• Glide@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    Okay, like, I get the meme, but seeing someone kill a large mouse with a baseball bat remains disturbing. There’s a reason we set traps for these things, you know?

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      22 days ago

      Ah yes, finding a bloody rat screaming and twitching, trapped under the wire, its spine broken… much less disturbing.

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        22 days ago

        There are different types actually. The one a past roommate had for his attic had no real killing use except if you forgot to check it, in which case dehydration or starving would kill. It involved one way entrances, and normal food like peanut butter as bait.

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          22 days ago

          There are rules in Australia that if you set a trap for an animal you must check the trap at least daily. I don’t know that people actually follow that when it comes to nice though

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          And then you release the mouse close by and it’s back inside real quick, or you release it far away and it’ll be inside someone else’s house real quick, or you release it in “nature” and I’ll die anyway because house mice have evolved to survive in houses.

          Kill traps suck, but “humane” traps either don’t solve the problem or are worse.

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          22 days ago

          Ah yes, finding the rotting corpse of a long-dead rat, maggoty and moldy, bones and fur and decay… much less disturbing.

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            22 days ago

            Bruh at this point youre gonna argue that toilets also death traps with the only function to store “dead bodies covered with shit and piss, left rotting for months”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    22 days ago

    on trial for the murder of Minnie

    “So let me get this straight, Mr. Mouse… You killed your wife because she became mentally unsound?”

    “No, you fucking idiot! I killed her because she was fucking Goofy!”

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    22 days ago

    The phrase Golly has fallen out of popularity given its roots in racist caricature “gollywog” which sucks because honestly what a fun to say word that was.

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      If it helps, etymonline has them the other way around with ‘golly’ being a mild oath for god and ‘gollywog’ not having a definitive link.