I'm going back to view all your great clips. Have you found Indy the cat and his friends on the YouTube channel "Walter Santi?" Indy's antics as a soccer goalie are golden.
I am an Orwell fan and no fan of the Simulation Commander. The Commander is everything Orwell warned us about. The Commander has no understanding of Orwell who fought against the fascism of language and first helped me find a voice in public. I was 15 and my classmates thought I was a deaf mute. I attended English Protestant High and they were all economists and measured everything. When I was seven I had a PhD vocabulary and was a genius in abstract mathematics. I couldn't tie my shoes or use a pen or pencil but I appeared rather normal like the body of the world's 8billion autistic homo sapiens sapiens. I remember 1984 I watched Hatefest 1964 in San Francisco's Cow Palace when Reagan and Goldvasser sold out America for thirty pieces of silver.
In 1964 my father and I watched the beginning of the Fall of the Greatest Empire the world ever knew. My father arrived in New York Harbour with a Jesuit Education and a deep understanding of the religion of Jesus. Fred Koch founder of the John Birch Society bought America for thirty pieces of silver. I was 16 when my father who grew up in a town near Camp Auschwitz said it can happen here.
First, never be a catcher! So many great videos! I definitely needed a laugh! Could not bear to read any more about Paris than you provided or I might not stop crying - although I’ll check out his Substack! The cat under the couch was hilarious and I laughed so hard at the cats drinking! Second, stay away from swaying, slide bridges! Especially if you have been drinking! 😂🤣
And speaking of cats and pandemics, at least speaking of cats, here's this. SC, you may have run it before. First time I've seen it. I really have to watch the Simpsons.
Re cats & water. Snoots has a fountain, but it grows mold. It's hard to clean and needs to be done at least 1x/week. I found that if I plug the bathtub and run a little fresh water in it, he'll jump in and stay at the edge and lap it up. Just like in the Serengeti.
> But we’re not yet vaporized in nuclear hellfire, and that seems like a pretty good reason to be positive!
This is why I like working where I do, these days. As a guaranteed first strike target, I'll never have any chance of surviving a nuclear war, so I get to just not worry about it! My first notification about it, if any will be my sudden arrival in the afterlife. And if it turns out there isn't one, well, same thing! Just an instantaneous transition from "I'm babysitting computers" to either the Pearly Gates or absolute nothingness.
Wait, I'm not sure I understand the last baseball one. The ... bat broke? Is that what happened? And then the ball happened to bounce off of it again when someone was going to field the grounder?
(I'm reading this on my phone, so I can only get so good a look at it.)
Exactly. The bat broke and the bat head flew past the pitcher. The ball came along afterwards, and struck the piece of bat now sitting in the infield (and away from the shortstop).
This is still my favorite baseball clip: Manny Rodriguez catching the ball with one hand and high fiving a fan with other hand — and still making the play!
I'm not even a baseball fan and that was just universally obvious as being a great play. Like, it was a moment that just transcends even knowing anything about the game at all.
That a flake of grit or something getting hit by the ball and the fragments goes in her eyes? Painful - hope her eyes were ok.
But sportsball of all kinds is dangerous, and not just from accidents. Wear and tear.
Personal positive is it looks like I'm going to make the goal I set for myself at the gym in January: bench my own weight before Jul. By which I don't mean once, but have my own weight as the standard when working out. May not be impressive next to the likes of Brock Lesnar or "Anatoly Powerlifter" (check out the latters gym prank-videos for a good laugh), but for a man with three damaged discs, it feels like an achievement.
Cat grasping at the Sun is my favourite. Given what weather is like, it's obviously cats that are in charge of it.
Yeah, I'm about 100kg heavy and am getting all kinds of "funny" advice from the geezers at the gym - it's a joint venture between a physio therapy-clinic and a gym, so I'm among the youngsters there. Most are 65+, quite a few octogenarians dropping in a working out, including lifting weights, every day.
"Hey, I know how you reach it! Just stop eating!"
"If you amputate a leg you'll lift it in no time!"
"Bring some Helium-balloons and attach them!"
"I've got a couple of jacks in my car, want to borrow them?"
Hohoho. But I'm just as bad at cracking wise, so can't complain much.
I'm going back to view all your great clips. Have you found Indy the cat and his friends on the YouTube channel "Walter Santi?" Indy's antics as a soccer goalie are golden.
I am an Orwell fan and no fan of the Simulation Commander. The Commander is everything Orwell warned us about. The Commander has no understanding of Orwell who fought against the fascism of language and first helped me find a voice in public. I was 15 and my classmates thought I was a deaf mute. I attended English Protestant High and they were all economists and measured everything. When I was seven I had a PhD vocabulary and was a genius in abstract mathematics. I couldn't tie my shoes or use a pen or pencil but I appeared rather normal like the body of the world's 8billion autistic homo sapiens sapiens. I remember 1984 I watched Hatefest 1964 in San Francisco's Cow Palace when Reagan and Goldvasser sold out America for thirty pieces of silver.
In 1964 my father and I watched the beginning of the Fall of the Greatest Empire the world ever knew. My father arrived in New York Harbour with a Jesuit Education and a deep understanding of the religion of Jesus. Fred Koch founder of the John Birch Society bought America for thirty pieces of silver. I was 16 when my father who grew up in a town near Camp Auschwitz said it can happen here.
https://jbs.org/person/koch-fred/
https://www.gotquestions.org/thirty-pieces-of-silver.html
First, never be a catcher! So many great videos! I definitely needed a laugh! Could not bear to read any more about Paris than you provided or I might not stop crying - although I’ll check out his Substack! The cat under the couch was hilarious and I laughed so hard at the cats drinking! Second, stay away from swaying, slide bridges! Especially if you have been drinking! 😂🤣
Oh, and thanks 😊
SC - Thanks for the Bonnie update and your Wonton disregard of Negativity. Stiff upper lip Kid.
❤️🙏
And speaking of cats and pandemics, at least speaking of cats, here's this. SC, you may have run it before. First time I've seen it. I really have to watch the Simpsons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmS9ptx8HsA
Re cats & water. Snoots has a fountain, but it grows mold. It's hard to clean and needs to be done at least 1x/week. I found that if I plug the bathtub and run a little fresh water in it, he'll jump in and stay at the edge and lap it up. Just like in the Serengeti.
Yes, cleaning the fountain is a weekly chore.
easier if you don't have mobility issues. And can lift a decent amount of lbs.
So many good ones this week! Bonnie looking fat and happy = 🩷! And the kitties drinking water made me cry-laugh!
She's only out for an hour or so a day at this point! Still eating like she's gonna starve, though!
Ahhhh, now that’s the life! Bonnie’s got it made….!
She really does. I tell her all the time she picked the right kitty friend!
She saw that good lookin’ Gangster dude, and that was it!
Happy happy joy joy!
Ren (dog) and Stimpy (cat) = pretty sick humor:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h6qZGJX8_Rg&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
If you haven't figured out the catcher play, think of what a ball can hit on its way to being caught.
Meeooowwww....
It's tough being a catcher.
This Place Is Going to the Cats
Some feline-centric Monday pawsitivity!
https://open.substack.com/pub/simulationcommander/p/this-place-is-going-to-the-cats
SimulationCommander Substack 2025.06.02
https://substack.com/@simulationcommander
> But we’re not yet vaporized in nuclear hellfire, and that seems like a pretty good reason to be positive!
This is why I like working where I do, these days. As a guaranteed first strike target, I'll never have any chance of surviving a nuclear war, so I get to just not worry about it! My first notification about it, if any will be my sudden arrival in the afterlife. And if it turns out there isn't one, well, same thing! Just an instantaneous transition from "I'm babysitting computers" to either the Pearly Gates or absolute nothingness.
Sandia?
> When your car cat gets in accident so you head down to the junkyard to replace an arm:
Wow. You found a picture of the perfect car for me. 🤣
Alternate soundtrack for sweeper kitty: "Dancin' on the Ceiling"
("Oh what a feeling...")
Wait, I'm not sure I understand the last baseball one. The ... bat broke? Is that what happened? And then the ball happened to bounce off of it again when someone was going to field the grounder?
(I'm reading this on my phone, so I can only get so good a look at it.)
Exactly. The bat broke and the bat head flew past the pitcher. The ball came along afterwards, and struck the piece of bat now sitting in the infield (and away from the shortstop).
Awesome cats take downs!
https://x.com/LynneBP_294/status/1926710675306393956?t=edq0hr0hIpNavkHu27ATfQ&s=19
That really made me smile. Someone once said cats are assholes. They kinda are.
Yes, they are. Another idiom, "cats are plotting your demise"😁👍
No question. I have mobility issues. Snoots loves to get in front of me and lie down fully stretched out.
Understood. I have enough of them camping out in the hallway, I have to slalum to the bathroom. 🤣😂🤣 Made more difficult when half asleep.
🤣🤣🤣
First was the best, IMO. Just... *grab, slam!*
OMG! That's going in next week's article for sure! Hilarious!!!
It's reminiscent of what Steve Inman does, with his sports like commentary on all kinds of videos. He's in X, Rumble, and others I imagine.
This is still my favorite baseball clip: Manny Rodriguez catching the ball with one hand and high fiving a fan with other hand — and still making the play!
https://www.tiktok.com/@espnatbat/video/7094052695186722090?lang=en
*SNERK!*
I'm not even a baseball fan and that was just universally obvious as being a great play. Like, it was a moment that just transcends even knowing anything about the game at all.
Manny being Manny!!
That a flake of grit or something getting hit by the ball and the fragments goes in her eyes? Painful - hope her eyes were ok.
But sportsball of all kinds is dangerous, and not just from accidents. Wear and tear.
Personal positive is it looks like I'm going to make the goal I set for myself at the gym in January: bench my own weight before Jul. By which I don't mean once, but have my own weight as the standard when working out. May not be impressive next to the likes of Brock Lesnar or "Anatoly Powerlifter" (check out the latters gym prank-videos for a good laugh), but for a man with three damaged discs, it feels like an achievement.
Cat grasping at the Sun is my favourite. Given what weather is like, it's obviously cats that are in charge of it.
I managed to bench slightly over my own weight once, at a particular incident moment of low weight and high strength. And even that was only 105 kg.
Yeah, I'm about 100kg heavy and am getting all kinds of "funny" advice from the geezers at the gym - it's a joint venture between a physio therapy-clinic and a gym, so I'm among the youngsters there. Most are 65+, quite a few octogenarians dropping in a working out, including lifting weights, every day.
"Hey, I know how you reach it! Just stop eating!"
"If you amputate a leg you'll lift it in no time!"
"Bring some Helium-balloons and attach them!"
"I've got a couple of jacks in my car, want to borrow them?"
Hohoho. But I'm just as bad at cracking wise, so can't complain much.