Cultural context?

Good post Joe. Self serving, yet...self serving. You sound pretty smart.

I assume what happened this afternoon was just a matter of cultural context? Let me set the scene for you and our hypothetical readers:

Mr. Joe approaches his food and water bowls. When he gets close, his new automatic watering bowl lets out a huge gurgle the way those big bottled water dispensers do. Joe jumps backward, ducks and stares incredulously at the offending water dish before finally panicking and running away.

Yeah, cultural context is a bitch.

Why this particular assumption?

I, (the real Mr. Joe), have been persusing the internet today due to extreme boredom. During my explorations I have found lolcats. The pictures are brilliant! The photography is good and the subject matter close to my heart. Even a few of the lines being attributed to the lolcats seem to me to be genuinly cat-like expressions. But why the assumption that cats can't spell? Is this some kind of species-ism? Something to put down cats? Or perhaps to make men feel smug and self satisfied. Really, it's totally unfounded. So far, no one has ever asked me to take a spelling test and if I were asked, I would kick ass.

The only assumption that seems safe is the assumption that I might miss some kinds of cultural context things. Comes from not being being raised in a culture derived by a bunch of souped up monkeys.

Going forward, assume that I can spell, but don't assume that I have a clue why you don't like to bat around the occasional vole.