Happy world hamster day, conrads! Today may we all celebrate the tiny rodents! Have some hamster facts!

  • Biggs is currently inside your walls currently taking notes of your liberalism

  • Hamsters have an extremely high alcohol tolerance and can drink Everclear 190 while only getting a little buzzed

  • The domestic hamster can run over 5 miles in a single night, keeping you up all night with frantic wheel squeaking noises

  • Hamsters have extremely flexible spines that allow them to turn around in any tunnel they can fit in

  • Hamsters' cheek pouches extend all the way to their hips and can carry up to a quarter of their body weight in them

  • It is believed that almost, if not all domesticated Syrian hamsters, the most common species of pet hamster, can trace their lineage back to a single pregnant female caught in the wild in 1930

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  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    was also offended that my partner doesn’t volunteer to do extra unpaid work

    Why are some people like this? I know people who run themselves ragged doing this and then complain about how tired and broke they are????

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      My theory is they internalize the idea of being selfless as a defense mechanism. They think there isn't another way - that life is hard, unfair, and poorly paid regardless - so the suffering becomes selfless, even noble as a defence. People did it for centuries with religion and now capitalism is the dominant religion.

      I think people underestimate what people will rationalise in order to try and protect themselves from hopelessness.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's not even the employer pressuring them to do extra work, my mother-in-law is kind of expecting my partner to come up with and organise it herself.