Saturday Cuteness Factor(SCuF) April 23, 2011

Okay, so I was supposed to write this last night and post it this morning, but I got lazy. So, without any further ado, it's the SATURDAY CUTENESS FACTOR!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem, so Image 1

Fluffiness            2 

Size (Tinier=better)  3

Affection             2

Anthropomorphism      4

Roundness             2

Eyes (Bigger=better)  1

Harmlessness          4

Total:               18

Explanations:

Fluffiness - 2: This cat is furry, but not really fluffy. Furriness and fluffiness are two different (but slightly related) things. This cat is not really in the category of the super fluffy, hence below average.

Size - 3: I gave this cat an average score in size. Why? Well, first of all it doesn't seem like a kitten. though I can't see the whole body, that irked look totally says adolescent, "You just don't understand my pain" kind of cat, however, cats in general are small animals, in relation to us humans, so, being a large small animal, I averaged the two out, which ended up being, um, average.

Affection - 2: This cat is definitely not affectionate, in fact, it almost seems downright hostile, like, "Get that camera away from my face before I claw your eyes out."

Anthropomorphism - 4: This is actually a fairly humanistic pose, who doesn't like resting their head on something and glaring angrily at everyone? I don't mind doing it one bit, that's probably why people think I hate them so much. . .

Roundness - 2: This cat is not very round. in fact as show by this graphic, it is more of a hexagonal shape, even slightly triangular:

Yep, it's got 6 sides on it's face.

Now, as far as I know, a hexagon is not a circle. And this one fails at even being slightly a circle.
Eyes - 1: This one's got tiny eyes, or at least, squinty eyes, not really big ones.
Harmlessness - 4: This cat is just tired, it ain't gonna do anything to actually try to hurt you. It might glare at you with contempt but it's too lazy to get up and beat you up.
Total score is 18/35

Ok, second picture.

Fluffiness            3 

Size (Tinier=better)  4

Affection             2

Anthropomorphism      3

Roundness             4

Eyes (Bigger=better)  4

Harmlessness          4

Total:               23

Let's talk the why!

Fluffiness - 3: This cat is is still not really fluffy but a little bit fluffier than it's angry teenage brother up there.

Size - 4: This is a kitten, kittens are by very definition tiny cats, and cats are some pretty small animals anyway. which means that baby cats are tiny, hence an above average score.

Affection - 2: The emotion that comes to mind when I see this kitten is not affection. It's curiosity, which is good, but according to my very scientific method, does not affect any part of it's score.

Anthropomorphism - 3: The curiousness of this kitten is, in a vague way, human-ish. But not enough to say, "That is a very human-ish thing this kitten is doing."

Roundness - 4: LOOK AT THAT HEAD! This kitten looks like a freaking lollipop, what with that skinny little body.

Eyes - 4: If that head is a lollipop, those eyes are like the gum part in the middle of a blow-pop. Enough that you can't bite into it without getting gum, but not so much that theirs no hard candy.

Harmlessness - 4: The only thing this kitten is gonna hurt is itself,.Y'know, the whole "curiosity killed the cat" thing? Yep, they never say, "curiosity killed the cat and all other life forms around it." Although I wonder if that's more accurate. . . hmm. . . .

So, that gives it a score of 23/35

So the winner is the kitten by 5 points. Although I should mention that my wife disagrees with my score and thinks that lazy cat should win, but the numbers don't lie, it's SCIENCE!