“I Apologize For My Cat’s Tail”: Scottish MP Goes Viral After His Cat Photobombs A Zoom Meeting
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If there’s one thing to love about Zoom meetings, it’s the hilarious interruptions that happen every once in a while. This week, a Scottish member of parliament gained internet fame after his cat Rojo photobombed a virtual meeting.
John Nicolson, a parliament member for Ochil & South Perthshire, was speaking about the advantages of putting subtitles on children’s television when he was suddenly interrupted by his cat’s tail waving across the screen.
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John Nicolson, a Scottish lawmaker, was recently photobombed by his cat during a virtual meeting
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“I apologize for my cat’s tail,” the lawmaker told his colleagues as Rojo casually walked in front of the camera. The others in the meeting started to laugh while John Nicolson was trying hard to keep his composure after his cat stole the spotlight.
The cat named Rojo walked in front of the camera and waved his tail across the screen
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The laughter continued as Rojo seemingly refused to step out of the view of the camera. “Rojo, put your tail down, please,” John then told his ginger four-legged friend, much to the amusement of his colleagues.
The video almost instantly went viral
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Eventually, Rojo let the humans continue their virtual meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and moved on, while the video of it almost instantly went viral.
And the Scottish MP was thrilled about Rojo’s newfound fame
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Following the now-viral meeting, John Nicolson couldn’t help but boast about Rojo’s newfound international fame and tweeted: “For all Rojo’s new fans (thousands across the world it seems) – you’ve seen the tail. Here’s the face.”
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Here’s how people online reacted
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I think a lot of these policy meetings would go a lot better, and get more attention, if they had pets around to lighten the mood.
Adorable.... but also it never occurred to me that putting on CC would increase literacy in children. Maybe we can get more info to go viral is we add cute cat content.
I don't know about children, but I always watch movies with subtitles. English isn't my first language and sometimes actors are hard to understand when they whisper or shout. Plus it helps with memorizing the correct spelling. Pot player has this useful feature when you pause and click on a word from the subtitles it googles it.
Always watch with subtitles on. You might have a person in group who's privately hard of hearing, and the subs help them to enjoy too. Also - watch with subs on so you get used to it, so you aren't annoyed when at movie theater and subs are on movies (they do that for the deaf folks) -- I've watched people get angry and walk out of movies with subs on... Those are unknowing a--holes. lol
I always use subtitles - you know what people are saying (and who's saying it) when they're whispering or there's a lot of background noise. Also you get slang terms you may not be familiar with and even what the person on the other end of a phone conversation is saying. It's wonderful.
I always have to read, not hear, it's hard to understand what they ate saying
English may not be your first language, but you speak as if it were. You must be very intelligent.
Ha - I’ve been using subtitles to watch English-language TV and films for the past 10 years, and English is my native language! I just don’t hear so well. At first I was only using them for speech, but the closed captions (subtitles for the hard-of-hearing) tell you all kinds of things, like [Door closing] or [Phone ringing]. I used to roll my eyes, like, “no kidding, thanks for telling me.” I could hear those things just fine. But lately I’ve noticed that I’ll be reading the captions, and suddenly I’ll think, “Wait - there are crickets? I don’t hear anything.” LOL.
trouble is, most closed captioning is sloppy about what it writes, and lord! how it spells.
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@Nicky OldfieldDesciple Aww, thanks. It helps that most movies, games and books are in English. I probably still have an accent when speaking, but that can't be helped.
Subtitles instead of talking over can help with both literacy and learning English (or the language the cartoons/movies are in). My mom used to teach English and told the younger kids to watch cartoons as homework.
As a non-native English learner for more than 19 years, I believe that subtitles can help a lots, especially for reading and listening skills. Well, in my case at least.
I have a coworker who says that subtitles was how he learned English before he moved here. I think that is a brilliant way to learn!
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As I have always said: You cannot tell a cat what to do. Rojo is adorable, of course.
I think a lot of these policy meetings would go a lot better, and get more attention, if they had pets around to lighten the mood.
Adorable.... but also it never occurred to me that putting on CC would increase literacy in children. Maybe we can get more info to go viral is we add cute cat content.
I don't know about children, but I always watch movies with subtitles. English isn't my first language and sometimes actors are hard to understand when they whisper or shout. Plus it helps with memorizing the correct spelling. Pot player has this useful feature when you pause and click on a word from the subtitles it googles it.
Always watch with subtitles on. You might have a person in group who's privately hard of hearing, and the subs help them to enjoy too. Also - watch with subs on so you get used to it, so you aren't annoyed when at movie theater and subs are on movies (they do that for the deaf folks) -- I've watched people get angry and walk out of movies with subs on... Those are unknowing a--holes. lol
I always use subtitles - you know what people are saying (and who's saying it) when they're whispering or there's a lot of background noise. Also you get slang terms you may not be familiar with and even what the person on the other end of a phone conversation is saying. It's wonderful.
I always have to read, not hear, it's hard to understand what they ate saying
English may not be your first language, but you speak as if it were. You must be very intelligent.
Ha - I’ve been using subtitles to watch English-language TV and films for the past 10 years, and English is my native language! I just don’t hear so well. At first I was only using them for speech, but the closed captions (subtitles for the hard-of-hearing) tell you all kinds of things, like [Door closing] or [Phone ringing]. I used to roll my eyes, like, “no kidding, thanks for telling me.” I could hear those things just fine. But lately I’ve noticed that I’ll be reading the captions, and suddenly I’ll think, “Wait - there are crickets? I don’t hear anything.” LOL.
trouble is, most closed captioning is sloppy about what it writes, and lord! how it spells.
Karen Klinck no
@Nicky OldfieldDesciple Aww, thanks. It helps that most movies, games and books are in English. I probably still have an accent when speaking, but that can't be helped.
Subtitles instead of talking over can help with both literacy and learning English (or the language the cartoons/movies are in). My mom used to teach English and told the younger kids to watch cartoons as homework.
As a non-native English learner for more than 19 years, I believe that subtitles can help a lots, especially for reading and listening skills. Well, in my case at least.
I have a coworker who says that subtitles was how he learned English before he moved here. I think that is a brilliant way to learn!
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As I have always said: You cannot tell a cat what to do. Rojo is adorable, of course.