This is no joke.

backwave diffusion thru the array?

As for sandbags, I made tripod weights (I'm a serious photogrpaher) out of 20 oz. coated (waterproof) pack cloth. It is available in colors to fit many decors, too.
I cut a strip and with the coated side OUT, I double / or triple stitch the 2 sides.
Than I turn it inside out....seams now IN and cloth side OUT. Fill to taste then fold/seam the open end. For my use, I add a rope handle. I care less about looking good in a room than weighing down my tripod legs.

Please leave the dead-cat stuff for somewhere else.

MY cats respected my Magnepans for well over 20 years.

M
Never yelled at 'em, and certainly would never declaw.
The butcher shop cat liked a certain rug while the orange tabby loved a couple trees out back. They both ignored the scratch post I built for 'em. I think they scent mark thru the paws and using the nose, won't share certain things.
They both stayed away from my panels without ever being told or coerced.

I'm not a bluenose or a stiff, but jokes about nailing cats to something or drilling holes in 'em are in wacky poor taste. Your original 'joke' was, IMO, not a bit of absurdist humor.

Kij,
I've been a student of humor ever sense I went to the big house. Yep, the punatentiary.
Jokes are a form of performance art and best suited to someone conscience of the audience and how joke/performer/audience interact.

On this forum? All audio jokes are probably OK. You must just be sensitive to the jokee.....if aimed at a particular person.

Yeah, I'd stay away from jokes about racial stuff. Nono to gender and mental health stuff, too, except as it relates to spending absurd amounts of time and money on a hobby / avocation which some find valuelss....the IPod forever crowd. Weather is always good for a laugh, but in a hifi context? Religion and politics can be the 3rd rail of humor.

Who was that no-talent guy from Seinfeld? Richards, right? This guy couldn't get a booking on Mars, for Pete's sake. In addition to being a one-trick pony and of only so-so talent, he was ill tempered and went the wrong way with an audience. Completely Wrong but the chance you take with performance art.

Just an example....I was arguing with my boss at work. Sort of yelling back at forth at a meeting. Everyone sat their like they were painted on the wall. I had to do something. SO, when my boss finally agreed with me, I took my opportunity......'Dog gone it, XXX, why are you agreeing with me? I'm in no mood to take YES for an answer!' Good for a laugh and no hard feelings. But we both made our points and got on with it. I took a chance and knowing my audience got away with it.

Somebody making dead cat jokes? And violent ones, at that, is quite over the edge.

Thanks, Dekay.
I thought I was alone.

I have a reputation as an extremely NON-PC person. But when I do poor taste stuff......I at least have a grip on my audience.
I won't pull that crap in a public forum...generally.

Fpeel,
Being a general malcontent, I would be the last person to demand conformance or PC behavior.
I personally just try to suppress my sarcastic or nasty, ill humored urges.
I just try to be nice, and while I'm not always successful, I try to be aware of my audience.
I generally prefer the criticism of cats to the drooling adoration of a dog. If I was given a dog, and had a choice, it'd be a Pug. They are best on the grill.

I'm on lots of lists.
Take a number.

I have poor impulse control, too!

Map?
Who would you rather be mad at you?
1. Wife
2. Forum posters.
thought so!

Everybody should realize that NoBody is going to change humor type or sensitivity based on getting some forum flack. It'll just breed ill-will when somebody gets raked for somebody else's idea of what is / isn't 'funny'.

now you know why the cat ran away.

What's this brain surgeon gonna' do to her kids?
What a goofball.