Even I couldn't do this about a month ago. But peristant effort and lots of time to waste saved the day. Yes, I'm a complete loser....
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
Always could do it, I'm all ...bendy LOL!
- cristina sasu
I used to before I had my son. I could do it on my index and middle fingers. A few weeks after delivering him, I found I lost that ability on both hands. Weird.
- Admiral Anika
@Adrian Me too. Adrian and Cristina, welcome to the group! ;)
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
:D A very weird group? Or is it just me who thinks that?
- cristina sasu
@Cristina @Anika Who knows, I think we're aliens and this is our special sign to spot our bretherens. O_o
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
yes, with all of my fingers. simultaneously, if i need to. my wife can do this as well, so it's a pretty safe bet that we've passed this trait on to our kids.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Yes, only that 1 finger on my left hand though. I broke that one when I was a kid and have been able to do that ever since. I can also bend the 2nd joint of both ring fingers, without bending the first. I can also easily lift the middle 3 toes on both feet off the floor while standing, without raising the big or little toes. I can also wiggle my ears and raise my right eyebrow (just not at the same time).
- April Russo (app103)
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It didn't! I have no idea what it was, a friend sent me the pic and I was so horrified I had to force everyone else to see it. I would flee and scream like a little girl if I saw this in my house
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
are those....*fangs* at the front? Cool looking as long as it's not anywhere near me.
- WorldofHiglet
You can keep it outside. In a hermetically sealed chamber. With tinted windows. DO NOT WANT IN THIS HOUSE.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I just found my Xmas present for Anika...She will love this for her bug collection... hehehe
- Bill Heslin
This is a Dobsonfly http://bacn.me/7dw It's a male and cannot actually bite. Females can however. They are native to all 50 states. Even California where like everything else, bugs are illegal.
- Christian (Simply X)
"They are not poisonous, but possess an irritating, foul-smelling anal spray as a last-ditch defense"... it even FARTS... I love it! :D
- Andrea (Notorious)
Tell me what country that is from and I'll put that on my do-not-visit list ;-) (oh, nuts... it's here in the US???? - help me!)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I am *so* gonna try to find one of these somewhere and pose with it. I think I saw one of these on one of the screen doors at my parents' house once. I admit that it made even my bug-loving heart jump a little. I at least knew in advance that such things existed.
- Kamilah Gill
that looks like something right out of the Australian outback...yikes!
- Susan Beebe
Updated the title since most people won't want to read the 70 comments to find the answer. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
@Haggis ....LOLz! hell, no, I wasn't going to wade through 70+ comments to find the answer. my "Boll Weevil" ploy worked! i got the answer in just 2 comments! now THAT is real-time search.
- .LAG liked that
Your WorkScore provides a clear picture of your skills when you’ve received a little information from your colleagues. You’ll have an overall numerical score that draws on how your co-workers have ranked you in different skills. You can also add any major contributions you’ve made to your employer — a viewer will be able to see whether or not your co-workers have confirmed your contributions.
- Lu Tao
万寿无疆 [萬壽無-] wàn shòu wú jiāng /ten thousand years of boundless longevity (idiom, conventional greeting)/We wish you a Happy Birthday and many more of them./
- τorƍue
I used to have 700-800 mostly due to the links in my twitter stream. So I started unfollowing a lot of people, and found FF at around the same time
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yeah. Its a gutter when you dont touch it for a weekend and come back to see its above 1000. :(
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
This is why I stopped using Google Reader. IMPOSSIBLE.
- Larry Hudson
Mine has been over 1000 for a month at least.....probably close to 4000 by now
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
haha Mike. Thats beastly. That would do my head in though. Id end up clicking "Mark All As Read" and convincing myself that its ok, i can go without news from the last week, only to discover in that week there was free muffins being handed out, or that my friend had got a cat and posted about it in his blog. Its when you mark all as read, you feel you are taking a gamble to say "The last week did not exist in my head!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Feedly tells me I have over 6000 unread articles.
- Larry Hudson
Because I've got a bulk folder for news oriented rss (google news, lemonde, ...), that I don't read, I'm always at 1000+ ; I read some of the articles from time to time when I want to see what's in the 'traditionnal' news, but i don't take the time to mark all of them as read anymore.
- TiTi
I start next Friday and able to work from home for the majority of the time. It's an admin role for 3 months but it's better than nothing, which is all I have now. :-) And back to the previous company I worked with doing the task I did several years ago - so in my comfort zone. Thank goodness, such a relief! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll be keeping an eye out for another role in 3 months but glad to have something after such a long time and so much searching. And in the end the job comes through my previous work, i.e. of word of mouth. The best way, by far, to get work. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks, Tina, Michelle. Woot indeed. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
oh wow! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! This is so great! I'm overjoyed for you... it couldn't happen to a nicer or more deserving guy. Maybe it will turn into something longer term with increased responsibility? Now all you have to do is post a PICTURE of you doing your new thing. ;-)
- Jim in Real Time
Jandy, yeah but hopefully next week's activities might ease things if I'm out of work again but that's another story for then. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Congratulations Kol. You worked really hard for it, you totally deserve that. Hey, see if your office lets you use bit of friendfeed during work time ;-)
- mridul
mridul, thank you. I'll be at home but won't have any time during the day for anything other than work. It really is a bum-on-sit role admin role.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you, Susan, Caroline, James, Fikisha, Simon, directeur, Dee, LAN, Oguz, Bindu, JA, Carlos, Rah (I'm sure your announcement is not far off), Chaz, Charlie, Timothy, Sporty, Sajida, Jeremy and Laura. Gosh, thank you everyone! Hope I didn't miss anyone there? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats! I'm glad to see companies are still hiring. I'm still looking, but this is encouraging!
- Danielle Closs
Congrats!! :) I'd have commented earlier but my only net access is via iPhone and I can't stomach the slowness enough to be checking up on ff as much as I used to.
- alphaxion
from iPhone
Danielle, thank you. It's an urgent requirement and only for 3 months but I'm not complaining. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Mitchell, it will be but I have a long wait, I get paid a month after my invoice is put in and that's a month away. So at least a 2 month wait! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
at the very least - could work on other income producers in the time - long time to wait but if the money is worth it, [correction sent to wrong one]
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
from IM
Raymond, much easier said than done. It's worth the wait.
- Kol Tregaskes
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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- Lu Tao
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