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Ebola Dog posted:Have you tried sticking a bunch of drain cleaner/sanitiser down the drain yet? Could just be you have some bacteria growing in the trap or something. This was going to be my suggestion. I have the same issue because the shower drain is on a very, very shallow incline so has water sitting in it constantly, most of the time that works as an effective trap but you have to dump some phosphoric acid down it every now and then to keep it clean.
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Jerry Cotton posted:If you take a house spider outside, it'll just die. The spindly, almost transparent ones are adapted for indoors, yes, but how do you think they get into your house in the first place? And you can always relocate, eg, from bedroom to utility closet. In any case, things like grass or wolf spiders--proper outdoor spiders--can be moved outside without issue.
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This thread is the anti-gbs. Terrified of fire in all of its forms, madly in love with venomous spiders. It's "kill the fire with spiders" rather than the usual. I don't mind spiders, but the widows in my garage get killed because they tend to web on disused-but-not-always outdoor equipment and I just don't want to deal with them, but house spiders are fine usually until they scare the wife. Then they get moved outside. I guess there's a certain kind of real fast black spider about the size of a dime which I kill on sight because they've bitten me for no reason too many times and it hurts. Not sure what they are.
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I once flung a giant house-spider out the bedroom window and a sparrow caught it mid-air so yes, spiders die outside 
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Ebola Dog posted:Have you tried sticking a bunch of drain cleaner/sanitiser down the drain yet? Could just be you have some bacteria growing in the trap or something. I have bleach, will that do the trick?
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GotLag posted:I have bleach, will that do the trick? I've not done it with straight bleach before myself but it might help. Just avoid mixing bleach with other cleaning chemicals that might cause a bad reaction.
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shortspecialbus posted:This thread is the anti-gbs. Terrified of fire in all of its forms, madly in love with venomous spiders. It's "kill the fire with spiders" rather than the usual.
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i light a candle for this thread every night
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The spindly, almost transparent ones are adapted for indoors, yes, but how do you think they get into your house in the first place?  sneakyfrog posted:i light a candle for this thread every night same. i leave it on top of a towering pile of newspapers, next to the window that doesn't close all the way
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GotLag posted:For crappy construction content, when I have my shower first thing in the morning sometimes when the water starts running I get a whiff of sewer for a few seconds. My almost entirely uninformed guess this is something to do with a trap, but is there anything cheap I can do about it? Do you have well water? Is it just the shower, or does it happen with hot water in sinks and stuff too? If it's a sulfur smell from the hot water source, rather than coming up from the drain, an aluminum anode in your water heater can help. Or if you get that smell in your cold water too, a whole-house carbon filter or green sand system should fix it. The aluminum anode is $50ish, and the carbon filter or green sand system can be upwards of a grand, so hopefully it's just on the hot side.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The spindly, almost transparent ones are adapted for indoors, yes, but how do you think they get into your house in the first place? They're born there.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:same. i leave it on top of a towering pile of newspapers, next to the window that doesn't close all the way you forgot an oscillating fan intermittently blowing on the newspapers you amateur absolute sillyhead.
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I actually keep a candlestick by my keyboard in case I'm nerding and can't be arsed to get up and turn on the light when it starts getting dark.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I actually keep a candlestick by my keyboard in case I'm nerding and can't be arsed to get up and turn on the light when it starts getting dark. Just turn the brightness up
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Jerry Cotton posted:I actually keep a candlestick by my keyboard in case I'm nerding and can't be arsed to get up and turn on the light when it starts getting dark. There are these things called "lamps" you could look into
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The Chairman posted:There are these things called "lamps" you could look into I have one on the desk but the switch is on the cord so it's behind the table. When did they stop putting the switches either on top of the shade or on the base? I thought this one had it on top when I bought it but turns out it's just a weird knob meant for ???.
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The Chairman posted:There are these things called "lamps" you could look into Don't want to pay for the gas.
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Get a clapper.
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Burt Sexual posted:Get a clapper. They'll applaud if I can be arsed to turn on the light?
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Positive reinforcement works.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:
Excellent idea. If the candle falls over and lights the papers on fire, then the wind from the open window will surely blow the fire out.
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Burt Sexual posted:Get a clapper. Like the one I have the space heater plugged into? I clipped the wires to the fan in the heater because it was too noisy, so I just leave the heater on all the time. Don't move the wire, though! It smells funny and makes a buzzing sound if you do.
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The Bloop posted:I've seen some poo poo you people wouldn't believe. Scarodactyl posted:All these spiders will be lost to time, like bedbugs in a mound of diatomaceous earth.  I just wanted to let you know this was appreciated.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:
Make sure the drapes are free to sway in the breeze.
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JoshGuitar posted:Do you have well water? Is it just the shower, or does it happen with hot water in sinks and stuff too? If it's a sulfur smell from the hot water source, rather than coming up from the drain, an aluminum anode in your water heater can help. Or if you get that smell in your cold water too, a whole-house carbon filter or green sand system should fix it. Mains water, only in the shower, and only for a few seconds at the start. The smell is like stale decay. I poured some bleach down it 12 hours ago so I'll see if that helps.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I once flung a giant house-spider out the bedroom window and a sparrow caught it mid-air so yes, spiders die outside Similar thing happened to me, except it was a labrador. Nature: red in tooth and claw.
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What kind of birds do you have that can take a labrador?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPVVdg8noc
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GotLag posted:What kind of birds do you have that can take a labrador? Golden eagle?  
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PainterofCrap posted:Golden eagle? Delicious fox 
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NewZealand had a bigger eagle until the Maori hunted out the moa that the eagles hunted.
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Before the most recent ice age there was a swan that stood as tall as a human. I'd like to have seen that.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Before the most recent ice age there was a swan that stood as tall as a human. I'd like to have seen that. As long as it's not anything like real swans or Canada geese, I'm OK with it. If it is like those, then no, I'm OK without that.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Before the most recent ice age there was a swan that stood as tall as a human. I'd like to have seen that. You know the extinction of giant (presumably rear end in a top hat) swans makes me think that once upon a time god didn't hate us all.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Before the most recent ice age there was a swan that stood as tall as a human. I'd like to have seen that. Diatryma grew to a height of around 2.25 meters. See also the Gastornis genus.
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crazypeltast52 posted:NewZealand had a bigger eagle until the Maori hunted out the moa that the eagles hunted. Moa:  Haast's Eagle hunting moas. 
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gently caress swans and geese.
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wesleywillis posted:gently caress swans and geese. And peacocks.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Moa: In case anyone is wondering, the 50 pound eagles killed 500 pound moas by dive bombing them and breaking thier necks. 
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PainterofCrap posted:Golden eagle? It feels like the magpie at the bottom of the frame is mugging for the camera.
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