I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!

Anya ,'Storyteller'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


billytea - Jun 09, 2009 5:56:14 pm PDT #23499 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

it actually means the Napa Co, CA in AUSTRALIA.

I don't really see many waterbugs in Melbourne. We do have them in Australia, and apparently the Sydneysiders grow up to 7 cm long. I've still always thought of them as an American thing.

Oh, in South-East Asia some of them can reach 12 cm long. That's one impressive waterbug.


Atropa - Jun 09, 2009 6:02:48 pm PDT #23500 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Arachnophobia was less horrifying and more funny than I expected, too.

twitches violently

I was taken to that movie on a first date. There was no second date.


Juliebird - Jun 09, 2009 6:10:16 pm PDT #23501 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

[link]

(Jilli warning? Well that just takes all the fun out of it)


Juliebird - Jun 09, 2009 6:15:39 pm PDT #23502 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

i'm gonna give myself nightmares: [link]

(again: eight legs are involved. ten if you include the victims)


Zenkitty - Jun 09, 2009 6:19:18 pm PDT #23503 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Oh, good grief, why do I have this irrestible urge to click on these damn bug links?

I'm gonna need a drink to wash that last picture out of my mind before bedtime. nnnnnggghh

Bugs should not be large enough to look me in the eye. I met a giant praying mantis once at a gas station in Kentucky. The thing was easily as long as my forearm, sitting there on the gas pump, looking at me.


Atropa - Jun 09, 2009 6:20:32 pm PDT #23504 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

HELL NO I AM NOT CLICKING ANY OF THOSE LINKS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Pete warned me about something on the BBC site the other day, something about "spider labs". It sounds like a nifty article, and nifty science. Not gonna go read it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 09, 2009 7:15:53 pm PDT #23505 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I have major squick due to three years working in kitchens in the South. When I was in training, we came back from Christmas leave and opened up the cooking classroom and flicked on the lights and thousands of baby roaches went scurrying under the stove.

I had one of those moments when I lived in a duplex with roommates and opened the clothes dryer one day to see scores of tiny roaches come spilling out of the rubber door seal. That's the only time I recall being conscious of my sanity lurching - luckily I opted for regular bug bombing with as much pesticide as I thought the cats could stand rather than the General Sherman approach, but it could have gone either way.


Burrell - Jun 09, 2009 7:16:41 pm PDT #23506 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

What is up with you folks?! Now I am going to be seeing all manner of icky bugs in my dreams.


-t - Jun 09, 2009 7:24:42 pm PDT #23507 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I did not need to know that there are giant frog eating bugs nearby. Denial is my friend.


-t - Jun 09, 2009 7:42:26 pm PDT #23508 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Juliebird, I fitted a lightweight cat door ($5+shipping, iirc) into the screen of the window that I had been leaving open for the cats to go in and out of, and it has cut down quite a bit on the indoor bug population, even though I still leave the back door wide open most of the time.