With apologies to grammar, what is ur opinion on "lolcats"

In My Humble Opinion
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You know those captioned pictures of cats. They seem to pop up in all sorts of places on the net. Most widely known is the formula “I’m in ur ______ …”.

The site <http://icanhascheezburger.com/> updates new pictures daily, and I can’t get enough. I’m addicted. I feel like an idiot, but I can’t help but chuckle at them.

Here is a good doper example, which is my desktop background. Stupid cat, gross misspelling, but funny reference to a quantum physics paradox.

So what do you think? Do you roll your eyes and ignore, or enjoy the silly humor?

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I enjoy it, but they need to either be extremely cute or rather clever and creative to get a laugh from me. I think this is because I’ve seen 10000 pictures of a cat in the fridge with “in ur fridge, eating ur foodz” and it gets old.

The one you linked to (physicscat) isn’t bad at all…

Brendon Small

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I don’t get them. Maybe it is because I don’t find cats cute. They are walking allergy balls to me.

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I’ve never seen those before. The cats are cute…but, holy hell the captions make me want to break things.

I really, really hate cutsey captions, especially when they contain “cute” misspellings. (my family members are always sending out photos with the store bought word bubbles. …THAT ARE NEVER FUNNY.)

Take off the obnoxious captions and I would have looked at all the pictures. Are the captions part of the draw? Do you think they are funny?

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I’m about half and half. I find about half of them funny, and half of them annoyingly stupid.

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I love that website! I can see why it would annoy some people, but there are some real comedy gems in among the cutesy stuff.

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I find them funny, for the moment, but I reckon that, like many other Internet memes, they will become very very popular, very very overused and finally we won’t find them funny anymore. A bit like All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

Maybe it is the nature of humorous things like these that if you read it you spread it as much as you can, because we want to use its humorousness in our conversations, but when everyone does, we get tired.

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I love them, for some stupid reason. You’re not alone bigbabysweets2000.

I’ve just found the cheezburger site, I’ve been visiting www.dropline.net/cats. There are a lot of duplicates between sites, but each has some very funny originals.

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I saw that this was on one of the collection sites. Wonderful gag from a great webcomic. XKCD. It’s “lolcat” related!

Brendon Small

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That was funny.

As for the OP, I’m in the 1/2 & 1/2 crowd. There are a lot of repeats, a lot that I’ve seen uncaptioned (which I generally prefer), but a few that really make me laugh.

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bigbabysweets2000, I am similarly addicted to icanhascheezburger. (And I liked the Schrodinger’s lolcat, too.)

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I like them. They make me laugh. Or at least smile quietly. So I don’t care that they’re kind of stupid.

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On a similar note, here’s one from The New Adventures of Queen Victoria. I like them, so far, but I’m always pretty late catching on to these things.

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Maybe im just a huge geek but what i found hilarious was LOLCODE

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Once in a great while they’re funny, in an overabundance they are stupid. I’m careful not to look at them too much because of overloa.d

the physics ones is funny. And I like the bird one on the OP’s linked site, just because I like birds.

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My vote: Adorable and funny.

'Course, I melt with anything cat-related.
Adam

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By the way, I urge the critics to check out the Invisibles section. If you don’t get a chuckle out of that, you have no soul. :wink:
Adam

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Count me as another one who likes them. I usually detest that sort of deliberate misspelling/IM speak, but it seems clear that the lolcats are often done with genuine humour and quite some cleverness at times.

Oh, yes, and some cute cats too. :slight_smile:

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Another reason to throw my computer out the window.

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I have to admit, I liked more of them than I thought I would. I think I liked about three on the first three pages. The ones I like are the ones like the physics ones - the ironically stupid ones making fun of the really honestly but unintentionally stupid ones.

Seems to be an internet version of the “Talking for the cats” game we like to play around here. Nothing like projecting your feelings onto a ball of fluff to avoid interpersonal conflict and responsibility for your own needs.

“Miz Kitty Fantastico says, ‘Clean my litterbox, Daddy!’”