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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Druss on October 16, 2007, 12:21:03 PM
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....cockroaches? Since I moved to Wyoming, I haven't seen A SINGLE cockroach! In the South, as soon as I cracked the door to enter the house at night, a roach would sail over my shoulder (seemingly as big as a B-52) and fly into the house leaving me to hunt the big b*****d down. We had the little stinky German roaches, the Red Menace, AND the big American roaches, the Brown Bombers.
I preferred the Brown Bombers because those big boys were not as numerous, didn't stink so much, and were easier to poison thanks to their voracious appetites. However, they could fly and fly well.
Do you know what it feels like to be engrossed in a movie on the tube and suddenly a roach 3 inches long runs across your face in the dark?
And why do they always feel wet?
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I was stationed in Hawaii while in the Navy and the roaches there were so large they would stand their ground when you came at them. If you went after them, they would stand there and look at you like "What do you want?" There were lots of them too. If it were quiet in the house you could hear the nasty little, err huge things clicking their feet across the floor. The bad part about them in HI, everyone has roaches there no matter how clean your house is. ICK!
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not ours, but pretty dang big!
(http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/cockroach.jpg)
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Wooly, the rich folks called them Palmetto bugs. BS! They were roaches and they were in every house. I used to lay awake at night listening to carpenter ants, termites, roaches, and crickets eating my house and contents. We even had a yellowjacket nest somewhere in the attic. The yellowjackets would drop down from the ceiling light fixtures and sting the hell out of us. I had to repeatedly bug bomb the attic to get rid of them.
Rip: MY GOD! WHAT A BUG!!!!!! That rascal looks big enough to fillet!
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They are bad here in Central Alabama but surprisingly enough they are not nearly as numerous around my house as they are around my parents house which is farther south. I keep a fairly good supply of bug killer around and I spray it around the doors just to keep them at bay. I also put sevin dust in all the flower beds around my carport to keep them away as well. Funny thing is those suckers always go to the clean areas to go tits up in death. My mother-in-law told me a few weeks ago that there must have been 50-75 running all over the car port when she came home from work the other night. That was the night before I put out the sevin dust. Now they aren't running anywhere but instead went there to die and there must have been 200 that we swept up over the next two nights.
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ive never seen such thing here in germany in my whole life,
i cant imagine to meet this thing at home, must be horrible,
i doubt i could sleep well.
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It's not so bad. You crank up the Wagner, cue up some Paul Verhoven on the DVD player, pull out a can of hairspray & your lighter, and start considering the implications of federal service and the role of the civilian in a democracy.
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I knew a guy that told me one night he watching TV when one darted from behind the couch and humped his leg. Now THATS a big cockroach!
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Yep, our cockroaches are big and nasty looking. On the plus side, they eat the mice and rats.
Seriously, if you live near the woods with lots of dead leaves and humous, you're going to have cockroaches. Keep the house as clean as you want, it makes no difference. Spraying thins the herd, but never completely gets rid of them.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
It's not so bad. You crank up the Wagner, cue up some Paul Verhoven on the DVD player, pull out a can of hairspray & your lighter, and start considering the implications of federal service and the role of the civilian in a democracy.
:rofl
Hopefully the anonymity of the internet will help. But the sound of a crunching cockroach can ruin my day and set me on edge. It's never intentional, but once in a while those things end up underfoot.
Hopefully, when I'm captured and being tortured in prison, my torturers won't know this. I would sing like a canary if they played that sound over and over.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
It's not so bad. You crank up the Wagner, cue up some Paul Verhoven on the DVD player, pull out a can of hairspray & your lighter, and start considering the implications of federal service and the role of the civilian in a democracy.
LOL
you just won this thread ;)
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Only seen 2 in my life, they were at Sanibel Island and Myrtle Beach.
If I see one, I'll shoot it with my .45, I hate the looks of em. They're nastyass creatures.
Also, I've heard "Tree Roaches" in AL are enormous, I'd probably pass out.
If you haven't guessed I don't like em. If there is one thing I really hate, it's cockroaches. I can handle anything else.
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Apparently Japan did a few years back....we came in second and it was an entry by my brother-in-law who found a HUGE roach dead in his pool. He Fed-Exed it to Texas where they had a competition.
I'll check to see if he still has his certificate.
Not exactly something to brag about, but it's true.
The female of the species we have here flies. They look like small birds when they do.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
not ours, but pretty dang big!
(http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/cockroach.jpg)
Don't tell me some women aren't brave!
The hand in that picture is that of a female.
Better her than me. YIKES!!!
TIGERESS
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In North Carolina we had "Wood Roaches"...imagine a roach that FLIES!
Worst were "Camel Crickets" or "Jumpy Bugs". They look like a kind of spider, but have no fear of people and will jump on you and crawl on you if they get the chance.
Fly swatters and a heavy shoes are your friend.
68ROX
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(http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/cockroach.jpg)
Needs Soy Sauce!!!
:aok
Mac
Yes!!! Frikken flyin, crawlin Protien.
When the End of Our Days Come.....It's What's for Dinner!
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Originally posted by Druss
Wooly, the rich folks called them Palmetto bugs. BS! They were roaches and they were in every house. I used to lay awake at night listening to carpenter ants, termites, roaches, and crickets eating my house and contents. We even had a yellowjacket nest somewhere in the attic. The yellowjackets would drop down from the ceiling light fixtures and sting the hell out of us. I had to repeatedly bug bomb the attic to get rid of them.
Rip: MY GOD! WHAT A BUG!!!!!! That rascal looks big enough to fillet!
Tell me about it Druss, We visited my "know it all" in-laws in SC and I saw one n their house and said, "wow thats a big roach" they replied "thats not a roach, it's a palmetto bug." Whatever, it's an squealing roach.
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There were nights when I felt like I was in a roach version of Dawn Of The Dead, sniping at hordes of my undead six legged adversaries. Or maybe a World War II movie. The legions of sappers (German roaches) and infantry (American roaches) assaulting my battle lines of bug bombs, chemicals, flyswatters, shoe soles, and rolled up newpapers was bad enough, but when those merciless buggers called in air support, things got ugly....
True anecdote: A co-worker and his dad used to eat at the same Chinese restaurant as my family. One day they sat down at the establishment for their usual weekly meal together. In the middle of the meal, my friend felt something crawling up his leg. It was not something small. He jumped up from the booth, encircled his knee with both hands to prevent the intruder from climbing higher up his leg, and started performing a sort of a weird one-legged stomping dance in an effort to shake the thing out of his pants leg. The other patrons of the restaurant were dumfounded until, finally, an enormous cockroach fell out of his pants leg and scurried away.
When I managed to get my roaring, honking torrents of laughter under control, I suggested he cinch up dog collars around his ankles before dining there again. :O
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none. i've never seen one...or rats...
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Amazing that some people make PETS out of those things.
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This post gave me a p*ss shiver. Gross.
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When in Florida, don't sleep with your mouth open
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The answer is simple: scorpions
Sorry for the pun but, pick your poison.
Scorpions are messy eaters, they scatter bug parts all over their dining area when they eat... it's a pretty easy tell.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
It's not so bad. You crank up the Wagner, cue up some Paul Verhoven on the DVD player, pull out a can of hairspray & your lighter, and start considering the implications of federal service and the role of the civilian in a democracy.
:rofl Nice one!
Havent seen any roaches here
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Really big bugs do not like Really Cold Weather.
Wyoming, North Dakota, Minnesota, while you may get a few small ones infesting an apartment complex. Normally houses just do not have a problem.
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Originally posted by SteveBailey
The answer is simple: scorpions
Sorry for the pun but, pick your poison.
Scorpions are messy eaters, they scatter bug parts all over their dining area when they eat... it's a pretty easy tell.
My Dad used to live on the outskirts of San Antonio, his back yaed was a large wood. Scorpions were everywhere. We fished a half dozen out of his pool every morning. I think I prefer cockroaches.
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I live in SC... we call them 'palmetto bugs' because they are basically our state animal.
The big ones don't bother me. They are easy to kill with store bought spray if needed, but will give the wifey a startle when she turns on the light and sees one run across the floor. My shoe is normally the last thing they see, but I do give them the respect of a 'burial at sea'.
The little brown 'german roaches'... those are horrible. You have to call a professional to get rid of them, and they carry alot of disease and what not.
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i wonder why they are called 'german roaches' ? because they dont exist in germany ;)
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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
i wonder why they are called 'german roaches' ? because they dont exist in germany ;)
Cause they get exterminated by the millions?
I'm gonna get roasted
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Originally posted by AWMac
(http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/cockroach.jpg)
Needs Soy Sauce!!!
:aok
Mac
Yes!!! Frikken flyin, crawlin Protien.
When the End of Our Days Come.....It's What's for Dinner!
Not for the squimish. This guy actually munches one.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7586346559206751702
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Wow six, going for the shock effect eh? :O
Originally posted by Sixpence
Cause they get exterminated by the millions?
I'm gonna get roasted
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For all you cucarracha connoisseurs, take a look at the following link. They got 'yer American roaches, they got 'yer German roaches, 'yer Smoky Brown, Oriental, Wood, and Brown Banded roaches.
http://www.roachcontrol.com/american.htm
The close-ups are revolting.
MT, I am with you on the scorpion vs roach thing.
(http://www.roachcontrol.com/aroach.htm)