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Mosquitoes and heat
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How's the weather and mosquitoes?
Very, very, very hot and too many mosquitoes
38%
 38%  [ 7 ]
Not too hot and the mosquitoes are not too bad
22%
 22%  [ 4 ]
Mild on both accounts
27%
 27%  [ 5 ]
Excellent
11%
 11%  [ 2 ]
Total Votes : 18

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baldrick



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to chuckle about people (usually canadians) complaining about rain, heat and mosquitos. Korea is pretty tame in all these areas, compared to most of the rest of Asia.
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

#$%^&* Canadians!
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

baldrick wrote:
I have to chuckle about people (usually canadians) complaining about rain, heat and mosquitos. Korea is pretty tame in all these areas, compared to most of the rest of Asia.


What are you talking about? Canadian mosquitos are so large and numerous, it's our national bird.
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phaedrus



Joined: 13 Nov 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hollywoodaction wrote:
baldrick wrote:
I have to chuckle about people (usually canadians) complaining about rain, heat and mosquitos. Korea is pretty tame in all these areas, compared to most of the rest of Asia.


What are you talking about? Canadian mosquitos are so large and numerous, it's our national bird.


I complain about the heat, but never mosquitos. They don't bite me, and there aren't many.

Give me some real cold.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm allergic to mosquitoes, so I have a quite valid reason to loathe them. And the fact that they can survive past their "season" -- I saw a mosquito on the subway one December, and another in my office last January -- makes them tougher, in my opinion, than Canadian mosquitoes.

C'mon, Canucks; don't so damned patriotic that you start bragging about your mosquitoes. That's lame.

Sparkles*_*
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phaedrus



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think mosquitos in Korea survive in the warm spots they can find within the air systems of apartment buildings, in subway systems etc.

I add something about this to every mosquito thread: you don't know blood sucking insects until you plant trees in northern Ontario.
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
I'm allergic to mosquitoes, so I have a quite valid reason to loathe them. And the fact that they can survive past their "season" -- I saw a mosquito on the subway one December, and another in my office last January -- makes them tougher, in my opinion, than Canadian mosquitoes.

C'mon, Canucks; don't so damned patriotic that you start bragging about your mosquitoes. That's lame.

Sparkles*_*


But he started it! Crying or Very sad
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's nothing patriotic about it. Any Canadian who grew up in the proximity of trees knows that they aren't worse here. I imagine anyone from michigan or Vermont or .... also knows this.

I don't want real cold though. The heat's fine with me. I'd like to move to Thailand to escape these colourless Kyonggiseoul chilly winters.
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pet lover



Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zed wrote:
There's nothing patriotic about it. Any Canadian who grew up in the proximity of trees knows that they aren't worse here. I imagine anyone from michigan or Vermont or .... also knows this.


I disagree. I'm Canadian. Grew up in southern Ontario and vacationed many summers in Northern Ontario. Mosquitoes are hell there, sure; but never was I bitten by one in the winter, and never did my bite swell up to the size of a golf ball, as the ones I've gotten here have done. Plus, Korean mosquitoes are faster than North American mosquitoes. They're spry here. Unlike North American mosquitoes, the trusty old rolled-up magazine rarely works on them. They've evolved. I'm telling you: Asian mosquitoes have evolved. Pretty soon there'll be twelve-foot tall ones hovering the pollution-clouded Seoul skies, spiriting away pedestrians to their satanic lair.

It ain't safe no more.

Sparkles*_*
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Hollywoodaction



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may have a point there. You only hear Korean mosquitos once they've already drained you of blood. Canadian mosquitos are as subtle as an elephant in a glassware shop.
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