Random Thoughts of Randomness

[Guzzi]

1 hour ago, AugustaAdaByron said:

 

Jump around and feel like screaming? Or is it just me?

 

Haha, I'm like that with spiders.  I can happily handle a 9ft python or let rats climb up my legs and climb into my clothes or hair, but a tiny little spider.....?  Eeeeeeeeek! 

[Bearded_Dragon]

17 minutes ago, Guzzi said:

 

Haha, I'm like that with spiders.  I can happily handle a 9ft python or let rats climb up my legs and climb into my clothes or hair, but a tiny little spider.....?  Eeeeeeeeek! 

Samesies

 

Spiders were sent by the devil and are horrible horrible creatures.

[Guzzi]

10 minutes ago, Bearded_Dragon said:

Samesies

 

Spiders were sent by the devil and are horrible horrible creatures.

 

VINDICATION!!!!!!  Thank you!  

[Tomu-san]

4 hours ago, AugustaAdaByron said:

 

Jump around and feel like screaming? Or is it just me?

Nope. Waifu-sama is like that, too. Whenever I hear, "HONEEEeeeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEeeeEEY!!!" I know it's time to grab the catch-cup. (We don't kill bugs and spiders, we escort them outside)

[Tomu-san]

3 hours ago, Bearded_Dragon said:

Samesies

 

Spiders were sent by the devil and are horrible horrible creatures.

Counterpoint: Spiders are helpful critters who eat flies and mosquitoes.

[Bearded_Dragon]

1 hour ago, Tomu-san said:

Counterpoint: Spiders are helpful critters who eat flies and mosquitoes.

Counter-counterpoint: I can do that myself, don't need satan's help!

[PandaPaw]

If I ate mosquitos every day do you think I'd eventually become a vampire

[Tomu-san]

17 minutes ago, Bearded_Dragon said:

Counter-counterpoint: I can do that myself, don't need satan's help!

You eat flies and mosquitoes? I guess they are a more sustainable source of protein...

[Bearded_Dragon]

24 minutes ago, Tomu-san said:

You eat flies and mosquitoes? I guess they are a more sustainable source of protein...

 

Just doin' my bit to help out the planet!

 

(should point out I don't eat flies & mozzies, but I do own a fly swatter....)

[Guzzi]

2 hours ago, RandMart said:

 

Now, where I work, we are all about acronyms

 

I was in a control room one day last week, waiting for a video conference to start when the the party on the other screen said "We're going to have to delay the start of the meeting a little bit"

"Oh, what's up? Where is everyone"

"We have a BFS situation in our room"

"BFS?"

"Big Fucking Spider"

 

2 hours ago, Tomu-san said:

Nope. Waifu-sama is like that, too. Whenever I hear, "HONEEEeeeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEeeeEEY!!!" I know it's time to grab the catch-cup. (We don't kill bugs and spiders, we escort them outside)

 

1 hour ago, Tomu-san said:

Counterpoint: Spiders are helpful critters who eat flies and mosquitoes.

 

45 minutes ago, Bearded_Dragon said:

Counter-counterpoint: I can do that myself, don't need satan's help!

 

39 minutes ago, hammy523 said:

If I ate mosquitos every day do you think I'd eventually become a vampire

 

34 minutes ago, RandMart said:

No, just a common bat

 

... with Zika, possibly

 

27 minutes ago, Tomu-san said:

You eat flies and mosquitoes? I guess they are a more sustainable source of protein...

 

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I feel like normality has been restored.

 

 

[AugustaAdaByron]

3 minutes ago, Guzzi said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I feel like normality has been restored.

 

 

 

What's that normality you're talking about?

[Guzzi]

8 minutes ago, AugustaAdaByron said:

 

What's that normality you're talking about?

 

Touche !

[Jord]

There is a daddy long legs with exceptionally sexy long legs living in our house for the past week. I find it in a different location every few days and always on the wall near eye level. I think it waits until we are asleep and then plots its next location. The joke is on him, I'm neither afraid of spiders nor are those legs a turn on. 

[insanity]

Bugs is why my house is home to many geckos, there's some lizards and spiders but mainly geckos. They like outside, but occasionally one will come in and say hi.

[Guzzi]

54 minutes ago, insanity said:

Bugs is why my house is home to many geckos, there's some lizards and spiders but mainly geckos. They like outside, but occasionally one will come in and say hi.

 

 

Meanwhile in Scotland

 

 

 

This is a genuine picture of them at work.  I do not miss them AT ALL!  

[insanity]

4 hours ago, Guzzi said:

 

 

Meanwhile in Scotland

 

 

 

This is a genuine picture of them at work.  I do not miss them AT ALL!  

Sounds like what we call sand fleas...

[Sarah Barr]

14 hours ago, Guzzi said:

This is a genuine picture of them at work.  I do not miss them AT ALL!  

I'm so itchy now. 

P.S. if anyone is suffering from midge attacks and doesn't already know about Avon Skin-So-Soft being a weirdly good midge repellent, here's a heads-up! (We used it on ecology field trips when we were using equipment that would melt if it got DEET-based insect repellent on it.)

 

Seriously I can't stop scratching looking at that photo. 

[Fearkiller]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oc7rc/have_you_ever_felt_a_deep_personal_connection_to/c3g4ot3

 

The worst is it reads so freaking believable. As if it actually happened.

Either that, or he knows how to fucking write. (Which would be almost as cool in a way..?)

 

 

throw away account cause this is really personal.

My last semester at a certain college I was assulted by a football player for walking where he was trying to drive (note he was 325lbs I was 120lbs), while unconscious on the ground I lived a different life.

I met a wonderful young lady, she made my heart skip and my face red, I pursued her for months and dispatched a few jerk boyfriends before I finally won her over, after two years we got married and almost immediately she bore me a daughter.

I had a great job and my wife didn't have to work outside of the house, when my daughter was two she [my wife] bore me a son. My son was the joy of my life, I would walk into his room every morning before I left for work and doted on him and my daughter.

One day while sitting on the couch I noticed that the perspective of the lamp was odd, like inverted. It was still in 3D but... just.. wrong. (It was a square lamp base, red with gold trim on 4 legs and a white square shade). I was transfixed, I couldn't look away from it. I stayed up all night staring at it, the next morning I didn't go to work, something was just not right about that lamp.

I stopped eating, I left the couch only to use the bathroom at first, soon I stopped that too as I wasn't eating or drinking. I stared at the fucking lamp for 3 days before my wife got really worried, she had someone come and try to talk to me, by this time my cognizance was breaking up and my wife was freaking out. She took the kids to her mother's house just before I had my epiphany.... the lamp is not real.... the house is not real, my wife, my kids... none of that is real... the last 10 years of my life are not fucking real!

The lamp started to grow wider and deeper, it was still inverted dimensions, it took up my entire perspective and all I could see was red, I heard voices, screams, all kinds of weird noises and I became aware of pain.... a fucking shit ton of pain... the first words I said were "I'm missing teeth" and opened my eyes. I was laying on my back on the sidewalk surrounded by people that I didn't know, lots were freaking out, I was completely confused.

at some point a cop scooped me up, dragged/walked me across the sidewalk and grass and threw me face down in the back of a cop car, I was still confused.

I was taken to the hospital by the cop (seems he didn't want to wait for the ambulance to arrive) and give CT scans and shit..

I went through about 3 years of horrid depression, I was grieving the loss of my wife and children and dealing with the knowledge that they never existed, I was scared that I was going insane as I would cry myself to sleep hoping I would see her in my dreams. I never have, but sometimes I see my son, usually just a glimpse out of my peripheral vision, he is perpetually 5 years old and I can never hear what he says.

 

[Guzzi]

7 hours ago, Sarah Barr said:

I'm so itchy now. 

P.S. if anyone is suffering from midge attacks and doesn't already know about Avon Skin-So-Soft being a weirdly good midge repellent, here's a heads-up! (We used it on ecology field trips when we were using equipment that would melt if it got DEET-based insect repellent on it.)

 

Seriously I can't stop scratching looking at that photo. 

 

I don't suffer from them now that I'm in Shetland! Na-na-na-na-na!   (It's too bloody windy up here for the little feckers, lol!)

 

@insanity do your sand fleas bite? I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're the same thing. 

[JustCallMeAmber]

Maybe sand flies (or no-see-ums)?

 

My boss recently described the bite of which as the following:

 

[insanity]

3 hours ago, Guzzi said:

 

I don't suffer from them now that I'm in Shetland! Na-na-na-na-na!   (It's too bloody windy up here for the little feckers, lol!)

 

@insanity do your sand fleas bite? I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're the same thing. 

Oh yeah...they'll keep diggin till the draw blood if you let em.

 

My drill instructors loved em....

[insanity]

3 hours ago, RandMart said:

 

 

Sand fleas [or sand crabs, or mole crabs, depending on the local vernacular] don't bite; they're filter-feeders without biting mouth-parts, as far as I know

 

 

they're great for bait

 

****

Sea Lice on the other hand ... well, they don't bite either, but their stings [they are actually jellyfish larvae] ... those feel like a million fucking nibbles, often where you'd rather NOT be nibbled [at least not without some boardwalk pizza and a few beers first]

 

 

http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2016/06/sea_lice_florida_jellyfish.html

 

You're welcome

Not what I'm referring to. I'll have to see if I can find em, not the no-see-ums either.

[insanity]

Here you go... http://www.beaufortusa.com/sand_fleas.htm

 

Apparently no-see-ums is, in fact, another name for em.

[Guzzi]

On 5 August 2016 at 0:12 PM, Fearkiller said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oc7rc/have_you_ever_felt_a_deep_personal_connection_to/c3g4ot3

 

The worst is it reads so freaking believable. As if it actually happened.

Either that, or he knows how to fucking write. (Which would be almost as cool in a way..?)

 

 

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throw away account cause this is really personal.

My last semester at a certain college I was assulted by a football player for walking where he was trying to drive (note he was 325lbs I was 120lbs), while unconscious on the ground I lived a different life.

I met a wonderful young lady, she made my heart skip and my face red, I pursued her for months and dispatched a few jerk boyfriends before I finally won her over, after two years we got married and almost immediately she bore me a daughter.

I had a great job and my wife didn't have to work outside of the house, when my daughter was two she [my wife] bore me a son. My son was the joy of my life, I would walk into his room every morning before I left for work and doted on him and my daughter.

One day while sitting on the couch I noticed that the perspective of the lamp was odd, like inverted. It was still in 3D but... just.. wrong. (It was a square lamp base, red with gold trim on 4 legs and a white square shade). I was transfixed, I couldn't look away from it. I stayed up all night staring at it, the next morning I didn't go to work, something was just not right about that lamp.

I stopped eating, I left the couch only to use the bathroom at first, soon I stopped that too as I wasn't eating or drinking. I stared at the fucking lamp for 3 days before my wife got really worried, she had someone come and try to talk to me, by this time my cognizance was breaking up and my wife was freaking out. She took the kids to her mother's house just before I had my epiphany.... the lamp is not real.... the house is not real, my wife, my kids... none of that is real... the last 10 years of my life are not fucking real!

The lamp started to grow wider and deeper, it was still inverted dimensions, it took up my entire perspective and all I could see was red, I heard voices, screams, all kinds of weird noises and I became aware of pain.... a fucking shit ton of pain... the first words I said were "I'm missing teeth" and opened my eyes. I was laying on my back on the sidewalk surrounded by people that I didn't know, lots were freaking out, I was completely confused.

at some point a cop scooped me up, dragged/walked me across the sidewalk and grass and threw me face down in the back of a cop car, I was still confused.

I was taken to the hospital by the cop (seems he didn't want to wait for the ambulance to arrive) and give CT scans and shit..

I went through about 3 years of horrid depression, I was grieving the loss of my wife and children and dealing with the knowledge that they never existed, I was scared that I was going insane as I would cry myself to sleep hoping I would see her in my dreams. I never have, but sometimes I see my son, usually just a glimpse out of my peripheral vision, he is perpetually 5 years old and I can never hear what he says.

 
 

 

 

 

Holy crap! That's a bit scary. 

[Raincloak]

Someone should sell breakfast cereal with weird stuff like that on the box.  Just so you can read it and think weird thoughts while eating your cornflakes.

(What, no one else reads their cereal box at the table?  Just me?)