You should have seen Sean almost leap out of my car due to a Cricket.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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NoiseDesign - May 28, 2008 6:02:46 pm PDT #740 of 26133
Our wings are not tired
Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:02:48 pm PDT #741 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ants don't bother me compared to most other insects.
And no insects bother me like arachnids bother me.
Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:03:37 pm PDT #742 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Oh gods. The cricket. Drew had a gooood laugh over that one.
billytea - May 28, 2008 6:07:38 pm PDT #743 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
well that is cool. I just can't hack the ants. It wouldn't bother me so much if I hadn't just seen Indy four. I think the whole franchise is getting back at me for thinking snakes are cool and rats are cute.
Yeah, that's all kinds of Hollywood licence there. Siafa ants are African, they don't live in Peru. And unless you're tied down or utterly paralytic, it's not really that hard for people to get out of their way.
Conversely, people who do wind up being killed by driver ants (again, more dangerous than South America's army ants) are most likely going to die by asphyxiation.
Oh! And there are army ants in the US! But they're smaller and more discreet than the South American varieties, so most people aren't aware of them.
NoiseDesign - May 28, 2008 6:19:40 pm PDT #744 of 26133
Our wings are not tired
Drew had a gooood laugh over that one.
Damn near swerved into oncoming traffic I was laughing so hard.
Laga - May 28, 2008 6:23:56 pm PDT #745 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
crickets are fine, spiders are fine, roaches are gross but I can still trap them with a glass and flush them. If I get a teeny tiny ant on me I have to blow it off because I don't want to touch it. Oh and I hate potato bugs because they look like giant mutant ants.
Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:27:05 pm PDT #746 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
spiders are fine
SO NOT FINE.
Oh. You were speaking for yourself.
Laga - May 28, 2008 6:29:18 pm PDT #747 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I considered having a tarantula as a pet. I have kept rats as pets. D has a pet snake.
billytea - May 28, 2008 6:29:24 pm PDT #748 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
crickets are fine, spiders are fine, roaches are gross but I can still trap them with a glass and flush them. If I get a teeny tiny ant on me I have to blow it off because I don't want to touch it. Oh and I hate potato bugs because they look like giant mutant ants.
For me it's wasps. (Which are of course the closest living relatives to ants. Termites are related to roaches, which I find kind of cool.)
Oh! To pull it together, there's a wasp that likes to lay its eggs on a paralysed roach (this is common for wasps, to use a spider or caterpillar or some grub for the purpose.) The problem is, it's a small wasp, too small to drag a paralysed roach back to its nest. So instead, it stings the thing just enough to make it manageable, then bites off its antennae, rendering it effectively blind. Then it hops onto the roach's back, grabs one of the antennae stubs, and steers it back to the wasp's nest.
Laga - May 28, 2008 6:30:34 pm PDT #749 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
holy cow that's freaky.
oddly enough a cricket just started chirping somewhere in my house.