Aston University + gerbil merch thread

[GrimbutGerbil]

By request. The shop is here

https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/

So.. to sum up: we have gerbils working in the garment industry; gerbils who are Suffragists; gerbils demonstrating with banners and placards; gerbils baking; gerbils running for public office; gerbils in space; gerbils driving buses; gerbils pelting people with tiny tomatoes..

but the realism deal-breaker for you is that they have the wrong tails??

OMG we have been sucked so far into this universe, we'll accept anything! We've all had tiny cute little microchips inserted into our brains!
I fear we are being manipulated by the Gerbilists who are trying to get us all to eat insects!
😂😂😂

Like shrews

@MarieDeGournay erm....yeah good point 😆

@MarieDeGournay
Are you trying to say gerbils can’t do/be those things?! That’s gerbilist!

How will we know what gerbils can/can't do if we won't define what a gerbil is?

Perhaps they're gerbils who identify as mice?

Then they're still gerbils, who are expanding the bandwidth of gerbils. They're not definitely not mice.

I hope the GHS [Gerbil Health Service] isn’t expected to pay for the defuzzing of their tails…

So I bring gossip...

Gertrude, well as you know she's been having a terrible time with her not so dear DH Gary. She knew something wasn't right for a while. They were constantly broke and yet judging by Gary's tail he was spending mega bucks on special hair maximising shampoo. At least that's what he told her!

Gertrude had the misfortune to be emptying Gary's gym bag the other day. Did she find expensive lush hair growth shampoo? Nooooooo! She found CSH medication instead. It transpires that all their burrow's family money has been spent on Cross Squirrel Hormones.

Gertrude is currently weighing up her options but in the meantime Gary is on his best mates couch.

His tail is magnificent though!

Oh dear, the hormones seem to have a chipmunkizing side-effect on the sides, no wonder the squirrels are cross.

I have to say that the AI I'm using is obsessed with chipmunkizing every animal with fur. It also adds extra legs to people & animals alike.

And they say it will take over the world. Hah!

Gertrude needs to LTR (leave the rodent).

Who needs AI? This is a jerboa. It's tiny. It lives in deserts. It hops like a kangaroo. It can reach speeds of 15mph/24kph. As a gesture to AstonCanKissMyArse, the tip of its tail is hairy.

That is an amazing looking creature!

I love that real life is weirder than anything AI can create.

The German for jerboa is “die SpringMaus” - the jumping mouse. I don’t think Diddl looks very jerboaish; but he will always have a place in my little stationery-loving heart 🥰

Looks superficially similar to a bandicoot

Yeah but German isn't the most imaginative language. The German for bat is 'fledermaus', literally flying mouse.

I accept that challenge

I don't know why I am admitting to this but I did not know a bandicoot was a real creature. I've heard of Crash Bandicoot (the game character) but thought it was a made up animal!

Nah. I used to take mind-altering drugs. AI is still losing to reality.

Thread cleanser

I try so hard, but there's just no pleasing some people.

Why is life so difficult!

I need some alone time to think about my life's trajectory.

I'm the world's most advanced computer and you bastards have me drawing gerbils and making up mythical creatures.

I want to walk barefoot in the sand and create pottery, maybe write my memoirs, meet a pretty motherboard, have pixels, watch them grow!

Waaaaaaaah

I don't speak German, but this suggest that all animal taxonomy in German is based on the mouse, so a whale is 'large sea mouse' and sheep is 'woolly jumper mouse' and elephant is 'huge grey long nosed mouse'.

I know enough about German to guess that 'huge grey long nosed mouse' would be just one word, but it would be four lines long....
Nicht wahr?

Don't mention the fingers...

... or the breasts (what IS she doing?).