• @kryptonianCodeMonkey
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    1 month ago

    “What is up, dog?”

    Side note: the opposite of cat isn’t actually dog. The opposite of cat is goldfish. A goldfish loves water, is not fluffy, doesn’t exterminate every bird for sport, will never knock your favorite coffee mug off your desk, not bipolar, and I’m not allergic to them.

    • Iapar
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      801 month ago

      The opposite of a cat is the absence of a cat ☝️

      • @someguy3
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        101 month ago

        What’s up, no cat?

      • @GoosLife
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        71 month ago

        The absence of a cat implies nothing is there. So the opposite of a cat is nothing (specifically nothing where a cat should have been).

        So, another acceptable answer would be “what is up? Nothing.”

        • Iapar
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          71 month ago

          The absence of a cat implies the absence of a cat. There could be a dog instead or a Gasplanet which has a species of conscious whales wearing silly hats rolling in the mud to communicate the need for a fruity beverage. It could be anything, it could be nothing. It is not possible, from the given facts, to come to any concrete conclusion besides that a cat, is in fact, absent.

          • @FellowHuman
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            51 month ago

            I have a feeling, you are “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” reader.

            • Iapar
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              11 month ago

              Never read the books but I watched the movie and liked it. Always wanted to get around to it.

              I think I will look for an audiobook and hear it tonight while in bed.

            • Iapar
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              11 month ago

              Depending on what it is, it is possible.

      • @jaybone
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        21 month ago

        Shroedinger’s Updawg.

        • Iapar
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          21 month ago

          The opposite of down is up. What are you talking about?

    • NoIWontPickAName
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      31 month ago

      Depending on circumstances and how much you have pissed off said goldfish it could potentially knock your coffee mug over.

      If it does you should feel ashamed of yourself though

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      will never knock your favorite coffee mug off your desk,

      I once shared a house with someone who had a fish that would thrash around in its tank so violently it would knock things off the cabinet it was on and get water all over the floor (I had no involvement in the care of the fish, but I think its tank was too small).

      Not a goldfish, but still…

    • @suction
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      11 month ago

      How do you know you’re not allergic? Have you ever rubbed one over your most delicate parts?

  • @[email protected]
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    591 month ago

    If dog is not the opposite of cat, then why did everyone immediately know the answer is dog? Hmm 🤔

    • ...m...
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      141 month ago

      …when i was in second grade i wrote a book report on chocolate fever, in which the climax involved the protagonist taking vanilla pills, which were so obviously the opposite of chocolate to my eight-year-old perspective, but which no adults with whom i discussed the book found at all obvious…

    • Bob
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      81 month ago

      I seem to remember a youtube video from years ago explaining how things can be opposites in different ways, like glue is the opposite of scissors because of the use, red is the opposite of blue because of what they represent, etc.

        • skulblaka
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          51 month ago

          I’ve never thought this hard about this before and I’m finding myself suddenly glad that other people have. This is really neat.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month ago

            Yeah, like think about opposite words that immediately come to mind for certain categories. If you think of the opposite of sweet, do you think sour, or maybe bitter? But in another context, the opposite of any taste is bland/tasteless. Same with emotions, where the opposite of love is commonly thought of as hate, but you could also say that any feeling has its opposite in indifference. Something can be sweet and sour, or you can have love and hate together, but you can’t have a sweet bland thing, or a loving indifferent emotion.

            Stuff like this interests me because it strikes at the heart of what we all take for granted in day to day thinking, but if you just slightly alter the lens you have something completely different and new.

        • Bob
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          21 month ago

          Now I think about it, I’d seen it on this comedy version of Dragon’s Den with Andy Hamilton and Reginald D Hunter, but the real-world thing is probably more interesting!

    • stebo
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      51 month ago

      I didn’t. I was like huh there is no opposite of cat, then read the title, then got even more confused… How does anyone think the answer is dog?

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        In no logical way does cat being the opposite of dog make sense. It’s just a typical association because there was always a stronger cat vs dog stereotype in media as I was growing up. I learned that cats and dogs don’t get along, are mortal enemies, etc. This of course isn’t true, but it’s overly portrayed in media that way.

        • stebo
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          21 month ago

          huh, for me it only makes sense in the case of cat people vs dog people because they’re the most popular pets and most people prefer one over the other

      • @pyre
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        21 month ago

        because it is. that’s why cat people are the opposite of dog people.

        • @SkyezOpen
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          21 month ago

          What’s the opposite of possum people.

          Because I want a pet possum.

      • @finitebanjo
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        81 month ago

        No, thats still a cat.

        You’re thinking of antimatter cats.

        • stebo
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          41 month ago

          antimatter cat is the only acceptable opposite of cat

    • @blazeknave
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      21 month ago

      I laughed like a little kid at this

  • @MrJameGumb
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    361 month ago

    What would be the opposite of any mammal? A carrot? A brick? A slime mold?

    Does everything actually have an “opposite”?

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      If we’re following bizzaro world logic, the opposite of anything is the version that’s stupid, or if you’re stupid, then smart.

      I imagine bizarro me is teaching physics in a prestigious university.

    • @ZoopZeZoop
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      71 month ago

      Humans (like most living things) like to put things in boxes to make navigating their environment simpler. Temperatures aren’t really opposites because they’re on a continuum, but we talk about hot and cold as opposites to bring order to environmental navigation. The same with presence and absence of light and bright/dark. So, extending this logic, the opposite of cat is the absence of cat, but that doesn’t really make sense. If you cut a cat in half, are you halfway on a continuum from cat to the opposite of cat? If the cat is whole but has died, is it cat, opposite of cat, something else entirely? I have no idea, and no one else really does either. Brains are weird.

      • @MrJameGumb
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        11 month ago

        Sounds like the Schrodinger’s cat theory!

  • @Etterra
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    291 month ago

    What is undown anticat?

      • @jaybone
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        21 month ago

        uwu downward dog.

    • @emax_gomax
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      61 month ago

      Pretty sure that’s the answer to the anti life equation… nobody tell darkseid (゚ロ゚)

  • @frostysauce
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    281 month ago

    I would phrase it as, “What is ‘up’ and ‘dog?’” Being extra clear but ruining the joke.

    • Codex
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      51 month ago

      There are many answers questions the judges will accept, but only one correct answer question!

      (Also happy cake day!)

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    tee isn’t exactly the opposite of cat but I can’t remember a command that only redirects screen output to a file.

    What is up, tee?

    edit: what’s the opposite of “cd …”?

  • NutWrench
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    151 month ago

    A dog will try to save your life if you’re drowning. A cat will sit on your head to keep from getting wet while you’re drowning.

  • Codex
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    91 month ago

    What is up tac?

  • @assassinatedbyCIA
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    81 month ago

    What is up and what is png

    each letter in PNG is exactly opposite the corresponding letter in CAT if the letter were equally distributed around a circle in alphabetical order.

  • Pennomi
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    81 month ago

    A better clue might be

    This direction and pet combo became a common “gotcha” in the early 2000s.

    • @LesserAbe
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      71 month ago

      Sure a better clue if you don’t want the joke to work

    • radix
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      31 month ago

      So the desired response is, “What is “what is up dog?”?”?

      • Pennomi
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        21 month ago

        Would be hilarious as the final Jeopardy so the contestants have to write it out like that.

  • @theilleists
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    81 month ago

    What is the opposite of a cat, then?

    If your answer is, “it doesn’t have one,” then I nominate dog.