CronoDAS comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 November 2015 08:25:48PM *  1 point [-]

My girlfriend's cat poops on the carpet. The cat does poop in the litter boxes some of the time, and always urinates in them, but she also poops on the carpet several times a day in different places. (She also never buries her poop when she does use the boxes.) Any advice?

Comment author: drethelin 17 November 2015 01:26:27AM 5 points [-]

The cat is probably unhealthy, they don't normally poop several times a day

Comment author: Dagon 16 November 2015 08:51:34PM 3 points [-]

the top google hits will give reasonable advice. likely: the cat doesn't like the litterbox for some reason - wrong kind of litter, too small, too far away, or not changed often enough.

Comment author: James_Miller 16 November 2015 09:34:58PM *  8 points [-]

Get a new girlfriend. (Probably easier than getting your current girlfriend to get a new cat.)

Comment author: CronoDAS 17 November 2015 07:39:29PM 2 points [-]

My girlfriend actually doesn't like the cat very much - I'm more of a cat person than she is, so her cat has sort of become my cat... I just wish the cat didn't leave "land mines" on the carpet for us to clean up.

Comment author: username2 17 November 2015 01:13:58PM 3 points [-]

This is silly.

Comment author: James_Miller 17 November 2015 05:48:35PM 2 points [-]

Not for men who have dated women who have cats.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 November 2015 05:58:43PM 5 points [-]

Not for men who have dated women who have cats.

If you find yourself below the cat on the totem pole, maybe you do want a cat which poops less often...

Comment author: raydora 18 November 2015 11:57:57AM 2 points [-]

Have you talked to her about it? What does she say?

Comment author: Viliam 18 November 2015 12:11:03PM 9 points [-]

meow

Comment author: ZankerH 17 November 2015 09:05:44AM -2 points [-]

Donate most of your disposable income to MIRI.

Comment author: Viliam 18 November 2015 08:44:22AM 4 points [-]

Selling the cat and donating the money to MIRI would kill two birds with one stone.

Comment author: CronoDAS 17 November 2015 07:54:12PM 2 points [-]

Interesting advice, but not useful in context.

Comment author: gjm 18 November 2015 12:42:42PM 4 points [-]

Isn't it a joke? Not a very funny one, I have to say, but a joke. Person A posts something to LW that doesn't seem to have much relevance to LW. So person B replies with something comically-stereotypically LW that doesn't have much relevance to what A posted. There's a certain symmetry about it, and its irrelevance is also a way of saying "this doesn't belong here and so shouldn't be taken seriously". So I guess it's both a joke and a criticism.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 17 November 2015 09:52:19PM 2 points [-]

There's more to life than project mayhem.

Comment author: gjm 18 November 2015 12:27:26PM 1 point [-]

I don't think ZankerH was making a serious suggestion.

(Perhaps I've misunderstood your comment; I haven't seen Fight Club. If you weren't taking ZankerH's comment as an actual attempt to get CronoDAS to give money to MIRI then I think I've missed your point.)

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 18 November 2015 03:29:22PM 1 point [-]

Poe's law: people say creepy things on LW all the time.

Comment author: philh 19 November 2015 11:27:50AM 1 point [-]

Sure, but - if most LW users could tell that that was a joke, and you couldn't, then that says more about your understanding of the LW zeitgeist than it does about the LW zeitgeist.

(Of course, I mostly only assume most LWers could tell it was a joke, because I thought it was obviously a joke.)

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 19 November 2015 12:22:03PM 0 points [-]

Also: some things the "LW zeitgeist" considers a joke are not that funny (EY facts, etc.)

Comment author: gjm 18 November 2015 04:55:16PM 0 points [-]

True enough. But not usually quite so irrelevantly as this one would be if ZankerH were seriously proposing it.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 18 November 2015 05:00:06PM 1 point [-]

Btw, did you end up reading anything of mine? Shoot me an email if so.

Comment author: gjm 18 November 2015 06:56:50PM 1 point [-]

Oh, crap, the next step was meant to be me sending you my email address and I failed to do that because I was trying to find yours and found it surprisingly difficult. I don't know how because when I just tried again it took maybe ten seconds. I'm sending you an email right now.