Transcription A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife: Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they \\\can\\\ talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." :::
Fun fact: Just rubbing your thumb and middle and fore fingers together will draw some cats. It doesn’t work on all of them, though.
I wish the billionaries would take vows of silence and fuck off to a monestary somewhere, and leave the rest of us alone…
They do it for themselves, not the cats. The cats know when it’s mealtime, unless mealtime happens at a new random time every day.
Do something your cat enjoys at a specific time every day for a couple days, and you’ve got yourself a furry alarm clock that will make sure to remind you of the time if you forget.
My cats remind me every few minutes that it’s mealtime. I don’t even feed them manually; I have an auto-feeder.
I have an auto-feeder.
It’s not the same, though. It tastes better when you do it.
(Bonus points if you “cook” it in the kitchen like you would your food; they’re part of the family, after all, they’ll appreciate being treated like equals. Or betters.)
Throw up in my own shoes at the same time every day, got it!
My cat will lock in on that stuff if you do it just once! I have to be really careful not to feed her early even if she’s being a pain about it, because if she gets fed ten minutes early once, that’s the new time forever lol.
One time she was being bonkers at 5am so I gave her some treats to keep the peace, it took about 2 weeks to get her out of the “I get treats at 5am every day now” mode.
Yeah cats can tell time somehow. Not just meal times but things like when I’m coming home or my bedtime. I’ve read that they like to stick to routines and find change threatening. Probably why they panic when I move a piece of furniture or organize the closet.
Understandable. That’s why I leave my drying rack out all the time - if I put it away whenever my clothes were dry, I’d be screaming without pause
There was a movie with one of the Mighty Boosh folks that featured characters communicating exclusively like apes - it’s called AAAAARGGHH or something like that. It’s technically a regular british screwball kitchen sink dramedy but with a gimmick
One of my favorite bumper stickers says “Tell your cat I said pspspsps”
This is so wholesome :-)
The image is even compatible with scrolling using dark mode, I could ask for nothing more.
How cruel is it to not drop the name?
It’s Into Great Silence
Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later
[message left on read]
… 16 years later
“yo. u up?”
I really love the idea that the monks spent 16 years in silence contemplating Grönings proposal until they finally came to a conclusion. This is Jedi Master level of weirdness.
In reality they probably forgot about it and he brought it up again after all that time.
Or the guy that hated it finally died lol
they make this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur) one of the best fuckin things ever made
Thanks
Pavlov already demonstrated this exception was entirely unnesscarry.
Only it was probably not “pspspsp” because as a French speaker, I’ve never understood that English onomatopoeia. It doesn’t make that sound in French. When I try to get the attention of a cat or another animal, it’s usually more of a “dzkdzkdzk” or “tzktzk” sound. A bit like the sound of a kiss but made with tapping the tongue on the roof of the mouth instead of with the lips.
Pspsps is like how a cartoon calls a cat, from my American perspective. As a kid we called cats with a tsktsk sound, clicking tongue against the roof of the mouth behind the front top teeth, as you say. But I hear people use pspsps more now irl so it bled into reality.
I grew up yelling out “HEERRRRE KITTYKITTYKITTYKITYY!”
Always a good option as well!
Pspspsps is come here, tsktsktsk is get the fuck away from that; the latter sounds like a spray bottle
In Spanish typical sound I remember is kind of a psbsbsbsb, so pspspspsp sounds quite close for familiarity
I’d like to find this documentary. Anyone know it?
Die große Stille (Le grand silence), it’s from Arte, like many interesting things are.
It’s Into Great Silence
Thank you!
Thanks
Based on my Duck search, I assume the documentary is called Into Great Silence.
It’s a great film that is worth a watch. (They also have someone read during meals.)
I just saw a video, and apparently “ma-AH!” means “Come here!” in feline language. I have not personally confirmed this, but saw several examples in the video.
…contented…
