help! i have maggots in my bathroom

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last night there were a few little white crawly maggot things around the handbasin. then i found more in the bathmat.

i cleaned them up. but then there were more!

where are they coming from?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno! Have you contacted Fox Mulder?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

thats what i feel like.

maybe somethings dead in the roof?

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have had maggots. They are coming from decaying organic matter somewhere near or in your bathroom. Did you dispose of that body properly?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

all but the nose, which i have as a keepsake

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have those in the kitchen in my last apartment. Time for a big clean, Gaz!

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

no no its clean ! its a bathroom ferchrissakes. its not like i cook in there...

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

it's soapflies

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 23 October 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it's rugflies, get a new bathroom mat.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

help! i have mice in my apartment!
someone recommended poison bait, and i stupidly took the advice. guess what? dead mouse in my laundry bag this morning. stupid lauren stupid lauren stupid stupid lauren. not only was it sooo nasty, i now feel like an evil evil killer.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe one of the Lost Boys left his Chinese food in your bathroom.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren, I'm still playing cat-and-mouse with my one. Clevermouse (for so she has been named) eats clean cheese off the trap like a fearless superhero, never once setting it off. I'm going to invest in one of those tunnels with a door that shuts behind Clevermouse. Then I'm going to release her in the park, where she can roam wild and free, ultimately to be torn to bits by dogs.

Gaz, my theory is that something has died nearby.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter, colin.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Time to start looking for a new apartment; this one's going bad.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I have mice too. :(:( I caught one in a snap trap; killing it felt so good. But the other one hasn't been caught yet.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah colin, i figure its something dead. possibly in the crawlspace above the bathroom. i am so looking forward to getting up there.

in related news a kurrawong swooped down and snatched a rat of our shed roof. so rosemary,lauren: get a fucking aggressive big black bird. more spectacular than a cat.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

when i bought the poison bait i was feeling very vindictive, but today when i was confronted with the ugly evidence i went all soft. perhaps it's time to try those humane traps. i don't want maggots, after all!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

When I beat the rat in my future wife's apartment to death with a metal pipe, I went all hard.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

heres what i heard about the poison: it creates an expanding concrete-like stuff in the rats stomach which sets hard (which is why the poisoned rats don't smell bad like ordinary dead rats, cos they're kind of set in concrete) and the rats get feverously thirsty and leave the house looking for a drink.

(maybe you got a bit of poison in you Dan)

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

in related news a kurrawong swooped down and snatched a rat of our shed roof

and y'all complain that the Simpsons portrayal of your country wasn't accurate?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 October 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Poisoned rats/mice crawl into the walls and die, thereby stinking up your house for the next year or so. Use traps.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, the Simpsons portrayal of our country is accurate about everything bu the accents.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

*squints, spits, scratches ball*

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

*squints, spits, scratches balls*

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Edwin the rat was the size of a telephone and apparently came in to die. He did so behind the cupboard. Our cat was no help - she was clearly afraid of him. The smell got so bad over the next three weeks that by the time we finally got the landlord to bring in someone to rip the cupboards out, we could smell it on our clothes, our food, our skin, and even in our piss.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

rat flava'd piss'd taste better than VB

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

...kurra...wong?

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Kurrawong.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i should've left it at just 'ball'

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

scratches ball

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/19/iceballs/iceball.jpg

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

oops

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/19/iceballs/iceball.jpg

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

random reactions to this thread:
1. I saw an old man fishing the other day in a lake (off a bridge) using maggots for bait. I knew this because his box of maggots was sitting next to him. Enormous ones, writhing and doing all those maggoty things. (aside--in fact, I only assume he was using them for bait. How would you hook one? Maybe they were pets?) At any rate, just seeing them made me want to throw up and push him into the lake. If they were in the house, I'd seriously consider moving.
2. The chat above about feeling guilty for killing mice and rats in ones house annoys the shit out of me--on an intellectual basis. They're mice, or rats. They exist to be killed. They want you to get bubonic plague and die. "I'll release it in the park." Ugh.
3. On the other hand, when confronted with mice in my own house and being forced to deal with them, I found it very hard. I've used traps and poison, and the act of killing something, or being responsible for killing it, really bothered me on an emotional basis. Even a disgusting mouse with its nasty little bug-eyes...ah...uh...sorry. Seriously, killing anything freaks me out, but being opposed to killing mice/rats makes me mad.
4. Is this a stupid psychological conflict or the faint impulse that makes us civilized?
5. On a practical note, must echo above posts and recommend traps. With poison, they only theoretically go outside looking for water. They usually die in an out of the way place in your house and start to smell like, um...death warmed over.

― Skottie, Thursday, 23 October 2003 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, rat poison has changed since i was a lad. it used to be Warfarin which made them bleed to death

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 23 October 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Euw, gross & gross.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Skottie, was the fisherman actually using maggots? Are you sure they were not grubs?

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ughughughughugh!!!

*vows to clean bathroom from top to toe once home*

*EVERY DAY*

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Carey,

I could be wrong. Maybe they were grubs, but I think of grubs as bigger and fatter. But then these seemed like awfully big maggots. They didn't seem pratical, because, despite their size, it still would appear hard to skewer one on a fishhook. So I don't really know. They had a definite maggot-like aspect to them! And again, maybe they were just pets!

― Skottie, Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

They would have been maggots. You can get them in all different dyed colours you know.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

wafarin. that's it. i really wish i whatever i bought turned mice into stone, like gaz said. the mouse i found in my bag definitely had bled to death, with accompanying stain, which might be why i got so squeamish.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

euw, I dont know why I keep clicking on this thread!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

At my first house in London, we had mice running about under the fireplace. The landlord sent a pest control man round and he left these big, sticky strips of stuff along the skirting. Then he explained to us what would happen:

“The mouse will run over the strip and get stuck. Don’t worry if it screams a bit – mice do scream, but you can just pick it up and bash its head against the wall”.

Aaargh!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

am i the only one thinking of garth merenghi ?

"maggots...maggots...maggots

maggots".

― piscesboy, Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

wtf?

& yes you are the only one.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Maggots, poison, screaming mice....*shudder*

― smee (smee), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

no maggots today! have they consumed the entire rat do you think?

madchen, thats...sick.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I caught another mouse! Now there's this pool of mouse blood on the floor. I will trace a chalk outline and leave this for the next tenants.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kathsdollsncrafts.co.nz/Mvc-079s%20tom%20&%20jerry.JPG

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 29 January 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You do realize, I have to make that now.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 29 January 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

And so it was.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I once dug out a mouse nest in my uncle's garden.

I did so enjoy hitting tiny mice mith a shovel.

― yadayada (rodimius), Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

giant spider alert!

every time its going to rain this huge spider (think: the size of a mans hand) comes into the house. this morning it was sitting happily on the wall just above the bathroom door. i ducked as i went in.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

You could all move, I can think of a great place in London...

Does anyone need a house in north London?

Sorry

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep getting spiders carrying those big bubbles full of baby spiders. I kill them all anyway.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Slayer of young!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to move to london. you only have earwigs and rats there i believe?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

slayer of young

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Mice in the houses. The rats stay out of sight. Also silverfish, but I find them fascinating.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's okay, it makes you sound like a viking:

"I am Adam Nordicskills, slayer of young!"

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cower from me spider people!"

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"I fear not your webs!"

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(must leave this thread)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

can i borrow your spider slaying armour adam?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

One time there were mice in my parents bedroom that came up through the hole in the floor for some kind of cabling. My dad and I closed off all exits to the room and I killed the mouse with a fucking spatula.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

hardcore!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

can i borrow your spider slaying armour adam?

Yes, I'll zip and upload for slsk!!

Plus-Anna, you are mad.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(in a good way)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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