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
ooc how can you tell?
Just by the way it is
My husband just woke up and said the exact same thing unprompted. Literally this exchange almost word-for-word.
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.
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
My old boss had a tattoo with Aspen trees, as did I. I asked him once if those were Aspen trees, because I could tell by the way they are.
He was super happy someone got the reason he picked Aspen trees, and that I also had Aspen trees for the same purpose.
Neat
This dude rats.
Long hairless tail, also that would be a huge mouse.