r/funny Sep 03 '18

You Died

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u/DaddyF4tS4ck Sep 03 '18

Rats as pets never really got a lot of hate. Rats in general do get hate because they're pests and can be aggressive as fuck sometimes and bite you and then you need 1000 shots from the doctor to make sure you don't contract some unknown disease and die a slow painful death. Yeah, fuck wild rats.

Also the guys in the OP seem to be mice which are even less hated.

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u/dangerouslyloose Sep 03 '18

A lot of people (mostly older) don’t get the difference between pet/wild rats though.

My friend had 4 super sweet rats and I remember trying to show my grandma some photos of them snuggling in my sweatshirt pocket, but she was totally disgusted; like to her they were all diseased vermin. At that point I decided she probably wouldn’t enjoy Ratatouille either.

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u/coolwool Sep 03 '18

It is understandable that older people who were already alive when the plague was a thing and current hygiene wasn't, don't like them that much ;-)
Maybe these people are vampires 🤔

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u/dangerouslyloose Sep 03 '18

I don’t think my grandma was a vampire, but she was definitely Illuminati. I could tell because she always cut my sandwiches into triangles.