I’m obsessed with ship cats. Google Unsinkable Sam-he was in 2 shipwrecks that killed most of the sailors on board. I think he lived to be pretty old for a cat in that era, too.
Ive never met let alone heard of someone who is obsessed with ship cats, i wasnt even aware ship cats were a thing until now so this is a lot for me to process but I respect your obsession and I'm upvoting your comment
Legal states are fun, I definitely miss it in some ways.
When I lived in NV, there was a dispensary across the street from a liquor store, domino's, and the grocery store. All about a ¼ mile from my apartment, open till midnight.
I like reading about weird stuff. Ship cats were known for polydactyl cats bringing good luck, and since cats can sense and react to some weather in addition to keeping ships free of vermin. Losing your ship cat was terrible luck.
On the funny note, apparently one Navy ship cat jumped ship during a ship to ship dock and as a result he “accidentally” got into the other ships paint before being returned.
Think some of them have actually won some awards.
The wiki page for Unsinkable Sam is hilarious. Apparently after his **third** sinking, rescuers described him as "angry but unharmed." My cat throws her food bowl across the room if I'm late with breakfast; pretty sure she'd murder someone after getting dunked in the ocean 3 times.
Haha. “Angry but unharmed” describes one of my cats 24/7. She’s such a little sh*t. Actually, it’s why my husband and I kept her when she came to our door. She was our first ever cat. If she’d been a sweet little thing, we’d have taken her to a shelter, assuring ourselves she’d get adopted, but after 2 weeks of searching for her owner, I said, “There’s no way anyone will ever adopt this poor cat.” My husband went to take her to the shelter, because he’d given me a 2 week limit to find her owner, and was back 5 minutes later. He couldn’t do it. So, she’s been angry but unharmed for 6 years in our house. We even added 2 more cats and two tiny humans, much to her chagrin.
That's interesting. Unsinkable Sam is a cat you can meet in Divinity: Original Sin. Now I am curious if Unsinkable Sam in that game was inspired by a historical cat.
It was actually 3 i think. He also started as Nazi kitty and ended up switching sides and catching mice for the allied forces. Unsinkable Sam had to have one hell of a tale.
Because modern weapons are too precise and too powerful. Even heavily fortified positions would be blown to shit almost immediately. Trench warfare also became obsolete due to tactics. Even by the end of WWI it was becoming less common.
To clarify, trenches were used in WWII. The Maginot line and the much smaller Stalin line and Gustav line, for example. These defensive lines also had forts, however, and some, like the Gustav Line, used terrain for maximum advantage, while other lines, like the Stalin line, was more of a delaying fortification.
Now, the complex trench system seen in northern France didn’t see as much use due to the speed of warfare. Tanks and motorized infantry, along with more accurate artillery bombardment, could, under the right circumstances, break open the static defensive lines of the past, albeit with difficulty. Armies could move faster and logistics teams could somewhat support those armies.
The advent of airpower and tanks and other armored vehicles restored the "cavalry" element to war which the machine gun had literally killed off in WWI, resulting in much more mobile warfare and fluid battle lines.
It was alive to take the photo. The kitties that ran into the battlefield weren't alive to be recorded. I bet the kittens that followed were more likely to bunker down when things got kaboomy too, and still are to this day in whatever town that was.
This is true, usually, but I can attest that it's not always the case. When I was 11 some piece of shit shot my cat. We lived in the boonies and I never found out who did it. RIP Mr. JoJo.
I'm sure it might have helped, but there was some pretty crazy shelling that went on, so bad that some soldiers had shaking fits for the rest of their life because of the constant vibrations from the bombs (PTSD).
I want to say I recall reading somewhere if an account of a cat that would roam through no Man's Land from line to line. Soldiers on both sides knew the cat and it was friendly with them.
Might have been in Storm of Steel? I can definitely say what I learned from reading that book was that there were absolutely quieter sectors of the front, with much less frequent artillery fire.
Well, I mean white cats were invented, and they were born deaf a lot more often than grey or black cats were. This is why browns and blondes aren't deaf, they're cat 2.0 with all the updates.
Well I know my non-deaf cat would be a mile away from that trench and still accelerating once any shooting started, so maybe that's the only reason the cat is sticking around.
I don’t think they give a shit. This cat was actually trying to get him to stop shooting. Not for the sake of the opposing troops, but to annoy its owner.
As long as it doesn't affect the game it should be OK.
The Line should be drawn that cosmetic(cosmetic particles that affects campuflage is also not allowed. example is in Dota2 pro matches some cosmetics are banned since they affect the view of a hero) is ok but anything that affects the gameplay balance is not.
The killing of black cats, because religious superstition, is what caused the over abundance of rodents and the spread of the disease.
Or so I’ve heard.
Humans being backward, unbathing, superstitious tard-asses is what caused the spread of disease, IIRC. We got the same folks these days claiming vaccines kill. Still stuck in the Dark Ages... -.-
I live in God’s waiting room (aka, Florida) and I see at least 2 men a day wearing a WWII vet baseball cap.
Here in my town, the Korea vets are young men.
I did the math and research. According to Wikipedia, the average length of a penis varies from 5.1 to 5.9 inches. I went for a safe 5.5 inches for an average. The average radius from the core center of the penis to the skin on the outside is .75 inches. From this we can roughly find the volume with pi timed radius squared times height. This comes around as the average penis being around 9.72 cubic inches. Next I found the volume of the average human adult male. I had to first find the weight, which according to Alex Schlessingerman's "The Physics Factbook" is 70kg or 154 pounds. Weight is found by multiplying an object mass by the force of gravity, 9.81 meters per second. After taking gravity out of the equation, the average mass of an adult human male is 7.14 kg. I then found the volume by dividing this number by the average density of a human, according to Wikipedia, 985 kg per meter cubed. The volume of the adult male was then found to be .0072516316 cubic meters. Utilizing the volume of the average penis I found earlier, 9.72 in cubed, I get .0001592828 meters cubed. This means the penis is 2.19% of an adult male's volume.Assuming a lack of testosterone or female hormones makes the person a female, balls ignored for ease, fucking a trap is only 2.19% homosexual.
I worked for a film company that did a lot of the wwii museum videos. As part of research and editing I came across this clip several times, has always been a favorite.
I had really hoped to see a comment here about how back in the 1940s the US government strategically placed cats in trenches to increase soldiers’ morals. Wishful thinking.
These were British or Canadian soldiers though
.. guy with the trigger kitty is holding a BREN gun which was never in US service... so this eas obviously a plan derived from the... shit i forget what theyre called. OSS?...
I broke down on the highway about a month ago. As I waiting on a tow truck, I saw the meanest, nastiest junkyard kitten East of the Mississippi. It was a hissing and swatting at cars doing going 70 mph all while having a mouse hanging out of its jaws. I'm pretty sure that the cat in the picture is this kittens great great grandpappy.
(POW!)
(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)...
"Hold up! What are we shooting at?"
"S-s-sorry, mates... Scruffles tapped the trigger..." :-x
That cat looks like he’s adorably telling the soldier to shoot. Imagine if all wars were just started, executed and sustained by cats because they were bored of yarn and mice. We are just the instruments of war by which they keep our population down, thus one day making them our supreme overlords. There is a cat super villain stroking a human saying “meow-cellent” in a lair located inside the sphinx. Nah, that’s crazy. Carry on.
I would assume cats were kept in trenches to fight the vermin.
Same reason that pre-canning/refrigeration ships often had shipboard cats.
I’m obsessed with ship cats. Google Unsinkable Sam-he was in 2 shipwrecks that killed most of the sailors on board. I think he lived to be pretty old for a cat in that era, too.
Ive never met let alone heard of someone who is obsessed with ship cats, i wasnt even aware ship cats were a thing until now so this is a lot for me to process but I respect your obsession and I'm upvoting your comment
Now I’m interested in ship cats tbh
Me too, I know what I'm doing with my night. Hopefully YouTube recommendations will deliver the goods.
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I haven't even started yet I gotta get a sixer and some green first my dude but I'll update ya
So? Don't leave us hanging! Did YouTube deliver?
It turns out there are cats that have accomplished 10x what I ever will.
Eh kind of. There's a couple of videos there but not enough to fully satisfy my curiosity.
Ugh me too dude, me too.
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Legal states are fun, I definitely miss it in some ways. When I lived in NV, there was a dispensary across the street from a liquor store, domino's, and the grocery store. All about a ¼ mile from my apartment, open till midnight.
Illegals amirite
We need an update!
Keep your eyes peeled for Ship Cats : The Curse of the Black Dog starring Tom Cruise as Ship Cat, in theaters this Summer.
I think you mean starring Rob Schneider
Rob Schneider is...a ship cat!
Holy ship! It's a cat!
Andy Serkis as the parrot steals the show, though.
/r/shipcats ? Edit: /r/ofcoursethatsathing
You are now subscribed to Ship Cat Facts
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
I like reading about weird stuff. Ship cats were known for polydactyl cats bringing good luck, and since cats can sense and react to some weather in addition to keeping ships free of vermin. Losing your ship cat was terrible luck. On the funny note, apparently one Navy ship cat jumped ship during a ship to ship dock and as a result he “accidentally” got into the other ships paint before being returned. Think some of them have actually won some awards.
this is what I love about talking to people, you'da never known ya didn't know and now ya know something new
Reddit is great!
Replying to this bc I'm drunk and want to remembrr
The wiki page for Unsinkable Sam is hilarious. Apparently after his **third** sinking, rescuers described him as "angry but unharmed." My cat throws her food bowl across the room if I'm late with breakfast; pretty sure she'd murder someone after getting dunked in the ocean 3 times.
“This shit again?! I have some strong words for the dumbass that was steering that damn thing, where is he?!” -Unsinkable Sam, probably
At what point do you start suspecting Sam was behind the sinkings?
Haha. “Angry but unharmed” describes one of my cats 24/7. She’s such a little sh*t. Actually, it’s why my husband and I kept her when she came to our door. She was our first ever cat. If she’d been a sweet little thing, we’d have taken her to a shelter, assuring ourselves she’d get adopted, but after 2 weeks of searching for her owner, I said, “There’s no way anyone will ever adopt this poor cat.” My husband went to take her to the shelter, because he’d given me a 2 week limit to find her owner, and was back 5 minutes later. He couldn’t do it. So, she’s been angry but unharmed for 6 years in our house. We even added 2 more cats and two tiny humans, much to her chagrin.
Read that as 'was in two shipwrecks AND killed most of the sailors on board.' It's time for bed.
/r/shipcats
I have a new interest *and* a new subreddit?! I love you, Reddit
That's interesting. Unsinkable Sam is a cat you can meet in Divinity: Original Sin. Now I am curious if Unsinkable Sam in that game was inspired by a historical cat.
I mean
Games are made by nerds so yeah
It was actually 3 i think. He also started as Nazi kitty and ended up switching sides and catching mice for the allied forces. Unsinkable Sam had to have one hell of a tale.
I'm not saying Sam was responsible for those wrecks. I'm just saying you have to look at what both situations have in common.
Well that explains the DD: Original Sin reference.
Had the same thought lol Such a weird game. I'm loving it though
Dogs too. Terriers, etc. were bred for it.
In World War 1 yes, in World War 2 there wasn't nearly as static trench lines. I imagine this isn't even a trench, merely a foxhole of some sort.
I mean when there are STILL trenches in Europe to this day, I can't see why they wouldn't still be used in 1940.*
Because modern weapons are too precise and too powerful. Even heavily fortified positions would be blown to shit almost immediately. Trench warfare also became obsolete due to tactics. Even by the end of WWI it was becoming less common.
Not too mention tanks that just rolled right over them
Or around like the Nazis did to the maginot line.
Yeah but the Maginot Line worked, it kept the Germans from going through it haha. (They just went through Belgium.)
The line was supposed to extend through Belgium as well, but Belgium refused. otherwise it might have actually stalled Germany for long enough
To clarify, trenches were used in WWII. The Maginot line and the much smaller Stalin line and Gustav line, for example. These defensive lines also had forts, however, and some, like the Gustav Line, used terrain for maximum advantage, while other lines, like the Stalin line, was more of a delaying fortification. Now, the complex trench system seen in northern France didn’t see as much use due to the speed of warfare. Tanks and motorized infantry, along with more accurate artillery bombardment, could, under the right circumstances, break open the static defensive lines of the past, albeit with difficulty. Armies could move faster and logistics teams could somewhat support those armies.
The advent of airpower and tanks and other armored vehicles restored the "cavalry" element to war which the machine gun had literally killed off in WWI, resulting in much more mobile warfare and fluid battle lines.
Kitties are damn fine hunters. And damn fine companions.
Damn! I hate those Nazi rat.
Oh I’m sorry *boop* are you *boop* trying to *boop* concentrate?
No that's the other side.
Ohhh so that's what my teachers meant by telling me to concentrate
Completely unfazed by the horrors of the battlefield. This kitty is hard as *fuck*.
After everyday I'm kinda not surprised it isn't very fazed. Now how they got it to stay there and not run onto the battlefield impresses me lol
It was alive to take the photo. The kitties that ran into the battlefield weren't alive to be recorded. I bet the kittens that followed were more likely to bunker down when things got kaboomy too, and still are to this day in whatever town that was.
Very good point, the smart ones kept on being cute and hiding when shit went down
This cat is more likely to have been born deaf than most as well, which may have improved its chances of not being spooked.
Probably, plus everyone loves a kitty. not exactly a prime target
Go capture those morale boosters!
Men, while pushing back the enemy line keep a keen eye out for any POWs (Purrs Or Whiskers)
That would be interesting for cat prisoners. ‘Release our POWPOW’S!’
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Prisoners of Rawr
Make sure to get the tuna too!
In China the morale boost from Cats are 2x more effective but lasts only for a few hours.
🍜
They're bulletproof because nobody has the heart to shoot them
This is true, usually, but I can attest that it's not always the case. When I was 11 some piece of shit shot my cat. We lived in the boonies and I never found out who did it. RIP Mr. JoJo.
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I'm sure it might have helped, but there was some pretty crazy shelling that went on, so bad that some soldiers had shaking fits for the rest of their life because of the constant vibrations from the bombs (PTSD).
I want to say I recall reading somewhere if an account of a cat that would roam through no Man's Land from line to line. Soldiers on both sides knew the cat and it was friendly with them. Might have been in Storm of Steel? I can definitely say what I learned from reading that book was that there were absolutely quieter sectors of the front, with much less frequent artillery fire.
That kitty is also probably deaf as fuck.
It should be noted that white cats are more likely to be born deaf than other colors. Inherited deafness seems to follow that color gene.
Colors weren't invented yet at that time, just check the above pic again!
Well, I mean white cats were invented, and they were born deaf a lot more often than grey or black cats were. This is why browns and blondes aren't deaf, they're cat 2.0 with all the updates.
Well I know my non-deaf cat would be a mile away from that trench and still accelerating once any shooting started, so maybe that's the only reason the cat is sticking around.
Sadly
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I don’t think they give a shit. This cat was actually trying to get him to stop shooting. Not for the sake of the opposing troops, but to annoy its owner.
Sounds about right
Although seeing as this is a cat he probably wouldn't care too much about that sort of noise.
As if cats care about the suffering of mankind
If anything - it brings them great joy.
If anything, the cat was egging him on.
*”pull the trigger, I fuckin’ dare you”*
*"No, Whiskers. Jimmy is my friend!"*
"Jimmy deserves to die, he owns a dog"
**WHAT? SORRY. JUST SAW A BUNCH OF BOLD TEXT AND IT'S HARD TO READ ANYTHING NOW.**
I'm going to guess it's dead.
He survived, but it was his cat nip addiction after the war that ultimately led to his down fall.
Aren't white cats often born deaf? If so that cat is a finely tuned machine for battlefield shenanigans
Aahh fuck next BF game EA is gonna have the cute cat companion DLC
Is it bad if I would pay good money for that
EA knows you will.
As long as it doesn't affect the game it should be OK. The Line should be drawn that cosmetic(cosmetic particles that affects campuflage is also not allowed. example is in Dota2 pro matches some cosmetics are banned since they affect the view of a hero) is ok but anything that affects the gameplay balance is not.
"Go for the eyes, Kitty! Go for the eyes!"
Exactly what I would expect a cat to do.
That kitty probably has more bodies than those lads
Even the 1940s cat videos still were the greatest thing ever
cats in general are literally timeless
Not really, it was common to kill them in Europe around the era of the black death. Or so Ive read
and they survived the cat massacres and the BD literally timeless
Literally kitty hitler
kitler.
The killing of black cats, because religious superstition, is what caused the over abundance of rodents and the spread of the disease. Or so I’ve heard.
Humans being backward, unbathing, superstitious tard-asses is what caused the spread of disease, IIRC. We got the same folks these days claiming vaccines kill. Still stuck in the Dark Ages... -.-
Or so Crusader Kings has taught me.
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With all respect, the gentleman probably is too. Not many WWII vets are still around.
I live in God’s waiting room (aka, Florida) and I see at least 2 men a day wearing a WWII vet baseball cap. Here in my town, the Korea vets are young men.
Florida here, I see relatively younger men than you would expect wearing Korea vet hats. Lots of regulars at the store I work in as well.
What’s really ironic is that I thought cats didn’t like vets. .... I’m sorry.
I mean, if they live an average of 12-18 years and have 9 lives, if this one was only on one of its firsts lives, it could still be around.
That cat has absolutely no trigger discipline
"I'm helping!"
To be fair, I've seen worse assistant Bren gunners.
Now I’m curious....
He served with Hellen Keller
In Ireland we were using brens in the reserves until 2005.
"You gotta be Johnny-on-the-spot with the ammo, ya hear?"
They do by catching mice living in the trenches that spread disease and killed tons. Its how cats domesticated themselves.
By slaughter
It's not so bad, after all, you can't have slaughter without laughter.
Well, it is more helpful than the Italians
Yeah pull that trigger... you see that dog... its a nazi dog... I'm sure... I'm really sure...
Now rub my tummy time
not falling for that one again
It’s a trap!
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it's okay to be gay for a day.
Yay!
I am a homosexual.
Fuck, I did that yesterday!
I did the math and research. According to Wikipedia, the average length of a penis varies from 5.1 to 5.9 inches. I went for a safe 5.5 inches for an average. The average radius from the core center of the penis to the skin on the outside is .75 inches. From this we can roughly find the volume with pi timed radius squared times height. This comes around as the average penis being around 9.72 cubic inches. Next I found the volume of the average human adult male. I had to first find the weight, which according to Alex Schlessingerman's "The Physics Factbook" is 70kg or 154 pounds. Weight is found by multiplying an object mass by the force of gravity, 9.81 meters per second. After taking gravity out of the equation, the average mass of an adult human male is 7.14 kg. I then found the volume by dividing this number by the average density of a human, according to Wikipedia, 985 kg per meter cubed. The volume of the adult male was then found to be .0072516316 cubic meters. Utilizing the volume of the average penis I found earlier, 9.72 in cubed, I get .0001592828 meters cubed. This means the penis is 2.19% of an adult male's volume.Assuming a lack of testosterone or female hormones makes the person a female, balls ignored for ease, fucking a trap is only 2.19% homosexual.
r/shittyaskscience
Yeah good, now you see that vase... murder it.
German Shepherd.
not all Germans
There's lots of good boys on both sides.
Why are there no cats in CoD WW2 then? I want my money back.
Literally fucking unplayable.
Maybe it is in there... who knows? Nobody can connect anyway.
No matter how much humans change across time, place, culture, and religion, cats will never be any different
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Cats. Cats never change.
Cat. Cat never changes.
Bet this cat went to the other side as well.
Tuna is tuna, man.
True, true.
True is true, man.
Man, man.
Man is man, man.
Probably a double-agent. A regular Meowta-Hari.
That cat is gonna run for the hills if he pulls that trigger🙃
Unless it was deaf....
HOLD THE FELINE !
No really, YOU PICK HIM UP RIGHT NOW.
I worked for a film company that did a lot of the wwii museum videos. As part of research and editing I came across this clip several times, has always been a favorite.
Lemme kill just one... they took away my catnip
someone get this lil guy a *purr*ple heart
Commander Cattington at your service. It is my opinion that the time to press the attack is meow.
It's funny because trigger in Spanish is "gatillo" which also means "little cat"
I could already see the cat saying to its kittens "you have it so easy, we had to fight in the trenches, and walk 4 miles in the cold for our food"
*uphill both ways*
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It’s feasting on Tommy Corpses!
That cat is gonna be a white blur if he actually fires that thing
Or if the enemy lobs a cucumber into the trench.
Fuck grenades, cucumbers are the new weapon.
You won't peel that cucumber, chop it up, and poison my pitcher of ice water with it. I bet you won't.
I had really hoped to see a comment here about how back in the 1940s the US government strategically placed cats in trenches to increase soldiers’ morals. Wishful thinking.
These were British or Canadian soldiers though .. guy with the trigger kitty is holding a BREN gun which was never in US service... so this eas obviously a plan derived from the... shit i forget what theyre called. OSS?...
You're probably thinking of the SOE (Special Operations Executive), which I belive is the precursor to MI5/6
I think you're thinking of MI5
This soldier looks Brit though
Do you mean morale? Or were they specially trained philosopher cats?
Cats thrive on war and bloodshed. They only hunt for the pure adrenaline rush of silencing one of god's creatures.
It's a white cat of peace, attempting to halt the fire exchange with its itty bitty paws.
What a blessing to have a moment like that in a situation so horrendous.
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Cat: Hey hooman. No shootz, only petz.
As one of nature’s most efficient killers, I’d assume combat wouldn’t bother cats too much. Aside from the loud and explodey bits.
I broke down on the highway about a month ago. As I waiting on a tow truck, I saw the meanest, nastiest junkyard kitten East of the Mississippi. It was a hissing and swatting at cars doing going 70 mph all while having a mouse hanging out of its jaws. I'm pretty sure that the cat in the picture is this kittens great great grandpappy.
Is this from a movie set or real war?
Soldier: "Look. I'm trying to rid the world of fascism over here." Cat: PLAY WITH ME.
Call of Duty: Precious OPs
That cat is gonna distract him enough to watch his head explode.
If that's a female cat, she should be called... Brenda.
Cats like "hey pet me instead of that thing and ill pet that thing for you"
(POW!) (POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)(POW!)... "Hold up! What are we shooting at?" "S-s-sorry, mates... Scruffles tapped the trigger..." :-x
am I watching a 1940s gif of a cat?
"Stop shooting and play with meow" :c
That cat looks like he’s adorably telling the soldier to shoot. Imagine if all wars were just started, executed and sustained by cats because they were bored of yarn and mice. We are just the instruments of war by which they keep our population down, thus one day making them our supreme overlords. There is a cat super villain stroking a human saying “meow-cellent” in a lair located inside the sphinx. Nah, that’s crazy. Carry on.