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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DM me your card details and I’ll send you a couple of pints from my platypus farm.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait…. People farm the weirdos?

[–] Minarble 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s heavily regulated now as someone sold one of the male drumsticks that still had the venomous spur attached at a Saturday farmers market.

Fortunately most of the venom was deactivated by frying it but they still had to be hospitalised for a week.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how they'd be for pets.

I realize I shouldn't.

but. I kinda want one. They're cute.

(again, I realize I shouldn't!)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The human urge to domesticate anything that is slightly cute

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell, we'll even try to domesticate things that are anything but cute, like crocodiles, fish and spiders

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They're all cute to someone.

(Not me, I have crippling arachnophobia)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Er…no… Not me…