Inscrutable cats really like you — I think
When cats sneer that doesn't necessarily mean they are disgusted with you. But there are other behaviours that may lead you to think your cat doesn't like you at all. That's because you're not thinking like a cat. Gizmodo asked various cat experts about how cats relate to humans. Vet Mikel Maria Delgado explains: "People seem really obsessed with projecting their own anxieties about their relationship with their cat onto the cats themselves. Maybe that's because they're comparing cats to dogs. Cats have fewer facial muscles than dogs, so they have fewer expressions that mimic human ones, whereas dogs have more facial expressions, and these expressions are closer to ours than cats' are. Cats present a more neutral palette for people, so when someone's encountering a cat it may not be obvious to them what the cat is feeling just from looking at them."
Horror — don't look around
During screenings of the 1959 thriller The Tingler — a film about a creature that gets inside a person's spine, causing them to feel a tingling — buzzers were placed in random seats that caused the audience to feel tingling during the film. The film starred Vincent Price who liked to find a theatre that was playing one of his films and slip in discreetly. He would choose a seat towards the back behind a few happy teen couples. At a convenient time he would lean forward, put his hand on their shoulders and in his best creepy voice ask, "Are you enjoying the film".
