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| What bugs have you seen in your Apartment? |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:49 am Post subject: |
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By the way, I dont want to be the English police, but I cant help myself on this point, sorry (sincerely).
A 'bug' is a type of insect, its not a generic term unless you were brought up on a trailer park or something. The correct word is 'insect'.
here is a bug;
http://njaes.rutgers.edu/stinkbug/identify.asp
Its the same if you said everything is 'a bee' or 'an ant', or all four legged mammals are elephants.
Hopefully, others will read this and correct their sloppy, short-cut -on-spelling English.
Really, its not that hard to spell 'insect' is it people (or autumn)? |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| le-paul wrote: |
By the way, I dont want to be the English police, but I cant help myself on this point, sorry (sincerely).
A 'bug' is a type of insect, its not a generic term unless you were brought up on a trailer park or something. The correct word is 'insect'.
here is a bug;
http://njaes.rutgers.edu/stinkbug/identify.asp
Its the same if you said everything is 'a bee' or 'an ant', or all four legged mammals are elephants.
Hopefully, others will read this and correct their sloppy, short-cut -on-spelling English.
Really, its not that hard to spell 'insect' is it people (or autumn)? |
Im sorry for not being an entomologist. i don't actually call them anything other than what they are so i just summarized them as bug. (never use that word otherwise), i would run and say BEE!!!!! or Kyaahh!! there is a spider in my room!! i honestly apologies because i can tell that the misunderstanding annoys you. Ill call them what they are from now on.
And ooohh!! ok, i can kill a bug with about 6 layers of Kitchen roll. but that is about the only insect i can defeat. |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| Oh, we're talking about insects? Oh ok, you'll have no problems with insects. Sorry I was confused about the subject of our conversation. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Oh, we're talking about insects? Oh ok, you'll have no problems with insects. Sorry I was confused about the subject of our conversation. |
Erm.. Actually, it was initially about your neighbors and about how nice or not they are.. but i seem to have lead everyone away from that, so i apologies.
How are yours anyway? ^.^ |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Oh, we're talking about insects? Oh ok, you'll have no problems with insects. Sorry I was confused about the subject of our conversation. |
Erm.. Actually, it was initially about your neighbors and about how nice or not they are.. but i seem to have lead everyone away from that, so i apologies.
How are yours anyway? ^.^ |
Actually, that's what I thought we were talking about initially. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| Stain wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
| Oh, we're talking about insects? Oh ok, you'll have no problems with insects. Sorry I was confused about the subject of our conversation. |
Erm.. Actually, it was initially about your neighbors and about how nice or not they are.. but i seem to have lead everyone away from that, so i apologies.
How are yours anyway? ^.^ |
Actually, that's what I thought we were talking about initially. |
Oh, so you thought i meant neighbors as in insects? |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
| Oh, we're talking about insects? Oh ok, you'll have no problems with insects. Sorry I was confused about the subject of our conversation. |
Erm.. Actually, it was initially about your neighbors and about how nice or not they are.. but i seem to have lead everyone away from that, so i apologies.
How are yours anyway? ^.^ |
Actually, that's what I thought we were talking about initially. |
Oh, so you thought i meant neighbors as in insects? |
No neighbors as in 'people'. I thought we were using bugs as a way to describe them. That's why I was referring to them as pests, and that no matter the efforts to deflect them, they keep coming back. Sorry, man, I'm lost today. |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| The centipede I was talking about earlier is a nickname I have for one of my more troublesome neighbors. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
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| le-paul wrote: |
I went into my bathroom once (in korea) and the walls were literally covered with little, black insects. They must have hatched out during the night and had been nesting in the door frame all winter.
Apart from that, we had cockroaches last November which I assume came from the neighbours, as I got infested when I was on holiday.
But generally, mosquitoes are the biggest problem. Id say it pays to sleep with a mosquito net on your bed, unless you like them singing in your ears all night telling you they've just been feasting on your blood. |
AAccckkk!!! so when you say on holiday you mean korea or back home?! November? isn't cold at that time? -_-' |
The cold won't stop them. As soon as you've killed hoards of them using the most potent traps or sprays, then comes another...and another....and another.... and another. Nothing can stop them. I've tried holy water but it only angers them, a crucifix is only good if you can stab the little pricks with it. No. Nothing will stop this flesh eating army of the undead. |
Erm... Im slowly being put off hahaha!! i like where i live, when they are dead thats it! no more wasps until next year. |
Bugs everywhere and don't even bother attempting to ask your neighbor for help, they most likely cannot speak English and will have no idea what you're talking about. As a female they will probably just think you're inviting them into your apartment for something dirty.
My advice is to either avoid coming to Korea or toughen up quite a bit. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Hokie21 wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| le-paul wrote: |
I went into my bathroom once (in korea) and the walls were literally covered with little, black insects. They must have hatched out during the night and had been nesting in the door frame all winter.
Apart from that, we had cockroaches last November which I assume came from the neighbours, as I got infested when I was on holiday.
But generally, mosquitoes are the biggest problem. Id say it pays to sleep with a mosquito net on your bed, unless you like them singing in your ears all night telling you they've just been feasting on your blood. |
AAccckkk!!! so when you say on holiday you mean korea or back home?! November? isn't cold at that time? -_-' |
The cold won't stop them. As soon as you've killed hoards of them using the most potent traps or sprays, then comes another...and another....and another.... and another. Nothing can stop them. I've tried holy water but it only angers them, a crucifix is only good if you can stab the little pricks with it. No. Nothing will stop this flesh eating army of the undead. |
Erm... Im slowly being put off hahaha!! i like where i live, when they are dead thats it! no more wasps until next year. |
Bugs everywhere and don't even bother attempting to ask your neighbor for help, they most likely cannot speak English and will have no idea what you're talking about. As a female they will probably just think you're inviting them into your apartment for something dirty.
My advice is to either avoid coming to Korea or toughen up quite a bit. |
Ha!! If you ever saw me with an insect you'd not believe such a person exists. Not coming to Korea.. Not an option! I have a bit of family (that I have left) that lives there which I'm hoping to still find one last one (he lives in Seoul apparently) but I've already set my mind and life on going there ever since I was young. So I just can't wait to be there more than anything. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| Stain wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
| Jessiemj93 wrote: |
| Stain wrote: |
| Oh, we're talking about insects? Oh ok, you'll have no problems with insects. Sorry I was confused about the subject of our conversation. |
Erm.. Actually, it was initially about your neighbors and about how nice or not they are.. but i seem to have lead everyone away from that, so i apologies.
How are yours anyway? ^.^ |
Actually, that's what I thought we were talking about initially. |
Oh, so you thought i meant neighbors as in insects? |
No neighbors as in 'people'. I thought we were using bugs as a way to describe them. That's why I was referring to them as pests, and that no matter the efforts to deflect them, they keep coming back. Sorry, man, I'm lost today. |
That's ok ^,^ I'm not the best person to explain things. But sure any advise is better than none. So your neighbours aren't the greatest of people. Do you try to be friendly or just meh... Get what you get? Hehehe~~ |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| My apartment gets regularly fumigated so I have no insects, just safe and sound methocancerol-3 in my apartment. |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| My apartment gets regularly fumigated so I have no insects, just safe and sound methocancerol-3 in my apartment. |
Really?! doesnt that ruin your belongings? |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Plenty of spiders. However, spiders in the house is considered a good luck, or more like good fengshui. (Not like in Australia where they have lethal poisonous spiders e.g redbacks and whitetails.)
As for human neighbours: my next door neighbour is drunk and sleeping in his own vomit at the moment, just outside my door. He made it to his door but as is often the case with the drunks he couldn't find his keys. He gave up and passed out.  |
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Jessiemj93
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
Location: England
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| andrewchon wrote: |
Plenty of spiders. However, spiders in the house is considered a good luck, or more like good fengshui. (Not like in Australia where they have lethal poisonous spiders e.g redbacks and whitetails.)
As for human neighbours: my next door neighbour is drunk and sleeping in his own vomit at the moment, just outside my door. He made it to his door but as is often the case with the drunks he couldn't find his keys. He gave up and passed out. |
Erm.. so what is your neighbor like.. as in Korean or foreign? employed or not? sociable? hehe or do you not get involved.  spiders lucky?!?!?! how on earth are they? |
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