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fermentation



Joined: 22 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I killed three of them at my girlfriend's apartment. Unloaded my can of DEET on one for a few seconds and it wasn't moving anymore. Digusting little bastards.
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andz22



Joined: 08 Jun 2008
Location: Wales

PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:00 am    Post subject: Re: WTF is this?!?! Reply with quote

tweeterdj wrote:
I have had two of these in my apartment in the last week, and one of my friends from China says they are poisonous! Is he joking? What the hell is that thing?? Should I be afraid? I hate bugs...


That do have some venom but they can't use it on humans, and they eat other insects which will be creeping around your home.
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D.D.



Joined: 29 May 2008

PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

weebil wrote:
JongnoGuru wrote:
How would you like to come back in your next life as SMALLER than that thing? And then have it see you, somehow figure out that you killed its great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, and then the chase is on. All around the apartment.

I'd be... "ho-lee SHHHHHIT, this is one PHUQUED UP reality!!!" Surprised

But then I'd stop running for my life and try to reason with it. Eventually we'd come to a truce -- not a formal peace treaty, but an agreement to cease hostilities, with a view to full "small man-big insect reconciliation" at a future date. In the meantime, there'd be avenues of confidence-building and mutual benefit-seeking we could discuss and pursue. For instance, I could offer to show it where to find food, where to hide, what insecticide looks/smells like... all that insect gotta-know stuff. And in return, it would agree not to rip me limb from limb and eat me whilst I was still alive and screaming. We would come to realise that we both had compatibile interests, shared values and common enemies in cats & dogs, people, and birds maybe. And if we got to be good pals, maybe he'd hook me up with some chick insects. Wink


lay off the drugs, son.


Brother you need to lay off the drugs if you are digging up threads from 2005. That guy is probably living in another country with two kids and a wife and hasn't logged in for 3 years and you are like heh man lay off the drugs.
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weebil



Joined: 24 May 2009

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

D.D. wrote:
weebil wrote:
JongnoGuru wrote:
How would you like to come back in your next life as SMALLER than that thing? And then have it see you, somehow figure out that you killed its great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, and then the chase is on. All around the apartment.

I'd be... "ho-lee SHHHHHIT, this is one PHUQUED UP reality!!!" Surprised

But then I'd stop running for my life and try to reason with it. Eventually we'd come to a truce -- not a formal peace treaty, but an agreement to cease hostilities, with a view to full "small man-big insect reconciliation" at a future date. In the meantime, there'd be avenues of confidence-building and mutual benefit-seeking we could discuss and pursue. For instance, I could offer to show it where to find food, where to hide, what insecticide looks/smells like... all that insect gotta-know stuff. And in return, it would agree not to rip me limb from limb and eat me whilst I was still alive and screaming. We would come to realise that we both had compatibile interests, shared values and common enemies in cats & dogs, people, and birds maybe. And if we got to be good pals, maybe he'd hook me up with some chick insects. Wink


lay off the drugs, son.


Brother you need to lay off the drugs if you are digging up threads from 2005. That guy is probably living in another country with two kids and a wife and hasn't logged in for 3 years and you are like heh man lay off the drugs.


lol no, you fail. lrn 2 profile search.
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Pwillig



Joined: 26 Jan 2009

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They eat your brain and doesn't fear anything!
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Zulethe



Joined: 04 Jul 2008

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JongnoGuru wrote:
How would you like to come back in your next life as SMALLER than that thing? And then have it see you, somehow figure out that you killed its great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, and then the chase is on. All around the apartment.

I'd be... "ho-lee SHHHHHIT, this is one PHUQUED UP reality!!!" Surprised

But then I'd stop running for my life and try to reason with it. Eventually we'd come to a truce -- not a formal peace treaty, but an agreement to cease hostilities, with a view to full "small man-big insect reconciliation" at a future date. In the meantime, there'd be avenues of confidence-building and mutual benefit-seeking we could discuss and pursue. For instance, I could offer to show it where to find food, where to hide, what insecticide looks/smells like... all that insect gotta-know stuff. And in return, it would agree not to rip me limb from limb and eat me whilst I was still alive and screaming. We would come to realise that we both had compatibile interests, shared values and common enemies in cats & dogs, people, and birds maybe. And if we got to be good pals, maybe he'd hook me up with some chick insects. Wink


This is a totally true story.

Back when I lived in Seattle, our house was infested with wolf spiders. These suckers where so big, I could hear them crawling on my posters at night.

I was absolutely terrified. I would find them in my bed with me sometimes in the morning.

I went to the doctor to have some bumps on my neck - which I thought were a weird form of acne - checked out.

Son, do you have spiders in your house? Shocked HOLLY SSSSHHHH

The war was on. I started killing them left and right. I torturned them, threatened them. I screamed at them to bring it on!!

Well, they kept coming. So finally, I sat down and had a talk with this one who had recently moved into my bedroom.

Basically I said, "Look, I'll leave you alone on the condition that you leave me alone and tell your friends to stay out."

The conversation was much longer and deeper than that but you get the point.

From that day on not another spider entered my room, and my new roomie and I had a nice long relationship together.

I'M NOT LIEING PEOPLE THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

The moral of the story is that you can try talking to them. It just may work!
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That was a good photo.

I mean given the agitation the photographer had to be feeling, not to mention how those things move, that shot turned out pretty nice.

We had those back in the states too. Once blasted one with Raid at close range. A bunch of legs fell off and twitched while the thing scampered away to die in agony somewhere.
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poeticjustice



Joined: 28 Feb 2009

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aw, kioawah!
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kabrams



Joined: 15 Mar 2008
Location: your Dad's house

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eunoia wrote:
Dude, if I saw THAT in my apt., I wouldn't be ****ing around trying to take a picture of it.


Seriously, I'm looking around in fear right now.
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AgentM



Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: British Columbia, Canada

PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man, I'm not lookin' forward to dealing with Korean bugs *shudder*! Not a fan of the insects. At least here in Canada they die off/go dormant in the fall/winter, the upside to living in a cold climate.

For insects, I have a policy of, if they're in my house, they're fair game!
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Bronski



Joined: 17 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of those was in my classroom a couple of weeks ago. The kids were going bananas, actually climbing on the desks to get away, talking about how it's poisonous, etc. I killed it and they burst into applause.

I know how it feels to be a hero.
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Oreovictim



Joined: 23 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, those house centipedes aren't scary at all. It's the giant centipedes that scare the crap out of me. Just look on google or youtube - you know, they're the ones that can take down a tarantula. When I lived in Hawaii, my dad said that there was a large one somewhere in the house. Well, it crawled inside my dad's friend's motorcycle helmet. His friend got a nasty bite/sting on the back of his neck when his helmet on.
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