Do you kill bugs?

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That's awful, if you do.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

HE'S A SPY! KILL HIM!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't usually, but I would not want that thing in my home.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I kill about 10-15 bugs every day, some of them carrying children.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

He wasn't asking about the Volkswagens you crash into on a daily basis.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody school traffic.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with killing bugs? I can't really help myself. If I see a roach scurrying around I'm gonna chase after it with a shoe until its DEAD, DEAD DEAD!! So I only really kill moths and cockroaches that are in my apartment. Oh and I also saw the grossest, LARGEST BEETLE I'VE EVER SEEN outside my door a month or so ago.. it was YELLOW. And CRISPY-looking. I put a newspaper on top of it and jumped up and down furiously. It was probably rare, and from the amazon rainforest, or something.. and I foiled some scientist's experiment.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

When I had an ant problem in my kitchen this summer, I gathered up a couple spiders I found in corners of my house and brought them to where the ants were getting into my house and set them loose there. It wasn't long until my ant problem was gone, and instead I had two big fat docile spiders.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

This place crawls!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

So, while I technically did not do the killing personally, you could say I am responsible for their deaths.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a special, er, "soft spot" for silverfish. They are the only bug that I feel an overwhelming instinctual desire to CRUSH the moment I see them.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU ORDERED THE KILLINGS, NICKALICIOUS! I just envisioned two fat spiders with big curly eyelashes. Awwww.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I flush cockroaches down the toilet and smush spiders unless they're big, in which case I flee until I can get someone to come and squish them for me. I know they're good for stuff, whatever, but they freak me the fuck out and once they cross the threshold into my home, they are fair game and deserve to die. I leave their little corpses outside impaled on toothpicks as a warning to the other spiders, so if they don't pay attention, it isn't my fault.

Death to spiders!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

In future, I will carefully collect all spiders in a jar and send them to Nick.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I may even punch air holes in the lid. We'll see.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind spiders for some reason. Unless they crawl across my face. Then it's time for a killin'.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiders crawling on face? That's a paddlin'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

For at least the first 8 or so years of my life I thought silverfish were a product of my mother's overactive imagination. For some reason she always found them in a certain cupboard in the kitchen when I wasn't in the room (dead giveaway, I thought) and she would shout "Silver fish!" as 2 separate words, making me think she ~~imagined that she~~ had found an *actual fish* in the cupboard.

Humans have not succeeded in making a single insect species extinct. This means that:

those who kill bugs can do so safe in the knowledge that they are not driving a species to extinction

those who don't can sit and laugh at them, noting the futility of their actions.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

better to take care of them now, before we end up with this:
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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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I rarely see roaches in California (too dry) but in New Orleans I shared an eskimo pie with one and he ate more than me. It was HUGE.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouldn't that be Inuit pie, Andy?

― Politically Correct MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

For the record, we were only following orders.

― nickalicious's spiders posting on his computer (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You know.. it really scares me that my apartment building has roaches because I live in Colorado, which is ALSO dry as HELL. In fact, before I lived in my building I'd never seen a cockroach in real life.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I kill all bugs without a second thought -- except spiders. They help me kill the bugs.

When I'm in New Orleans I'm perpetually afraid of mutant insects. A house I stay at sometimes has a GIANT tarantula-esque spider who has lived there for years. His name is Harry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the idea of Nickalicious having spiders. He's kinda like Crispin Glover in Willard, except he has a troop of cute spiders.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"SPIN.. WEAVE.. SPIN YOUR WEBS, MY DARLINGS!!! WAHAHAHAA!"

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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"We're Nick's tiny minions! We kills at his command!" (to the tune of "Live & Let Die.")

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Those spiders look like drunk hobos.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

For awhile there, my roomy and I would leave the porch light on starting at about dusk so that large amounts of moths & other bugs would be drawn to the light. We would gather these bugs up and throw them into the web of this huge beautiful garden spider that had made her web in the corner of the porch, and get this huge kick out of watching her scurry over to the poor things, wrap them up, and sometimes suck their essence or whatever out right then and there. After a couple margaritas I promise this really is 100% entertaining.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually let most bugs walk on by, or I escort them out the window. I do kill, however: FLEAS. TICKS. MOSQUITOS. I just killed a tick last weekend by holding him in my Swiss Army tweezers and lighting him with a Bic.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't believe you spiderlovers!!! they are the bug most likely to be deadly to you, you know. keeping an evil horrid brown recluse around to eat a couple of poor little fruit flies is poor poor judgement!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i kill bugs with no remorse.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i get spiders, beetles, etc, in my room a lot. i'm not gonna let the fuckers crawl on me while i'm asleep.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The trick to spider wrangling is to know which ones you want to keep around. Wolf spiders, for instance, while they are big scarier-than-fuck hairy freaks, are not particularly venomous to humans. Brown recluse spiders, on the other hand, are destroyed on contact (I've only ever actually found one brown recluse in my house, fwiw).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know that Daddy Long Legs spiders are even technically spiders, but I like them and won't kill them (I will usually usher them out the door though).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't kill bugs. I catch spiders and put them outside.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

nick-wolf spiders will bite though! they aren't deadly but they will leave a nice painful little welt.
also, the best method to spider killing is smashing. i have in the past attempted to poison them or drown them by unleashing a steady stream of windex or some other cleaning spray upon them. this only makes them angry! i read somewhere that daddy long legs actually do have some pretty effective venom, but that they are unable to pierce human skin and are therefore harmless. this may be complete bullshit, i can't recall where i read it.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

As spiders are my allies in the war against flies, moths, and gnats, they are treated kindly though the tenacious spider at the bottom of the back stairs who constantly weaves her web only to have me undo it with my head every morning is not, depite the Robert the Bruce propaganda, a worthy example of arachnid steadfastness. She's just clueless, poor thing.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hairspray is okay - but better when you spray it and light it at the same time. little spider infernoes.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, i can't wait to try that, luna!!! i will have to buy some hairspray on my way home from work and then do a full cleansing of my apartment. die charlotte die!!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

just be careful - you don't want to set your curtains on fire.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hairspray is okay - but better when you spray it and light it at the same time. little spider infernoes.
-- luna (luna_cee...), September 23rd, 2004.

doing this while evryone is high=classic.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Awhile back I was mowing my yard and I got attacked by this mini-platoon of wasps, I ran inside and grabbed a spray bottle I had of BLEACH, from which I unloaded like half a quart into the hole in the fence where they had set up camp. They came flying out after me on some vengeance shit, but then they started DROPPING IN THE AIR. It was one of the most hardcore things ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Last year I was bitten by a spider in my sleep and my arm swelled and the venom was visibly traveling up my VEIN to my HEART and I had to go to the hospital and go on anti-venom and steroids. So now I hate the little buggers and you should fear them! (It was not a brown recluse btw, they cause skin to go necrotic)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Spray bleach: kills wasps through burning.
Hairspray: every home should have a can of purple Aqua-Net. Even immobilizes those flies that are so large you wonder how they remain aloft.
Spiders: poisonous spiders not a problem in my climate, therefore they live.
Silverfish: inevitably discovered while using toilet; standard policy is to mush the bug using a scrunch of loo roll without leaving seat.

Mosquitoes can only really die in hand-to-insect combat. Same goes with cockroaches or any beetle except ladybugs, but add implement of choice eg. shoe in hand.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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Me, last week

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

black widow then? because i believe the only spiders in america that are harmful to most humans are black widows and brown recluses.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

only in self-defence.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

There are tarantulas in the US too! But none of these spiders are really deadly unless you're like 96.

I have a buddy that was bit by both the black widow and brown recluse. The black widow bite was nasty but no big deal, but the recluse bite was like a fucking VOLCANO OF PUS.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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Brown recluse is RARE! Common in Kansas but rare in California. I saw one in a pile of pipes while I was doing construction. If the spider doesn't look like this, it's probably not a recluse.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to throw up as soon as I climb down from the ceiling.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was asleep, so I have no idea what kind of spidey it was. It may have just been a wolf spider, but I have always been highly sensitive to any insect venom, hence the reaction. (My mosquito bites look like I've got the black plague.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Brown recluses are on the line between uncommon and rare here. As I said up there, I found one in my house once (wooden house + crawlspace underneath = very spider friendly). Brown recluses are very SMALL.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They squish under boots very satisfyingly for something so small, though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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The first time I was suspended from school in 4th grade was because a kid named Ronnie and I staged a fight in a jar between my scorpion (found under a board) and his black widow (found under his house). The bugs didn't seem to want to fight at all no matter how much we prodded, and then some braceface beeotch narked and we got in big trouble.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The janitor dispatched our would-be gladiators out behind a shed.

― andy, Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiders love hanging out on ceilings, Luna!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The cool thing about keeping spiders around is that if you feed them a bunch, the next day they are HUGE. Their structure is determined by how much they eat, ie they don't just get fat.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i kill insects with extreme prejudice cuz i can

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 23 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't remind me about bugs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Silverfish: inevitably discovered while using toilet; standard policy is to mush the bug using a scrunch of loo roll without leaving seat.
Haha, I do this too!! Silverfish are evil and must die! I cannot imagine having cockroaches in my house, let alone hanging around long enough to kill it. I think I've only ever seen about 5 in my life & that was mostly in India.
I don't like to kill spiders (even though the ones in our house are huge!) they just get scooped up in a glass & thrown out of the window.
I only basically kill ants & things I don't recognise. moths are ushered out of the door aswell.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Not if I can help it.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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