Dust mites.... Our friends. Millions of them live in our homes and on our bodies. Right now, as you read this, tens of thousands of them are crawling all over you. Without dust mites, we'd be hip-deep in our own dead skin cells after a couple of years.
They stay crunchy in a bowl of milk, too.
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Seth Kanahoe
political fugue artist
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
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02-23-2005 22:44
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Zuzi Martinez
goth dachshund
Join date: 4 Sep 2004
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02-23-2005 22:54
for what it's worth i like soggy cereal and spiders. used to have a pet tarantula and i want to get another but i got four kitties now and they get into stuff like crazy.
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
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02-23-2005 23:59
I got home from work one day in August (2 days after moving into an apartment) tossed my stuff onto the spot where my PC desk would be, grabbed a Dew, popped in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance into the GameBoy Advance player, turned on the TV, grabbed the controller and sat up against the wall. I commence playing finishing off a battle I had started earlier. A ladybug flies past the screen and lands on the wall to my right. "Oooh! They mean good luck." I thought and turned my attention back to the game. I hear a bug in the lamp overhead look up, look along the edge of the ceiling and the wall, down the corner of the wall, look to my left, along the ceiling again, down another corner, and jumped to my feet running out of the apartment towards the landlord's place 1/4th a mile away. Ladybugs were ALL OVER THE APARTMENT'S LIVINGROOM AND KITCHEN. The landlord spent 4 hours vacuuming up the ladybugs with an industrial vacuum. ^^ We had a ladybug explosion where I live the last couple years. Literally 1000's of the in our yard and house. Really sucks. I am still vacuuming them up and it's winter here. The worst part is that they look like ladybugs but actually aren't - they are paler and duller in color and the spots look slightly different. Oh, I should mention they bite, and it hurts worse than a mosquito bite. _____________________
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
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02-24-2005 00:00
for what it's worth i like soggy cereal and spiders. used to have a pet tarantula and i want to get another but i got four kitties now and they get into stuff like crazy. you are one amazingly lucky person then. Someone needs to invent spider shaped cereal! _____________________
“Time's fun when you're having flies.” ~Kermit
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Pete Fats
Geek
Join date: 18 Apr 2003
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02-24-2005 03:02
Someone needs to invent spider shaped cereal!  _____________________
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Willow Zander
Having Blahgasms
Join date: 22 May 2004
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02-24-2005 03:09
THIS... is what some spiders do :/
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Codi Bliss
Born again newbie
Join date: 31 Dec 2004
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02-24-2005 03:10
ack I am eating!
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Willow Zander
Having Blahgasms
Join date: 22 May 2004
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02-24-2005 03:14
I just googled for spider bite and OMG, some of them are hideous! that is tame!
I am now officially SCARED of spiders, before I just didn't like them :/ DO NO FOLLOW IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH... OR EATING :p _____________________
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Devlin Gallant
Thought Police
Join date: 18 Jun 2003
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02-24-2005 06:44
You wanna see LOTS of bugs, head to New England during a gypsy moth caterpillar invasion.
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Aimee Weber
The one on the right
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
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02-24-2005 07:41
I don't mind spiders so much but I will kill them for fear that they will have a million baby spiders.
Cockroaches on the other hand will make me scream in a way only dogs can hear. _____________________
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
D- in English
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 884
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02-24-2005 10:47
Honey Comb...stays totally crunchy, but will evicerate the top of your mouth until you grow some scar tissue up there.
oh... And last year I was asleep at a friend's house, and I felt an itching sensation on my arm... I flipped the light on and spotted a Palmetto Bug (A southern term for one of the 1" to 2.5" roaches that feed on pine tree sap) crawling on me....massive heebie-jeebies for a week or so. _____________________
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Daemioth Sklar
Lifetime Member
Join date: 30 Jul 2003
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02-24-2005 11:59
Lash... you have a keen eye for visual detail and an amazing sense of humor.
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Lash Xevious
Gooberly
Join date: 8 May 2004
Posts: 1,348
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02-25-2005 13:09
Eeek! Thanks.
 Several days have since passed since spider-on-my-arm day. It's just now that I don't get the creepy-crawly sensation. I'm convinced the spider's spirit lingered on me for a three-day ghosting period until the gates of Heaven or Hell opened up and welcomed it in. Adios, Matilda! Yes, I gave it that name. _____________________
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Cross Lament
Loose-brained Vixen
Join date: 20 Mar 2004
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02-25-2005 13:20
I hate you, Cross. You have me wanting to sand my face off. What, Tikki? They're your friends! Look, they like to hang out with you ALL THE TIME. Besides, if they weren't there... just imagine what worse thing might've moved in to take their place!  Some spiders are downright nasty though... some of the innocuous little ones have some pretty unpleasant venom, or equally unpleasant bacteria living on their fangs (though there's lots of 'urban legend' content piled onto critters like the brown recluse). I think my favorite spider, just on general principles, is the Sydney Funnel-web Spider (is EVERYTHING in fucking Australia venomous, fer crissakes? ). It's big, it's aggressive, and its venom is dangerous to insects and... primates.  (yes, that means your cat playing with one isn't in much danger at all... but you are! )_____________________
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Zuzi Martinez
goth dachshund
Join date: 4 Sep 2004
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02-25-2005 15:26
(is EVERYTHING in fucking Australia venomous, fer crissakes? ) the beer sure is. bleh! it's probably made from spiders. |
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Tikki Kerensky
Insane critter
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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02-25-2005 15:36
(is EVERYTHING in fucking Australia venomous, fer crissakes? Damn near everything I think. They even got venomous mammals! (platypus) _____________________
Pudding takes away the pain, the pain of not having pudding.
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Cereal Milk
Magically Delicious
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
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03-17-2005 20:11
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Malachi Petunia
Gentle Miscreant
Join date: 21 Sep 2003
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03-18-2005 05:39
My husband (who is going straight to hell for this) once told me that when you sleep, spiders crawl up your face and drink from your tear ducts. While I logically know this isn't true, it creeped me out enough to seriously consider sleeping in swim-goggles for quite a while. I happen to have it on good authority that Mae Best is a begnign arachnid and has never even thought about drinking from tear ducts and should *not* be smushed. Oh, and bugs going after my eyes (some kind of rare fly in NE US does this once every couple of years to me) creeps me out to no end. I've also noticed and cross-checked with people who have spent time in ultra-buggy places (Cote d'Ivoire, North Central Australia, Southern Florida, MFC) that if you *think* you have a bug on you, you probably don't. When you do, 60+ million years of mamalian training makes you certain. This public service announcement brought to you by the Committee to Please Not Squish Mae, which is solely responsible for its content. _____________________
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Ursa Falcone
Rocket Scientist
Join date: 26 Mar 2004
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03-18-2005 06:15
I once rented a teensie 1 room bungalow in Bar Harbor Maine. It was literally filled with those good sized brown spiders. My two kittens generally kept the population down, but once, when I was laying sleepily in my bed, my hand kind of brushed over something that felt like fuzz, so I rolled it between my fingers to toss... realizing too late that it was a spider's body.. now gutsy all over my finners!!!!!
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Mimi Hoffman
Registered User
Join date: 16 Mar 2005
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03-18-2005 09:33
Im too f****ing arachnaphobic to even read this thread
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Krsna Hare
Magically Delicious
Join date: 3 Nov 2004
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03-18-2005 09:34
I have read this entire thread and now I have the super heebie jeebies... ants in the mouth, spiders in the eyes.. GAK!!! *runs around room squealing*
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We are all born mad. Some Remain so. ~S. Beckett
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Tang Lightcloud
Sweet & Juicy
Join date: 22 May 2004
Posts: 377
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Change of bugs
03-18-2005 09:59
If Mae Best saw this thread, she would be sad. so lets talk about another bug. . . . .
Grandma in Texas had an ole wicker pedestal table out on her back porch. Being the good granddaughter, I went out there to sweep the porch and straighten up abit for her. When I picked up the pedastal table to move it out of my way, literally thousands of coachroaches started pouring out of the center pedastal. They had built their home in there and I had disturbed their nest. |
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Icon Serpentine
punk in drublic
Join date: 13 Nov 2003
Posts: 858
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03-18-2005 10:03
So I was eating a bowl of cereal this morning when I felt the hair on my arm stand up. I paid no attention for a while until the sensation went to my wrist and then to my hand. Then glanced down to scratch at it. That's when I found a spider half-the size of my palm balancing on my wrist. My mouth was full of cereal, so I just let out a closed-mouth screech as it crawled to my thigh. Then after two seconds, I smashed the thing with my hand. I limped to the sink (kinda smacked my hand down a bit too hard), washed off the spider guts, scrubbed my hand with soap and hand sanitizer. Then doused my hands with rubbing alcohol to sterilize. Sploshed on hand sanitizer again. Then alcohol again ... No, that's normal. Honest. Then I went back to my cereal which was soggy. I ate the few crunchy parts left. But several hours have passed since that. And I still feel that creepy crawly sensation. I'm slapping at "bugs" on my arms only to find out at closer inspection it's a mole. Picking at lint on my pants, there is no lint naturally, nor am I wearing pants. But still. Anyways, what I wanted to know is ... Can anyone recommend a cereal that stays crunchy in milk for a long time? Thanks in advance. Poor spider. _____________________
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