cross-posted from this post by @kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone

bastardcircus: Ok, God, | am fucking wheezing, I got trained to work with mice today since I’ll need them for sore experiments and the guy who trained me was like, “Yeah ok so if there’s a day where you just absolutely cannot get your mice to cooperate you can always do this™ and picks up this cone-shaped bag and just put the mouse face-first into it and shows it to me and I lose my shit because deadass it was a piping-bag of mouse. Like, the whole mouse was pressed into this cone, fur and ears and feet all pressed up against the plastic, tail sticking up absurdly out of the top of the thing. It was so unimaginably fucking funny but like the mouse was perfectly ok with it, there’s a hole for air at the bottom so she could breathe and all but it was genuinely the most absurd thing I have witnessed in months

bastardeircis: (image as described) THIS IS FUCKING IT, IT’S SO FUCKING RIDICULOUS!!!

unclefather: you will be turned to icing if you don’t behave correctally [sic].

trinitite-princess: naughty rodents go into the i c i n g c o n e

Tumblr Heritage moment: Pear wiggler meme for added memetic context:

fruitsoftheweb: Damage prediction on pears during transportation. (Animated GIF image as described)

slumbermancer: bad and naughty children get put in the pear wiggler to atone for their crimes

dialupmodem: what the fuck is that comment

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    My husband just woke up and said the exact same thing unprompted. Literally this exchange almost word-for-word.

    “That’s a rat though.”

    “HOW CAN YOU TELL?” - more emphasis on my part due to hearing this for the second time today

    “Just how it is. That’s a rat.”

    After additional discussion and googling, the actual answer is, my dear people, mostly size, but also more subtly the proportions of the ear and tail to the rest of the body.

    • suxen_tsihcrana@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Hahaha nice. I was admittedly being a bit snarky with my reply but it kinda is a “you know it when you see it” thing that is difficult to describe. But yeah, mostly size. You won’t see a chonky tail like that on a field mouse, that’s for sure