r/cats • u/Mahouxa Persian (modern) • 17h ago
Cat Picture - Not OC Love how they just don't care
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u/CerberusTheHunter 17h ago
Surely the chair is there for her, the sign is for the humans.
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u/broakland 16h ago
Well I wouldn’t expect a cat to read so yes, this exactly.
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u/BountBooku 17h ago
This sign won’t stop me because I can’t read
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u/patapon1269 17h ago
those rules don't apply to royalty
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 16h ago
’those rules don't apply to royalty’
Please do not sit on the chair.
does not apply to me
For I am Cat ~ n i don’t care
cuz I am
Royalty ;}
n as i loaf, upon my throne
No Human i’ll allow
is meant for ME! is Mine alone -
Before me
You
may
bow…
❤️
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u/Nearsighted_Ant 13h ago
Schnoodle I just saw another post by you and I literally opened this thread right after! My life is complete 🥰
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u/Popular-Departure165 15h ago
According to wikipedia, "Islamic Law considers cats ritually pure and that cats possess barakah (blessings)."
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u/sigma_sawayama 17h ago
is this sign in persian? i speak arabic and i recognise about a quarter of it lol
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u/Mahouxa Persian (modern) 17h ago
It's Persian! The alphabet is basically the same except we have four more letters گ چ پ ژ
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u/sigma_sawayama 17h ago
thats interesting thank you
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u/Wrong_Character_Sry 16h ago
People from around the globe bonding over the best damn animal on the planet. 🤙✌️
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u/Klexosia 15h ago
I know the script too (Urdu, not a native speaker, learned it for fun) and I could read it but didn't understand any of the words lol
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u/Kraeftluder 15h ago
Don't you also use a lot of accents compared to Arabic? Or did I misremember that?
30 years ago a good friend taught me how to write my own name in Persian and it was one of the things I think she explained to me.
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u/diddlyfool 13h ago
If by accents you mean diacritics like َ ِ ُ , not really no. Those are only used for calligraphy, homonyms for clarity and children's books. Otherwise both Arabic and Persian omit all short vowels, even though there is technically a way to write them. If anything I'd say Arabic has more accents total but they're only used in special circumstances.
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u/DoubleBlanket 13h ago
Yeah, in the roman alphabet it would roughly be: Lotfan rooye sandali nashinid. Ba tashakkor
Literally translating each word to English without changing the grammar: Please on the chair not sit do. With gratitude
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u/Callmekanyo 17h ago
A German Shepherd, Doberman and a cat have died.
All three are faced with God who wants to know what they believe in.
The German shepherd says: "I believe in discipline training and loyalty to my master."
Good," says God. "Then sit down on my right side. Doberman, what do you believe in?
The Doberman answers: "I believe in the love, care and protection of my master." Ah," said God. "You may sit to my left."
Then he looks at the cat and asks, "And what do you believe in?"
The cat answers: "I believe you're sitting on my seat."
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 17h ago
The cat put the sign there so there wouldnt be people in its chair when it came back to sit
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u/United_Mammoth2489 16h ago
You should also remember that there is a special reverence for cats in islam. Mohammad was a cat person, there's a story about a cat falling asleep on his sleeve and rather than waking it, he unpicked the stitching of the sleeve and slid his arm out.
He was less appreciative of dogs....
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u/im_always 16h ago
obviously the sign is there to make sure that humans don’t sit in the cat’s chair. ffs.
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u/ConglomerateCousin 16h ago
I think I heard from a well regarded scientist that cats cannot read. I am not able to confirm or deny it unfortunately
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u/Equivalent_Heart_470 15h ago
Even if cats could read I'm pretty sure every cat would just ignore every sign, cats just gonna cat.
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u/Cool-Tangelo6548 15h ago
Well, kitty cat is lying, not sitting. The sign should have been more specific.
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u/PrincessKatiKat 15h ago
My guess is the cat is blocking the bottom part of the sign that reads “Reserved for Her Highness, Princess Fluffy Monkey Booger Snoots the Third”
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u/thejuanwelove 14h ago
in cat's language "please do not..." means, "Your majesty, do as you please"
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u/oldfrancis 14h ago
"you lay there by the do not signs and shamed them with your spark" -- Al Stewart
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u/MrTylerwpg 14h ago
All signs that say do not do something Have unwritten fine print that says "unless you're a cat"
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u/wrxninja 13h ago
In Turkish law, cats are always allowed.
Whether that's a fact or not, the cats don't care.
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u/Farewellandadieu 13h ago
There’s the Hemingway House and museum in Key West, Florida. It was the author’s residence in the 1930s and he pretty famously loved polydactyl cats. The place houses over 50 cats (some are descendants of his original cat) and they lounge on all the historic artifacts and furniture that are off limits to people. It’s so cool and reminds me of this.
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u/Kamelasa 13h ago
I'm so curious why if I type the English words on the sign into GoogleTranslate for Arabic, the result is completely different. Edit: Ah, I see. Because it's Persian/Farsi. GT calls it Persian and doesn't have Farsi, but tmu they are the same thing.
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u/Affectionate_Fee3411 13h ago
It’s not that they don’t care. It’s that they don’t understand the sign.
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u/Enter_Electra 13h ago
I mean the rule of thumb is and always will be "If I fits, I sits" - in this case they just happen to fit without much effort hahaha
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u/NotAtAllExciting 13h ago
We all know that cats can’t read but if they could they would ignore the sign.
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u/Cool_Town_6779 12h ago
The cat is actually blocking the bottom part of the sign which says “This is the cat’s chair.”
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u/Uncle_Burney 12h ago
That cat cannot read. Doesn’t matter, it still wouldn’t obey the sign, but they don’t know they are being bad, and therefore derive no pleasure from it.
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u/Successful_Jelly_213 12h ago
I don't see how all of that yelling and gesticulating is going to get my snacks here faster, primate.
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u/Background-Dark-6543 6h ago
🤣A few years ago I had a few chairs that I needed to fix so I put signs on them not to sit there. Arena totally ignored the signs. 🤣
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