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bipbip Posts: 483
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I'm sitting here going through some overdo emails and checking out the threads on the forums while eating a bowl of oatmeal when this huge bug that looks like a cockroach on steroids walk across the desk right in front of me. I watch him nonchalantly skitter to the other side; look at my oatmeal, look at him, look at my oatmeal, stir it around a bit to see if I notice any spindly legs bigger than they should be, shrug my shoulders and continue eating making sure I don't look to closely at the oatmeal again.

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    LasabarLasabar Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    bip:
    I'm sitting here going through some overdo emails and checking out the threads on the forums while eating a bowl of oatmeal when this huge bug that looks like a cockroach on steroids walk across the desk right in front of me. I watch him nonchalantly skitter to the other side; look at my oatmeal, look at him, look at my oatmeal, stir it around a bit to see if I notice any spindly legs bigger than they should be, shrug my shoulders and continue eating making sure I don't look to closely at the oatmeal again.
    HOLY *** EWWW!!! OATMEAL!?!?!?
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    The_KidThe_Kid Posts: 7,869 ✭✭✭
    bip:
    I'm sitting here going through some overdo emails and checking out the threads on the forums while eating a bowl of oatmeal when this huge bug that looks like a cockroach on steroids walk across the desk right in front of me. I watch him nonchalantly skitter to the other side; look at my oatmeal, look at him, look at my oatmeal, stir it around a bit to see if I notice any spindly legs bigger than they should be, shrug my shoulders and continue eating making sure I don't look to closely at the oatmeal again.
    Hey Bip how are you? So what else you up to besides chowin down and keepin the creepycrawlys away from your grub. Thats why I prefer pop tarts..lol
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    mfotismfotis Posts: 720 ✭✭
    Thats pretty funny. I've got one in the bathroom and the sucker is huge. I grabbed a fly swat and went to wack him and he took it away from me and beat the crap out of me with it; he got lucky is all I can say. I have to fight him for the shower in the morning and I win most of the time. I'm pretty sure he knows who the boss is.
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    LasabarLasabar Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    Here's a "EWWWW" story

    Customer brought in Computer, Tech opens it up, Roaches galore (100-200) Spill out... Whole retail store is infected, Tech plastic wraps computer, refuses to fix it, Customer THEN is pissed we won't touch PC.... Roaches everywhere for the next 3 months with bi-weekly ORKIN visits... Gross

    Side Note... NEVER step on a Roach... They carry EGGS on their back, and if you squish them, they get on your shoes, so if you squish Roach in your hotel, you could bring them back in your house with your shoes....
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    Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Lasabar:
    Side Note... NEVER step on a Roach... They carry EGGS on their back, and if you squish them, they get on your shoes, so if you squish Roach in your hotel, you could bring them back in your house with your shoes....
    Oh damn that's horrible...I mean genius...but horrible.
    ^Troll: DO NOT FEED.
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    bipbip Posts: 483
    Lasabar:
    Here's a "EWWWW" story

    Customer brought in Computer, Tech opens it up, Roaches galore (100-200) Spill out... Whole retail store is infected, Tech plastic wraps computer, refuses to fix it, Customer THEN is pissed we won't touch PC.... Roaches everywhere for the next 3 months with bi-weekly ORKIN visits... Gross

    Side Note... NEVER step on a Roach... They carry EGGS on their back, and if you squish them, they get on your shoes, so if you squish Roach in your hotel, you could bring them back in your house with your shoes....
    I wonder if that's why *** roaches are known to survive anything.
    Did the customer relies that his computer had become a roach motel?
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    bipbip Posts: 483
    mfotis:
    Thats pretty funny. I've got one in the bathroom and the sucker is huge. I grabbed a fly swat and went to wack him and he took it away from me and beat the crap out of me with it; he got lucky is all I can say. I have to fight him for the shower in the morning and I win most of the time. I'm pretty sure he knows who the boss is.
    You have to watch out for those little bastards. They're dirty fighters. Best bet is to sneak up on them and put them in a headlock until their eyeballs bug out and their heads pop off
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    bipbip Posts: 483
    The Kid:
    bip:
    I'm sitting here going through some overdo emails and checking out the threads on the forums while eating a bowl of oatmeal when this huge bug that looks like a cockroach on steroids walk across the desk right in front of me. I watch him nonchalantly skitter to the other side; look at my oatmeal, look at him, look at my oatmeal, stir it around a bit to see if I notice any spindly legs bigger than they should be, shrug my shoulders and continue eating making sure I don't look to closely at the oatmeal again.
    Hey Bip how are you? So what else you up to besides chowin down and keepin the creepycrawlys away from your grub. Thats why I prefer pop tarts..lol
    The last time I had a pop tart I watched it get carried away. Staying busy enjoying the clear blue skies and warm weather.
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    The_KidThe_Kid Posts: 7,869 ✭✭✭
    bip:
    The Kid:
    bip:
    I'm sitting here going through some overdo emails and checking out the threads on the forums while eating a bowl of oatmeal when this huge bug that looks like a cockroach on steroids walk across the desk right in front of me. I watch him nonchalantly skitter to the other side; look at my oatmeal, look at him, look at my oatmeal, stir it around a bit to see if I notice any spindly legs bigger than they should be, shrug my shoulders and continue eating making sure I don't look to closely at the oatmeal again.
    Hey Bip how are you? So what else you up to besides chowin down and keepin the creepycrawlys away from your grub. Thats why I prefer pop tarts..lol
    The last time I had a pop tart I watched it get carried away. Staying busy enjoying the clear blue skies and warm weather.
    Working on your tan huh? I can somewhat imagine, when I was stationed at Keesler (many moons ago) I remember waking up one morning and seeing a big ass roach sitting on my chest just looking at me. Yea I named him, made him a little collar, and we were buds we go walking everywhere..NOT We used to buy those roach motels but they filled up so fast that a roach could just walk through one (of course it was walking ontop of all his/her kin) Oh it was bad, but like anything else we adapt endure and get through it..AS YOU KNOW. Take care, be smart and stay safe.
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    ShotgunJohnShotgunJohn Posts: 1,545 ✭✭
    This could be worse you could have a bedbug infestation; I guess that is one plus for the extreme heat.
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    The_KidThe_Kid Posts: 7,869 ✭✭✭
    ShotgunJohn:
    This could be worse you could have a bedbug infestation; I guess that is one plus for the extreme heat.
    +10
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    jlmartajlmarta Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Folks who live in Florida won't like this but these stories are true. When my wife and I moved to Florida in the late 50's we couldn't believe the size of the cockroaches we saw. I mentioned it to our landlord and he told us they didn't have cockroaches in Florida and that what we were seeing were 'palmetto bugs'. Palmetto bugs, my ass. I know a roach when I see one, and these were f'ing huge!

    Another time, we were in the landlord's car going somewhere and I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. It was a bug walking around on his shoulder - and it was big! I reached over and swatted it without mashing it up but killing it. I don't know what it was, but it looked exactly like a housefly except that it was about 2 inches long!

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    HaybletHayblet Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭
    jlmarta:
    Folks who live in Florida won't like this but these stories are true. When my wife and I moved to Florida in the late 50's we couldn't believe the size of the cockroaches we saw. I mentioned it to our landlord and he told us they didn't have cockroaches in Florida and that what we were seeing were 'palmetto bugs'. Palmetto bugs, my ass. I know a roach when I see one, and these were f'ing huge!

    Another time, we were in the landlord's car going somewhere and I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. It was a bug walking around on his shoulder - and it was big! I reached over and swatted it without mashing it up but killing it. I don't know what it was, but it looked exactly like a housefly except that it was about 2 inches long!

    You had a smaller roach J, growing up in FL, I saw a ton of roaches, the biggest being about 6 inches when I was living in Palmghetto, that sob just walked around like he owned the place
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    jlmartajlmarta Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hayblet:
    You had a smaller roach J, growing up in FL, I saw a ton of roaches, the biggest being about 6 inches when I was living in Palmghetto, that sob just walked around like he owned the place


    You mean the one that looked like a housefly? Sure didn't look like a roach to me.

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    bipbip Posts: 483
    The roaches have a saying.....Go big or go home
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    jj20030jj20030 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    lived in an apt. years ago and looked like a international airport with 747 cockaroches flying around,lol ,, you know its bad when your cooking and the cockaroaches are eating before you are,,, lmao
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    JonathanEJonathanE Posts: 401 ✭
    All I have to say is that air soft guns are AWESOME!

    Can't say I've ever used one on a roach that big though! In Texas everything is bigger except the roaches I guess, lol...

    JDE

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    xmacroxmacro Posts: 3,402 ✭
    JonathanE:
    All I have to say is that air soft guns are AWESOME!

    Can't say I've ever used one on a roach that big though! In Texas everything is bigger except the roaches I guess, lol...

    JDE

    .45 hollow points have been known to work :)

    Living in FL, have only seen a few roaches (knock on wood, right?), but they disappear before I'm able to kill them - like one minute they're just sitting in the middle of my room, I leave for 2 sec to get a newspaper, and they're gone, never to be seen again. Seems they know my apt better than I do
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    jj20030jj20030 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i like my perdomo thundra but have yet to use it yet, although where i live now i havent seen a roach in months but i have used it on some asp around here, anyone familar with asp? got stung 25 years ago and never forget it so when i see one they get burned to a crisp !,lol
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    bipbip Posts: 483
    What's an asp besides a snake?
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    jj20030jj20030 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bip:
    What's an asp besides a snake?
    maybe just in certain areas? but the hang on trees plants, garbage cans etc,,
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    jj20030jj20030 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bip:
    What's an asp besides a snake?
    maybe just in certain areas? but they hang on trees,plants, garbage cans etc,, i just toasted one a couple weeks ago, you really wouldnt know what is is unless you seen them before, i find about a dozen a year around my house.
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    jj20030jj20030 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/asp/
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    The_KidThe_Kid Posts: 7,869 ✭✭✭
    jj20030:
    http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/asp/
    Where is its head? hadnt ever seen one of those before, wierd
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    jlmartajlmarta Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Kid:
    jj20030:
    http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/asp/
    Where is its head? hadnt ever seen one of those before, wierd


    The "Puss Moth"? I've heard it called a lot of things but never a moth. Oh, I see. We're talking about a bug. Sorry, my bad.

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    MarkerMarker Posts: 2,524 ✭
    The Kid:
    jj20030:
    http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/asp/
    Where is its head? hadnt ever seen one of those before, wierd
    The head is somewhere hidden in the puss moth...
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    bipbip Posts: 483
    Marker:
    The Kid:
    jj20030:
    http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/asp/
    Where is its head? hadnt ever seen one of those before, wierd
    The head is somewhere hidden in the puss moth...
    I wonder what Freud would have to say about that one.
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    MarkerMarker Posts: 2,524 ✭
    bip:
    Marker:
    The Kid:
    jj20030:
    http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/asp/
    Where is its head? hadnt ever seen one of those before, wierd
    The head is somewhere hidden in the puss moth...
    I wonder what Freud would have to say about that one.
    He would say it was a formulation of my subconscious with strong references to make and female genetalia. I would object. That was completely conscious.
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