Dunno, you're walking down the street having a great day when suddenly two shorthairs spring up behind you, a third drops down from a tree above, brandishing a knife to your chin and hissing promises of death and retribution at you
According to this random website (just one of the first results on Ecosia): "While clowder is the most common collective noun for cats, a group of cats is also called a cluster, litter (kittens of the same mother), destruction (wild cats), or nuisance."
First time I've heard any of those apart from litter, personally. There's also a pride of lions.
The radical 礻means god, when you see that radical being used, its usually a character that related to spirituality like 福 is fortune, which is related to the concept of the supernatural.
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brian@piefed.social · 75 pts · 268d
I want to live in a country where “cats jumping out” is what they’re warning people about!
tetris11@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 268d
Dunno, you're walking down the street having a great day when suddenly two shorthairs spring up behind you, a third drops down from a tree above, brandishing a knife to your chin and hissing promises of death and retribution at you
RogueBanana@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 268d
Dont threaten me with a good time
brian@piefed.social · 8 pts · 268d
I’m still not seeing the downside here, because…well…cats.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 267d
Just go Pss, Pss, Pss, and they'll either run away, or flop down for some pets.
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win · 25 pts · 268d
All I'm seeing is a warning about an army of super-cats flying ahead.
dublet@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 268d
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 267d
Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 268d
Brb on my way to Japan.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 268d
brb moving there
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 267d
Everybody came here to say the same thing: I need that sign in my house.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 6 pts · 267d
Hell I want it tattooed on me
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 268d
Cat ambush predator packs.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 268d
In Paris, there was a spat of feral colonies going after tourists a while back.
Well. Once.
But I still think it’s funny to imagine it being a bigger problem.
mathuin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 267d
I would like to buy one of those signs, how hard would that be?
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 7 pts · 268d
A bunch of crows is called a
gangiirc, is there a term for multiple cats jumping out at you?Update: damn I learned a lot from you guys with the google and whatnot.
maniclucky@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 268d
A group of crows is a murder, and ravens are an unkindness. Smart black birds were not named with politeness.
Jimbo@pawb.social · 3 pts · 268d
The unpoliteness was likely mutual
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 15 pts · 268d
a meowntain
Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 268d
According to this random website (just one of the first results on Ecosia): "While clowder is the most common collective noun for cats, a group of cats is also called a cluster, litter (kittens of the same mother), destruction (wild cats), or nuisance."
First time I've heard any of those apart from litter, personally. There's also a pride of lions.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 268d
feral cats are a colony, too.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 268d
An ambush of cats?
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 268d
A chaos of cats
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 267d
A cataclysm
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
want sign
jeffkingdom@programming.dev · 4 pts · 267d
I'm confused. Are these warning signs or advertisements?
bassad@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 267d
A cat spawning from a bush made me fall from my bike once, I guess I would have paid more attention with a sign like that
url@feddit.fr · 3 pts · 268d
Not one , 3 of them! Scarry
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 267d
Those aren't cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPaSIy--50
Amuletta@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 266d
My new family crest.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 2 pts · 262d
I've been in Japan a decade and don't recall ever seeing one of these. It says ネコ飛出し注意 cat jumping out caution.
Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 262d
Saw another one of these in a Japanese Program. It does seem like they have these sings everywhere!
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 267d
Voltron?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 267d
God [...] flying out [...]
Warning
Hey I can read Kanji xD
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 267d
"God"? I think something was lost in translation!
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 267d
The radical 礻means god, when you see that radical being used, its usually a character that related to spirituality like 福 is fortune, which is related to the concept of the supernatural.
Ashtear@piefed.social · 5 pts · 267d
Here it's a katakana character purely used for the sound, in this case "ne," the first half of neko, for cat.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 267d
But I wanna worship our lord and savior, the Holy Cats
Ashtear@piefed.social · 2 pts · 267d
I mean, this is the Internet, nothing stopping you from that lol