}}
Thank you all so very much for your kind thoughts and hugs. I thought it would get easier as the years pass, but it doesn’t. However, as sad as it is, I have wonderful memories and am thankful that he was a part of me for 23 years. And I have my wonderful older son and his 3 kids. That is a blessing beyond belief.
Patticlan, you have a “half full” mentality that literally gives me chills of awe. You probably won’t see this post because I’m late, but I feel compelled to respond anyway. What a blessed person you are for your positive and healthy outlook. I boggle with respect.
A good point well-made SAMS; humour is one of the many ways we cope with difficult situation – my sister and I played “I Spy” and cracked ourselves up over the letter “C” in the back of the hearse on the way to our mother’s funeral! Disrespectful? Uncaring? Blase? No, no no! So desperately upset, sad and hurting beyond measure it was the only resource left to us.
Like most, I come to this site for entertainment – but it does us no harm to be made to stop and think sometimes to. I found the caption neither funny nor unfunny, but I have found the discussions of great interest and intellectually stimulating.
I get that. I remember my Gran’s funeral. Her death wasn’t really a shock, and was a bit by way of a merciful release (no one specific; lots of little things). What really got to me was the drive back up the coast, past where she lived when she was well, and the scene of lots of happy childhood holidays.
it is funny
lighten up a tad
Shelshawk. I has it.
I srry, kitteh.
Charliez in teh treez! lok an’ lode kitteh! theyz mostley cum at nightez… mostleyz.
newt reference, FTW!
Much better capshun:
“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
I say FTW on dat cap, Stanley.
me likes tis capshun better—–
Layzer kitteh is weeding
mebbe not nam cat…more like a ch ch ch chia kitteh…gone wild
I see the girls walk by dressed n there summer clothes, I have to turn my head until my darkness goes. What you never seen tour of duty? Turn on the damn history channel.
Paint it black…sometimes, you has to…
mah old teachur saiz that wen she was being littlechild she has a teachur who be diving under teh desk for long times when somone be dropping somthin loudly on teh floorz, ofcause they was a WWII Vet. Saiz they be using this for to not have classworks allll of teh time.
That’s so sad! Kidz r mean sumtimez.
Veeeeelllyy intellllesting…
ooh ooh. I noes. Kitteh is looking for himz bibby?? It be a sweet bibby that kitteh can bet.
Oh geeze i iz geezer. that would be bippy…doh
Dummy low votin troll not noe wut a sweet bippy is, Shaungrl.
Trolls- dey maek me smile. I haz secwet old-fart langwage dat dey not be nowin. Hee hee.
“an dats da truf” pbttttttw!
lubs dat show…..
momcat
Iz from LaffIn, teh phunnee show in teh 60s (70s?) Wuz one charyktr playd by Arte Johnson, wuz Nazi soljur hidin in bush, makin teh phunnee commints. Tagline wuz “Verrrrrrry interestink.” Wuz thinly veiled refrinses to polotiks, currint events and kulchur, Vietnam War, and other subjicts.
Oh honey, nobody on this site remembers back that far…except you and me!
Akshuly, everybuddy in this thred recognized teh reference. The furst reply sed “It be a sweet bibby that kitteh can bet…” wich is a direckt referenz to the Laugh-In catchphrase “You bet your sweet bippy!”
I wuz curious as to how many people would recognize Arte Johnson’s
“Verrrryy inteerrrresting” and it looks like everyone who replied, got it!
Yup – I got it.
Akshully, I’m amazd I remeberd it. I wuz only 5 or 6 when LaffIn wuz on. I remember havin fites wif my Kinder…Kin… fursty teechur about if LaffIn wuz rude or phunnee. She said rude, I said phunnee. Out of moufs of babes…?
same heer, barely remember watchin’ Laugh-In on teh new color(!) TV with mi parentz. Did not get teh jokes at such a yung age. I think they got uncomfortable wen the go-go dancers startd up. “OK iz yr bedtime now…”
If dey onlee noo wut wuz too come…..
*sighs*
I gots it! I wuz in mah teens watchin Laff-in in teh 60s. Boy, iz I ever old!
Anyone who doesn’t think this is funny is a sad sad person.
+1 subby, don’t let them get you down.
DEFINITELY saw what you did there.
Doant luk nao… U is beeng watchd!
Well, folks, it’s basically impossible for one to tell a joke…ANY joke…that can’t offend SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE.
There comes up a pic that offends ME, on occaision, and even more the comments that follow! I just pass on by! Doesn’t help to complain, won’t advance any agenda if I did. Flame wars do not help!
Not-Funny pic? Skip! No comment! Unless you really want to vent some personal bad feelings, of course. Remember that this is a *fun* web site! Think about what *your* comments will do, not what *their* comment does! Or try to…sometimes I do…really…
Oh darn – you are right, too! If you dont’ like it, just moove on. Let those who like it enjoy it in peace. Well said, Johnson442! The voice of quiet reason!
so tru, so tru, Johnson442!!!!
an so hard to do, for some people!
Amen to what you say Johnson442. Nothing is funny to everyone. Life is too short to bring the dramallamas out for the little things.
Besides, sometimes ya just gotta laugh or you’ll cry.
And you don’t want to make the Bunny cry, do you? *sniff, sniff*
Well sed!
I’m in teh jurazic
avoidin’ sum dinoes
Velosiraptor kitteh… iz onlee wun owt of three.
AIEEEEEEEEEE
PTSD = not funny.
JCH4K (sry, I been doin dat wrung).
I like da wais u fink, yuz can fines da gud in eberfing. I admires dat, Iz unbalanced libra so, lik u I sees bof sides too.
I agrees, if not likey pitcher- don luk, I jus hear cause I curious as to what the peeps be sayin.
Sumtimz I haz to edit whatz fishykitti sees (been onli eleben) but dat be mai choice, we awlz hab da abilities to mak choicez ub whatz we seez.
I founs sumthin todai dat I been trin to fin four a long tims. Yuz migh lik it.
Itz frum James Thurber an I fin it a cool parable.
*It duz hab an antiwar bent jus two let u nao*
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X1RrEAroZbw
keepz up da gud wuk JCH4k an da oders….
momcat
An Unbalanced Libra? WTF is that? U may be abul teh see bowth sydes ub a situashun but ur talentz is bringing teh fairness and balance to a gibin situashun. I wus a psyco in anubber lyfe. That be how I knowed it. Srsly.
PS Mai cheezburger button only gibes 1 votes.So less nut be tawkin bout low votin trolls K? I gibs everybudy here 10 cheezburgers damit!1.
PSPS Mai dryer kitty whut got trapped in teh dryer, him gonna be ok! ….Very Floofy… but OK.Some tymes sad things kan be phunny when everthing is ok ina end.Corse dryer kitty not be laphin…srsly.Be carful with teh kittehs ana clothes dryers!
OH Noed! U think dryer kitteh himz might hab PTSS naow? NOT WANT! I gib hym sum katnip him be ok.
Im mai votin brgr bttns onlee gib 1 votez, ah stopz votin, an appolojizez 2 teh person who got teh stuppy rong brgrz.
Hey, Mizhizzyfitz. Thanks fur the updayte awn yur kitteh. I wuz reelee skeered fur him. And fur you! Ai wuddnt be surprized if u dint have a bit of PTSD over taht yurself.
Ai’m pursonalee still sufferin fur every bad think taht ever happened to mai animules – or peepls, fur taht matter, taht wuz mai fault – even tho ai dint meen to do it and wuz an accident. Sum things u just never furget.
Tehn u just has to remember awl teh gud things u do. I’m shur yur kitteh reelee lieks awl teh extry attenshun and snorgles he is shurlee getting nao!
So happy that your kitteh is ok. You just cannot think of everything to protect your animals and your kids. I was shocked and amused the day I found both of my boy kittehs in the dryer…and they don’t even like each other.
Sweet Squirrels of Mercy, I can see forever!
…adn milez adn milez adn miles.
THE WHO!!! FTW!!
Oh, hao I luvs teh hoo.
PTSD, I haz it too. Do not want!
Iz sumtims bettr if yu laffz at bad tings. Makz em less bad. Mebbe wun dae i haz no mor PTSD, wen I lernz to laffz bettr.
An lernz not to jumpz out of skin all teh tim. Cuz dat is not fun.
Prefer Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. According to my health professionals, it’s not a disordered brain that gets it, it’s a verrrry gud brain that gets it. Disorder not what it is — Syndrome is more better description.
But it still suxs.
Special Forces Horse says… This really is not funny at all. Sorry…
ppl iz to senseetive. quit been babbies. i can haz freedom of speechez? even win it is meen.
wellz… i guess i sez “right back at ya”. Dey dat has opposite opinyun is habing dere freedomz here.
“I may not agree with what you say, but I defend to the last your right to say it”
Plz not to be name-callin. Sum peeps like teh pic, and sum duzn’t. Dat’s wy we has teh comments paij and teh votin. I doesn’t tink pic is teh funneh, but it makes me to be tinkin. An eberywun’s comments are berry tawt-provokin as well. I tawt dis were just a funneh site, but I likes dat it be’s more dan dat.
It’s poignant, not laugh-out-loud funny. I never expected social commentary here, and it is a powerful, good surprise to find it.
when we seez da harble tings, an we mus laf or goes insanes
wez no can let dees tings drag us daown, buts leern frum dem and muv on, takin wif us da lessuns an scaping da hoarer what wood draiv us to deespare an smoosh ar hoap fur whut we kin straiv tu be
ah du not tink dat dees meentul prahplems be eny laffin mattur, but i dooz wish tu maek mah capshun relevunt tu da originul tread tahpic daht whut haz caused deese prahblums be bahind us, an da scarz it maeks lingars, but weez remember what haz hapnd… deese joaks aur nawt meant tu disoner dese tings, but tu seerv da porpise dat dey remaind us uf dem, dat we du nawt furget, an maek us laf, dat we do nawt despare at da remamberin
…
charlee inna tree kitteh is wureed dat agent orange kitteh come an poysun hims cuver
seein’ da harble tings iz nuff to giv teh PTSD to anybodys
Yur harbalz, I dontz needz to seez dem!!!1!
i finks reese tora meens da “harrribul fings” – nawt harbalz!
Dis be teh most eloquent lolspeak I has ebber red.
disrespectful.
but HILARIOUS.
Deal with it guys. If you can’t see humor in everything then, go jump off a cliff.
hey, we’re not lolmmings *g*
WIN!
Maybeez… To aksept and ovurcome trajudees, we must laff and fined humoor in dem.
Not funny at all.
I can has perfekt picture for teh quote!
Win.
Even better for baiting the nanny-state whiners.
Whut???
Congratulations! This thread has just been Libertarianized.
Great. Way to marginalize a political party that’s actually trying to fight for the people, instead of perpetuating the two-party system that American politics have turned into.
And personally, I thought the original comment was pretty right-wing.
I can haz angree postingz?
?
Really. I don’t understand your comment. Libertarinaism is a politicial philosophy, allowing you to do anything that doesn’t actually harm others, not a political party, isn’t it?
curioos fur ppl wit viewz on bad tings bein laffed at tu eaze suffrin:
how yew feel bout holacost-kitteh?
(not returical kwestshun, srsly)
i want tink culd be laffed at, but still see no humur…mabee bein jewish mayks it unfunneh fur me? mabee hurts fur vets similurlee? mabee not same ting at all?
wat yew tink?
curioos fur ppl wit viewz on bad tings bein laffed at tu eaze suffrin:
how yew feel bout holacost-kitteh?
(not returical kwestshun, srsly)
i want tink culd be laffed at, but see no humur…mabee bein jewish mayks it unfunneh fur me? mabee hurts fur vets similurlee? mabee not same ting at all?
wat yew tink?
Good question.
I’ve known vets with PTSD who make jokes about it. (None from Iraq yet, but I suspect it takes a while.) But I’ve never known a Jew who joked about the holocaust.
Maybe because one can simply go without even talking or thinking about the holocaust for long periods of time, but when you have PTSD you can’t just ignore it and have it go away, and joking about it is a way to cope.
That said, have you seen pictures of the conditions in some of the worst puppy mills? They almost invite comparison…
-fred
then you both have never seen south park, I presume?
La Vita e Bella. Decent movie. Falls a little flat in some places but good in others.
My husband’s been to Afghanistan twice and has PTSD. Been yanked around by his healthcare providers some, too. (It is vewy vewy vewy bad to take a person off Paxil cold turkey.) It hasn’t been fun. Sometimes we have to laugh ’cause the only other option is to self combust. So I smiled at the pic.
I have. My FIL is German, and he has a friend who is Jewish. They get together and sing “Juden Roasting on an Open Fire” to the tune of “Chestnuts”. It disturbed the heck outta me when I first saw it. Then my FIL explained that he had family who were IN concentration camps, and family who were killed. The fact that my FIL will sing with him, helps him deal.
I’ve also known soldiers WITH PTSD who make jokes about it.
When something tragic, it’s sometimes better to laugh so that you don’t cry.
i give you two views: The Producers, and The Trojan Women.
The Holocaust was an attempt to strip a entire people of their humanity. The Producers allows survivors to rediscover their own humanity – humor takes away arbitrary ideas of separation and allows you to say “yeah – spit takes are always funny. I am a survivor, and I will find joy in it.”
Equally, can we call ourselves human if we are blind to the costs of violence? The great scream of outrage against a brutal and senseless war that is The Trojan Women still makes us ask 5,000 years later – what can possibly be worth the things your violence has stolen from me?
Lolcats can has be complicayted.
I live near an area that has a large jewish community. I saw a poster for a play once, I can’t remember the name, but the tagline was something along the lines of “they tried to kill us, they failed, now lets eat.” I guess it depends on who’s making the joke. I found the caption a bit confronting, but I guess people deal with grief in different ways. Also have a friend whoose husband died a while ago, she makes some very dark jokes… again, it depends whoose making the jokes.
hola-cost kitteh wud b pichur uff fat kitteh.
capshun wud seh:
“Hola-cost kitteh skinneh no moar.
Ate all de Nazis.
Reevenj haz a flavor.
De flavor sweet.
*Brap*”
i tink wud be funneh.
i luvz teh smell of napalm in mornin… smellz liek victoree!
(Mai dadz wuz in ‘nam (wel, ovar it anyway… wuz flyin’ kitteh). He ok, nos no 1 wit PTSD. He lieks teh funneh jokes. Not sure he get lolcats.)
Never said I was offended, nor would I ever say that it shouldn’t be posted (freedom of speech is important). I just said it wasn’t funny. I think it’s in poor taste–that’s all. No big deal.
How is this disrespectful? PTSD is a disease, and it’s tragic that people suffer from it, but that doesn’t mean that no one can make jokes about it. People in difficult situations, particularly soldiers, constantly use gallows humor as a coping mechanism. Are any of you people who are complaining actually soldiers/combat veterans? If you are, I’ll be really surprised.
Dear Marya – ai wuz GONNA say “reed teh comminz above befoar u speak” – and then ai realized taht, even tho they r above, they mite have spoken layter tahn u and ai wud have to go back and check the tiems – don’t haz tiem fur that.
But – yes – at SUM tiem heer, several akshul militaree combat peepls has spoken. And meny ov us haz veree cloase relatives and frenz hoo has dun it.
I realize that some of the people here commenting are soldiers and combat veterans (I’m a soldier myself, although I haven’t been deployed yet), but so far I haven’t seen any who are offended. I would be surprised if they are, because soldiers as a group are some of the funniest people I’ve ever met, and they make hilariously tasteless jokes all the time, particularly when they’re under stress. But of course soldiers are a very diverse group of individuals, so it’s possible that a tiny minority might find this offensive. I think the civilians here commenting mean well — I’m all in favor of respecting vets — but I don’t think their outrage is necessary.
Amen. I work for the Army, on base, and the soldiers all laugh and make jokes about it, because laughing at it lets them be the boss of it, and not the other way around. I suspect the most vocal opposition to this image are just knee-jerk civilians.
I thoughtz dat dis might be mo’ betta capshun, ladieez n’ gentz:
Everyonez LOVEZ da Byaade Runna!
Ai was finking of somehow uzing sumfin frum teh song “In the jungle.. the mighty jungle…” Maybe “Teh lion woked up”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHWjNMhdY0I
da kyootniss!
wai ai kan’t haz link to meowtube n anymayshun uv “in de djungel”?
*traiz AGGINN*
yeeees…
OB KORRS – NAO de link wiff kyootniss is dar, nao dat ai gived up n posted AGGINN.
*saing*
Jeebus Kripes, I’m a lion! Get in teh car!!!
Not sure what saddens me more: the complete whiny sensitivity of people offended by a kitten photo referencing Vietnam, or the abject abuse of the English language to express said wet blanketness.
hay!
oe “abyoos” de ingerlish langwich 2 ikspress EBBERFING – not juss “said wet blanketness”.
N, furr youze infurrmayshun: AI had NUFFIN 2 do wiff getting de blankit oet – wus de goggie – ai SWAYRS.
*SLORT*
doggamit mumrik! i has cawfee awl ober mah desk nao!! Cheezwiz!!
dear csmall,
fank u furr gibbin me mai not sekond “*SLORT*”!
maeked me a BERRY happee hyoomin noing dat youze haz cawfee awl ober youze desk bcoz uv sumfin i writed.
i halp u klean up youse cawfee mess nao, k?
weeel. i went awai cawse ah has 2 WERK(dabnit!), an nao teh cawfee is a liddle crusty. We can a) get sum sharp thingies an start scraping, or 2) get a liddle hawt water, spill it on top of teh crustee, an hav afternoon ‘tee’. i hav a cookee i been savin – is unner mai desk…
We r nawt abewsing teh “English Language” We r nawt speekin Engllish. We r speekin LOLcat.
U shud trai to lern. Iz nawt az eesee az u mite think.
Seriously. I know it’s the trend here to comment in lolcat, but you’d think if you’re going to try and make a legitimate point, you’d use real English.
SRSLY.
is no “trend” – is wut ichc R.
i am finking dat in dis playce, if you kin manage to mek le-ji-ti-mit poynt in teh langwadge of teh locals… your poynt iz mor laiklee to be respekted an unnerstud.
Speek lolcat or GTFO… ~.*
Humor can bez hard. Humor can haz look at hard liefs fings. Makez to laff at dem. Sum peplz mak bettr coz laff at it.
Can has laff to dose peplz. Odrz peplz no laff, iz ok fer demz to.
Evrybudy can has diffrnt. Iz ok!
Hoe-lee!!1!
i saw teh conterafurrshul tag and got all assided, like woo, sometin sketchy on ichc toonite!!! den i saw teh lolkitteh & i lol’d… not unnerstanin what da big fuss about. den i reed all da comments and still dun unnerstan why peeps so upset. Iz funnies! Iz not dat poingnant, iz not refrensin teh current situashun in teh US… mebbe is cuz i not ‘merikin & not all caut up in war stuffs. *shrug* Why peeps get all dizcumboobuladed about dis pic? Chillz! Iz ok… iz just a kitteh. So many more tings on teh interwebs to get funky about!
Is spunky lookin lil kitteh tho… e’s gonn pownce on sumpin!
I’m slightly surprised at how mellow the posts have been on this picture.
we have a couple of “it’s not funny”’s but no one has asked in any way for the removal of the picture.
I guess that just shows how restrained and godd-natured all the people are here.
I agree with scothandmorescotch and johnson442, people should not let how they feel about the picture get the better of them, flamewars do not do anything productive. all they do is make people even more upset at each other.
I have seen a couple of sites that constantly dissolve into flamewars, and I feel like directing poeple there over here, make them realize that it is possible to politely disagree and that shouting matches solve nothing.
you people all make me feel good about my day, no matter how bad it’s been, I don’t want that to change.
Pleeze don’ send da flametrolls here! Gah…can you imagine what they’d turn this into? This has been a fair and fairly calm discussion…a wunnerful change of pace to some sites!
And I think it’s okay to laugh at something, even if you don’t approve of why you’re laughing. I’ve heard preachers tell dirty jokes, I’ve been offended at my fair share of bl;onde jokes (and aimed a few at myself), I hear servicemen and -women tell jokes about the service. It’s how folks cope.
So just laugh, maintain your sensitivity, and don’t pee on other folks’s campfires.
Life’s too short to be angry at such little things like an lolcat caption.
I agree. At the end of the day, it’s just like -every other- lolcat picture of a cat with big eyes where the caption mentioned some mental disorder or something. The people here are the sweetest, silliest, happiest-seeming people anywhere on the internet, and it’d be heartbreaking if the hypersensitive and hyperpetty got their hands in on it all.
sorry, should have explained better.
I think that the only way to get trolls to stop being trolls is to get them to think like people here. If the trolls understood what we were all about, there would be no trolls.
I applied this thinking to every site that dissolves into flamewars that I have seen.
This isn’t funny, but not because it’s “controversial”. It’s because it’s just epically unfunny.
I miss the days when not every single freaking picture on this site got a 5 burger rating due to the wave of morons discovering this site and having no refined sense of humor whatsoever. HOLY CRAP IT’S A CAT IN A BUSH, let’s make a caption about the first thing that pops into my head, hey how about Vietnam. DONE.
lolcats need actual jokes and humorous poses to be funny, otherwise it’s just a cat. This is just another example of failcats like the ones they used in those stupid Geometry Wars ads. omg if I put a caption on this boring picture of my cat can I be a funny too??
“…Otherwise it’s just a cat.”
Kittehs r pritty awsum by demselfs, tho.
ai tink dis funeh an i reed evry dai 4 yeers!
jus cuz u dun liek and peepl tink controvisral u tink u cna tel us wut 2 leik? i lurv it.
LOL. ICHC izn’t eben wun yeer ole yet!
Duz it rillee seem liek yoo bin reedin it fur YEERS?
Duz laffin maek teh tiem go fastr, or sloer?
yu need 2 goto teh vote page moar, an maek yur voyce herd b4 lolpics reech teh front payge!
dis is mah ryphl. dere r many lik it, but dis 1 r myne. witout me, mah ryphl is nutting. witout mah ryphl, i r nutting.
I used to haz PTSD and I’m mostly better now. (and no, not from nam) I had a funny flashback. It was not funny in the moment, but it was funny immediately after. It was intimate, and I had the PTSD almost 10 years before I got a flashback, so it skeered me good. I wanted him away from me, offa me; but I didn’t want him to leave me alone with my insanity. So I made him get as far away as possible, and hold onto my foot. Was comforting.
I didn’t find it funny either. I thought ‘awwww, poor kitteh’. But I wasn’t offended, I certainly wasn’t surprized.
I had PTSD too, from a violent incident. No more flashbacks, but still a tender spot in my heart from the memory of pain. Hard to laugh at. But for those who can still see the pain through the laughter, it can be healing.
Anything is better than trying to deny the pain.
well, i’m braving these retarted responses for my first post here ever … people talking in cat talk (especially to argue a possibly valid point)? not funny, cool, or intelligent looking.
poster/webmaster, don’t let the offended people prevent you from posting stuff like this. i doubt more than 5% of your viewers found it uncomfortable to see, and less than 20% of those found it offensive.
also, stats are 70% more believeable with number, even if i DID pull them out of my butt.
point being, don’t let PCness lessen your funny. (of the few posts i saw at the bottom, i fully agree with LadyKat #140234)
*retarded
lol, i fail.
fale: pritty mutch summ up da commint on da lolspeek. wai nawt triez it b4 u sez sumfin bout it…? srsly. takes moar finkin 2 made da points in lolspeek – an iffen a FING WORF DOIN, IZ WORF DA TIME…….
87% ob statysikz R Maid Up oah dah spot!
I think it is a good thing that this makes so many people uncomfortable. We are so eager to assume that which makes us uncomfortable is bad, but perhaps we (as a society) are afraid of thinking. Definitely not the funniest lolcat I’ve seen, but it is thought and debate provoking.
i like it.
we have to laugh about things! if not, we’d be sad all the time
lolkitty has right idea
Just a picture. Get over it.
da horror. da horror.
2 soon?
Personally, I like the little kitty. I think it’s funny. But it’s funny not because it brings up the idea of someone having flashbacks, but due to the fact that the kitten OBVIOUSLY did not serve in vietnam….or any war, for that matter. It’s a cat.
It’s ok to laugh if you find it funny – not everything needs to be PC
Get over it. It’s ok to make fun of pretty much everything and standup comedians have made fun of this for decades. If it makes you so uneasy, go watch emo kitten for a few hours instead.
I liked it.
The fact that so many people have such a problem with this image greatly disturbs me.
One hundred percent agreement. Part of me thinks they aren’t even offended, they just notice that they could be, and if they were, they’d be great, compassionate, big-hearted people. I don’t know, it’s . . it’s cats with words.
Who ever came here expecting a politically correct and restrained environment?
Its a little off topic – but heres something interesting to consider.
All of our people over in Iraq – they arent Veterans of Foreign War. Thats how our government is taking it. The VFW is not accepting them and they are not getting any benefits that are normally associated with serving their country….just my two cents.
The fact that people feel able to make the statement “this is not funny” greatly disturbs me – like there’s an official standard of what is and is not funny. Personally I find Lee Evans about as funny as root canal, but my husband (and presumably he’s not alone) thinks he’s hilarious.
Everyone’s free to express an opinion – but that’s what it is, your opinion. “I don’t find this funny” – fine. “This is not funny” or “people who find this funny are stupid” – well, who are you to decide that?
Noel – “it’s cats with words” – jeenyus!
AGREE!!!
i can’t believe i had to scroll this far down the page to find the sanity…
O come onz…iz just kitteh wif kapshun. No be so uptyte! lyten up, k? kitteh no lyke dramallama!
I’m currently serving my second tour with 2-12 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq. I would think I understand the War on Terror a wee bit better than most of the self-righteous couch potatoes that post on this forum.
I found this picture absolutely hilarious.
Y’ALL PLZ 2 BE GROWING UP KTHXBAI.
yah.
hoam sayfe NJF! y’hear?
Thank you! For your comment and your service.
Some of us support the troops AND the war effort.
It’s so easy to criticize in hindsight…
Thank You. No, really. Thank You. hooah
thx 4 da servis
u is in mah irak, servin mah kuntree.
thx!
iz funneh pic. u can haz stfu?
Don’t be upshook, folks. I am a living, walking version of ‘Nam Cat — a medic on rescue choppers back then. I see no offense in the photo and caption. I think it is pretty funny, actually.
And stop with all the praise and appreciation for “the troops” — it doesn’t ring true to most of us; you’re just salving your guilt for not getting in the war you wanted and still support, or your guilt for not stopping the war.
Saying you love “the troops” is a cop out. If you love us so much, put on a uniform.
Amen.
I am in your rear echelons, testing your weapon systems.
And this is the literal truth.
I haven’t been to ‘Nam but I got a combat-level case of PTSD from being in a Georgia prison on a drug conviction back in the 80s. Jails and prisons in GA are just as bad as the stupid movies and life on a daily basis resembled combat; hence the PTSD. As one who HAS flashbacks in certain situations, I thought it was funny. My reaction was something like, “Yeah, really.” If anything, my experience with PTSD has made me much more sensitive to veterans of Vietnam, Desert Storm (Iraq War I), Afghanistan and Iraq War II. I understand the alienation, isolation and confusion of PTSD and sympathize greatly with anyone who has to live with it. I don’t see this pic it as disrespecting the troops there now. If anything I hope it reminds the viewer of the ongoing destruction of mind and body that occurs to all participants in warfare. Shalom.
As we approach Veterans’ Day, it seem appropriate that the discourse on this website focus on this picture, whether it is controversial or not.
Whether or not you like the picture, whether or not you like the caption, whether or not you approved of Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, or any other military action, you all have a right to be offended or humored, you have a right to express your outrage or pleasure, to speak in English or kitteh-speak, and you are fortunate enough to live in a country that allows you to do so.
I, for one, am grateful to those who gave their lives, to those who survived, to those who survived but less gracefully than others, to those who wanted to serve, to those who didn’t want to serve, thanking you for defending the freedoms that we have and thanking you for attempting to see those freedoms brought to other parts of the world.
With respect,
Bill Eccles
Tolland, CT
(I served, but this isn’t about me.)
nice 2 met you, bill eccles. berry brave 2 use ur name.
wish i wuz dat brave, butt i gonna stick wif da ittehbittehkitteh name…..
Please excuse my lack of kitteh speach.
My entire family has PTSD. Literally. The children, my husband and myself. Lots of things cause PTSD besides combat. Rape, abuse (the children are not biologically mine), car accidents, etc, etc.
Only my husband’s is from combat. Somolia.. that place no one ever talks about. At least they didn’t spit on him when he got home. They just didn’t know he was gone.
His uncle had PTSD from Nam… killed himself.
My husband and I both saw the picture before it got linked. While we didn’t think it was exceptionally funny… we also didn’t think it was disrespectful. PTSD is real. Flashbacks are real. For us it’s part of life. A part we deal with in spite of the incompetence of the VA system.
Sometimes humor can make people squirm. Sometimes they NEED to squirm. To think about difficult situations. If the picture disturbed you… then that may be a good thing. It means that you can empathize. If the picture didn’t disturb you than either A. you probably have a good handle on what PTSD is about and it wasn’t a big deal. or B. you are probably a fairly shallow person who has a happy life never looking below the surface.
None of it is bad. The fact that it has been discussed here is good. Whether or not you ‘agree’. For me certainly the ‘link’ was not necessary. But I can respect that others may feel that way.
I guess I fall into “A” above. I thought it was funny, because I was raised in a house with my dad, an Airborne Vietnam Vet who had flaming PTSD for decades after he got home. We weren’t allowed to even talk about certain topics in the house, like “what happened while you were over there.”
But we WERE allowed to laugh about the fact that occasionally he would do stuff like hear a loud noise while he was asleep, then yank my mom out of bed and throw her on the floor and cover her with his body before he was fully awake. I mean seriously, what can you do but laugh? (and be sure the bedroom has thick carpet . . .)
It was a part of his life that he couldn’t get away from, so we all accepted it right along with him and tried to love him through it as best we could. Jungle cat is funny. I think I recognize that look in his eyes.
it’s a joke, guyz. get over it.
zomg !!1!!1
noes, i is not shocked coz dis eez nut contruversjul.
itz juz kitteh wivf capshun, as pink kitteh seed !!!
come on people, dont try to put any philosophy in there, its just a lolcat picture! i dont support war, but i still found the picture very funny. dont try to push too far. the person who wrote the caption probably didnt try to make a statement! dont interpret it as if.
smile!
I can’t read through all these comments, particularly since they’re doing a weird overlap thing w/ the names (work computer has weird screen set up).
Just wanted to say: My husband’s been through the gamut lately. He’s been to Afghanistan twice, been diagnosed w/ PTSD, put on Paxil, yanked off the Paxil cold turkey, put back on at a higher dose. It hasn’t been fun.
But I still smiled when I saw this. ‘Cause sometimes your only options are to laugh or to hide under your bed w/ your blankie. And I’m stronger than that.
My own dad (who served in Korea, see prev post) had one of the darkest senses of humor about this kind of thing…it is a way of coping…he said “you have to laugh, coz if you don’t, you’ll cry/die!”
And I don’t see the napalm quote as anything more than a nod to a quote from a movie which everyone has seen and has been embedded in all of our collective cultural references…
Again, we all need to chill…just a bit, perhaps…
Exact same experience for me! In a world where the people around you die just for being at the wrong place at the wrong time, you have to poke fun at your own mortality. Othewise, you’ll never survive mentally. And if you don’t survive mentally, you’ll never survive physically.
O my gawdz! Hero cat! Hero cat!
wooooooooow wweeeeeeeee! did ya’ll notice that this pic brought out the lurkers in droves?? I have neever seen so many newbies comment on one post b4………maybe THAT is what the burgers were looking for……..checking out how many lurkers are really out there……..
Mibbie aye, mibbie nay. Ah do tink teh Burgers R kwite kapibil ob maeking a pollytickal poynt wit a pikschure & kapshun tho.
Hey, the huz is Viet vet, has flashbacks, PTSD, physical disabilities from Agent Orange, the whole schmazzle. But even I thought it was kind of funny, and did not feel it implied disrespect. Lighten up, some of you folks.
Humor is how many people deal with tragedy. Deal with it you overly sensitive jerks. My grabndfather fought in vietnam and joked about it until the day he died. My husband is FROM vietnam and his family dealt with the war and they joke about it because it is a hell of a lot better than wallowing in its sorrow and making it a sacred thing that must not be humored.
STFU!
*nods* Sumtymes, u has 2 laff or u will cry. I ravver laff, kthnx.
If you can’t make fun of everything… why make fun of anything at all?
People need to just chill, IMO.
Reminds me of the good ol’ times when Rambo ruled.
The flashback have since become such a cliche…
Almost every series of the 80s once in a while introduced a vet.
Typical plot:
The guy is a villain. He gets flashbacks.
* blank stare * -> flashback into some random jungle shooting scene -> ‘Noooooo!’ -> return to the blank stare -> mad action.
At the end of the episode the guy saves the day by covering a grenade with his own body.
This picture features the ultimate ‘Nam kitten!
* blank stare * flashback * dakkadakkadakka NOOOOOOO! * (cut back to today) * SAARG! It’s you! We meet again!
WHY is it so controversial!?#!@?$!@ This is by far 1 of the best LOLCATS ever! LOL!!!!!! Great one guys!
Irony!
Most of the people whining aren’t ‘nam vets
My dad is.
He thought this was hilarious.
2nd’d. I noticed that too. There were a few “vets” or other service people posting comments here and I think most (or all?) of them thought it was funny.
You people is whiny. It be funny. Vietnam veterans probably laugh at dis. and no. i doubt it was supposed to make us think because thats not the point of lolcats. yous is stupids.
I didnt bother reading past the first 15 post of whining so if somebody has already said this then I dont care but this is a website for pictures of cats not a goth message board so stop all the drama. If you dont like the picture then dont look at it and more importantly dont give it a deeper meaning that isnt there ITS A PICTURE OF A CAT LOOKING THROUGH SOME LEAVES. You people need to relax because you wouldnt be offened nearly as much if you did.
The beautiful thing about this site is that the pics often lead into conversations that are so much deeper than the pic and caption that started them. That point has clearly gone over your head.
kthxbai
Ya, but this whole page really isn’t so much a deep conversation as it is people complaining that this is wrong and they’re offended and we should be ashamed and blah blah blah.
Other lolcats, maybe. This lolcat? More whining, not so much deep conversation.
Some whining, granted. But also some good discussion.
“this iz charlie-alfa-tango, pleez to be droppin mousez on mai lokashun. ober.”
Okay, now, I thought this was REALLY funny. I lovz the charlie-alpha-tango.
Littul arms…
I love the smell of catnip in the morning.
Oh, Yes!
Controversial? Really? Seriously, people are finding this pic offensive? OMG. I’m all for respecting people’s feelings and all, but seriously…
tell me about it…
Special Ops Kitteh is doing recon.
“I has the enemy in my site”
offensive politiks n kittehs pics…offensive kittehs pics n politiks. s’all in da terppertashun.
ANYONE WHO THINKS THIS IMAGE IS OFFENSIVE NEEDS TO:
A) LIGHTEN UP
B) LIGHTEN UP
C) LIGHTEN UP
AND
D) SHUT YER FREAKIN’ PIE HOLES
THE ‘NAM FLASHBACK BIT HAS BEEN A STAPLE ON A LOT OF COMEDY SHOWS FOR YEARS – OR DO YOU MORONS CALL FOX EVERY TIME PRINCIPAL SKINNER HAS A FLASHBACK ON THE SIMPSONS?
SO SERIOUSLY… SHUT IT, DRINK SOME JUICE AND GO WATCH FULL METAL JACKET OR SOMETHING.
I iz not think warz is sumthin to “lighten up” about since real peeplze be losin real lives…..
BLAH BLAH BLAH YES THAT’S ALL VERY TRAGIC.
IT’S A FREAKIN’ LOLCAT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
…and reelz perspektivz…
omg u iz gonna get us awl killd. if evrybawdy lights up then thay iz awl gonna get teh lung kansser. U SIK F$&%IN BASTID!!!!
. . . . o. . . . lighten up. . . . aaaaah.
Sometimes it takes a picture of a kitten with a silly caption to say something very serious.
I iz not think diz meant to bees direspect da many good soldiers… Iz jus thinks it say nothin iz dat gorlious abouts da wars… peeplez dying is no goodz… especially when you be a soldier dat be seein his friends die… I haz been speekin to amerikan soliers dat been seein soo much bad…dey be see their friends die…. more sadness then words can be sayin… Iz just truth dat soldiers carries da burdens and horrors of warz wid dem… even if warz be over…
Unfortunately, this kitten reminds me of my first husband, a Vietnam vet with two tours incountry. He was a hospital corpsman and returned psychologically wounded to his very core. He came back drug-addicted and unable to hold even the most menial of jobs. Still, I honored our wedding vows and supported him in every way possible until he committed suicide in 1977. His nightmare never ended…untiil then.
{{{Diana}}}
Just read some more of the comments…So, yes, I thought the kitten was also very funny. I love this site, esp. the poor lolrus and his missing bukkit, and all the Invisible Whatevers…
So disappointed that this one was flagged “controversial”. I thought it was the funniest one on the page in a long time! The kitten is adorable and precocious, and the flash-red eyes are perfect for the caption. Heck, even without the caption the kitty is funny!
I have PTSD, not from Nam. If I couldn’t laugh about it, I’d be vegetized. There pictures and captions on this site that I find upsetting. So, I vote against them and shrug my shoulders if they get front paged. This one is funny – good pic, imaginative and appropriate caption. Get over it!
This one is freaking funny!!!!
i think mark said it best: “oh for the love of God.”
Real veterans with real PTSD and real traumatic flashbacks find this funny, so to all whiners: why can’t you?
Odd, that’s what I looked like right after watching “Across The Universe”
my viet vet & I loves this kitteh
my Viet vet & I love this kitteh
Im a vet – thats a cat.
Get a goddam grip, people.
Its hilarious.
I hasz the PTSD frum poleeze wurk. I tink dis be funnee.
“if we cudn’t laff, we wud just go insane”
Q. Who is teh lolrus’s favrit singer?
A. Jimmy Bukkit!
Its a controversial subject, but humor is a healthy way to deal with it! And a cute little kitten makes it that much better! I love it! So do a bunch of my verteran friends! Good Job!
I’m in Iraq. Been here a few times now. Seen some things that you wouldn’t believe, and often woke up at home, grabbing for a weapon that wasn’t there. Some places over here aren’t that bad, and some are. It all depends on your job.
That being said, I thought this one was great, and have saved it for personal use.
i tink it is funneh… and i r having flashbacks all teh time.
Seriously, I have severe and chronic PTSD, with comorbid GAD. I’m not offended at all! It’s funny. Lighten up, people.
I can understand people being upset by the pic if it triggers a traumatic memory. In which case, you could close your browser window and go take care of yourself.
I have my own post-traumatic obsessions, and it irritates me to see people playing their weaknesses (or someone else’s) for power, to guilt others into doing what they want.
Personally, I thought it was anticlimactic to click on a link to a “controversial” picture and find this. I was expecting graphic violence and gore. I don’t think the picture is poking fun at vets, but at the kitteh’s expression. I’m all for reinstating the picture to the front page, purely for aesthetics.
I wonder what reaction you would get if instead of ‘Nam Cat it was Acid Cat? “That pic offends me as an old hippy”?
ovver fings we mus avoids:
zombeh kitteh r lukin 4 u. offensive cause sum ov mah bes frenz iz perambulatin ded.
red eye kitteh miss da flite. offensiv cause of 9-11
postpartum kitteh nawt hungreh no moar… (akshally, i finks i disgusted mahseffs wif dat wun)
sumtimes i doan unnerstand. if sumfing bovvers meh, i close it up an go way. doan open it no moar. i frowed a buk across da rum. wun by jerzy kosinsky. had a terribul fing in it, so i frowed it. i dint go an reed over agin an maked mahseff worser upset. i notis sum ov da peepel hu r upset comed back menny times 2 say moar an moar bout da upset dey has.
wisht i cud halp dem. butt i gotz a dark sens ob humer, so i fink lots ov stuff r funneh.
Get over yourselves for god’s sake, it’s a lolcat, not some anti-American hate poster.
Lighten up.
Has anyone considered that this caption may have been created by someone who prolly was there and just wanted us 2 stop a moment and think? this occured to me this morning as i was raking leaves in the yard and kept thinking abou that pic
I don´t see the disrespect on a picture about a war that happened, or is happening. It is part of the history and making comments or even taking it with some humour is healthy. Mexicans joke about the war they lost with the USA when USA invaded Mexico, and I do not understand why USA is so sensible to these topics.
PTSD…DONOTWANT!1!
Nam = flashbacks. Fact. So whats the controversy? Its funny.
Get it? He’s in the bushes! HA HA HA HA HA!
LOL I are not undershtand that til u explainz it 2 me an now I get it!!!11!!1on1!!!!!
Cuba cat iz bein’ ignorred.
not controversial, no ones going to teh sues yuo
It’s only offensive to those who can’t take a joke. Hell even the guys who were in Nam find it funny!!! Geesh lighten up!!!
Hippy cat takez pitteh
this is absolutely hilarious… and don’t get discouraged, someone somewhere will always find something offensive and make a fuss over it
i ses dis nots fensivve, so is not fensive, dis picshur mai fayvrit 2dai, sos shuts ur pieholz plz kthxbai
Sucks
::petz Nam kitteh:: My father-n-law is a Marine Nam vet and has seizures ’cause he got hit with Agent Orange. He can’t watch war movies ’cause the memories will trigger seizures.
Not really offensive picture, just sensitive. Not sure the Nam vets would find it funny, but it’s sympathetic. Sometimes it takes an attempt at humor to make a point.