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Limping in a grave but I haven't quit

@paprikablues

Hi I'm Abby, and this is my blog for blogging blog things. I like video games, cartoons, movies, cartoon movies, and weird internet things. Sorry Not Sorry
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I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

"Cli-click cli-click cli-click"

"Oh god oh fuck here it comes"

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Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

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syn4k

i will give tiktok one concession and that is that it has spawned a comment that contains a phrase that i think of often at relevant moments: pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

(from a video featuring someone's father/grandfather)

is anyone else reading "pack it up boys we've made a social blunder" in the voice of the lead penguin guy from Madagascar

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fruitgushers

im sick of unmuting an animal video expecting to hear the sounds that it is very clearly making and being greeted with the shittiest music ive ever heard

enough is enough. no more

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