659
Future aspirations (lemmy.world)
top 25 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] kerntucky@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

According to Snopes:

On 3 November 2017, the fake news web site World News Daily Report posted a story reporting that an 83-year-old woman named Ruth Gregson of Columbus, Ohio, had trained her 65 cats to steal valuable items like jewelry from her neighbors

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago
[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those boomers have a decent enough pension to be able to buy food for that many pets, in their bought and paid off home. I'm struggling with 3 cats in social housing.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

You'd have to get pretty lucky with cats. Mine jumped over the garden fence yesterday and then got stuck and had to be rescued from the shadow dimension of the side passage, because apparently it's a one-way fence.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

we got two cats. one was orange. one was not. we figured the orange would give us trouble. he did. not before the other one got her tail trapped in the blinds somehow and broke it. like, she got it wrapped around one of the slats of large-slatted venetian blinds somehow, got the greebles and when the ran off it broke. the tail, not the blinds.

gonna be honest, after having that cat for a few years now, i'm surprised it hasn't happened again, she hasn't taken off at full 12 pounds of fury (instead of last time with all 2.5 pounds of her) and broke the damn tail off. because it sounds like something she'd do for fun.

all the orange one's got is anxiety. i wonder why.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

impressive, it's easier to train moths to fly away from the light than train cats

[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

i mean, it's only logical to assume you can train cats to burgle, right?

and as for your moth, those guys are fools. i'm a barber, and i had a moth come into my shop one night and it started telling me all about its feelings. i was like, 'why are you telling me this stuff? i'm a barber. you need a psychologist.' and all he said was, 'well your light was on..'

[-] SoupBrick@pawb.social 19 points 2 days ago

God forbid a woman have hobbies.

[-] uriel238 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From the witching community, you'd have pretty good luck befriending the local murder of crows with cheap bread. Upgrade the bread as the shinies they bring you improve.

According to the meme, pretty soon you're a Batman villain.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Use cat food, it’s better for them and tasty - you just scatter a handful and it doesn’t waste nearly as quick.

[-] uriel238 2 points 1 day ago

The... Crowmistress? Queen of Corvids?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago

Police force investing in time and money to investigate an old woman who trained her cats to steal a sock or a curtain.

..... while the police force secretly negotiates and collaborates with the mafia on local cocaine trafficking.

[-] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago
[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I couldn't read your response because my eyes are so filled with water from eating so many onions lately

[-] ora 3 points 1 day ago

Are you questioning the journalistic integrity of worldnewsdailyreport.com?

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I don’t believe it. If you look at the image, it’s says it happened.

[-] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I suppose if Jesus is telling me it happened, I ought to believe it did.

But I can't even get a cat to stop stealing butter.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Obviously a true story. Cats are famously easy to train. Also, the image has words on it that support this story.

[-] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Makes sense, cats are all little criminals anyway.

[-] hungryphrog 7 points 2 days ago

I mean, you have to be pretty rich to have 65 cats.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

She used the cats to steal more cats

[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 days ago

To err is human, to go get is feline.

[-] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago
[-] tatann@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

My 91-year old grandma looked 10 year younger than that, and she lived through multiple wars including WW2

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
659 points (100.0% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

32519 readers
4031 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS