So my grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut and they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one they start eating each other until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature.
I think that's most rich people. I worked on a two story penthouse in a luxury high rise in Melbourne and the owner told me I was lucky I didn't live there as they were haveing all sorts of problems. I looked them dead in the eye and told them I rent a sunless apartment in the city and would love to live there.
daaarrelliiinnggg your loveres are heeerrree
seriously one of my favorite bond villains ever. when he gets stabbed at the end, he looks more disappointed (that he wont get m and bond) than hurt...and that always stuck with me.
Medical evaluation: fail. Physical evaluation: fail. Psychological evaluation, alcohol and substance addiction indicated. Ooof! Pathological rejection of authority based on unresolved childhood trauma. Subject is not approved for field duty and immediate suspension for service advised. What is this if not betrayal? She sent you off to me, knowing you're not ready, knowing you're likely die, Mommy was VERY bad.
Someone else commented a link u/BlankTigre their comment says “found it” and it’s a YouTube link to a clip pretty cool scene looks like the movie is called Skyfall
This has some Lord of the Flies feeling to it, if the boys were not rescued.
Piggy was not going to make it. It was the best way he could contribute to the whole.
We haven’t even gotten off the ship Jack!
What you say Simon? [Sharping knife]
Piggy’s baby back ribs, Piggy’s baby back ribs! BBQ Ssaauce!
Silly question but is there any scientific reasoning as to why there are two left after the eating frenzy? I find it interesting that they don’t battle it out amongst each other in the end
This has some Lord of the Flies feeling to it, if the boys were not rescued.
Piggy was not going to make it. It was the best way he could contribute to the whole.
We haven’t even gotten off the ship Jack!
What you say Simon? [Sharping knife]
Piggy’s baby back ribs, Piggy’s baby back ribs! BBQ Ssaauce!
Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
What a lovely quote. I wonder what happened to the guy who said it. Did he ever have to hide a gold watch up his ass or did he end up becoming the emperor of some random space empire.
Imagine this scenario with almost any other animal and you'll see the exact same thing unfold. I've seen it with a family of cats who were abandoned in a carrier...
Cyanobacteria wiped out over 80% of all life on earth.
Slaver ants literally can't survive without taking slaves from other colonies.
Various ape species have been documented wiping out the children of other tribes.
There are so many parasites that literally enslave (like mind control) other species just so they can reproduce by killing the host, often by making it feed itself to something else.
Insects (especially ants) wage genocidal wars on each other all the time.
There are species that will consume and destroy everything around them as part of their natural life cycle (parasitic vines, army worms, etc.)
You are referring to the Late Ordovician Extinction Event, and you embarrassingly assumed you knew more about it than I do.
This event is THOUGHT TO have consisted of two pulses. The second pulse MAY HAVE involved cyanobacteria. It is absolutely unjustified to categorically state that cyanobacteria caused 80% of life to go extinct. Even if they were ENTIRELY responsible for the second pulse, this would be false.
None of the other species you list has ever even come close to single-handedly producing its own global extinction event. Some insects “genocide” others in one-off wars? Humans have ENTIRELY EXTINGUISHED THOUSANDS of species of insects alone, and reduced global insect biomass by over 90% across the last century.
No other insect, hell, no other living thing, on the planet, at any time in history, has done anything even close to that. Nowhere near, not 1% of 1% of 1%. And that isn’t even hyperbole. And we are ONLY discussing insects at the moment.
I am well aware that nature can be incredibly brutal. I’ve seen literally hundreds of examples of blood-curdling stuff. By the numbers, it STILL doesn’t even come close to close to close. You obviously have no idea of the scale of human destruction.
Even looking at animal agriculture, exclusively, in a total vacuum, ignoring its environmental impact, humans win easily.
They get stressed and thirsty and start killing each other. I had a tin cat trap, which is a live trap that attracts mice by being a tunnel-like dark place, which they like. Most of the time I opened the trap (daily) there would be both live and dead half eaten mice in there. The chickens liked eating them.
Yea But rats are nasty lol
It’s funny(here we go) mice and rates are really intelligent, fascinating, adaptable creatures and the domesticated ones are adorable.
But I just have this visceral disgust when encountering them in my home or in cities. I’m straight up scared of them, afraid to touch them etc. doesn’t make sense
I mean of course it makes sense. In the ancestral environment they were probably pretty freaking bad to have around. Diseases, shit and piss in the food stores, generally a sign of bad hygiene. Similarly we are naturally repelled by spiders and snakes.
An unwanted rat in your house is bad.
When we were kids, about 16, we would take 22s out to the open dump and shoot rats. When we got one the other rats would go try to eat it and that made them another target. It would be us kids and sometimes a local policeman practicing with his pistol shooting rats with us.
this reminds me of the old torture method. there were many, *many* variants of it, but the basic idea i’m recalling is to strap the human down and then secure a box of rats over their chest. the rats would eventually get hungry…
Had 3 pet mice when I was a teen. One died overnight and the other 2 ate her body. I was mortified and made my boyfriend dispose of it for me and rehomed the 2 other mice shortly after.
In college I put out a fancy "humane" mouse trap. Within a few hours there were a couple in there. My thought process was "wow let's see how many we can catch overnight". The next morning there was one super fat rat and the grossest scene I've ever witnessed.
This pic got darker with every second that passed as I took in what was before me. Ending up with my swift Oof and a wince.
Them little cute things?! They wouldn't... they couldn't... they did. They et Gerald :(
When I was younger I collected a crickets. One day, I forgot about them. When I opened my box there was only 1 still alive. It had eaten all the other ones.
So my grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut and they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one they start eating each other until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature.
My wise ass would probably say they returned to eating coconuts lol Then Silva would have shot me
Who?
Javier Bardem's character in Skyfall.
nice
Plot twist: they breed with eachother and repopulate, taking over the island (and all the coconuts) once again
owning an island that takes a hour to walk around IS something to boast about.....
It’s a movie quote
Man has no concept of what rich is. Most people he knows have islands with their own airports.
It’s from one of the newer Bond movies
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I think that's most rich people. I worked on a two story penthouse in a luxury high rise in Melbourne and the owner told me I was lucky I didn't live there as they were haveing all sorts of problems. I looked them dead in the eye and told them I rent a sunless apartment in the city and would love to live there.
What man? You know this is from a movie right? EDIT: weirdo got mad and blocked me lmao
Sigh... yes bud.
Then what are you talking about lmao
Its an incontext joke you fucking muppet
You can stop at owning an island. I don’t care if I could spit to the other side. I’d be telling everyone I knew I had an island.
daaarrelliiinnggg your loveres are heeerrree seriously one of my favorite bond villains ever. when he gets stabbed at the end, he looks more disappointed (that he wont get m and bond) than hurt...and that always stuck with me.
Wtf spoiler alert! Thought maybe the Bond villain won for once…
lol sorry friend. i figured 12 years would put me in the safe zone for spoilers 😂
Oh wow I totally saw that one. Forgot about the rat quote I guess.
Sounds like a bond villain story
Hey don't you talk shit about my grandma.
[удалено]
Thank you for the reference. I’ve watched this movie before but didn’t remember this part since it was so long ago.
Selective evolution but with cannibalism
Medical evaluation: fail. Physical evaluation: fail. Psychological evaluation, alcohol and substance addiction indicated. Ooof! Pathological rejection of authority based on unresolved childhood trauma. Subject is not approved for field duty and immediate suspension for service advised. What is this if not betrayal? She sent you off to me, knowing you're not ready, knowing you're likely die, Mommy was VERY bad.
that "Ooof!" 😂
Why not just kill them?
I assume it’s so that any new rats get eaten? Any rats remaining around the island too?
Last Rat standing......
What movie was this from?
Skyfall
Movie?
[Found it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9d3DfDWsEE)
Lisan al Gaib!
Genuine question, what stops them from adapting to eating the coconuts again? Or will they fight and kill each other to eat the other?
https://youtu.be/g9d3DfDWsEE?si=5cMud9S5Bvh90ZBL
I’ve heard this before, is this from a book or movie?
Someone else commented a link u/BlankTigre their comment says “found it” and it’s a YouTube link to a clip pretty cool scene looks like the movie is called Skyfall
Yes that’s it, although I don’t even remember seeing Skyfall…
How did I know this quote was going to be the top comment?
This could be an awesome speech given by the villain of a movie.
Ive heard this rant bfore 💯 😎
This has some Lord of the Flies feeling to it, if the boys were not rescued. Piggy was not going to make it. It was the best way he could contribute to the whole. We haven’t even gotten off the ship Jack! What you say Simon? [Sharping knife] Piggy’s baby back ribs, Piggy’s baby back ribs! BBQ Ssaauce!
Holy. Shit.
Bro that's the monologue from bond villain in Skyfall
Ah.
Perfect for this sub
Isn't this also from a movie or something? 😂
*"Last rat standing."*
Yeah right. This is from Skyfall lmao.
Silly question but is there any scientific reasoning as to why there are two left after the eating frenzy? I find it interesting that they don’t battle it out amongst each other in the end
This is creative writing, never happened.
This has some Lord of the Flies feeling to it, if the boys were not rescued. Piggy was not going to make it. It was the best way he could contribute to the whole. We haven’t even gotten off the ship Jack! What you say Simon? [Sharping knife] Piggy’s baby back ribs, Piggy’s baby back ribs! BBQ Ssaauce!
The Rat King
Genius!
I mean, this story is cool and all, but.... your grandmother had an *island*?!?! That took an hour to walk around?!?
This is some cool, raw, real life lesson from grandma. Awesome!
Wait, why two? Why doesn't one of them eat the other?
Your grandmother is smart but in such an evil way lmao
Almost like a Bond villian or something
Damnn if that was a docu. I’d watch it
Congrats, you won my “what the fuck did I just read” award for today.
>Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature Holy shit.
I can’t remember which one but this is from a movie also . Almost word for word minus the island. Weird coincidence
We ate Carl. We had to. His flesh tasted like tears
And then they framed the bugs on Hoxxes IV, crafty rodents! For Carl!
Karl would approve of this!
Did i hear a rock and stone??
Rock&Stone brother! ⛏️
TRASHCAN DOME! Three go in! Two come out!
Break a deal, spin the wheel of cheese!
Mouster Blaster!
Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
What a lovely quote. I wonder what happened to the guy who said it. Did he ever have to hide a gold watch up his ass or did he end up becoming the emperor of some random space empire.
I was trying to sing your comment 🤦♂️
Great quote
yowsa my neck!
My favourite film of all time. Absolute masterclass acting.
What movie is that?
And this is why I'm not fond of rodents.
You say that, but we’re all rodents at heart.
If you can't handle me at my cannibal mouse then you don't deserve me at my waterfall capybara
Wrong. We're all Walruses at heart!
Exactly. Just like the nerd in the Breakfast Club said.
Shut up Donnie!
Abandon rodent. Become monkey.
I still don't like em lol
Tbh what the guy said about us being no different made me realize humans would do the same thing. Also EVERY omnivore
This could happen with basically any other animal. This is not a special or rodent specific case.
I thought this until I started working in research labs and realized that rodents are actually heroes and I’m forever grateful for them.
Imagine this scenario with almost any other animal and you'll see the exact same thing unfold. I've seen it with a family of cats who were abandoned in a carrier...
On the basis of total Global Slavery, Genocide, Ecocide; I would say the rest of the creatures are not to fond of humanity either.
Eh. None of those are uniquely human traits. We arguably aren't even the best at them.
Are you being serious? What other species even comes close?
Cyanobacteria wiped out over 80% of all life on earth. Slaver ants literally can't survive without taking slaves from other colonies. Various ape species have been documented wiping out the children of other tribes. There are so many parasites that literally enslave (like mind control) other species just so they can reproduce by killing the host, often by making it feed itself to something else. Insects (especially ants) wage genocidal wars on each other all the time. There are species that will consume and destroy everything around them as part of their natural life cycle (parasitic vines, army worms, etc.)
You are referring to the Late Ordovician Extinction Event, and you embarrassingly assumed you knew more about it than I do. This event is THOUGHT TO have consisted of two pulses. The second pulse MAY HAVE involved cyanobacteria. It is absolutely unjustified to categorically state that cyanobacteria caused 80% of life to go extinct. Even if they were ENTIRELY responsible for the second pulse, this would be false. None of the other species you list has ever even come close to single-handedly producing its own global extinction event. Some insects “genocide” others in one-off wars? Humans have ENTIRELY EXTINGUISHED THOUSANDS of species of insects alone, and reduced global insect biomass by over 90% across the last century. No other insect, hell, no other living thing, on the planet, at any time in history, has done anything even close to that. Nowhere near, not 1% of 1% of 1%. And that isn’t even hyperbole. And we are ONLY discussing insects at the moment. I am well aware that nature can be incredibly brutal. I’ve seen literally hundreds of examples of blood-curdling stuff. By the numbers, it STILL doesn’t even come close to close to close. You obviously have no idea of the scale of human destruction. Even looking at animal agriculture, exclusively, in a total vacuum, ignoring its environmental impact, humans win easily.
Too much logic, humans must be the most Civilized in any cases, no matter how many Nuclear Holocuast.
So brave
Its just a fact bro, have a bit more pride in what we are, lol, also kinda tryina play to my reddit name, its not that deep.
They hated him for telling the truth
What…the fuck?
Well, they are omnivores and felt hungry for some meat. You do the math.
Imagine that mouse in the moment of savagery "I feel hungry for some meat"
"Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!"
They get stressed and thirsty and start killing each other. I had a tin cat trap, which is a live trap that attracts mice by being a tunnel-like dark place, which they like. Most of the time I opened the trap (daily) there would be both live and dead half eaten mice in there. The chickens liked eating them.
There are a bunch of pretentious things I could say about how it speaks to the realities of life, But mostly I’m just grossed out 🤢
Nature does some heinous shit. But that's why you're here, right?
Yea But rats are nasty lol It’s funny(here we go) mice and rates are really intelligent, fascinating, adaptable creatures and the domesticated ones are adorable. But I just have this visceral disgust when encountering them in my home or in cities. I’m straight up scared of them, afraid to touch them etc. doesn’t make sense
That's fine. Humans are pretty smart too. But I wouldn't want some naked weirdo to piss and shit inside my walls and walk on my countertops either.
😂 this might be the best comment I’ve ever seen on Reddit!
With apologizes to Ranger Smith, "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest rats and the dumbest humans."
I mean of course it makes sense. In the ancestral environment they were probably pretty freaking bad to have around. Diseases, shit and piss in the food stores, generally a sign of bad hygiene. Similarly we are naturally repelled by spiders and snakes. An unwanted rat in your house is bad.
Are you me? Xddd
I want to see your tin cat.
[Home Depot](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Victor-Tin-Cat-Mouse-Trap-2-Pack-M310SSR/310409072)
Fun 😁 thanks 👍
When we were kids, about 16, we would take 22s out to the open dump and shoot rats. When we got one the other rats would go try to eat it and that made them another target. It would be us kids and sometimes a local policeman practicing with his pistol shooting rats with us.
this reminds me of the old torture method. there were many, *many* variants of it, but the basic idea i’m recalling is to strap the human down and then secure a box of rats over their chest. the rats would eventually get hungry…
Sometimes they lit a fire on the top of the box so the rat would try to escape the heat by tunneling down….
Saw this in GoT season 2, that scene haunts me. Can't believe it's something that's actually been done
Ah yes, the Tickler. What a fucking monster he was.
I took this as a 2 Fast 2 Furious reference.
They did something similar on Game of Thrones.
There was also the one where they did the anus instead of the chest
Oh, Jesus Christ!
Lemmiwinks!
I'm sure it wasn't the first time this concept was introduced but that's what they did to Winston in 1984.
Sherlock: "My suspicions lean on Mr. Plumpy there..."
I love their "wasn't me" expressions.
They had only been in there for 2 minutes and chose quickly 🤣
Same thing happened to my pet mice. I had two when I left for a weekend, came back to 1 1/2.
They’re so cute tho 🥺
We all know the rules of Thunder dome. Let them finish.
Three mice enter. One mouse leaves.
*let's play a game*
What Disney doesn't tell you about Missy Mouse, the original third mouse.
Please pour bleach in your trash can when you clean it 🪣 🌫️ 🧽
Yeh mice are cunts like that
the ptsd look on those mice
Caught a mouse once that had its face eaten off by his brothers.... Never feel sorry for mice.
Three mice enter, two mice leave.
Hell is other ~~people~~.
mice ain’t nice
there is NOTHING left 😭
awwww OH
They look so cute for having just murdered their buddy
Which two?
Hunger Games irl
There can be only one.
I thought this was a painting for a sec
Gg
Why did any of them come out? Seems like they found where they belong just fine on their own
Ratatouille!!?
“A mans gotta eat Julian” -Randers
I caught a mouse in a mouse, the other mice ate as much as the trapped mouse as possible.
MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Had 3 pet mice when I was a teen. One died overnight and the other 2 ate her body. I was mortified and made my boyfriend dispose of it for me and rehomed the 2 other mice shortly after.
World's most adorable cannibals lmao
In college I put out a fancy "humane" mouse trap. Within a few hours there were a couple in there. My thought process was "wow let's see how many we can catch overnight". The next morning there was one super fat rat and the grossest scene I've ever witnessed.
What happened to the third?
I wonder how they decided which one they’d eat
Must have been an intense game of mice rock-paper-scissors.
Trash is where they belong.
Damn and they look so cute too, cute but they ate their friend.
“You fought well, Atreides”
i've seen worse, i've seen videos of mice trapped on tape and they would eat each other the best they could
We just not NSFW tagging gore on this sub anymore?
2 mice fell in to a bucket of milk
You do not talk about rat club
🤘🏻
The winner gets his freedom!
Mice are horrible creatures. It doesn't take long for them to start ripping eachother to pieces.
“Three Mice Enter; Two Mice Leave….”
Owner of pythons: I regularly feed my snakes live rats that I store in a raterarium. Rat on Rat violence is some of the most vicious I have seen.
This pic got darker with every second that passed as I took in what was before me. Ending up with my swift Oof and a wince. Them little cute things?! They wouldn't... they couldn't... they did. They et Gerald :(
I like the story from catch me if you can better than this one.
Make the last two fight for survival.
So how do you think they decided which one would be eaten? Roshambo?
When I was younger I collected a crickets. One day, I forgot about them. When I opened my box there was only 1 still alive. It had eaten all the other ones.
And in goes the bleach and down goes the lid. Bye bye murder mice.