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I just killed 16 flies, more to go

 
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:58 pm    Post subject: I just killed 16 flies, more to go Reply with quote

What the title says.
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mateomiguel



Joined: 16 May 2005

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you must decapitate them and impale their heads on toothpicks as a warning to the rest.
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Ryst Helmut



Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mateomiguel wrote:
you must decapitate them and impale their heads on toothpicks as a warning to the rest.


Ahhh, good. Others do this too...I am not alone. Good to know!

Now, only if I were permitted to do this with my students....

!Shoosh,

Ryst
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kimchi_pizza



Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flies and mosquitoes are a big problem this year. So...

I put up a bounty, dead or alive, preferrably dead. I reward my students for every fly that manage to whack. Now, it's become a sporting event!
THAT takes care of THAT.

There is a strange number of insects flying about. Several weeks ago there were so many of these tiny insects that I couldn't ride my motorcycle because I was getting blinded and I was wearing sunglasses.
I think it's a sign of a long and bad winter come'n up.
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i_teach_esl



Joined: 07 Sep 2006
Location: baebang, asan/cheonan

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ryst Helmut wrote:
mateomiguel wrote:
you must decapitate them and impale their heads on toothpicks as a warning to the rest.


Ahhh, good. Others do this too...I am not alone.Ryst


it's always fun to hang out at daves. Smile
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My cats help me catch bugs. Their eyes can locate the insects, and then I kill. Or if I just injure the bugs, the cats can take care of them when they fly low.
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kimchi_pizza



Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RACETRAITOR wrote:
My cats help me catch bugs. Their eyes can locate the insects, and then I kill. Or if I just injure the bugs, the cats can take care of them when they fly low.


Trained my cat to do the same in Taiwan. Man, are cats awesome. Nothing like waking up in the morning and seeing smeared mosquitoes on my bedroom wall. Means I got a peaceful nights sleep.
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Ryst Helmut



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The next fly or mogi that I catch will be stunned by my lightening-quick smack then transported by my gentle chopstick carrying method (wooden throwaways...I ain't that gross) to my 30 hungry fishies in our large aquarium.

I place 10,000 won on "Minnie" (female Mickey Mouse Platy...original name, yeah...I know) getting the protein.

!shoosh,

Ryst
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leebumlik69



Joined: 05 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:29 am    Post subject: Re: I just killed 16 flies, more to go Reply with quote

laogaiguk wrote:
What the title says.

I swear this is the truth:
In the Summer, I left a window open all weekend. I was getting itchy at night after and looked around to see nothing. My ceilings a bit high so i never noticed or thought to look. Eventually one day I looked up and saw the squadron of mosquitos that lived entirely on the ceiling (near the lights) and nowhere else and only flew down to bite. There were AT LEAST 80 of them! I calculatingly moved my cabinet around the place for a solid hour, having to stand on the shaky thing and concentrate on not falling to my death as I killed. I could slay a good five or so each cabinet move. I had a very high kill ratio as the mosquitos were very slow. Afterwards, I managed to push myself to remove the pulp remains of them from the ceiling and wall (some of them escaped to the wall or were there from the beginning) with wet and dry toilet paper (another hour). Disturbingly I didn't watch any significantly long TV anything that night and so had an uncomfortable sleep.
My Korean coworkers wondered if I stayed out drinking last night and I had to tell them this story and the nightmares..
Note to self - mosquito repellant. My apartment was a bit stuffy for long periods at end of summer out of paranoia about leaving windows open.
Never again I hope..
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bnrockin



Joined: 27 Feb 2006

PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

do they sell any of those "off" special mosquito repellant things that are supposed to be really powerful?
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ryst Helmut wrote:
mateomiguel wrote:
you must decapitate them and impale their heads on toothpicks as a warning to the rest.


Ahhh, good. Others do this too...I am not alone. Good to know!

Now, only if I were permitted to do this with my students....



I hope you aren't seriously going to do that.
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unknown9398



Joined: 03 Nov 2006
Location: Yeongcheon, S. Korea

PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:12 pm    Post subject: Flies Reply with quote

I'm teaching at a camp this weekend at a rural school and I kid you not, there must have been at least a thousand flies on the ceiling. I never say "Oh my God," but I did when I looked up. If a fly so much as lands on my food it goes in the trash, but the flies stayed on the ceiling all day, much to my relief.
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SPINOZA



Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul

PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I exterminated millions of mogis and flies in the summer.

I take sadistic pleasure in inflicting gratuitous, pornographic violence on insects. Back home, I would torture wasps to death. Wasps don't appear to serve much purpose other than attack and sting you for no reason, unprovoked. I had this awesome fly spray for cats - expensive, lethal poison. When you spray a wasp with it, the wasp goes totally mental and writhes in agony, paralized. It be beautiful to see. As the wasp would enter the final seconds of its ghastly, pointless little life, I would pour lighter petrol on it and burn it alive.

That's true justice.
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