
Monster Truck in his first ever song! Monster Truck is my new kitten. He's settling in well. He's a bit foolish at times but is an excellent addition to the family.
Hooray for Monster Truck! Watch out string! You cannot defeat Monster Truck!
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:25, Reply)

if we had another he would be called Racing Car.
but we don't.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:28, Reply)

someone was telling me her boy had wanted to call their kitten Battleship or Terminator but she had said no and enforced the name Colin.
Shame.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:31, Reply)

just so i could nick name him noobie... it then got shortend further to noob, and then simply nob... which suits him quite well if you ask me
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:39, Reply)

though it's not far from Anus, which is less good
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:49, Reply)

which was awesome. Although their kids renamed it 'Maow' as they had trouble pronouncing his full name.
He once woke up another one of my friends by depositing a Cleavland steamer on his chest.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:53, Reply)

I'm going to have to get a cat, but it seems I have some thinking to do about the name. I'm thinking either Unicron, Panthro, Dangermouse, Skeletor or Brian.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:59, Reply)

but calling a cat dangermouse might give it some psychological issues
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:36, Reply)

Unicron Panthro Dangermouse Skeletor Brian
has a sort of a ring to it...
( , Sun 18 Jul 2010, 6:58, Reply)

we named our beautiful fluffball Mao too. You see (clears throat in intelligent way)"mao" in Mandarin pronounced with the up then down tone means cat. So, you know, technically its correct...
( , Sun 11 Jul 2010, 14:08, Reply)

to fit with an egyptian theme.
i dont actually think she's ever been called that since we got her, its usually Icy, icy-ice, girl cat, lady cat, icy-girl or "the good one"
even the vets mess it up and almost always say Iris...
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:00, Reply)

to have such a regal name and then get called iris by the vet
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Colin is still pretty good - its better than tiddles or fluffy or some other shite.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:00, Reply)

there was:
Gregory
Jerremy
Dougal
Laveric
Bodie
Doyle
Merrin
and Gavin
and they all had 2 or 3 nicknames each...
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:05, Reply)

I have cats called
Fang
Scud Missile
Wotsit
Aggro
Dopey
Peebles
George
Various kittens with names such as Dennis, Thunder, Lightning, Monk, Flail, Sooty (a ginger), and a few without names, but with any luck they'll be going soon and we'll be left with just our original 7
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 10:44, Reply)

Our cats are called Milly, Button and Lewis Twilight(not with us yet, he's too little). Milly and Button are Tortoiseshells and Lewis Twilight is a black Sphynx.
My sister has a Bengal called Jesus and a ginger moggy called Martin - a.k.a Big Fat Martin. She also has 2 Maine Coons called Crystal and Wolf...and she's adopted next door's tabby, Brian.
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 16:43, Reply)

My cats are called Jasper and Jorg Albertz Jr.
The next one will be called Reinhard Heydrich Jr.
My friend's kitten is called Sparkplug which is a great name.
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 21:10, Reply)

Robin Hood.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:32, Reply)

our cats should rendezvous one misty morning and duel at 10 kitten paces. MONSTER TRUCK VS BATTLECAT!
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 19:22, Reply)

the fabric road block map thing on the floor reminded me of my childhood pushing cars around on one exactly the same...
Also monster truck is an awesome kitten name.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:39, Reply)

Was very pleased to see 'his' car mat on the internets.
Lovely vid, great name for a cat.
( , Sat 10 Jul 2010, 7:56, Reply)

He is a fine kitten with a fine name and a fine song about him.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:19, Reply)

I will tell Monster Truck and he will be very pleased about that
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:39, Reply)

Frank, Chip & Beans.
All my cats have been given junk food related monikers.
R.I.P Chipolata :(
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:36, Reply)

how come beans is the only plural? also, is Frank a junk food then?
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:40, Reply)

Bean sounded a bit weird thus we pluralised it... :D
EDIT: my next cat will be called 'egg'!
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:41, Reply)

but less so when he's wrapped around your ankle trying to chew chunks off
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:59, Reply)

It is a fact of kitteh life...
Tickletickletickle Wrigglewrigglewriggle
Tickletickletickle Wrigglewrigglewriggle
TickletickletickNOM finished playing now strut away.
Monster Truck is lulley.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:14, Reply)

though the general level of violence while small seems to be pretty high
( , Thu 8 Jul 2010, 10:44, Reply)

But I'll use some anyway. It is also a brilliant name. For the records my cats are:
Zut
Aisha Kandisha
Spike (after Spike Milligan ... coz he's a complete goon)
But my late sister takes the family pet naming prize for her cats:
Beauregard
Baby Driver
and
State of Maine
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)

I had no idea string sounded like that!
I have 4 cats, brother n sister ronnie and reggie, adopted toothless stepcat was alfie, renamed to ralfie and the most recent one millie. Had to name her in front of her original mum else i would have called her something better.
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 14:31, Reply)

Never heard of this bit of cat-lore before. Did she hear what all her other kittens' names were as well?
( , Sun 11 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Also best song ever.
Our family cat is called Winston, so named by my brother because he's black like the guy from Ghostbusters. I prefer to think it was after Churchill because that's marginally less idiotic. Still got visible scarring on my arms from when he was a kitten, nowadays he's the most chilled out cat in the world.
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 14:17, Reply)

Yay for Monster Truck - he will be mighty and strong!
My kitties are Runty Rockets and Gato Boo-Boo.
Other nick names include Big Boo, Little Boo, Tiny Panther, Little Bear, Bo-Bo, Runty Buckets, Runty Buiscuits, Runty Bubons, Big Bad Boo, Boo-Boo, Boo-Bootronics, Gato Cato, Boobies, Boobie-doos.
All names should be said in a ridculous high pitch and baby-like tone.
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 21:47, Reply)

I used to have a cat called Nine-Bar, but it was shortened to Nine for social events etc! I named my new kitten Syd, because I found him on Sydnup Hill, and I think it suits him.
( , Fri 9 Jul 2010, 22:48, Reply)

Watch some of her other videos. She funny.
Now that's over with, I'm hoping someone can help me find a link that's been posted on here. I've tried various search terms but it's not popping up.
It was a tamagotchi-style game where you brought up a baby chicken, and there was a particularly funny folk song over the credits about listening to chickens swearing.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:23, Reply)

I like her. She's a bit zany in a non-annoying way. And she can cook (not really in this example...)
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:33, Reply)

Once I'm off the darned diet, I'm trying some of the sensible bits. Any cook that makes robot noises when she's lowering stuff into a deep fat fryer has to be worth her salt.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:43, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5pJuUSD30 probably just because i've been playing Red Dead Redemption a lot.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 17:42, Reply)

The world's most famous astronomer (and GamesMaster!) tries space-based snacks, including Space Raiders crisps, flying saucers sweets and Astronaut ice cream. I made this video for Focus, the BBC's popular science and technology magazine.
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( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:21, Reply)

took a second to see he's got a space invader made out of flying saucers
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:41, Reply)

I bet he was bouncing off the walls bless 'im.
*click* because anything with Sir Pat is golden in my book :)
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:40, Reply)

ty
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 18:15, Reply)

I can't stop giggling.
( , Thu 8 Jul 2010, 9:36, Reply)

but I lollified.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:05, Reply)

I have a phone that you can call and text from and people can do the same back to me!
Works fine...
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:29, Reply)

The same ad pitched at three different countries. Some background/detail here. I hope you enjoy Great Hair Guy as much as I did.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:05, Reply)

they used the same guy to release the bird for australia and nz, and also how the same little girl was waving a generic blue flag :)
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:13, Reply)

huh huh huh I said spank huh huh huh.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:02, Reply)

Hello /links.
I need your help.
I'm trying to compile a list of reverse-funny-names-corner - English words, names or products which are hilarious to speakers of certain other languages.
I only know Czech and Mandarin so can only list 'peachy' ('cunt' in Czech), 'shabby' ('stupid cunt' in Mandarin) and 'newbie' ('cow's cunt' in Mandarin).
Please share any more you know. I may write a song with them if I get enough.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:48, Reply)

is 'journey' in a whole range of Germanic/Northern European languages.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:55, Reply)

RTFQ Headwound you shabby newbie.
Also - 'round'
*compound-fails*
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:56, Reply)

hence www.flickr.com/photos/skorpionen/3085866906/
(speed bumps)
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:58, Reply)

German, Fahren, to travel, giving fart, journey
...and it's still the opposite of what he's after :)
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:00, Reply)

google translate agrees...
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:03, Reply)

means cock in Norwegian, so saying "I'm off to pick up the kids" can lead to amusement...
edit: come to think of it, so does kukk (pronounced cook) so saying "I'll just cook this chicken, then I'll pick up the kids" could be doubly amusing... (though kukk and pikk are both nouns)
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:57, Reply)

is cock in Bislama and despite having studied 10ish languages, that's all I can think of.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:08, Reply)

sounds like the word to threaten to hit someone in Saouth African.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:16, Reply)

but not sure which language 'South African' is. Afrikaans?
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:42, Reply)

There's a few more. I'll try to pm them to you tomorrow.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:54, Reply)

Chris Hoy = Chris Muff
This also means that the Vietnamese City Hoi An sounds like 'Saggy Clunge' to dirty minded Thai speakers.
Also in Thai: 'Jew' = Cock and Kapow! = Basil (wrong way round I know).
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:34, Reply)

apparently sounds like something so rude in Thai that my friend would not explain it to me.
I don't have any native speakers of Thai nearby so I can't follow this up right now. Good luck!
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:42, Reply)

The best one is "Top Tong", which is a really, really bad thing to say to anyone Thai, even as a joke. I think it insinuates sluttiness in a girl and insults her mother simultaneously.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 21:39, Reply)

i.e. Chartlon Heston. Heston Blumenthal, Heston Services
I remember Blumenthal mentioning it on Jonathan Ross,
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:29, Reply)

means diarrhea in Japanese
http://translate.google.com/#en|ja|diarrhea|ja|diarrhea
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:25, Reply)

pronounced in italian, means masturbate in italian. But it was still a very popular gaming console there.
( , Thu 23 Sep 2010, 15:09, Reply)

Mm.. yeah! I'm clicking this. I'm clicking it hard. Take it, button! TAKE IT. OH YEAH!
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:44, Reply)

that is not how you shear a sheep. The idea is to take the fleece off in one piece.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:22, Reply)

That's all I'm saying!
Except for what I just said, just then...
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:44, Reply)

Guy needs a car bumper......so helps himself. Poor guy's shoelace comes
undone bizarrely at 0:45. Posted yesterday, so pretty recent.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:25, Reply)

baby - the lesser known version of the grace jones song.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:54, Reply)

Not funny. Not entertaining. Just some good news for the 5th anniversary of the 7th July London bombings
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:18, Reply)

Well done to the good peeps at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, I remember the footage of that lady at the time - so glad things have worked out for her.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:23, Reply)

I remember crying like a drain that morning & reading this story makes me incredibly happy. Good for her.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:31, Reply)

That and 75% of all long distance relationships started on wow are going to break up once they realise that Brenda is actualy Brendon.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)

hey there b3tards,
a very, very talented friend of mine (http://www.myspace.com/tobiaslilja) entered the Beatport remix contest for Robyn. i want him to win it, because he deserves the attention and it would be great if you could help and vote for him (click the "Spin!" button, you have to register, though). assumed you like his track. which you will, I promise. It has a Kazoo choir! KAZOOOS! Everyone loves Kazoos!
thanks!
www.beatportal.com/remix/detail/none-of-dem-tobias-lilja-remix/
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:07, Reply)

and I can't be arsed to read 'em all. If someone could post up the most outrageous, that would be great.
My favourite so far: I don't want to deny anyone the right to sleep with anyone, but to receive persecution implies that the man or woman has been identified as being gay or lesbian. I have to ask how? I would suggest that they had been indiscreet in public.
'Outrageous' you gasp.
Is it?
In some countries, I can get flogged for kissing my wife in public, having a glass of beer or for wearing shoes in certain buildings
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:28, Reply)

what you'd expect when you cross 'asylum seeker' and 'gay'. All the usual unedifying bigotry, untruths, lies, confusion. eg Gays flaunt their sexuality, they are just claiming asylum so they can live off benefits, why is it our problem etc etc
I am yet to hear a coherent argument against asylum seeking which isn't either based on false premises, racism or isolationism. I think there might be such an argument, but damned if I can formulate it.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:04, Reply)

Logic has *never* had a place in the argument on immigration.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:51, Reply)

ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/
Dedicated to the stupidest of comments from across the Interweb
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:04, Reply)

my faves so far:
"I hope I don't offend anyone with this, but as its impossible to give asylum to everyone who needs it on the grounds of sexuality, due to the sheer numbers involved, perhaps the UN could set up a 'Gay Israel' somewhere"
and
"If I was trying to get into the UK I would do anything to help my case. If I thought saying I was gay would improve my chances I would. I would even have a homosexual relationship if that helped."
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:04, Reply)

Surely, the right would want that kind of go getter, self starter, think outside the box, entrepreneur type that would do anything to get into the country.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:16, Reply)

Maybe that's it - get asylum seekers to do some horrible trial like "i'd do anything to be on TV" from The Word. Such as snog an old lady, lick a fat bloke's armpits, pubes on toast... you get the idea. See how much they really want it.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:22, Reply)

Love the last comment, can imagine some rightwing nutjob standing up at a local BNP/UKIP meeting to say that, followed by "In fact, in *my* school..." à la Portillo.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:46, Reply)

"As Politicians say,
I cannot comment on individual cases...
And in the absence of common sense...
Why dont we just send out planes daily to every country in the world, let anyone on with a problem and bring them back here to this vast Island that we live on?
People never seem to go the the nearest "safe country" do they?
I really feel like hopping on a plane to, say, Tasmania and saying that I fear for my childrens safety walking the streets of the UK and that I am being persecuted by my government. I may kill myself if they put me back on the plane home.
Whats my chances?"
almost inverse genius
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 22:50, Reply)

this comes down to whether you believe in human rights (and what those rights may be), whether you believe that you should defend other people's rights. Given that the UK, like most of the rest of the world, has said yes we believe in human rights (as defined by the UN conventions), and yes we believe that it is our responsibility to defend these rights, this decision is the logical conclusion.
There would need to be some fairly radical change to make this decision controversial at the levels where these decisions are made. The UK would either need to say we don't believe in human rights (or some particular rights) or that they don't believe that it is up to them to defend these rights for all or some people (such as non-citizens).
It would make a little sense to argue for human rights as "Human" rights, and then say that they don't apply in the same way to particular people. If the UK is to support human rights, then it has to defend these rights for all people and that entails, among other things, giving asylum to people whose rights as humans are not being respected. It also means that the UK (and the EU and UN among others) has an obligation to make other governments live up to their responsibilities to protect people's human rights.
The reality, of course is that, the ends are difficult to achieve without suffering in some shape or form. Any policy regarding asylum will necessarily be either to liberal (allowing in those who might not have a well founded fear of persecution) or to strict (sending back people to be persecuted and killed). Any diplomatic policy too generous (aid, talk) to those persecuting risks perpetuating that persecution and becoming complicit in it, and any policy too strict (war, sanctions) risks the very populations whose rights we are aiming to protect.
Britain is a popular destination for those seeking asylum, because Britain is the where the modern notions of liberty and rights were born, notions now extolled in the global mass media of the anglophone world.
If Britain and the British people believe in this cultural inheritance of liberty, then they must see that connection with that tradition from the Magna Carta, the peasant revolts and the end of serfdom, the civil war and the establishment of constitutional monarchy, the abolition of slavery, of universal suffrage, of active decolonisation and the support of parliamentary democracy, and the articulation of those rights we consider now not as our right as Englishmen but as our birth right as human beings.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:49, Reply)

http://liblr.com/w?replace=take%20a%20nap&replacement=jerk%20off%20till%20I%20bleed
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:16, Reply)

how about..
liblr.com/w?replace=smiling&replacement=shitting%20blood
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 18:23, Reply)

RT @JBieberFanNuOne: @justinbieber i just cant stop listening ONE TIME.I play back again & again.Man im still shitting blood from ear to ear :D & dancing like crazy!
Just had a room full of 90 year olds shitting blood & dancing to @MayerHawthorne. Much love, Mayer. You've got some new fans!
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 19:29, Reply)

...all you've posted so far is stuff on your own site. Forgive me for saying this but it does make you a little bit of the processed meat product pedlar
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:02, Reply)

Are you turning into a spucking fammer?
You're missing kittehs or puppehs. Try posting other things, so you don't sound so precocious - "Ooo, look at me! Look what I made! Aren't I clever", etc. You may get Shakespeared otherwise (Bard).
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:10, Reply)

This Soduko site is much better, and doesn't require you to run Flash (my company blocks it at the proxy).
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:25, Reply)

Oddly dissapointed that it was actually suduko
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:56, Reply)

been enough of this lately - I used to love the joy of that song...cropping up at unusual times... how the heck can you send someone to that site without them knowing thats where they are going - dashed clever in my book.
( , Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:09, Reply)
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