I used to use black masking tape to decorate ped-xing signs around San Jose and and LA with walking sticks, top-hats and other accessories. That was 10+ years ago, but always disappointed that I don't see some in these compilation vids.

Comedy aside, the reason this works so well is because the cat does not associate the negative with you.

If you scream at the cat or swat it away every time it jumps on the counter, it will learn not to go on the counter when you're around.

If you put down foil or masking tape (sticky side up), the cat will learn that the counter is an unpleasant place to be and will no longer desire to go there.

Good use of duct masking tape

So take the license plate off a couple of blocks up the road, masking tape over your VIN #. Take the long, indirect way home. If they harrass you and say "wanna talk about the Lord?" you get real close and slither around them, thinking about it of course....a large group of women would be perfect for this scenario...thinking slowly and painstakingly about whether they want to talk about the Lord...seductively asking them if they wanna talk about sex. They need a dose of their own medicine, I can be just as self righteous.

Seriously though, can't some restraining orders be gotten here? This pisses me off.

Jesus laughing, working a two-lever RC controller with a piece of masking tape labeled EriK ESTraDA.

If spray-can graffiti is vandalism, is masking-tape graffiti littering?

^ Interesting question. Here's an important related question: when was the last time there was a scientific consensus that undermined an established position of one of the existing parties?

Oh, and imstellar, how do you think peer review works? Do you think scientists all vote their unfounded opinions on what science should be before they write the new textbooks each year?

Admittedly, science is susceptible to a certain inertia of belief -- long-held beliefs about the mechanism behind a certain phenomena can be difficult to tear down, but that's a good thing.

I remember a lab in one of the physics courses I took where we were supposed to discern whether a car's tire on the road has static or kinetic friction. The experiment involved doing various tests with a toy car on an inclined plane, and we'd measure the angle at which the car started to slide backwards while stopped, and while moving, and then calculate which coefficient of friction was at work.

My data showed that it was kinetic. I knew it was wrong, but that's what the data and calculations showed. I wrote in my source of error an explanation: our lab proctor had put masking tape on the wheels of the toy cars to reduce the coefficient of friction. When the car was climbing the incline, I'd noticed the wheels were spinning, like a real car that'd lost traction. That's why my results showed kinetic was in force...because it was.

Needless to say I was given a D on the lab (I came to the wrong conclusion, the note said), and had to argue to get it fixed. Eventually it got turned into an A, and made the centerpiece of a class rundown of results, since it was obvious most others just fudged the numbers to make it work right.

My point is, that's the kind of arguments peer review entails. Both sides agree on what the right way to do science is, and get to have meaningful debate in front of the entire scientific community about it. Eventually a consensus develops, but only after experimentation settles it.

Peer review really shines on topics that are difficult to "re-test", like Global Warming. That's why there's no end of new experiments being run to either build up or tear down the case. People are coming up with new experiments to test the hypothesis, and so far no one's come back with a smoking-gun disproving result -- in fact, most go on the pile labeled "supporting evidence".

After a while, scientists give up on retesting things (like static vs. kinetic friction, say), and that's when they generally start being called "Law", but that takes a long, long time, because there's huge benefit to be gained in overturning the reigning paradigm, so they're always challenging the status quo.

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If you're Arabic, you can't turn Japanese through hard work and effort.


Right, all you need is some masking tape and a kimono.

Well, I'm far from a tape expert, but that still looks like duct tape to me. It's somewhat shiny -- it's my understanding that duct tape is generally on the shiny side, and masking tape is... unshiny? Is that a word? Well, anyway, my point stands.

Duct season!

Amazing. To think this was all done with MASKING tape (Ahem, Sarzy. You really don't know your tapes, do you?) There is just WAY too much creativity out there in the world.

Wait, did I just say that?

(Ahem, kronosposeidon.)

I've heard the trick to training a cat is indirection. Whereas a dog cares about pleasing you, a cat is focused on his own interests. Because of this, yelling at a dog lets him know that you're angry and he will change his behavior to keep you happy. Yelling at a cat will only teach him to do his undesirable activities when you're not there, because he doesn't want to listen to your whiny bullshit.

The way to deal with a cat is to make him lose his desire to do the things you don't want him to do. For example, if your cat jumps up on the table or counter, lay some masking tape down sticky side up. It won't harm the cat, but he'll find it unpleasant and he won't associate it with you. He'll just learn that being on the counter or table is unpleasant and he won't want to be there anymore.

^ masking tape swampy, masking tape.

and anyway, WOW, just WOW! LOLNerds!

i also agree that this is not cruelty. it's not even abuse, per se. not to mention that it's packing tape... i think... it looks too glossy to be masking tape, but either way... swampgirl is right... take your pet to the groomers and watch... suddenly it's not so cute anymore seeing fluffy get aggressively brushed, while being pinned down with thick gloved hands. cats will most DEFINITELY let you know if they're pissed off, injured, etc.

i'm a cat-lover, so take it all for what it's worth, but seriously guys... it's not like they're using thumbtacks on the kitty...

oh, and btw, the whole laughing at a dog's broken leg... not even applicable. apples and oranges may both be fruits, but you're still trying to compare... apples and oranges...

plus, the japanese (assuming here, cause i can't tell the diff between the kanji's, or if they're even all called kanji's.) are kind of...... well, it's a different culture over there... not knocking them, mind you... i'd move to tokyo tomorrow if i could afford to do so, because i'm fascinated with the culture... we need a visit from PM to translate this, if it is, in fact, japanese.