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GrimbutGerbil · 2024-07-21T09:11:44+00:00

As ever, the gerbils are yours to command...

lcakethereforeIam · 10/08/2024 19:15

@Boiledbeetle I think there's rumours started by me of conflict between the gulls and the gerbils at the Bluestocking. Perhaps an idea for the next chapter?

MarieDeGournay · 06/08/2024 17:20

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 16:36

I just used your link & scrolled down.

Checkmate, I think.

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Oh fair enough so, Ted

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 16:36

MarieDeGournay · 06/08/2024 15:51

In your great mercy, you didn't include a link to the whole site😧

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I just used your link & scrolled down.

Checkmate, I think.

MarieDeGournay · 06/08/2024 15:51

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 15:01

@MarieDeGournay I suggest you don't look at this one, then. It's wild.

In your great mercy, you didn't include a link to the whole site😧

NitroNine · 06/08/2024 15:42

The cat in that illustration looks suitably unimpressed at the idea…

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 15:02

And my cat won't let me near this one.

Aston, scraped vipers, gerbils and much more

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 15:01

@MarieDeGournay I suggest you don't look at this one, then. It's wild.

MarieDeGournay · 06/08/2024 10:21

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 00:10

Thank you for finding it!

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'Dearly Beloved, there is a lesson of hope in this for all of us... Life may seem bleak and unforgiving, with trouble and sorrow all around us, but in the midst of our suffering, in this Vale of Tears, there is a shining light - a pet-care website with hilarious pictures of gerbils just waiting for you to find them by chance and let them into your life..'😄

Serendipity rocks!

I've just looked at your 'tiny microphone' one and it's set me off again😂

ifIwerenotanandroid · 06/08/2024 00:10

MarieDeGournay · 05/08/2024 21:13

Thank you for joining in the gerbil games, ifIwerenotanandroid. I haven't laughed this much for ages!

'You take a swab test!; 'No, YOU take a swab test!'

Thank you for finding it!

Boiledbeetle · 05/08/2024 23:48

MarieDeGournay · 05/08/2024 21:13

Thank you for joining in the gerbil games, ifIwerenotanandroid. I haven't laughed this much for ages!

'You take a swab test!; 'No, YOU take a swab test!'

talking of swab tests...

The other gerbils had their suspicions that Glenda might in fact not be the same as the other gerbils competing

MarieDeGournay · 05/08/2024 21:13

Thank you for joining in the gerbil games, ifIwerenotanandroid. I haven't laughed this much for ages!

'You take a swab test!; 'No, YOU take a swab test!'

AstonUniDataScraperWankers · 05/08/2024 17:57

NitroNine · 05/08/2024 17:51

Time to petition parliament?

They have no issue allowing people to choose to lie about their sex in their passport, despite the fact it is a document used to prove their ID. Why shouldn’t people be allowed to lie about any & everything else - plus claim they are a gerbil or unicorn or dinosaur or princess or superhero or dragon or wizard or whatever else - as well? It makes just as much sense as allowing people to lie about their sex 🤷‍♀️

You're joking about it now but just give it 18 months...

NitroNine · 05/08/2024 17:51

Time to petition parliament?

They have no issue allowing people to choose to lie about their sex in their passport, despite the fact it is a document used to prove their ID. Why shouldn’t people be allowed to lie about any & everything else - plus claim they are a gerbil or unicorn or dinosaur or princess or superhero or dragon or wizard or whatever else - as well? It makes just as much sense as allowing people to lie about their sex 🤷‍♀️

Chersfrozenface · 05/08/2024 16:58

DrSoupDragonsFriend · 05/08/2024 16:55

But make sure your passport is stamped gerbil just in case anyone makes enquiries..

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Looked at my passport, doesn't mention species.

Just make sure you look gerbily in the photo?

DrSoupDragonsFriend · 05/08/2024 16:55

TWETMIRF · 05/08/2024 16:15

Do you identity as a gerbil? That's all it takes, nothing to do with behaviour, looks, etc.

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But make sure your passport is stamped gerbil just in case anyone makes enquiries..

TWETMIRF · 05/08/2024 16:15

MarieDeGournay · 05/08/2024 14:48

This gerbil is worried about something. I think I look like that when I'm worried about something. Maybe I'm a gerbil...

Do you identity as a gerbil? That's all it takes, nothing to do with behaviour, looks, etc.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 05/08/2024 16:08

If your gerbils regularly gossip about you, leave a tiny microphone in their cage to check what they think of you.

lcakethereforeIam · 05/08/2024 16:07

Oh no! 😢

ifIwerenotanandroid · 05/08/2024 16:04

lcakethereforeIam · 05/08/2024 16:02

I think I'd lean into it. My kids believed for years that 'road bears*' stole sandwiches from cars. My sense of humour can be very whimsical.

*Inspired by the eldest asking what they were after listening to the sat nav.

Don't tell them about a sign near me which says 'Bear left at roundabout'. It always makes me want to reunite the bear with its owner.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 05/08/2024 16:02

2 See if your gerbil sits upright with its arms at its sides. This is a sign that it is

... pretending to be a kangaroo.

lcakethereforeIam · 05/08/2024 16:02

I think I'd lean into it. My kids believed for years that 'road bears*' stole sandwiches from cars. My sense of humour can be very whimsical.

*Inspired by the eldest asking what they were after listening to the sat nav.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 05/08/2024 16:00

Boiledbeetle · 05/08/2024 15:55

"GrannyCake did you know some countries use gerbils in the manufacture of cheap clothing...."

"Do they? Really? And where did you find this little known gerbil fact random grandchild?"

Now the question is when they lead you to one of your own posts do you feign ignorance or fess up?

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Obviously you tell them that that poster is well known to be 100% reliable & an all-round good egg.

Boiledbeetle · 05/08/2024 15:55

lcakethereforeIam · 05/08/2024 14:58

All sorts of weird stuff quoted as 'fact' turn out to be unverifiable once someone actually looks into it. Sort of a reverse history becomes legend becomes myth. The interweb has just made it easier.

That said, I look forward to something that everyone knows as a fact about gerbils being traced back to a MN post taking the piss from Aston University that they'd scraped and uncritically disseminated.

"GrannyCake did you know some countries use gerbils in the manufacture of cheap clothing...."

"Do they? Really? And where did you find this little known gerbil fact random grandchild?"

Now the question is when they lead you to one of your own posts do you feign ignorance or fess up?

lcakethereforeIam · 05/08/2024 15:32

Oh, that's a pity 😕

😁

MarieDeGournay · 05/08/2024 15:27

lcakethereforeIam · 05/08/2024 14:58

All sorts of weird stuff quoted as 'fact' turn out to be unverifiable once someone actually looks into it. Sort of a reverse history becomes legend becomes myth. The interweb has just made it easier.

That said, I look forward to something that everyone knows as a fact about gerbils being traced back to a MN post taking the piss from Aston University that they'd scraped and uncritically disseminated.

It appears to be an authentic pet-care website lcakethereforeIam, and none of the emotionally volatile gerbils featured are engaged in political activities or clothing manufacture😊