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15+ Cat-Thieves That Were Caught Red-Pawed

(Open List 137 submissions so far)

There's a saying that goes “honest as a cat when the meat's out of reach”- those adorable furballs might purr and beg for a scratch behind the ears, but as soon as you turn your back, they're back to their scheming ways. Here's a list of cats that have been caught red-pawed in the act of stealing a tasty morsel.

In truth, owners should be mindful when their cats try to get their paws on human food. Their digestion works differently from ours, and many foods, even ones they love, like milk, can give them upset stomachs or worse. Chocolate and onions are especially dangerous, and should be kept tucked away far out of reach.

as shown by this video, he ends up sheepishly closing the drawer when he realized that he was caught in the act of thieving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7HfWd-TgOs

thieving paws in flagrante delicto...

a bespoke pool table!  my, my, how expensive that must be.

Quote from: hubag bohol on August 13, 2011, 12:25:57 PM
Si Islander nga gitina ang buhok aron maparehas ang kolor sa balhibo sa iyang ig-agaw nga iyang ka-EB...





He he...

and for truth's sake, that first cousin of mine is actually hubag.

goldfish mermaid?  great!

i'm waiting too.  patiently.  i wish this story has a happy ending.

at least ang mga bol-anong macho kuno moatubang gyod sa bohol kun mangihi sila bisag asa.

one case of beer a day may totally erase one's kidneys.

perfect iyang eye makeup.  how professional naman.

curious lang ko kun kinsay mas angay kahadlokan, the spirits of the dead or those who are still alive?

For a few weeks, Monet’s garden becomes a rose garden.

Rambling, climbing roses climb on dozens of metallic structures, typical for a garden designed in the 19th Century.

http://giverny-impression.com/

monet must have painted his own garden...



This is the main alley of Monet’s garden at Giverny, as it looks right now: the nasturtiums planted in May are progressively covering the path.

They resemble a river of flowers, and with a bit of imagination you almost see them flowing.

not so fast, guys.  transgender na si inday.

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 04, 2014, 01:46:49 PM
Hmm, love triangle? Kinawat-kawat nga kalipay? Unya ang dapit nga nahitaboan mao ang Sitio Makatol, Barangay Biga? Makaingon man pud ta nga minaomao ning balitaa...

purya gyod tuod ning balitaa.  don't tell me ang suspect ani ginganlan ug ondoy waykalooy ug ang mo-sentence niya to reclusion perpetua si huwes de kutsilyo.

and kitty's eyes too.

into the eyes of a dog child, aka puppy...

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 03, 2014, 07:26:26 PMThursday's winners also included scientists from the Czech Republic, Germany and Zambia who determined that dogs prefer to align their body axis with the Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines while defecating, and the Italian government's National Institute of Statistics for increasing the official size of the economy by including revenues from prostitution, drugs dealing, smuggling and other crimes.

hinaot hapit na naay paisano bol-anon nga makadawat pod unta aning unique award.  pilay pad kun naa tay scientist who will study why boholano males everywhere face bohol when they urinate.

my favorite awards, yeheey!

sayon ra pod para nila nga mahiluna ra pod kun mahikatulog sa dayon.

The Union also contacted the team directly, the BBC reported, reminding them “of their responsibilities."

In an interview with the cycling website, Cycling Inquistion, Rojas explained the reason for the patch of gold (or nude). “It comes from our sponsors,” she said. “It’s the primary color used by Solgar, a company that makes vitamins, and is also similar to the one used by San Mateo University, another one of our sponsors.”

At the press conference, Rojas was defiant, saying "We wear our uniform with pride, and we are not considering changing it.”



She added, "We have to make the most of this moment, however it came to be. In the end, our reason for training, for racing and for every pedal stroke is to make our families proud, and to represent our city and Colombia with pride."

The team next races on Sunday at the 2014 UCI road racing world championships start on Sunda in Ponferrada, Spain.

http://latino.foxnews.com/

"It's sad that it takes something like this for cycling, and women's cycling in particular, to get this much press," she said.

The images caused a storm of social media ridicule, with some describing the uniforms as “unintentionally vagina-like” and the “worst ever.”

Even the president of the International Cycling Union, Brian Cookson, tweeted that the provocative uniforms are "unacceptable by any standard of decency."

Colombian cycling team defends racy uniform: 'we are not considering changing it'

Published September 19, 2014
Fox News Latino


The IDRD-Bogotá Humana-San Mateo-Solgar women's cycling team in their new kit. Angie Tatiana Rojas, the uniform's designer, is third from the right. (Photo: Associated Press)

The outcry was so strong against a Colombian women’s cycling team whose uniform made the women look partially naked â€" that team members felt the need to stage a press conference on Thursday to defend its controversial attire.

Angie Tatiana Rojas, a IDRD-Bogotá Humana-San Mateo-Solgar team member and the kit’s designer, said that photographs that spread far and wide on social media after the team unveiled the uniform at the Tour of Tuscany in Italy last weekend were misleading.

The patch of fabric covering the rider’s crotch and midriff is gold, not nude as the photo made it appear, Rojas said.

daan pa lagi ko.  mga gwapo gyod ning taga sa balingsya.

okay, go ahead, ask him.

ug ang among ginamos mahimong corned beef, dearie.

sorry, wrong ka again.  sa amo ang bolinaw manganak ug corn trees, beeeeeeh!

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 28, 2014, 06:05:52 PM
Gidala gud, as in he took them away. Tumaw na sad ang pagka-Insik, ay...

gidala where, asa, saan?  incomplete data is what i mean.  piyaw si ngiiihhh...

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 28, 2014, 06:07:48 PM
Ah, OK. Got it. Gi-adopt kag mangingisda og pinakalami nga bolinaw nga taga sa Balingsya...

or did you?  naa ba diay bolinaw naglangoy-langoy sa chocolate hills?

bow na gyod ko nimo, bai hubs.  glad to add sapathos to my vocabulary.  

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 27, 2014, 12:11:51 PM
As a kid, Islander ran away from home...

...then swam the South China Sea and was picked up by Filipino fishermen...

wrong mistake, bai hubs.  gipunit kog bol-anon nga tag-iya sa chocolate hills.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 28, 2014, 05:58:44 PM
Bwahaha! Klaro ang balita, oi. Ang comment ni Bay Bugsay maoy yagaw, lubog, gubot, tugob sa kamalubtanon...

aber, kun klaro, unsa man kunoy ipasabot anang last sentence bi.  gidala asa?  lubog lagi tanan, ma naay lubot o wala.

don't you dare.  maga taga-tagbilaran nang apelyidoha.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 28, 2014, 05:54:38 PM
Agoi, kon magpakapon si Bay Bugs, basin mosugod na siyag ngiyaw...

hahaha!  you made my day, bai hubs.  abi nakog mopaghot ra si bai bugs.

lubot ang gigamit pagdunggab?  unsa man ning balitaa uy.  way may kalalo.

iii.  hands down.  why?  because there is no law in any land that any accused cannot cross-examine any dog.  it is not the dog's fault that he speaks another language.  it is up to the interested cross-examiner to learn the dog's language.  on second thoughts, can an accused cross-examine?  i thought an accused depends on his defense lawyer for that.  now, any defense lawyer worth his salt should start learning dog language...

type nako nga nangambisyon nga ma-dragon lady, hihihi.

hayahay ang unggoy look ani kun mauso kay sayon ra.  usap ug coffee beans na lang, payts na.

hinaot unta nga apil aning programaha ang mga iring.  my cats are all neutered; mahal-mahal baya pod intawon ang bayad.  kalami na lang kun libre pod unta.

sige lang, bai bugs.  di na man tingali uso ron ang itlog.

hihihi, vermillion pod tawon ang akong coat uy, di pink and gold.

now pa ko nga type diay nimo ang B MOVIES, bai hubs.

whew!  if this were true as in true, true, regardless of under whose name this is, arang gajod, where goest the former human rights lawyer who now wants to be president?

palayo intawon, linog, bagyo, ug kilat.  

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 16, 2014, 06:09:32 PM
...Everybody agrees, though, that the “long, long time ago” of the song’s intro refers to the February day in 1959 when a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper went down in an Iowa cornfield. (Then at the height of their popularity, the three were traveling together on a “Winter Dance Party” tour of cities throughout the upper Midwest.) The postwar generation’s anthem for its lost youth, McLean’s song didn’t just recall that plane crash. The lyrics gave that awful accident a name: “the day the music died.”

mas bilib gyod unta ko ni polyglot parrot kun makasuwat siyag ininsik.

otherwise, the column is all about the "snub" president aquino made on the fil-am community in the u.s.  the community is of the mind that it deserves an audience with the philippine president for all the good for the country that its members have done.

i would understand expectations and disappointments.  but it is with some regret that i fail to understand why SOME expat filipinos (with emphasis on those who have chosen double citizenship, with exceptions as usual) feel that an audience with the president is owed them.  the reason given in this particular column is because they have done much for good governance.  fine.  well and good.  but then, does doing good demand an audience with the president?  why not just do good, quietly, for its own sake?  to complain is to question one's own juvenile concept of self-importance.

more excerpt from the column:

"No such luck. Aquino dispatched a video message. He was too busy for them. I wrote a biting commentary on the snub and suggested that overseas Pinoys should stop expecting any special attention from Aquino but to just go ahead and help the Philippines and the Filipino people anyway, whether or not they were appreciated for it."

so there it is.

rumor, so far.

October 07, 2014
Taken for granted by the President

Ad Lib
Greg B. Macabenta

http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=taken-for-granted-by-the-president&id=95675

an excerpt:

"An interesting post-script to this is the rumor currently circulating that Fil-Am leaders have been asked by Malacañang political strategists (not necessarily with Aquino’s blessings) to mount a campaign code-named ABB, which stands for Anybody But Binay."

move on, philippines!

wow!  lipay jamo ko.

albino relatives


all albino images from http://webecoist.momtastic.com/

albino dolphins


albino whale

albino peacock


albino zebra

some albino philippine presidentiables (take your pick):


albino alligator


albino snake

samok ning politiko nato kay imbis manarabaho mangumpanya na man hinoon para sa sunod election.  meantime, they're getting their regular pay in their current positions while using government working hours for their next aimed positions.  syet ba uy.  but then, what else is new?

aron way samok mangita na lang tag potential president nga albino.

angay ni si manoy prisohon sa dog pound aron kulinitan siya sa daghang mga iro.

por santo.  unsa man ang iro, laki o baye?

9. You just “feel” old.

Before putting a name to what I felt, I experienced certain sensations of simply being an “old person” inside.  The feelings that accompany being an old soul are usually: a feeling of world wariness, mental tiredness, watchful patience, and detached calmness. Unfortunately, this can often be perceived as being aloof and cold, which is only one of many Old Soul Myths.

Just as some old people describe themselves as being “young at heart”, so too can young people be “old at heart”.

http://www.the-open-mind.com/

8. You were a strange, socially maladaptive kid.

This is not always the case, but many old souls exhibit odd signs of maturity at young ages.  Often, these children are labelled as being “precocious”, “introverted”, or “rebellious“, failing to fit into the mainstream behaviors.  Usually, these children are extremely inquisitive and intelligent, seeing the purposelessness of many things their teachers, parents and peers say and so, and either passively or aggressively resisting them.  If you can talk to your child like he/she’s an adult â€" you’ve probably got an old soul on your hands.

7. You aren’t materialistic.

Wealth, status, fame, and the latest version of iPhone … they just bore old souls.  The old soul doesn’t see the purpose of pursuing things that can be easily taken away from them.  Additionally, old souls have little time and interest for the short-lived things in life, as they bring little meaning or long lasting fulfillment for them.

6. You see the bigger picture.

Rarely do old souls get lost in the superficial details of getting useless degrees, job promotions, boob jobs and bigger TV’s.  Old souls have the tendency to look at life from a birds eye view, seeing what is the most wise and meaningful way to approach life.  When confronted with issues, old souls tend to see them as temporary and passing pains that merely serve to increase the amount of joy felt in the future.  Consequently, old souls tend to have placid, stable natures as a result of their approach to life.

5. You’re thoughtful and introspective.

Old souls tend to think a lot … about everything.  Their ability to reflect and learn from their actions and those of others is their greatest teacher in life.  One reason why old souls feel so old at heart is because they have learnt so many lessons through their own thought processes, and possess so much insight into life situations from their ability to quietly and carefully observe what if going on around them.

4. You understand the transience of life.

Old souls are frequently plagued with reminders of not only their own mortality, but that of everything and everyone around them.  This makes the old soul wary and at times withdrawn, but wisely dictates the way they live their lives.

3. You’re spiritually inclined.

More emotional old souls tend to have sensitive and spiritual natures.  Overcoming the confines of the ego, seeking enlightenment and fostering love and peace are the main pursuits of these young-in-body Mother Teresa’s.  To them it seems the wisest, most fulfilling use of time.

2. You love knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Yep … this seems a little grandiose and overly noble, but the old soul finds himself naturally gravitating towards the intellectual side of life.  Old souls inherently understand that knowledge is power, wisdom is happiness and truth is freedom, so why not seek after those things?  These pursuits are more meaningful to them than reading up on the latest gossip about Snooki’s latest boyfriend, or the latest football scores.

1. You tend to be a solitary loner.

Because old souls are disinterested in the pursuits and interests of the people in their age groups, they find it dissatisfying to make friends with people they find it hard to relate to.  The result is … old souls tend to find themselves alone a lot of the time.  People just don’t cut it for them.

The “Old Soul”

Robert Frost, Eckhart Tolle and even Nick Jonas have been called them.  Perhaps even you have?  I did.  Like many of them, this self discovery was made upon meeting Sol, who told me about his childhood as a precocious, intelligent boy who would befriend the teachers instead of the students, just because they were too different from him.  As he related his inability to find interest in and connection to the people his age, I discovered that I felt the same, and still do.

If you have not yet discovered whether you’re an old soul, read some of the revealing signs below.

9 Signs You’re An Old Soul

Jade Small | July 18, 2014

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” ~ Satchel Paige

There is a special kind of person in our world who finds himself alone and isolated, almost since birth.

His solitary existence isn’t from a preference or an antisocial temperament â€" he is simply old.  Old in heart, old in mind and old in soul, this person is an old soul who finds his outlook on life vastly different and more matured than those around him.  As a result, the old soul lives his life internally, walking his own solitary path while the rest around him flock to follow another.  Perhaps you’ve experienced this in your own life, or have witnessed it in another person?  If so, this article is dedicated to you, in hopes that you will come to define yourself, or understand another better.

uy, ajaw ko hadloka hubagus erasmus
gibakunahan na tawon kog anti-tetanus.

hoy, nagpabadlong na sad ning duha ay.
hunong na kay napuno na mog taay.

doggone.  why blame the dog?  glad though that he was humanely put down.  what a sad episode anyhow.  so sorry, excalibur. 

meanwhile, i tried to look hairiness up, and was waylaid by a site that has something about "old souls"... interesting.  gotta share it here in some other board. 

now, well, that's a real cute dog.

what happened here?  gotta check this...

may i just say that the scene is posed?

shameful for a country and its current leaders and doubly so because these current leaders themselves fought against discrimination in the not so distant past.

So why not make that argument and take the criticism regarding the Dalai Lama on the chin?

South Africa's broad, inclusive government has helped to keep a fractious nation together as it emerges from the shadows of apartheid.

But it has also enabled individual ministries - and yes, presidents too - to hide behind a curtain of collective responsibility.

The result is lack of accountability and leadership that sometimes makes the rainbow nation look, at best, foggy.

http://www.bbc.com/

Wretched year

Diplomacy can be a delicate business. Discretion often works best.

But the Dalai Lama visa saga comes towards the end of a wretched year for South African foreign policy.

Somewhere, in Pretoria's flip-flopping over the crisis in Ivory Coast and the revolution in Libya, there is a principled commitment to neutrality, negotiated solutions and respect for the integrity of sovereign states.

And yet on each occasion, South Africa has appeared "have-it-both-ways" indecisive, reactive and incapable of articulating a clear position. China is important to South Africa's economy.

First President Jacob Zuma - not untypically - ducked the whole issue with a "how do I know" shrug.

Then the South African Foreign Ministry chose simply to sit on its hands, rather than announce a decision, forcing the Dalai Lama to cancel his visit and enabling a foreign ministry spokesman to offer this breathtakingly disingenuous reaction: "Unfortunately he's decided to pull out of the trip, which is his decision..."

Rainbow nation flags over Dalai Lama saga

Andrew Harding, Africa correspondent
4 October 2011 


An evening vigil outside the South African parliament on Monday 3 October to call on the South African government to grant the Dalai Lama a visa

So, democratic South Africa has chosen to put its crucial trading relationship with China above its commitment to free speech and an old friend.

The decision was hardly a surprise. Nor was the furious reaction from supporters of the Dalai Lama - and many others here - who called it "the darkest day", and a cowardly, hypocritical pandering to Beijing's bullying.

But what struck me most was the dispiritingly cheap way in which the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet was denied the opportunity to visit Cape Town, and attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 80th Birthday celebrations.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, speaks to Nobel Laureate Jody Williams as they attend an event in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. The event was organized to mark 25 years since the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel peace prize. Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, is seated in background at right. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

"I warned them then that just as we had prayed for the downfall of the apartheid government, so we would pray for the demise of a government that could be so spineless," Tutu said in a statement.

Tutu said Mandela's own "comrades have spat in his face," and he concluded: "I am ashamed to call this lickspittle bunch my government."

Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his nonviolent campaign against white racist rule, which ended when South Africa held its first all-race elections a decade later.

http://bigstory.ap.org/

The South African government had said that the Dalai Lama canceled his planned visit while South Africa's diplomats in New Delhi were processing his visa application.

Tutu said it was shameful that the Dalai Lama cannot attend the Oct. 13-15 meeting to honor Mandela, who died last year. Tutu is a friend of the Dalai Lama and, like the Dalai Lama and Mandela, is also a fellow Nobel peace laureate. Tutu also accused the South African government of "kowtowing to the Chinese" and preventing the Dalai Lama from traveling to South Africa in 2011 to attend his 80th birthday party.

However, meeting organizers said the peace laureates had requested that it be relocated if the Dalai Lama was not granted a visa, and that South African President Jacob Zuma had not responded to their appeals on behalf of the Dalai Lama.

"The attending peace laureates and laureate institutions have agreed to withhold their collective attendance in protest at the decision" by the South African government, the office in charge of the meeting said in a statement. It said it would evaluate proposals for a relocation of the forum.

A total of 14 peace laureates and representatives of 11 organizations that have been awarded the prize were scheduled to attend the Cape Town conference.

Nobel laureates cancel South Africa meeting

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Oct. 2, 2014


Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks to a crowd during an event marking 25 years since the leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) â€" A group of Nobel peace laureates on Thursday suspended plans to hold an annual meeting in South Africa because they said the government there refused to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama.

The announcement came after retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a periodic critic of South Africa's ruling party, described the government as a "lickspittle bunch" for its alleged deference to China, a close business partner.

The Tibetan spiritual leader is labeled a separatist by China. He had sought a South African visa so he could attend the meeting of Nobel peace laureates in Cape Town meant to honor the late South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.