Cats learn how to meow so I guess they didn’t do a good job learning.

hahaha, I’m laughing because I’m picturing my grandmother taking a sharp breath in disapproval. She used to get so peeved with us for picking on or not being respectful of the royal family when we were kids. Especially our insistence that the king looked like a duck. I mean...he does, though

I had a cat that would just squeak, not meow. Now I have a cat that meows way too much. I carry on conversations with her all the time (me in English, her in Cat.)

When I was a kid, our family had an orange male tabby. He could barely meow, but made up for it with his ferocity.

Our newest, littlest, cat, Stout, has the tiniest mew! Just a teeny tiny cat voice! She opens her wee mouth and mostly nothing, or maybe just a squeak, comes out. I cannot take her cuteness.

I had a cat that could only squeak when she tried to meow. You could hear her purr from across a room

I once had to raise three abandoned eye-dropper kittens who made the same noise....until I started meowing at them. Then they bitched all the time and climed my legs like trees (sharp claws).

Our cats can’t get the hang of purring. One is occasionally audible but the other only makes this weird hooting noise with his nose.

My first pet was a kitty named Beep. Precisely because that was the sound he made. He was awesome.
As an adult, I had a kitty named Meow-Meow because she was a meowing champ. She would engage in conversation as long as she had a willing companion, not sure what we discussed over the years but she never got offended, so…

Hmm. My cat rarely meows but does those little purring chirping noises instead—”brrrt.”

#meowshaming

LOL. It’s not uncommon, but still a little surprising you’ve had three! Some of ‘em don’t have much of a voice.

I think it just sounds like she’s trying a bit too hard to be cute and off the cuff....but yeah it lands real weird.

Which, if her ob okays it, is fine. My ob okayed me to drink two cups of coffee a day.

All together now!...

I actually don’t drink alcohol in general (I despise feeling even slightly tipsy) but I think the rabid shaming of any woman who dares to sip a beer in pregnancy is total moralizing, body-controlling BULLSHIT.

You’re so right. I forgot that most parts of Brooklyn were actually just empty of people before Williamsburg discovered artisinal cheese.

“This land is your land, this land is my land (except this part of your land, which is still mine.)”

Pro tip: When arguing in favor for your “street cred,” it is ill advised to anecdotally reference the fact that black people historically fled from you because they thought you were a cop.

The same smug way you expected everyone to assume this was Latin when it is clearly Spanish?