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[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 59 points 2 weeks ago

I like to imagine [21] doesn't mean the 21st citation, but rather that there are 21 citations for that statement

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 28 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, he is good.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rats are cool. They’re like little dogs, can be potty trained, learn tricks and like to cuddle.

They also develop cancer like no other species. You feel a limp on a rat and 3 hours later it’s a tumor the size of a bean.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

The very reason we're so good at treating cancer in rats.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Well, the couch is right here…”

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Young Freud (from Wikimedia)

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Young Sigmund Freud looks put together, but you can tell there is something deeply unhinged in there also his blood content is probably like 20 percent cocaine.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

calm down, JD

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

If it's not one thing it's a mother.

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Rats? I was rats once.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

makes sense, rats and butts are both dirty

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pet rats aren't dirty.

Butts are only dirty before the enema, after that it's bearable. Still not recommended for the immunodefficiant, but otherwise a healthy human can deal with what they can get from booty licking, others probably should use a dental dam at minimum.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

thank you for not calling it an "oral condom", it's such a stupid term that makes one envision a tube going down the throat..

[–] jaded_genie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Smooth criminal this Freud