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I'm devoting this thread to the pure and simple purpose of relatively funny cat pictures! You've probably seen a few, but then again, there are probably about 400,000 of them on the great intraweb, so here you have it:

EDIT: I used my last remaining cache of effort to get a photobucket account and redo this. Effort...

um, only one of those pictures is working for me. <.<

EDIT: This post is no longer needed, but here's a smiley in its place.

You demean my fake people.

i dunno if it's just my two computers or what, but the only picture that's working is the one you had uploaded to photobucket..

I see them all fine...

I demand this thread be renamed to Caturday!

Huh... I used BB Code. Well, here are the links:

You got all the links right, but the problem is that you're actually linking directly to the images. Note that the images we aren't seeing are the ones on thatimagesite.com.

Based on this, my conclusion is that said website uses hotlink protection, meaning that we won't get the image unless we either use Osprey's internet-breaking antivirus, copy the image urls and paste them into the address bar, or actually visit the website where you found them.

Huh... I used BB Code. Well, here are the links:

You got all the links right, but the problem is that you're actually linking directly to the images. Note that the images we aren't seeing are the ones on thatimagesite.com.

Based on this, my conclusion is that said website uses hotlink protection, meaning that we won't get the image unless we either use Osprey's internet-breaking antivirus, copy the image urls and paste them into the address bar, or actually visit the website where you found them.

Yeah, after I copied them into the address bar they came up for me. I've seen most of these so they're not really funny to me anymore.

Gotta be careful with direct linking of images. Some places don't just disable it, they return a completely different image. Sometimes it's harmless ("don't steal my bandwidth"), sometimes it's utterly and grotesquely pornographic.

mmhm, I had to turn off referrers to see the other images, gecko. hotlinking == bad

This isn't pantsless 4chan.

True. If it were, the images wouldn't have been broken links.

I thought everyone knew by now... STUFF ON MY CAT DOT COM for all your cat picture needs.

That is all.

Interesting: Once I paste the links into the address bar, I can return to this thread and find them visible.