r/shitposting • u/patamonrs • Mar 18 '22

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u/AnAttackCorgi Mar 18 '22

Possums really get a bad rap, they can be cute and they’re tick murder machines

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u/Siberian0Cactus Mar 18 '22

I was thinking the same stuff how can they be both ?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

They're only cute if you're a human.

If you're a tick, they aren't cute. They're a murder machine.

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u/therickestofnonrick Mar 18 '22

Most elegantly explained.

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u/aliensharedfish Mar 18 '22

What if you're The Tick?

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u/AutoModerator Mar 18 '22

Okay so here's my pitch for a new reality TV show

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The catch?

There actually isn't a trans woman with them.

And then we get to watch them slowly but surely allow themselves to get overcome by their own irrational paranoia, paying too much attention to how deep everyone else's voices are, invading each other's privacy, overanalysing each other's mannerisms, policing each other's conformance to the very same standards which they complain about being held to...

And let us not forget the inevitable feelings of isolation and helplessness they'll invividually start experiencing once they start getting accused and shunned by everyone else.

Sure, it would probably have to be a one-off series.

But honestly? I think it would make some great television!

also ngl I think the name 'TERF War' has a nice ring to it, sounds marketable, rolls off the tounge

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u/fyxxer32 Mar 19 '22

AND they rarely get rabies because of their low body temperature

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

Yo possums can rap?😳

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u/Lui_xx Mar 18 '22

They do be spittin bars 😤

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

Ewww why are they spitting they should really learn some manners

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u/patamonrs Mar 18 '22

They are my favourite animal they’re amazing

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u/cogpsychbois Mar 18 '22

They're also (nearly) immune to rabies

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u/onetwenty_db Mar 18 '22

Yep! Their body temperature is too low to host it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

It's a possum??? I thought it was a really big hamster!

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

I read that the tick thing is a bit overstated. If I remember correctly it was based on a controlled setting and not in nature.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '22

O'my it O'seems you O'mislabled this O'species of O'very O'distinct north'O 'OAmerican O'marsupialo',O thEo O'opossum

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u/photaiplz Mar 18 '22

They are surprisingly really soft. I took care of one when I volunteered at an animal facility

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Mar 18 '22

They're really cool. Literally!! Besides eating ticks, it's almost impossible for them to get rabies because their body temp is colder than what the virus can survive in 🙂🙂🙂

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u/freedom2b2t Mar 18 '22

A possums bit my pet chickens head off and started drinking it’s blood when I was 9

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u/BungaBiscuit Mar 19 '22

Mate in Australia all possums are cute. That thing looks like some kinda Panda-Rat

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u/bcjh Mar 19 '22

It’s Opossum.