c/cat · by Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml · 2yHistorical kitty signature 692 points · 24 comments · view on lemmy.world
24 Comments
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 2y
The funny thing is that some medieval bricklayer made a conscious choice here, he could have put that brick paw-print down and made a flawless floor. Now, here we are getting a chuckle out of some unknown bricklayer's little gag centuries later.
telllos@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y
I’m also wondering if those are not fake prints. They look pretty deep. I don’t think a cat walking on drying bricks would leave such deep marks.
To me they look like easter eggs left by the brick layer.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 2y
Maybe they're deep because of water erosion from rains over a thousand years, those bricks look pretty polished.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 2y
I don't think the bricks are that old. Maybe a few hundred years or so
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Also, wouldn't water erosion make them less deep not more, due to generally smoothing the stone?
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Maybe water pools in them long after it dries out on the surrounding brick, but whether still water still erodes stone I don't know.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 2y
It's possible. I have paw prints of varying size and pressure in the concrete around my house (thanks cat).
The ones from super wet concrete look almost like a duck/goblin footprint, the ones in drier screed look like those tiles, but much less deep.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y
Also like, this looks like stone, not brick..
jordanlund@lemmy.one · 24 pts · 2y
As a cat owner, this doesn't even look like a real print. It's too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.
bstix@feddit.dk · 11 pts · 2y
The car walked on the brick before it was burned (the brick).
Like when you put a fork in a cake to check if it's done. The hole will be bigger when it's heated afterwards.
I don't think it's a deliberate prank, just a not my job situation.
Zellith@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Wouldn't he have needed to change the brick? If you flip it then it wouldn't fit there any more since its shape is asymmetrical.
Ulv@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 2y
Presumably he shaped the tile after it was fired? I assume.
DTFpanda@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Shhhh just let it ride
menemen@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
I live in a house build in the late 1800s. There are names and dates carved into the brick facade from 70 years ago. I think that is kinda cool.
Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 2y
I kind of have fun imagining a kitty being told not to walk there. And being a kitty, they immediately walked there.
WhyIDie@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
and no other prints around, so the cat came out and, of course, immediately went back in
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 2y
Downer response: that's not how tile production works
Madison420@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
These would have been made, fired, and then brought inside. There's probably more prints but they're probably on the underside of the tile.
WhyIDie@kbin.social · -1 pts · 2y
to the ackchyuallies here: I know, but relax and enjoy the mental image of the fiction
cyborganickname@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Possibly whittled out of the brick long after installation, by a bored funster, using a crude round-tipped tool ?
Nepenthe@kbin.social · -1 pts · 2y
Wouldn't it take 79 years to do that to brick, though? Someone would notice
jaybone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
He covered it up with a Rita Hayworth poster.
Haus@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
There's a St. Peter's in Wormleighton and a St. Mary's in Priors Hardwick.. I wonder which one they're talking about.
evatronic@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Best run, there's a very tiny dark
houndkitty on the loose.