Makes sense

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41 Comments

Dave@lemmy.nz · 84 pts · 2y

Then you can scroll the hamster wheel!

SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml · 51 pts · 2y (2 replies)
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y

What a shame that was an April Fools' prank... probably. They don't say it, but the video was released on March 31st 2019.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Why would he think that dropping electronics would be the best way to demonstrate the lack of a wire, though? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿคฆ

saltesc@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y (5 replies)

A computer mouse pluralised is technically mouses, but mice is accepted due to commonality.

I'll be around with more useless shit no one asked for but may find mildly, mildly, interesting.

bizarrocullen@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I'll be long dead in the ground before I use the word 'mouses'.

Sotuanduso@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 2y

On this day we remember the life of bizarrocullen, who has used the word 'mouses' and died just hours ago.

Nerdfest@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

"Meece"

Shard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Meeces

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y

a meece once bit my sister

aport@programming.dev · 20 pts · 2y

I can't argue with this

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Ok, now tell me what animal my trackball is.

Valthorn@feddit.nu · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Armadillo or hedgehog probably.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

That works.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

I have an elecom huge at work, and when somebdy asks me what kind of mouse is this, I say it's not a mouse, it's a rat.

Patariki@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Why stop there? Let's rename the mouse buttons to mouse/hamster buttocks.

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (5 replies)

What is the scroll wheel then? Mouse cock?

Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

You guys don't call it the clit already?

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

No, that's the red-ish circular thingy on top that you press on and slightly move your fingers for great effect.

I miss my old ThinkPad.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

old ThinkPad

I also call my ex this

Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

My lenovo still has red clitmouse

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Something, something, mouse balls

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

As a bonus, "Xhamster" finally makes sense as a porn site name! I think.. ๐Ÿค”

lemann@lemmy.one · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What was the reasoning behind that name anyway, sounds a bit "hmmm" thinking about it now lol

kemsat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

The cheek-filling power of hamsters?

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Yeah, now that you mention it, I think I'd prefer not to know ๐Ÿ˜„

HotDogFingies@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y

My vocabulary has forever been altered.

MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y

Brilliant! We'll call the scroll wheel "the hamster wheel"!

samus12345@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This had me wondering what the first mouse I ever used looked like as it was so long ago I don't remember, and it was this:

Makes me feel ancient. Still, it's better than the very first mouse from 1964, which looks like something from Fallout:

Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Second pic is peak ergonomics

Patches@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Back in the days when you asked someone to move the mouse to the button, and they picked that shit up off the desk ๐Ÿคฃ.

over_clox@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

People look at me weird when I turn the mouse upside down and rub it's balls.

Wiggit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

๐Ÿคจ

dukk@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

Sometimes you gotta tickle its balls to wake it up.

MoonRaven@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 2y
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I prefer gerbil

bufordt@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Gerbils have long tails.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

uhhh, tuco-tuco?

cjsolx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I prefer lemming

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

If you do that, I'm making a mouse company named hampter.

lynx@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Ham-ster

Spliffman1@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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