The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

figmentPez

figmentPez

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Like most maps of this sort, I find their methods to be ridiculously misleading.

1. State capitols are not the state. They should have at least done the largest city in each state. Austin is not Texas, Juneau is not Alaska, Albany is not New York.

2. The people searching for "How much does a _____ cost in ______" aren't necessarily from that state. Heck, I'd think they're more likely from another state.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Fuckin fuuuuck! Yellowjacket! IN THE HOUSE! Tried to swat it but it was on the ceiling so the blow wasn't fatal and FUCK I LOST TRACK OF IT...

(Hours later)

Man, finally calming down after that... It probably died behind the tv or something. I need a tissue so I'll just reach over and OH FUCK IT'S ON THE TISSUES oh God was it IN THE TISSUES kill it kill it KILL IT SWATTTTTTT

Ok I hit it better this time, but it's still alive and twitching where it fell on the ottoman... Fuck, I gotta get it out of here before it comes to! I don't want to squash it into the ottoman fabric, the stinger might embed or something! Ok, tissue... FUCK NO the tissues won't be thick enough! In it's death throes it will slice right through that tissue like... Like a tissue!! Shit shit shit what do I do... Ok... Ok I... I scoop it up with this small box that cat toy came in (WHY is the cat not killing the insects??! It tries to kill everything else!)... AGGH it's spazzing out! Get it out getitout geddidout GEDDIDOUTGEDDIDOUTAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

Ok, cat... I'm sorry, but now we can never open the porch door again.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Get one of them electric bug zappers, the kind that looks like a tennis racket. I mainly use them for mosquitoes, but I'm pretty sure they'd zap a wasp pretty good too.

Of course, this does run the risk of just pissing off the wasp, and possibly giving it electricity-related superpowers.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Bug types are weak to fire, but I'm loathe to suggest that option.

Bug types are also weak to flying, so... time to get a bird!
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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bhamv3 said:
Get one of them electric bug zappers
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Back in my heady bachelor college days, I lived in a mobile home (that hadn't moved an inch in at least 15 years, and as far as I know, is still there 15 years even later) out in the primeval lands outside town, where every day was a battle against nature, which was constantly trying to reclaim every vestige of human civilization or habitation as its own. I once even found a frog in my toilet bowl (I caught it and released it outside). The walls and floors of this mobile home had so many gaps and cracks that keeping insects out was a completely futile endeavor, and mosquitoes were a daily terror. So, I put a bigass lantern-style bug zapper on top of the entertainment center, left on 24/7. Zapped countless numbers of bugs.... and about every 3 months or so, got a lizard, too, which tried to climb in there to eat a crispy bug out of the metal grate.

Nothing like coming home from classes to find a crispy lizard's remains convulsing in the bug zapper, the smell of its burned-off head having permeated the domicile for the last 3 or 4 hours.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

bhamv3 said:
Get one of them electric bug zappers, the kind that looks like a tennis racket. I mainly use them for mosquitoes, but I'm pretty sure they'd zap a wasp pretty good too.

Of course, this does run the risk of just pissing off the wasp, and possibly giving it electricity-related superpowers.
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Can't speak for their local brand of wasps, but the regular old European wasps don't really die from those all to effectively. They get angry and dazed and go in try-to-stab-everything-mode. usually they tumble down and you can hit them with a shoe or something afterwards, but still.
 
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fade

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There are various videos of Kanazawa performing kata on YouTube. In the comments, there are people who "grade" and correct the videos as if the poster was Kanazawa himself and as if he was some casual karateka. I'm not saying that Kanazawa is untouchable, but it's a little like going up to Einstein as a nobody physics student and trying to correct his relativity derivations. Probably without realizing that it's Einstein you're talking to.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I've seen people do that with videos of professional dance companies. They critique the dancers as if they could do better. It makes me wonder if it's jealousy or the anonymity of the internet or both, since I highly doubt any of the commenters would say these things to a principle dancer's face.
 
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