The strategy to be associated with manliness by changing one's name certainly does work. I suppose that later on, the bugs would start growing, and only Armsmasher could stop them from wreaking havoc.
So, your subconscious was literalizing his last post about being on call for work, with computer problems represented as 'bugs'. Funny.
2 - I think it has a lot more to do with seeing THE BIGGEST COCKROACH IN THE WORLD in the bathroom at work yesterday. Which had red stripes and the largest antennae ever.
That sucker was HUGE. Like, New Orleans HUGE.
Sorry, I thought it was the men's room. Honest.
3: Did you jerk it off, like a normal American teenaged girl?
I totally took care of those bugs. And by "took care of" I mean I shrieked and stood on something taller while Rah took care of those bugs. I thought the pseudonym would butch me up but instead it drew all the butch out of me.
My handle isn't so manly that I'm able to do a damn thing to stop the ants, which took over an aloe plant and staged from there an invasion of the kitchen. Please send help, RMcMP.
I'll be in DC this weekend, I could come over and shriek at them.
6: A pants first approach to the problem: clever.
Cockroaches are nothing. Out west we know what a truly gross bug looks like.
Apropos the earlier my-land-beats-your-land thread, this is one respect in which the North wins: the South has the most disgusting insects. Places like Alaska and northern New England may have epic mosquitos and black flies, but for abject horror nothing beats ginormous, grotesque southern bugs.
And they get scarier the further south you go.
11 - whoa, that is a very rotund and muscular insect. It doesn't even look squishable.
OMFG. Thanks for the nightmare, man.
There's another video of them climbing up a cave wall and plucking bats out of the air in mid-flight. They totally rock.
Holy cow. "Giant centipede eats mouse" is its own genre of YouTube video.
For a while in Japan, I lived in teh awesomest house evar -- old and tiny, but quiet and with pastoral views unimaginable in most of the Tokyo metro area. It was so great I could endure such horrors as opening the (pit) toilet door and having something graze my forehead and fall with a THWACK on the floor. Hey, look what just nearly landed in my hair and is now brushing up against my bare feet: an ENORMOUS FUCKING CENTIPEDE. Or being awakened in the middle of the night by a loud scuttlescuttlescuttle across the tatami: hey look, a FUCKING COCKROACH THE SIZE OF A DUNGENESS FUCKING CRAB, and oh, great, now IT'S FUCKING FLYING.
a FUCKING COCKROACH THE SIZE OF A DUNGENESS FUCKING CRAB, and oh, great, now IT'S FUCKING FLYING
You don't have to go to Japan for that experience; you could just go to Florida. Not so many pit toilets there, though.
I'm trying to move to a colonial "black-and-white" house here in S-EAC-SX, but it will be a semi-detached or maisonette-type rather than a free-standing bungalow (because those are too expensive). I'm not keen on such wildlife problems as giant mutant cockroaches, hideous spiders, and pythons and FUCKING COBRAS. I want to know if we can buy a pet mongoose and slove these problems the old-fashioned way.
The link in 13 is objectively pro-terrorist.
17: Thanks for keeping me from clicking those links.
20: Mongoose, definitely. Rikki Tikki Tavi!
Hey, look what just nearly landed in my hair and is now brushing up against my bare feet: an ENORMOUS FUCKING CENTIPEDE.
That's why you should always wear your toilet slippers.
I got used to the two inch roaches and eight inch centipedes in Samoa. Having one of these suckers fly into the side of my head threw me a little though -- the damn thing must have weighed a quarter of a pound.
Just think about those things makes me shudder.
I'm not insect phobic as long as the insects are small -- cockroaches the size of mice, or beatles the size of my hand ... eech.
beatles the size of my hand
I think such a miniature band would be extremely cute -- look at Little Ringo!
(Just found out Robyn Hitchcock's first band, in college, was The Beetles.)
re: 27
Heh - I noticed the spelling 'error' as soon as I hit 'post', but too late ...
I'm curious how the "related videos" feature on YouTube works, exactly. Curiously, Gaijin Biker's giant centipede link led me to a whole library of crazy Asian b-boy battle videos.
The curator of terrestrial invertebrates at my museum was so excited when he saw the video linked in #24 that he sent it in an email to all staff. He knew it was common for centipedes to attack bats, but catching them in flight? the awesome!
Also, don't miss this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8pAwGsuF4
entitled "Giant Centipede vs. Tarantula."
The comments on YouTube are the greatest, though, for giving us such gems as:
"AWESOME! I want to see it eat children!"
Sylvia: "Oh wow, it's a predator!...Uh, are centipedes predators for us? No, cause we're taller, right? Yay! We get to be predators!...We're predators for chickens, right? Do you eat duck? Gross. I hate duck."
