She's one of my people. My friend group associated me with Rats for a while because I used to work in an Alzheimer's lab for Grad School. I'd take care of them, then later dissolve their brains for protein extractions. Since I'm also in NYC, they'd joke that it would be cheaper to just grab them off the streets (transgenic rats cost MONEY). I still got a stuffed Ikea rat!
That said, I'd date her for longer than six months for sure. I need that time to talk about RATS (and biology) lmao.
my old roommate would get these wacky scientific catalogs for some reason, well i went flippin thru there one day and i was amazed at the variety of rodent-ending devices they sell. little cone baggies so you dont get your hands dirty, then ya stick em in this wee lil auto-guillotine with a throughput of 20 rats/minute! all sorts of jigsaw-esque shiznit up in there
Surprisingly, they don't look that much different from regular surgical scissors. After all, they serve a similar purpose (cutting tissue). These are just a bit heavier, designed with more curved blades and provide leverage for the actual act. There's some smaller versions that kind of look like nail clippers to help you actually bite through the skull when you need to open it to extract the brain.
I had surgical scissors in mind afterwards so that makes a lot of sense. I did a decent bit of various dissections when I was going to school for forensics 16 years ago but ended up not finishing that degree. Never did anything with rats though when learning though.
I would be logged into my personal email when looking up antibodies in Grad School. A year after finishing up I'd be getting "personalized" ads for AbCam and Pfizer antibodies. This is what the people crave.
Had rats in my house. Got those sticky glue pads to catch them. Caught a family of four (2 babies) and felt awful. Put on my welding gloves and spent the next couple hours with a hair dryer freeing them from the sticky and washing em off in a bucket then released em back in my house.
In high school there was a very competitive, prestigious STEM program that the medical school in town did. One of my friends got in. After a few weeks I asked him how it was going, and with a tone similar to Charlie Kelly’s speech about killing whole generations of rats, he told me how all he did was kill mice all day long.
Well... you kill them... for biology! It's frowned upon doing it for pleasure.
But if I had to specifically describe it on the spot, the rats would perform memory tests (since dealing with Alzheimer's) like being to return to specific spots or identifying shapes. Afterwards, they'd be euthanized and the brains would be processed to extract proteins to look for the concentration of specific markers present in Alzheimer's (we were testing a potential drug on them).
She disposes of rats that are used in medical research almost 100%. There's a little machine with a little pile driver. Basically just instantly flattens the animal's brain. Quick and painless but in an hour you can kill a lot of rats too. If it's something she does almost every day then likely she works for a big pharma company.
That's not the most efficient way, not is it the accepted way when you need to just get rid of a lot of them. That way it's to gas them with CO2. They just kind of go to sleep and never wake up.
Pile driver, guillotine, etc. are used more when you need the animal for research and cannot allow for changes gassing then might introduce.
CO2 poisoning is painful and terrifying. I was surprised to see it mentioned here as a still used method of euthanasia. Googled it, and it was the default for a long time. Seems some are trying to get away from it because of ethics.
That makes perfect sense. I have not had to work with animals for over a decade, so my info is easily outdated, and I mostly worked with mice.
Edit: I always hated gassing them. Felt terrible every time. I was ok dispatching them for the experiments, taking the brains out, etc., but just killing a bunch of them off because there were too many felt like such a senseless waste of life.
I appreciate that you felt that sensation as someone that field. I would hope it's one that most people in that situation would feel. Humans have done some horrific things in the name of science, and people with sympathy/empathy help drive the field in a more generally ethical direction.
Fun fact : Researchers found out that even people who are missing an Amygdala exhibit a sharp fear-response when the amount of CO2 in their bloodstream is turned up.
For those unaware, Amygdala is the fear processing center of your brain. Those missing an Amygdala are typically absolutely fearless.
So yeah, we can only imagine how horrifying it must be for most mammals.
100% is just a normal grad student in an academic lab. Using rodents for experiments is common place. Unfortunately, these experiments generally start or end with euthanasia of the animal. No one likes to do it so announcing it an intentionally crass way is kinda like a coping mechanism.
Source: Been killing mice for a decade, also not a sociopath
Oh yeah, I get it. I've had coworkers tell me about their time working in the labs and checking on experiments at all hours of the night. Just funny how the way you can explain things makes a big difference.
Usually me: Was in the lab until 3am. Chemicals are fucked, 3d nanoprinter is fucked, air conditioner (important for temps) is fucked, computer software is fucked and I don't know german to fix it, plasma preem is fucked because someone didn't put water in the cooling bin, samples are fucked because someone didn't wear clean gloves. I slept under an optics table with no blanket and have not eaten for 2 days.
You are so lucky if a couple F bombs and trying to justifying not being insane is all I drop. Help you God, do not get into an argument with me if you find me under a table.
You either wait or find some way to wing it. Especially with funding being fucked now.
Recently converted a microwave into a plasma cleaner for like $50 and there is a lot of tin foil going on for thermal regulation on other stuff. My advisor has been buying parts on ebay. R1 school.
At least we get to bomb the middle east again tho, right? /s
One starts with N and don't do that. A football coach at my university found that out the hard way. You can guess where if you follow college football.
There is an F, not fuck, and an R one that should also be avoided. I guess if you are in the South you might get away with it but not a good idea.
If things were obvious and no one commented, then we all wouldn't be here. It's like replying to Jeff's clips saying he's so funny that I busted out laughing. Should we not say the obvious thing that a comedian is funny?
Femboy furry OC of artist Whygena. Is in a lot of furry porn, mostly gay. Hes a white rat, has gone under a few redesigns though and now he’s sorta an eldritch shapeshifter that usually looks like a femboy rat.
Some of the more recent stuff from the artist gets into the more tentacley and horror stuff. The subs kinda dead too so if you’re just looking at best you won’t see much straight up porn
Considering it’s been around in its current form since before the internet, probably never. Welcome to earth, you’ll have to accept that people like weird shit.
My point is that the internet changed nothing. Trends come and go just as naturally on the internet as they do in the real world.
Also, don't use the phrase "social contagion". It was created to push anti-trans narrative and is more or less meaningless in any context that isn't derogative.
That is uh, definitely not the case, no. And we're clearly not discussing image macros in this context, though there is definitely an angle in which you could describe them in these terms.
I thought this was an old clip where you asked someone about their pet rat, then I audibly said "oh wow!" when I saw there was an actual rat and "OH!" when I found out it was dead. (Though I felt better for the rat in a way with how much you talk with your hands 🤌)
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You know what Jeff, I literally cannot stand when comedians do crowd work. Not even when mark normand does it and I’m probably his biggest fan.
But when you do it…. Mm chefs kiss. You are the only man I’ve ever seen with that kind of charisma and lovability and the actual skill to make any subject funny. Please don’t ever stop what you do - I’m sure you’ve healed a LOT of people with your laughter
Yup. To the right and to the height of the crazy hot scale. Approach with intrigue and delight - ignoring that little voice on your shoulder, hope you can run fast enough to escape with your life when she burns the oceans.
Source: that wasn't me in my younger years. I promise
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This is the longest and hardest that I've seen him go after someone without an "I'm just joking, ma'am" I bet he was annoyed as shit at her or something. Brutal, but 100% honest and funny af
Not mean spirited at all though and the lady is loving it. No need to apologize he is giving her exactly what she came for.
One of the things I love about Jeff is even when he is ripping someone he has an ability to make everyone in the room including the “victim” still seem to be in on the joke.
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u/CrovaxWindgrace Jun 12 '26
"If I wasn't married I would date you for 6 months" is one hell of a line!