[HN Gopher] Mouse filmed tidying man's shed every night
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Mouse filmed tidying man's shed every night
Author : austinallegro
Score : 88 points
Date : 2024-01-07 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| underyx wrote:
| I know this is standard headline grammar, but my god it was very
| hard to not read this as the mouse doing the filming every night.
| Specifically, filming a shed that belongs to a tidying man.
| tgv wrote:
| It's not standard headline grammar by definition. They do leave
| out function words (A mouse was), but in the same space, you
| could write: "Mouse tidying a man's shed every night secretly
| filmed." In which case "secretly" stands out as superfluous,
| because nobody expects you to inform the mouse beforehand.
| aliasxneo wrote:
| Impressive. Maybe I can get it to train my kids :)
| underyx wrote:
| Probably yet another mouse experiment that doesn't transfer to
| humans.
| lowbloodsugar wrote:
| Lol. Oblig IN MICE.
| pyrophane wrote:
| > It is not the first time he has come across an organised
| rodent. When living in Bristol in 2019, his friend reached out
| for help fixing up a night camera when another mouse was keeping
| their shed in order.
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| I hate being one of those people who treats everything with
| suspicion, but he previously helped a friend who was also using a
| night vision camera to record a "tidying up" mouse?
| Retric wrote:
| The behavior is common, the only thing suspicious is calling it
| "tidying up" rather than nest building or whatever.
| timeon wrote:
| Often it is the same thing.
| graphe wrote:
| This is clickbait it's not tidying, it's just storing away items.
| Squirrels that cache things aren't tidying.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Man secretly filmed tidying bank's vault every night.
| djaychela wrote:
| That's as maybe, but it's doing a better job than my 17 year
| old son.
| TheNewsIsHere wrote:
| An alternative take is that it's just a fun title for a cute
| thing that happened in someone's shed.
| throwawaaarrgh wrote:
| Fun is illegal on HN unless it involves programming
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| Obviously. But relax. It is nice to think about something fun
| for a change.
| preciousoo wrote:
| I read a story about this but it was elves working for a
| shoemaker during the night instead
| nlitsme wrote:
| My cat seems to be doing the exact opposite: removing random
| objects from desks and shelves, and leaving them in random
| unreachable corners.
| irrational wrote:
| What makes a corner unreachable?
| patpatpat wrote:
| Larger objects in said corners that get in the way.
| sarchertech wrote:
| It's Hunca Munca! Incidentally that's what we named our Roomba.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| I'm heading to the pet store now to buy 20 mice. I'll let them
| out and every morning I want that kitchen looking spotless.
| fritzo wrote:
| When my partner and I returned home after a 1 month trip, we
| discovered caches of 1cm food pellets (dog food?) in various
| places in our house: in one boot, in the pocket of one backpack,
| under our bedroom pillow, nestled between two couch cushions. The
| neatness made it seem mysterious: Did I forget I had stowed dog
| food in my backpack, and while packing let the backpack drip on
| our bed and couch? The boot is what gave it away as mousework.
| inreverse wrote:
| did you break one up to check they weren't cocoons
| fritzo wrote:
| they were kind of sponge-like with internal cavities, so it
| was clear they were not cocoons
| neom wrote:
| I was sure this was going to be an article about a mouse making a
| short film about a guy cleaning his shed.
| jonplackett wrote:
| Non-click bait heading: Mouse builds nests out of messy shed's
| contents.
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