By David Futrelle
Did you all know that Freddie Mercury was really, really into his cats? I did not. But he was, and here is photographic proof. I ran a couple of the pics here through some filters because I sort of like to do that.
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Cat men are the best men.
That is all.
I found this out a few years ago and it made me love Freddie even more. The pic of him with his partner and cat up there is one of my absolute favourites.
I take it very personally indeed when alt-right people, or MRAs, try to claim Freddie. It also shows they don’t know a damn thing about him 🙂
I play French Horn in a band.
The last piece we played at practice yesterday was ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’.
Which is pure distilled essence of Freddie Mercury.
I thought Delilah kind of gave the game away. He wrote a song about how much he loved his cat and put it on one of their albums. 🙂
Seeing this only makes me realise that we live in a world without Freddie Mercury. Our lives would be so much better if he was still here with us. 🙁
I knew I liked him.
I’ve thought we seriously missed an opportunity, as a species, when we didn’t make a music video in which Elvis and Freddie Mercury played Prince’s parents.
That big ginger cat seems to be saying “Someone stop him now…”
Queen is still one of the best bands of all time, I always have a hell of a time listening to them and so does everyone else I know. Freddie was a
heck of a dude.
I remember at my school full of immature fools I got made fun of because Queen was my favourite band, because Freddie was gay (Or bisexual, my memory’s mixed up on this). I was stupid to not call them out on it and just get on with rocking.
The show must go on though 🙂
Wait, wait — isn’t cats the primary mission of WHTM?
He loved his cats, but he didn’t love Michael Jackson’s llama 🙁
god I am SO tired…
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/anger-in-america-trumpism-incivility.html
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on the bright side, I have never known a band to be as versatile as Queen.
“Bohemian Rhapsody”, “You’re My Best Friend” and ” ’39” are on the same disc… and it’s named after a Marx Brothers movie….
Man, those cats in the second pic are pretty big, especially that orange tabby. They all look very happy 🙂
What? No pictures from the These Are The Days Of Our Lives music video?
Granted, that was near the end, but that VEST!
Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere (I don’t frequent the comments enough to know), but here’s a rather nice thing I found today: British conservative twat Piers Morgan had tweeted some prime toxic masculinity about a picture of Daniel Craig carrying his child in a baby carrier (which he called a “papoose”) hashtagging it “emasculated bond” [warning: link leads directly to Morgan’s tweet. I think it’s worth it for the replies]. In response, dozens and dozens of awesome dads have been posting photos of them carrying their children (and telling him he’s a twat).
Even Chris Evans weighed in on this: https://people.com/movies/chris-evans-slams-piers-mogran-dad-shaming-daniel-craig-baby-carrier-emasculated-bond
(By the way, I find Morgan’s backpedaling attempt there, in claiming that it’s specifically the carrier he’s objecting to, totally hilarious, since he doesn’t seem to realise that it makes him look not just toxic and foolish, but also petty. “This is not a manly enough baby-carrying system! You must use a lumberjack’s pack stuffed into a hummer!”)
And, while I haven’t seen an official reply of the Handsomer Marvel Chris, a quick Google searched led me to this truly wonderful photo:
http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2012/12/chris-hemswort-elsa-pataky-palm-springs-stroll-with-india.jpg
That will be all.
Freddie had like 14 cats. It is one of my favorite facts about him.
@Penny
Erm, “Twat” is a misogynistic slur in most countries, might want to replace it with “Asshole” or “Shitstain.”
Oh! Thanks for letting me know, I didn’t realise that. Only knew it was used in British English to denote something like “idiot” – which felt fitting here.
Can’t edit my comment, but I’ll know in the future.
(My English is a bit of a hodgepodge of British and American, since, not being my first language, it draws from several sources – books, movies, TV etc. So I don’t always know 100% the right words/terms/connotations.)
Huh. Comment I posted a couple hours ago never appeared. Oh well, just wanted to point out that you can’t have a Freddy Mercury + Cats thread without this definitive image from the “These Are The Days Of Our Lives” music video shoot:
This was near the end, sadly, but BEST. VEST. EVAR.
Freddy Purrcury
@ Alan Robertshaw. Wins the Internet.
This dad made my day.
As a former pro wrestler, he’s more manly than Morgan will ever be.
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Off topic but for those of you who joined me on my minecraft realm I just re-opened it. so lets try and forget about all the crap going on in the world for a bit and build some stuff. new players welcome!
Fuckin’ Ohio, ladies and gentlemen…
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