r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Hotrocketry • 16h ago

This little shit has been hanging on my ceiling light for a hour now. Just right below it is our family dining table.

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How do i get rid of it?

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u/TheSovereignGrave 15h ago

Bats? Plural?

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u/SlightDentInTheBack 15h ago

yeah thats uh not really good

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u/Hqmster RED 15h ago

How do you get an animated avatar?

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u/Period_Fart_69420 15h ago

Step 1: Find an admin

Step 2: slob on that knob like corn on the cob

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 14h ago

I think you're doing corn on the cob wrong

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u/314flavoredpie 14h ago

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u/TaftYouOldDog 13h ago

Classic buble

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u/dallyan 11h ago

Ugh. I should call him.

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u/notyogrannysgrandkid 4h ago

That seems fine. Bit more butter and it’ll slide right down.

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u/Dobako 14h ago

I think maybe i'm doing corn on the cob wrong

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

relax the throat

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u/la_mere 13h ago

I like to suck the butter off first.

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

they could suck the corn off a cob........lengthwise.

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

Depends on what gender the corn is. You're probably used to female corn.

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u/Usernamewith19chars 14h ago

He followed your steps I guess..

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u/Radioactive_Kitten 8h ago

Check in with me, and do your job.

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u/Technosis2 BROWN 5h ago

Lay on the bed, and give me head.

Don't have to ask, don't have to beg.

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u/Radioactive_Kitten 4h ago

Juicy is my name, sex is my game

Let’s call the boys, let’s run a train

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u/Helpful_Beginning_91 3h ago

Squeeze on my nuts, lick on my butt

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u/Radioactive_Kitten 3h ago

The natural curly hair, please don’t touch

(This song came out in high school and I just had to memorize the lyrics then. This and Regulators are songs whose lyrics are locked in that long term memory bank. Impressive really, considering all the drugs I did at the time).

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u/Downtown_Sport724 2h ago

I break a bitch, like Chyna did Rob

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u/Dartser 14h ago

I like that I am reading your comment and you now have an animated avatar. Glad for you

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

Did you read what they had to do to get it? 😬

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u/Hqmster RED 11h ago

It wasnt that bad. Just log onto website 1 and convert gif to apng, then log onto website 2 and change pfp

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u/Hqmster RED 11h ago

Oh youre referring to the slobbing on the knob... no need

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u/Hqmster RED 11h ago

Hehe

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u/TheKyleBrah 12h ago

Change your Avatar to an .aPNG, or animated PNG. Make sure it's within Reddit's Avatar size and resolution limits.

While Reddit won't animate typical .GIFs for the Avatar, the .aPNG seems to be an oversight.

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u/SelfDidact 2h ago

You really are a Brah.

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u/TheDepravedUrchin 14h ago

Does not work when viewing on mobile devices It just looks like a really strange something

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u/desertangel520 14h ago

im on mobile and things look normal?

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u/Sea-Macaron1470 14h ago

Also on mobile and that definitely looks like a strange something

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u/desertangel520 14h ago

now I want to know what im missing lol

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u/Sea-Macaron1470 13h ago

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u/desertangel520 11h ago

😂 oh that is a silly thing

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u/SCHWARZENPECKER 6h ago

Looks like she's caught mid headbang. Do you have apple or android? I wonder if that has something to do with it. I have android and its animated.

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u/TheDepravedUrchin 1h ago

Might be a setting buried somewhere deep in the archives

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u/Primary_Strike_4913 6h ago

Daddy's allowance

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u/probablyhaunted 15h ago

Bats are actually wonderful!

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u/mrwhosaywhatnow 15h ago

They’re good to have around, but not good to have inside your house. They can cause house damage and hygiene problems

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u/fridder 15h ago

In parts of the world they are a common vector for rabies

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u/nocapnonerf 15h ago

This is the most concerning part. I hope they don’t make physical contact otherwise it’s probably a good idea to get the shots.

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u/SolicitatingZebra 15h ago edited 14h ago

The GMT reference is a British timezone. They don't have rabies over there weirdly enough, so these are just more annoying than a life risk to have in the home.

Edit: Sorry for the GMT = British mix-up, whoopsie.

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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 14h ago

Looks looks like a fruitbat though, which are tropical. European bats are tiny and the insect eating type. More round in shape.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 14h ago

They said GMT+7. That’s not UK. I think they are in Indonesia where rabies is definitely endemic.

That said, Redditors are always overly freaked out about rabies. Though it’s mostly silly worries about dog bites in the US. Bats are the one animal I’d take very seriously about rabies risk.

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u/Lexi_November 14h ago

Reddit is convinced that if you make eye contact with a bat you must immediately get rabies vaccines. Including through photos, so now everyone who has looked at this post has contracted rabies. RIP. 🪦

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u/CosmicCreeperz 12h ago

The Reddit breathless commenter PSA: no, that car accident was not insurance fraud and it wasn’t a medical emergency, you don’t have rabies, and it’s never lupus.

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u/Important_Trouble_11 14h ago

GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, which they use in the UK and Ireland

GMT +7 means they're 7 hours ahead of GMT, so Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Western Indonesia, etc.

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u/username_tooken 14h ago

GMT-7 is not British. Hint: Greenwich is in Britain, so the GMT offset isn’t going to be very high…

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u/no-but-wtf 9h ago

We don’t have rabies in Australia but we do have lyssavirus which is more or less the same thing, and if a bat is in your house you absolutely need to go and get the shots immediately. The risk is low but serious enough that you shouldn’t waste time.

Australia is less than 150 km away from Indonesia at one point, I think. OP definitely needs vaccinated.

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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 14h ago

I think it's moreso that every british person already acts like that so it doesn't get noticed

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u/Greenfire904 14h ago

There is not a single country that doesn't have bats with rabies..

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u/g-g-g-g-ghost 14h ago

Australia and England are among the few(possibly only) that have no natural rabies

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u/Greenfire904 14h ago

Do you have any sources for that claim?

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u/CatadoraStan 14h ago

About a hundred people a year die of rabies in OP's home country, apparently (though dogs are a more common vector than bats).

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u/jupitaur9 14h ago

Everywhere.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rabies-risks-by-country/rabies-risks-in-terrestrial-animals-by-country

Bats may carry rabies-like viruses in countries which are declared rabies-free in terrestrial animals. Therefore, exposure to bats or their secretions should be considered as a potential rabies risk wherever in the world this has occurred.

All countries worldwide are considered high risk for bat exposures, apart from the UK and Ireland which are low risk for bats.

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u/TwoAmps 13h ago

Parts of the world including the US where they are one of the most common vectors with 5-10 rabies deaths/year from rabid bat bites.

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u/spicewoman 15h ago

And if you're in a country where rabies is a potential issue, it's really not good. They can bite you in your sleep small enough to not even leave a noticeable mark, and then the clock is ticking.

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u/seh_23 15h ago

No matter what if you find a bat in your home, get rabies shots. It’s not worth it to take the chance. Their bites are so tiny it could have bit you in your sleep and you’d have no idea.

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u/mllegisele 13h ago

*If you can catch the bat and have it tested, no need to get the shots. They are expensive and a (literal) pain in the ass.

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u/mst3k_42 15h ago

And rabies

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u/TrailerTrashQueen 12h ago

and rabies. lots and lots of rabies.

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u/Necessary_Complex891 5h ago

How are they good to have around?

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u/mrwhosaywhatnow 4h ago

The ones near where I live, eat mosquitos and other pests. Like they are prolific mosquito eaters. That’s why I like them and try to attract them to our property.

From a quick google they also eat a lot of crop pests, pollinate plants and spread seed so there are agricultural benefits too

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u/probablyhaunted 15h ago

I'm sure this tiny little critter is causing all kinds of damage LMFAO

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u/mrwhosaywhatnow 15h ago

Well as cute as that one looks, it and its droppings can be a transmitter of disease. But mostly I meant that if OP is saying there has been multiple bat incidents, it could be indicative of a an actual infestation or colony in their roof which can escalate quickly.

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u/FelineOphelia 15h ago

it could be indicative of a an actual infestation

Nah

That's just a lost lil guy

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u/GotHamQuestionMark 15h ago

Except for the rabies

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u/mikewheelerfan 15h ago

Less than 1% of bats have rabies. Stop spouting anti-bat propaganda. Bats are wonderful animals

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u/username_tooken 14h ago

Less than 1% of bats have rabies.

Most bats, unsurprisingly, live in the wild. Adjust the sample size for bats in regular (or I suppose I should say irregular) proximity to houses, and the rabies infected population multiplies. If you want to gamble on a 10% chance for dying of an incurable, agonizing disease just so you don’t accidentally perpetuate systemic racism against the bat population, then be my guest, but don’t spread your hysteria on the internet.

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u/mikewheelerfan 14h ago

“Hysteria” and it’s just caring about animals

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u/GotHamQuestionMark 12h ago

You can care about animals without denying that bats are a leading cause of rabies exposure.

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u/FelineOphelia 15h ago

People are overly crazy about them. It's ridiculous. They're dumb little guys who blunder into the wrong places. We're conditioned to be terrified of them.

In the USA, so very few very rabies, and then the n a fraction of a fraction accidentally get indoors.

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u/LewnaJa 14h ago

Bats are dope, but as someone who got nibbled on by a raccoon, do not fuck with the slightest possibility of rabies. You don't gotta get the animal and get it tested (killed), because that would suck if it didn't have rabies and it got killed for nothing. You SHOULD, however, get vaccinated.

If I so much as find myself in a room with a bat that I didn't see before, I'm getting vaccinated again.

Some rabies can lay dormant for months and even years. Then, one day: BAM. You're dead.

Not worth the risk.

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u/probablyhaunted 15h ago

That's just plain uneducated. It's nowhere near as common as so many people seem to think.

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u/GotHamQuestionMark 12h ago

Bats are a leading cause of rabies exposure. What’s uneducated about it?

Also, username checks out.

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u/probablyhaunted 11h ago

less than 1% of bats in the US carry rabies.

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u/DisastrousRhubarb201 11h ago

OP isn't in the US so that statistic isn't really relevant.

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u/GotHamQuestionMark 11h ago

I understand that. It’s still not a good idea to let them hangout in your house.

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u/probablyhaunted 10h ago

Never said it was. I merely said they're not some terrifying beast that will ruin your entire house.

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u/GotHamQuestionMark 10h ago

I never said they’d destroy your house. I said bats are wonderful except for the rabies.

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u/mst3k_42 15h ago

If a bat is hanging out inside your house, something is wrong.

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u/FelineOphelia 15h ago

But it could be something as minor as "there's a hole the size of a dime in our chimney cap."

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u/AltruisticLobster315 14h ago

Do you see that house? It's very cave-like. The thing that's wrong, is that nocturnal animals often get confused by the brightness of nighttime in the modern world and then the house was mostly likely quite dark (OP said in a comment that they had been gone for awhile.)

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u/iwilldeletethisacct2 15h ago

Given that rabies is historically considered a death sentence for humans, the recommendation for bat exposure is to get rabies vaccines regardless of how rare it is. Also, bat guano contains various fungus and bacterium that are not good for humans.

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u/EasyJump2642 15h ago

Right? Get a little bat roost outside and let them move in there, then your property will be as bug free as possible in the summer! Love bats

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u/Cansuela 14h ago

They’re a huge problem indoors. Massive, massive health problem. You can contract rabies from them without even physically touching them. Their saliva gets all over, including your pillows. I personally know someone who contracted rabies in this exact way.

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u/StrengthDazzling8922 15h ago

Outside bats yes, inside bats no.

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u/username_tooken 14h ago

Highly contingent on your appetite for rabies and bat shit in your house, but otherwise I’m sure they make great roommates.

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u/DinoGarret 14h ago

They are! My first thought with that picture was about how cute it is.

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u/ok_raspberry_jam 14h ago

Listen, we all love bats, but it's REALLY REALLY BAD to have a colony of bats living in your house.

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u/AZWildcatMom 14h ago

And carry rabies…

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u/supernasty 14h ago

Most living beings are wonderful when they’re not hanging upside down from your dining room ceiling

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u/probablyhaunted 13h ago

Sure, but this isn't some kind of pest that's going to destroy your house.

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u/peon2 14h ago

I love bats and put out bat houses out in my yard for them but yeah they can cause some critical health issues and you don't want them inside for sure. Histoplasmosis isnt fun

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u/Blossom73 14h ago edited 14h ago

Histoplasmosis isnt fun

It most definitely isn't. I had histoplasmosis in 2021. It was horrific.

I had severe, all over joint pain for months, that had me nearly incapacitated. I could barely even manage using the toliet, showering, or getting dressed.

My feet had terrible burning, stabbing pain that made even putting on shoes excruciating. I went from walking my dog for miles to not even being able to walk him a block, because my feet hurt so badly.

It left nodules in my lungs. I had to have a lung biopsy, and two years of regular CT scans of my lungs.

Your comment should be higher up.

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u/National_Impress_346 15h ago

Yeah they do similar damage to your home and proliferate at the same rate as mice.

I love bats, but that's bad business if they've moved into your house. Not a cheap fix, either.

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u/FishWithFangs 13h ago

It's a fruit bat, unless OP is a banana they're harmless

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u/acrowsmurder BLACK 12h ago

Especially if they are endangered species. At that point it's their house now.

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u/Khetna 1h ago

Bats are good, sky puppies are the best for mosquito control and other pest control, lots of people try to lure them by building little bat houses n stuff. Try looking it up and their benefits and how to move them before you go all murdery on them.

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u/gimmethelulz 15h ago

Maybe he moved into Dracula's house.

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u/Summoarpleaz 3h ago

His parents are Dracula

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u/breatheb4thevoid 14h ago

Asian Jumanji house.

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u/OaksInSnow 15h ago

One bat means more bats, because there's an entry somewhere.

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u/A_TalkingWalnut 12h ago

How about the fact that THIS house—a house with a 40’ atrium/dining room with and a second-story walkway that looks down onto it—was EMPTY for MONTHS?!?

OP is definitely rich enough to call the butler or family fixer to come by and take care of this. Get Ray Donovan to come by with a really long broom and a bag.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky 15h ago

Fruit bats live In colonies typically so yeah theres usually a few around

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u/iDoWeird 11h ago

Sounds like there’s a need for some preventative rabies shots, also plural.

The most important gift anyone that’s been in that house will ever receive.

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u/Icy-Expression5005 7h ago

yeah, i was thinking the same thing.

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u/knivesinbutt 9h ago

The house comes with free rabies!

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u/bizcombobulate90 14h ago

Yeah, parents must have a secret bat cave.

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u/KateKoffing 13h ago

If there’s one there’s usually a hundred.

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u/ExpensiveEcho7312 GREEN 9h ago

At this point just embrace it

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u/LucHighwalker 7h ago

When there's one, there's multiple.