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Lucy Kippist

by Lucy Kippist

20 Jun 05:00am

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Happy Monday, Punchers. Loads of not very important stuff happened on this day in history, so we thought we’d post this video of a dolphin and a cat.

Awwww, cute.

Are you a cat person or a dolphin person? What else is on your mind? You know how this works. Share it here.

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    • Dave says:

      06:28am | 20/06/11

      Definitely a DOG person. What kind of wimp prefers cats?

      Reply

    • Knemon says:

      12:32pm | 20/06/11

      Dogs are dirty, cats are clean…dogs are stupid, cats are smart…dogs are a hassle, cats can look after themselves. I’m not a wimp but I love my cats.

    • TimB says:

      02:52pm | 20/06/11

      Knemon, wholehearted agreement with you on this one. Cats are awesome.

      ....Even if mine seems to hate my guts smile

    • Anti-Dolphin Homewares says:

      06:35am | 20/06/11

      I don’t like cats much, but we’ve just moved and have a friendly cat next door so I might change my mind (if he stops leaving dead mice on my front step).

      Real dolphins in the wild are alright. People who decorate their home with dolphin-printed toilet-seats, dolphin ‘paintings’ (tackier than Elvis on black velvet), dolphin manchester and dolphin ornaments should be shot.

      Reply

    • Bilby says:

      09:39am | 20/06/11

      Your new neighbour is more considerate than you know. By leaving dead mice he has noticed your inability to hunt for yourself and is trying to encourage you. He’s worried you might starve.

    • Tim says:

      07:05am | 20/06/11

      Cats are evil, nefarious creatures…..
      That’s why I like them.

      Reply

    • Seanr says:

      09:21am | 20/06/11

      They’re also not clingy and annoying like dogs. No demands to be walked, barking for attention. At least with cats you know where you stand..‘feed me and then leave me alone human, if I want a pat I’ll come up and get one…and you better do it”.

      Had my cat for 19 years, was devasted when he died.

    • bella starkey says:

      01:48pm | 20/06/11

      http://youtu.be/8KDaPkabPww

      “New cat ......... small, neat and it doesn’t care if you? live or die”

    • Jim says:

      09:49am | 20/06/11

      Geez bec…that’s two of your posts I’ve read this morning that opne with the word ‘fuck’!!

      Bad weekend??

    • bec says:

      10:23am | 20/06/11

      Cluster headaches and school reports do not work well together, so it’s fair to say that the weekend was pretty faily. Looking forward to holiday’s in a week.

    • bec says:

      10:45am | 20/06/11

      Unwanted apostrophe. I *am* poorly today…

    • TracyH says:

      02:08pm | 20/06/11

      Oh Bec…you have made the fatal error of letting everyone know you’re a teacher! The criticisms will be relentless!!!! (in fact I was about to jump on your incorrect apostrophe use but you beat me to it smile).By the way…thanks for being a teacher…teachers are (mostly) great people:)

    • Gregg says:

      07:51am | 20/06/11

      There’s plenty of cows up north that would like a pet paddock right now rather than what else might await them and I don’t think any Dolphins nor a Ludwig will be coming to the rescue.
      Is a Ludwig any relation to an earwig and could they make a pet?
      And then there’re are going to be the people with more beef than they can chew on and plenty to beef about with no income to chew on much else.
      Another knee jerk labor disaster unfolding.

      Reply

    • Jay-ded says:

      08:36am | 20/06/11

      I was just waiting for the cat to lean over a bit too far and go sploosh.  Waiting, waiting - But no-o-o.  Spoilt my Monday.

      Reply

    • TimB says:

      10:17am | 20/06/11

      Yeah I was wondering about that too. How deep was the water? Can cats swim?

      Did the owners even contemplate the possibility?

    • nihonin says:

      08:49am | 20/06/11

      I like people who say they swam with the dolphins and it was a truly mystical experience as apparently Dolphins swim.  I like walking my dog, it’s just as mystical too, as it walks.

      Reply

    • Elphaba says:

      09:00am | 20/06/11

      That video is too cute.

      I’ma dolphin and a cat person.  And a dog person.  And tigers.  Horses and elephants too…

      Reply

    • Anubis says:

      10:15am | 20/06/11

      What - no Jackals ?  wink

    • Elphaba says:

      10:47am | 20/06/11

      And jackels too. grin

    • bec says:

      11:05am | 20/06/11

      I like the honeybadger. And the St Bernard that carries booze around in those little barrels. They’re my spirit animals.

    • Wickerman says:

      01:40pm | 20/06/11

      @bec
      Yes honeybadger is a great animal. Small(ish) packet of homicidal, non-fearing aggression. Dont mess with this - even elephants & lions are wary of this creature.

    • iansand says:

      04:25pm | 20/06/11

      I was hoping that the dolphin’s carnivorous instincts would take over.

    • Elphaba says:

      06:23pm | 20/06/11

      @iansand, true, after all the cat ws only nuzzling it because it probably smelt like a giant bowl of cat food….

    • Cur says:

      06:51pm | 20/06/11

      Sloths. How can you not like the only creature named after a deadly sin? Sheer perfection! Giraffes are pretty cool too though. And anything canine. Ok, well pretty much anything…

    • nossy says:

      09:03am | 20/06/11

      Wonderfully warm things happening up here for you cold sad Southerners to come up and enjoy Lucy. The Surfers Festival is underway and if thats not enough go north to Noosa for a QLD Long Weekend - 10 days at Noosa ! Good grief plenty of reasons to leave your cold abodes and come to Sunny QLD !  “Crawl, hitch, drive but whatever you do arrive !”
      http://www.surfersparadisefestival.com/
      http://www.noosalongweekend.com/

      Reply

    • Mathias says:

      10:37am | 20/06/11

      I leave for Port Douglas on Wednesday! Cant wait… PARTY TIME EXCELLENT!

    • nossy says:

      11:50am | 20/06/11

      @Mathias - you lucky dog Mathias ! Even warmer up there fella - have a great time !

    • Jim says:

      09:48am | 20/06/11

      Cats make me sneeze and I can’t swim.

      Reply

    • acotrel says:

      09:58am | 20/06/11

      My dog likes cats - he can almost catch them!

      Reply

    • hot tub political machine says:

      10:23am | 20/06/11

      Dolphins frequently engage in pack rape by cornering a female Dolphin in shallow water, just so you know…...oooh I spoilt the cute

      Reply

    • Erick says:

      02:58pm | 20/06/11

      I’ll remember that one, the next time some gay activist goes on about homosexuality being natural because some animals do it. :D

    • bec says:

      04:35pm | 20/06/11

      So… er… please tell me I’ve misread you, Erick, and you didn’t conflate homosexuality with rape. Because in my time zone, it might still be considered too early to get screamingly drunk out of sadness.

    • Erick says:

      05:17pm | 20/06/11

      Hahaha!

      Nope, I’m simply applying the same rule to all ... as I do usually.

      If gay activists want to cite homosexual activities in animals as evidence that homosexuality is natural, then by the same token the fact that rape occurs in animals is evidence that rape is natural.

      Just being logically consistent ... which has always been a stumbling block for the politically correct.

    • Shane* says:

      11:13am | 20/06/11

      Nice one HTPM, this revelation is sure to explode some animal liberationists heads.

      “If I denouce this pack rape then I am infringing on dolphins’ sentinence and dignity as majestic animals capable of independent thought and part of nature’s grand plan for us all. If I don’t denounce this pack rape then I am inconsistent in my approach, since I would do so in a human example, and am displaying signs of speciesism, discriminating animals from humans and treating them as different, which is something I utterly reject as an animal liberationist! AAAAAAAARGH!”

      *BOOM*

      Reply

    • one of the crowd says:

      08:25pm | 20/06/11

      The audience rises as one.

      A standing “O”

      applause to fade…  two minutes at least

    • Cats are not native to Australia says:

      11:15am | 20/06/11

      There are more than 20 million feral cats roaming around Australia.
      How many native species do these killers consume each day?

      All cats should be sterilised and registered.

      Reply

    • Jim says:

      11:44am | 20/06/11

      It’s a real shame we cannot do anything about feral animals without some animal-lover group having kittens about it!

      Not allowed to poison or shoot feral cats.
      Not allowed to use dettol or a cricket bat on cane toads - can only freeze them or use hemarhoid cream on them
      Not allowed to cull camels or wild horses

      One of the more ridiculous animal-lover outocmes was the Mynah birds in Townsville a few years ago. The council wanted to bait them - they couldn’t. They wanted to shoot them - they couldn’t. 2 years down the track (and millions of native birds killed), the greenies finally allowed some extravagent means of getting rid of them which involved several weeks of feeding them(!) and getting them used to a trap (this apparantly was so as not to stress them), then they could be euthenased humanely with carbon dioxide. It was going to cost the council a couple of thousand per bird…so they said screw it. And now Townsville is over-run with Mynah birds and not a parrot or honey-eater in sight any more.

    • Most Australians aren't native to Australia either says:

      11:45am | 20/06/11

      There are more than 20 million people roaming around Australia each day. How many native species do these killers consume each day?

    • Bilby says:

      12:06pm | 20/06/11

      Jim - Lorikeets are the answer. They’re native, they’re rough, they’re tough, and they don’t take no shit from no Indian (Mynah).

    • TracyH says:

      02:19pm | 20/06/11

      “Humans are not natives ..” YES! Thank you!!! I hate the glaring hypocrisy of people who whinge about non-native species…I live in the country and it STAGGERS me when I hear farmers of distinctly NON NATIVE cows, sheep and flora complain about cats. Equally hate it when city people bleat about it too (um…how many native species have died out because of urban and city development?). I don’t have any cats. Yep…humans are the worst species of the lot! And don’t get me started on global warming..the planet is set to have over 9 BILLION humans by 2050…most developed nations will need to increase food production by 70%, developing nations by 100% (ABC radio this morning). And Juliar Gillard is going to stop climate change???? Puhlease!!!!!!!!!!

    • TracyH says:

      02:39pm | 20/06/11

      Oops…like Bec, I’m a bit *poorly* today…I meant to write Julia, not Juliar…I also hate it when people say Juliar!!!! Grrrrrr…slap self smile

    • TheRealDave says:

      03:30pm | 20/06/11

      From memory back in around 1992 a few companies from 8/9 RAR went out into western Qld and shot a whole shitload of feral cats…some the size of small tigers!

      Should do more of it.

    • Cats are not native to Australia says:

      04:51pm | 20/06/11

      I’d love to go hunting ferals, but Howard took my guns.

    • Jane says:

      12:03pm | 20/06/11

      New pet peeve. Police offices get hit in the face all the time, thousands fo little boys train in martial arts which includes bouts (ie fighting against each other in competition) but as soon as a female police officer is hit in the face or a little girl is sign doing martial arts, its newsworthy!

      I wish the media would stop creating sexism by seeing these as newsworthy events. If its not newsworthy for a male, it should not be newsworthy for a female!

      I can just imagine what will happen when we get our first female killed in military combat! 5 pages and 3 editorials while recent deaths of male soldiers got bumped from the headlines for the treament of bl**dy cows in a foreign country!

      End media sexism!

      Reply

    • Max Redlands says:

      12:52pm | 20/06/11

      Vale Clarence Clemons.

      Thanks for your sounds, they will live forever.

      Reply

    • Aitch B says:

      02:08pm | 20/06/11

      Hear hear, Max!!

      The greatest.

    • Knemon says:

      03:30pm | 20/06/11

      Agree…Springsteen was lucky, without Clemons his music would have been shite…in my mind, Clemons was The Boss!

    • Rowdy says:

      03:35pm | 20/06/11

      Yes….a great sax player to be sure. Really was a crucial member of the E Street Band.

      But the greatest? Hardly…


      But each to their own I say!!

    • AdamC says:

      01:11pm | 20/06/11

      Here’s my weekly property story link:

      http://theage.domain.com.au/home-investor-centre/downsizers-feeling-the-squeeze-20110617-1g6gp.html

      My folks did the ‘downsizing’ thing a couple of years ago. They got a great deal on their new, trendy inner-north pad but were still a little surprised that they didn’t have anything left over from selling their big-block south-eastern suburbs residence.

      (Incidentally, the ability of some property story commenters to mention the impending housing crash whatever the actual topic of the story reminds of some Punchers’ ability to criticise Tony Abbott at least once on each thread.)

      Reply

    • Melrusk says:

      02:59pm | 20/06/11

      Dogs are clearly superior to cats.

      A Ridge-back would take on a Lion to secure his families escape, Foxy’s take the bite of a snake to save a child, a dog can be trained to signal a medical event before it happens (Epilepsy).
      People still walk with their dogs for security whether as early detection or physical protection.
      We use them as Guard, Forensic, Tracker, Quarantine Dog’s and the list goes on.
      A cat, sniff’s a whiff of inconvenience and tails it. wink

      Oh & yes dolphins are cute yet somehow I find sharks more interesting.

      Reply

    • Kebabpete says:

      03:37pm | 20/06/11

      I love cats… they taste like chicken.

      Reply

    • Chrissy says:

      04:05pm | 20/06/11

      Cat kebab perhaps? Personally i prefer whale kebabs.

    • Sum Ting Wong says:

      04:14pm | 20/06/11

      I agree. I’ve eaten both dog and cat at my local China diner…dog is too stringy - similar to old mutton…much prefer cat, it’s more like snake wink

    • The Liberal Loafer says:

      05:28pm | 20/06/11

      Where is the tribute to Rex Mossop ?Its absence is flabbergasting!

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      08:46pm | 20/06/11

      Not very important stuff ?
      Hell, IBM turned 100 today and you’ll get 10,000 angry nerdy e-mails from all over town tomorrow, I reckon.

      Reply

    • the pieman says:

      10:02pm | 20/06/11

      the youngpeople I saw on QnA are a total embrassement to all of of older Aussie folk. They humilated themselves with their own stupidity; which is beyond comprehension to older Aussies who were taught to shut up till you know something. These apes know nothing and it is most obvious!
      Best of luck with this garbage

      Reply
 
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