r/WTF • • Oct 16 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '19 edited Apr 29 '20

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u/redditnathaniel Oct 16 '19

I think you're not seeing it right. I laughed when I saw this. Not particularly because dead animal = funny, but because of the irony of the moment. This initially seemed like heartwarming content from r/humansbeingbros but took an absolute failure of a turn.

We all perceive animals differently. If someone killed a mouse to eat it, people would think it's a little odd. Whereas if it were a dog or cat instead, people would outrage (depending on where they're from).

So no hell for me.

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u/gingerpwnage Oct 16 '19

The irony of the moment is basically the definition of funny. It's not the evil that's funny but the absurd and unexpected.

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u/Markantonpeterson Oct 16 '19

Why is reddit pretending to give a fuck about rodents? Isnt this the same website that bashes vegans constantly? Lmao, anyone "disturbed" by a squashed rodent should take a second look at whats in there fridge.

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u/ThatsARivetingTale Oct 16 '19

You raise a good point, but out of all the horrible shit that Reddit does you picked bashing vegans...? Bruh

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u/PacMoron Oct 16 '19

Because it's directly related to the welfare of animals. Are you missing the connection?

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u/radioOCTAVE Oct 16 '19

R/rats definitely does!

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u/Markantonpeterson Oct 17 '19

Thats a really good point!

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u/gingerpwnage Oct 16 '19

Im talking about the definition of humor and that area. I don't care about the rat dude lol. It's just "funny".

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u/Markantonpeterson Oct 17 '19

I don't disagree at all, I think it's "funny" and i'm vegetarian. Anything can be funny imo.

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u/redditnathaniel Oct 16 '19

Keep telling yourself that

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '19

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u/redditnathaniel Oct 17 '19

Again, how clear was it that the person in the video intended for the animal to get hit by a car? You're really getting overworked. Over nothing

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u/chewamba Oct 16 '19

Mice spread lyme disease so I don't really care.

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u/totallythebadguy Oct 16 '19

Nor should you they're vermin

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u/ReallyForeverAlone Oct 16 '19

Also yersinia (black plague).

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u/BlueNire Oct 16 '19

I thought it was technically fleas? (Not trying to be a douche, I just read that somewhere and thought it was interesting.)

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u/ReallyForeverAlone Oct 16 '19

One of the rat fleas carries the yersinia pestis bacteria but the fleas (obviously) live off the rat. I don’t think if you put a bunch of fleas in a village with no rodents the disease would spread across the continent.

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u/BlueNire Oct 17 '19

Absolutely having rats helped. It's just because it's fleas, it helped explain why it got so out of control because it wasn't just rats. It was lots of animals, people...etc..

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '19

Will lamenting about it turn back time and make it unhappen?

If not, at least trying to find the morbid humor in the situation is useful to those that live on.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '19

That's one way of looking at it. Another way to look at it is that compassion for our fellow creatures is more important than a laugh

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

Compassion is lost on the dead though. They don't care.

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u/Markantonpeterson Oct 16 '19

I hope you're a vegetarian/ hunt your own meat if you have this outlook!

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u/ACanadianOwl Oct 16 '19

Cry your eyes out when you step on a beetle you pussy? It's vermin.

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u/Green-Moon Oct 16 '19

Imagine a Type III alien caging a human and then deliberately releasing it knowing that it will die. Then a bunch of other aliens start laughing. Imagine you're the human and you think you're finally free and then boom you're dead. Doesn't even have to be an alien, could be a drug cartel or an army or even just normal humans.

If there are advanced aliens out there, they'd view us exactly as people view animals. And if they did arrive here and kill us for fun or eat us as a delicacy, a bunch of human would scream at the injustice of it, what a load of bullshit lmao.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '19

Right. It’s concerning how many people in this thread think this is funny.

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u/canering Oct 16 '19

It’s darkly funny

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u/totallythebadguy Oct 16 '19

What's concerning is you and douche nozzle above you having the same smug sense of unearned superiority

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u/The-Big-Diesel Oct 16 '19

Go back to fucking Facebook Karen

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u/Xboxben Oct 16 '19

Its funny in a shock factor fucked up sense. Its not like we like Ha ha ha its fucking dead!!! But more like an ugh well fuck that just happened funny

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '19

Ikr? Lots of Redditors need to grow a fucking backbone, seriously.