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Everyone is bringing up Crash the novel/movie, but don’t forget this also a much weirder Palahnuik book where the erotic car crashes help a guy time travel and fuck/impregnate all of his female ancestors.

Reminds me of that movie, Crash:

BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER

Vroom vroom

Sexual ... I dont quite get it, but rats will do what rats are gonna do I guess.

Sexual gratification?

Wow. Those massive Nascar crashes finally make sense.

I am sure it makes sense to the rats xD I remember stumbling upon a youtube channel where a couple had built little operational trains and cars for their rats to drive around the house. It was a joy to watch. Found them: Kronk and Kuzko

It's so adorable and weird at the same time.

Not the best drivers, but clearly drivers! Cool.

They're better drivers than some humans I know

........should I ask why the rats are being sexually gratified by car crashes?

No, you should ask how they measure it.

OOP was possibly referring to the movie Crash, or the origin novel

Definitely one of those times where I go "Oh shit, I never did get around to watching that, did I?"

Thanks for helping out the terminally unaware.

The answer is "they weren't. The study had nothing to do with that."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432819311763

Thanks for the link but I read halfway through and then realized that what I really wanted was more images (and video) of rats driving cars.

My sister used to have one with a hamster ball in the middle that actually moved

It's kinda cruel to keep your sister in a hamster ball.

Yes.

The grant application practically writes itself.

Whenever I see a hot woman on the road, I hit her car just to get her number. Then I never call her because I'm too shy.

"I'm so shy I immediately drive away after hitting her car."

They don't even have to be in a car. It works just the same.

*teehee*

I love it when I have no idea where in the sentence the transition from truth to lie happened.

There was a misunderstanding at my school where the world religions teacher recommended the Sandra Bullock Crash to an entire class and the first student to find it and send the class a link found this one (could have been an honest mistake or intentional) and someone reported the teacher. It was pretty easily cleared up, but the teacher was definitely shaken that the other movie existed.

The fuck were they doing recommending that pile of shit? That's almost as bad as having to watch The Apprentice in one of my classes.

A lot of people started hating Trump in 2015 but he's been my enemy since 2004. No way you can watch that show and like that guy

It was a religion teacher. They’re not known for their taste.

Anyone got a link to the actual paper?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432819311763

It's about stress levels, and how rats who were in control of the vehicles were less stress than rats who were just passengers.

I feel like we don't need to be mass breeding animals for this. To my knowledge we mainly use rats to test things we don't want to put humans through, but I've heard enough backseat driving to solve this on my own without the use of rats

I don't think the rats were especially bred for this.

It's more likely that existing lab rats got a bumper car break :3

Crash (1996) for lab rats

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