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Posted 18 June 2004 - 03:22 AM

"I'm not touching that..."

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Posted 18 June 2004 - 09:12 AM

I hate bugs, so I'm going to assume that "that" is bugs.

Seriously, I don't know what it is, but touching bugs weirds me out. I cannot let them crawl on me, and if one is on me, I'm not the type to pick it off and toss it, I HAVE to flick it. This way, I reduce the amount of Heccubus-touching-bug time, and get it the bloody hell away from me.
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 09:37 AM

In Korea, a lot of people eat bugs. I actually tried some myself once because I'm open to new things. I was very good about it. I mean, these things... they looked disgusting. They smelled disgusting.

After being all open-minded about trying them, I was disappointed to find that they tasted disgusting too.
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 11:10 AM

Don't you hate it when things turn out like that?
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 11:27 AM

Yeah, I just thought if so many people eat these things then they might be a really pleasant surprise. Like in Hong Kong, apparently there is this fruit they eat and it smells unbelievably terrible .... but it's actually quite delicious. So I thought, well this is going to be quite interesting. But no, it was awful. Very disappointing.
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 11:53 AM

When someone leaves a half-eaten something around (not in packaging), and asks me to either clean it up or pass it to them, lately I'm too freaked out to touch or even look at it. I do it anyways, sometimes, but I feel so sick afterwards...
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 02:22 PM

Before I'd fully moved in, I was cleaning under my patio with a hose and broom, and this bug crawled out. Man, this thing was the size of my fist. I'm not kidding. I let him do his thing and retreat at his own pace because the way I figure, anything THAT big must have a soul.
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Post icon  Posted 18 June 2004 - 02:32 PM

Last night, there was a super big spider that managed to find his way into my bath tub. He was going to eat me! Brown recluse. One of the disadvantages of living in Florida. I made my little brother smish it with a shoe. happy.gif
But for the rest of the night, I felt all paranoid. I just knew a spider army was coming for me, and everytime something brushed up against me I would freak out. I didn't even take my usual 30 minute shower. The water felt like spiders! ~shudders~ Hate those things.
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 03:12 PM

QUOTE (Just your average movie goer @ Jun 18 2004, 03:37 PM)
In Korea, a lot of people eat bugs. I actually tried some myself once because I'm open to new things. I was very good about it. I mean, these things... they looked disgusting. They smelled disgusting.

After being all open-minded about trying them, I was disappointed to find that they tasted disgusting too.

Sounds like a macabre parody of my life, minus the bug-eating. And the going to Korea. So probably only ideologicaly similar then...

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Before I'd fully moved in, I was cleaning under my patio with a hose and broom, and this bug crawled out. Man, this thing was the size of my fist. I'm not kidding. I let him do his thing and retreat at his own pace because the way I figure, anything THAT big must have a soul.


I have that problem with cockchafers. They're giant suicidal beetles that llike light as much as moths. Only they're as big as small golf balls, and they actually try and batter down windows. You want to squash them, but the soul thing creeps in...

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Posted 18 June 2004 - 07:25 PM

At night, bugs swarm the door and don't go away until they're driven away at dawn like little endoskeletal vampires. When I open the door to let the cat in or out, which he invariably wants to do at least ones per night, at least one bug invariably flies or crawls in before him.

It's okay, because the other cat eats them. sad.gif
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Posted 18 June 2004 - 08:32 PM

QUOTE (A Mighty Pirate @ Jun 18 2004, 03:22 AM)
"I'm not touching that..."

"I'm not wearing gloves..."

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 18 June 2004 - 08:33 PM

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Posted 19 June 2004 - 04:02 AM

I'm not touching that

It's dirty.
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Posted 19 June 2004 - 07:55 AM

I remember once in my old place, a windosill came loose, and I found a mouse's skeleton inside. I thought it was cool, but mum disagreed.
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Posted 19 June 2004 - 07:58 AM

I don't know how you go about judging whether something has a soul by its size. Post transformation, did the kids of Honey I Shrunk The fame have no soul? Did those kids from Ranger Rick who used to shrink down to microscopic size to see your everyday backyard in a whole new way have no soul? Conversely, does my TV have a soul? I have a big TV. A soul is not a scientific concept, but that doesn't mean you apply no logic whatsoever to it. That's no way to live. Do bugs have souls or not? If you don't believe they do, then the big ones don't, either. These are insects that do not differ from each other significantly in the way they work or behave or "think" (such as they can be said to think).

But I wouldn't attempt to kill a giant bug either, at least not by normal means, because it would be really messy. Plus, I would be too busy high-tailin' it out of there. Bugs are creepy, soulless beings.
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Posted 19 June 2004 - 09:32 AM

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I don't know how you go about judging whether something has a soul by its size.


Maybe a mirror test could determine this. cool.gif

Only joking. I don't want to argue that topic with you again, Rory. I think differently from you and the authors of the animal psychology literature you've been reading. We would never change each other's opinions on that.

On the whole concept of killing bugs, for me, the problem is that killing bugs is so time consuming - especially when there's an army of them. When you're trying to kill a squadron of mosquitoes or hold back a coachroach ground assault, it can be very taxing on your time. By the time you've vanquished as many as you can, forced the others to retreat and have done away with the dead, a whole half hour of your life could be lost. That irritates me.

Why can't these things just stay outside? People belong in houses, ants belong in elaborate tunnels under the ground and mosquitoes and coachroaches belong in hell.
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