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[-] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 153 points 3 weeks ago

........should I ask why the rats are being sexually gratified by car crashes?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 112 points 3 weeks ago
[-] 01011@monero.town 37 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the link but I read halfway through and then realized that what I really wanted was more images (and video) of rats driving cars.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

My sister used to have one with a hamster ball in the middle that actually moved

[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 20 points 2 weeks ago

It's kinda cruel to keep your sister in a hamster ball.

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

But they did get fruit loop pieces with marshmallow used to "glue" them to the dispenser, so that's pretty cute. I mean it's a lot cuter to imagine than a bunch of horned up rats.

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

The grant application practically writes itself.

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago

OOP was possibly referring to the movie Crash, or the origin novel

[-] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely one of those times where I go "Oh shit, I never did get around to watching that, did I?"

Thanks for helping out the terminally unaware.

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

No, you should ask how they measure it.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago

Whenever I see a hot woman on the road, I hit her car just to get her number. Then I never call her because I'm too shy.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm so shy I immediately drive away after hitting her car."

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

They don't even have to be in a car. It works just the same.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 38 points 2 weeks ago

I am sure it makes sense to the rats xD I remember stumbling upon a youtube channel where a couple had built little operational trains and cars for their rats to drive around the house. It was a joy to watch. Found them: Kronk and Kuzko

It's so adorable and weird at the same time.

[-] pageflight@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not the best drivers, but clearly drivers! Cool.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 2 weeks ago

They're better drivers than some humans I know

[-] JayDee@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago
[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

There was a misunderstanding at my school where the world religions teacher recommended the Sandra Bullock Crash to an entire class and the first student to find it and send the class a link found this one (could have been an honest mistake or intentional) and someone reported the teacher. It was pretty easily cleared up, but the teacher was definitely shaken that the other movie existed.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

The fuck were they doing recommending that pile of shit? That's almost as bad as having to watch The Apprentice in one of my classes.

A lot of people started hating Trump in 2015 but he's been my enemy since 2004. No way you can watch that show and like that guy

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was a religion teacher. They’re not known for their taste.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

The most unhinged Casey Jones imaginable

[-] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 weeks ago

Sexual gratification?

Wow. Those massive Nascar crashes finally make sense.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 28 points 3 weeks ago

I love it when I have no idea where in the sentence the transition from truth to lie happened.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago

Sexual ... I dont quite get it, but rats will do what rats are gonna do I guess.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

TIL drivers in my city are very kinky

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone got a link to the actual paper?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432819311763

It's about stress levels, and how rats who were in control of the vehicles were less stress than rats who were just passengers.

[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like we don't need to be mass breeding animals for this. To my knowledge we mainly use rats to test things we don't want to put humans through, but I've heard enough backseat driving to solve this on my own without the use of rats

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the rats were especially bred for this.

It's more likely that existing lab rats got a bumper car break :3

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of that movie, Crash:

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Warm Leatherette - The Normal

Everyone is bringing up Crash the novel/movie, but don’t forget this also a much weirder Palahnuik book where the erotic car crashes help a guy time travel and fuck/impregnate all of his female ancestors.

[-] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 7 points 2 weeks ago

sorry wtf did I just read?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That’s Palahnuik’s Rant. His non-Fight Club stuff is pretty unhinged.

I read Haunted in middle school, and it fucked me up, although it was funny to read “Guts” out loud to everyone on the bus. (Be prepared if you are going to read this one - it’s pretty famous for people fainting during live readings.)

[-] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

I read a time travelling book (very old and dusty, relatively short, I think it's from the 70s) where the protagonists discovers over time that he is his own father/mother. He travels in time so often that there are zillions of him at different ages in each time.

He just ends up partying with himself because he can be just himself. And with all the drugs and partying one thing leads to another. Also because he travels so damn much somehow that leads to a female version of himself.

That Ethan Hawk film Predestination is a less fucked up, similar version of the story.

[-] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 3 points 2 weeks ago

That’s fucking crazy. If you remember the name of the book let me know so I can find a copy to read lol

[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

rant by Chuck palinuik might be it, it didn't come out in the 70s though

[-] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's no female Rant in the book that I can remember. He was just his own father. Fun book though.

[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

rant is an amazing book and this is the first time I've heard anybody else reference it in the wild

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

"Sexually starved rats crash car in desperation to make the pain stop"

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've felt like that sometimes.

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER

Vroom vroom

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Adrenaline.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago
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