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The best part is that they don't fly good. I'm not sure if it's because they're just not evolved to fly well, or because they're stupid fat roaches or what. But it's more of an escape sort of thing. So they just sort of jump and crazily drift all over the place out of control. You don't know unpleasant until a roach hits you in the face and falls down your shirt.
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I grew up in a province that didn't have roaches and I saw my first one not more than two months ago. It was huge, and I am horrified to learn that they fly. Awful loving things.
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Gestalt Intellect posted:gently caress you for making me imagine this gently caress YOU More fun tropical bug experiences; having a barbeque because why not. Suddenly "Huh, what's that weird smell?" "I think something's burning" But what could be burning? We sure didn't put anything weird in the barbeque. Turns out a big-rear end centipede had crawled in there to get away from the sunlight and caught fire, then died. The steaks were still good.
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Nuebot posted:The best part is that they don't fly good. I'm not sure if it's because they're just not evolved to fly well, or because they're stupid fat roaches or what. But it's more of an escape sort of thing. So they just sort of jump and crazily drift all over the place out of control. You don't know unpleasant until a roach hits you in the face and falls down your shirt. One day when I was living at my previous apartment, I was lounging in bed reading SA when I heard a bizarre skittering noise and suddenly there was a palmetto bug crawling on my chest. It's Florida so even with regular pest control, sometimes these guys get in. I'm not afraid of roaches but I admit that this time, I screamed, jumped up, and ripped off my shirt.
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Hummingbirds posted:One day when I was living at my previous apartment, I was lounging in bed reading SA when I heard a bizarre skittering noise and suddenly there was a palmetto bug crawling on my chest. Once at my parent's house I was lying on the floor watching a movie or something, and one of those ran across the room and up inside my shirt. I invented a new dance! But the worst is when you're taking a shower and suddenly realize you're not alone.
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artsy fartsy posted:Once at my parent's house I was lying on the floor watching a movie or something, and one of those ran across the room and up inside my shirt. Happened twice this week  first was a moth, it kept fluttering around and I almost fell because it would have been super weird if a bug touched my junk. Second time I glanced up paranoid because of the moth incident and this fat roach was just sitting on the cieling. I don't think I've ever showered faster in my life.
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I'm not sure if this belongs in D&D because one explanation for it might be a matter of policy but if so it's a pretty minor one so what the hell. I live in South Australia. Whenever I take holidays to Melbourne or Sydney, it seems drivers are supposed to turn left (for Amerigoons we drive on the left so this is equivalent to your right turn) through a green crossing light, having to turn at the same time as people cross in their path. What the gently caress? As someone who's usually a pedestrian, this looks impatient (pushing the same button as the button-hammering complaint I made before) and surely has to be dangerous by encouraging people to cross past pedestrians. Is this the law or just fuckhead drivers? E: killed some interstate flamebait. Also clarity AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 16:26 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Oct 10, 2015 16:19
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I'm pretty sure in most places if the light is green drivers are allowed to turn right (or left in your case) through a crosswalk as long as they yield to pedestrians. You do get idiots who just try and barrel through not realizing the crossing light is green too, so you do have to keep an eye out before you step into the intersection.
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AlphaKretin posted:I'm not sure if this belongs in D&D because one explanation for it might be a matter of policy but if so it's a pretty minor one so what the hell. I live in Melbourne (and even got my licence this year woo!) and can confirm that this is the law and you have to give way to pedestrians. I think most people only turn after pedestrians are at least halfway across. Personally, I think trams are more dangerous. On a related note, that's one of my pet peeves. Trams. Just goddamn trams. Trams and a vast majority of taxi drivers. Sorry you guys get screwed over by pay conditions, but I've also seen more blatantly illegal poo poo done by taxi drivers than by any other group, including: showing me photos of your dog while driving on a freeway, driving on the wrong side of the road to avoid a stop sign, and driving over 20kms below the speed limit in order to jack up fares, in addition to much more. Sorry that competition from uber is now forcing you to up your game which you are utterly failing to do.
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Does Uber's version of "competing" in Australia also include ignoring all the regulations that apply to taxi/limo services like in the US
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Actually while I'm whining about driving in Melbourne, requiring a pre-bought digital thingo instead of allowing cash on toll roads is a pretty slick way to keep out interstaters  On a completely different topic, some specific song lyrics that have been bugging me (probably moreso than reasonable because they're played over and over): In that cover of "You Don't Own Me" from last year, while I can't recall the actual lyrics (it was rap), having objections to you being so proud of blatantly cheating on me that you're texting me a picture of the act != controlling misogyny. At all. Holy poo poo. And the rapper goes on to praise her personal strength because of it? gently caress if I've discerned the actual name, I daren't assume it's part of the chorus, but in that recent Maroon 5 song: "If I got l locked away If we lost it all today Tell me honestly Would you still love me today?" No? Why should I? You're in prison. Issues with the social justice systems of the world aside, that probably means that you're a criminal, and the reason for having lost it all. So why should I stick around? ...I've put way too much thought into this crap. 
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Oct 10, 2015 17:27
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When people whistle loudly indoors....out of tune.....to a song that is currently playing over the PA.
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Nuebot posted:More fun tropical bug experiences; having a barbeque because why not. Suddenly "Huh, what's that weird smell?" "I think something's burning" But what could be burning? We sure didn't put anything weird in the barbeque. Turns out a big-rear end centipede had crawled in there to get away from the sunlight and caught fire, then died. The steaks were still good. I'm fine with spiders, mice, snakes,. scorpions and just about all bugs, but for some reason centipedes seriously creep me out. On a tropical note: I once stayed at a guesthouse on a beach in Malaysia, looked up at the ceiling in my hut and was like "Well that's an interesting pattern" only to find upon closer inspection that they were geckos covering the entire ceiling. It looked like an M.C. Escher work. At night, with a candle flickering and under the influence of something or other, it was pretty wild watching the ceiling move.
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BioEnchanted posted:Also, on the sensitivity note regarding death, I'm not that bad but I tend to use humour as a coping mechanism, but it's always a ways removed from the actual death/event. Example: My grandfather dies a few months ago, and when chatting with the funeral staff after the service I said that the real reason people bowed their heads praying at a funeral specifically was so that they could be soothed by the Worlds Ugliest Carpet cheering them up. That's actually totally cool. Humor as a coping mechanism is really good. I couldn't enjoy anything for a while without feeling guilty about it, but as soon as I got together with some friends and we were joking and laughing at things like normal again I felt a lot better. edit - Oh poo poo new pet peeve! Bad thing happens > someone says "We're lucky to be alive/unhurt!" No man, gently caress you, you're unlucky for the bad thing to have happened in the first place! liquidypoo has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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Oct 10, 2015 18:48
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Middle class to wealthy white men complaining that racism is really over and you're the real racist if you point something out. At ASU there's some stupid "blackout game" this weekend and last year a bunch of dumb fuckers painted their faces black to celebrate/show school spirit? Well clearly some frat white bros doing blackface is going to piss off some people, so this year no face paint, at all, any color. And everyone is bitching that it's the Liberal PC Police when there was nothing racist at ALL about painting your face and hands black to scream and cheer at a college football game. Oh, it was some black students who complained last year? They must be racist. When people mistype addresses for delivery. No, 1983 W FrankSucks Avenue is NOT the same as 1983 E FrankSucks Ave. That E and W are important! Along the same lines, someone shipping something to, say, Target. The address is 123 Assmar Dr. But 123 Assmar Dr is where I find a Walmart. Right address, wrong business. And marking it as Bad Address is wrong? Oh and gently caress hospitals for not having better addresses for loving deliveries. Your compounds have a dozen buildings? THEN INCLUDE THAT poo poo ON YOUR LABEL. The boxes go to Maternity Receiving, versus General or Emergency Room Receiving? When the buildings are spread out by miles, loving label everything! Another delivery peeve: fuckers who follow delivery vehicles in the holiday season, wait until they make a drop (no signature needed) and then run up to the door and steal the Amazon box for themselves. People, please have your presents Held at Location for Fedex or UPS or whatever. Or ship to your work! Don't leave it on the porch, we lose a lot of presents that way.
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Counterpoint: delivery services that refuse to leave the package without a signature. I am willing to take the risk, just leave it there. It is ridiculous to expect me to take a day off of work every time I am expecting a package. DHL is the absolute worst for this. You can submit their forms saying you release all liability and tell them to leave it in front of the drat door, and you'll come back to a note saying "nope, couldn't do it, please reschedule". If somebody steals it, let me deal with it, just stop requiring me to stay home from work to make sure I'm there during your incredibly wide 7 am - 3 pm delivery window.
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When you let on that you're arachnophobic and your friend's first response is something along the lines of "But they eat bugs/are useful & harmless!" gently caress you, phobias are irrational.
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socketwrencher posted:I'm fine with spiders, mice, snakes,. scorpions and just about all bugs, but for some reason centipedes seriously creep me out. They're lovely assholes. You straight up can't like, set a bag down on hot sunny days in some places without one darting from the shadows to try and chill with your soup cans or whatever. gently caress 'em. Millipedes are generally cool though. My cat learned not to eat them the hard way though. Murphy Brownback posted:Counterpoint: delivery services that refuse to leave the package without a signature. I am willing to take the risk, just leave it there. It is ridiculous to expect me to take a day off of work every time I am expecting a package. DHL is the absolute worst for this. You can submit their forms saying you release all liability and tell them to leave it in front of the drat door, and you'll come back to a note saying "nope, couldn't do it, please reschedule". If somebody steals it, let me deal with it, just stop requiring me to stay home from work to make sure I'm there during your incredibly wide 7 am - 3 pm delivery window. The entire postal service here is my pet peeve. I used to be signed up for game fly, I only even saw one game arrive. The other ones went missing in transit and I got billed for them. Lately the mail carrier has taken to just sitting out front of houses and screaming out people's names instead of just setting a box down over the fence or honking the van horn or whatever. 
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Cowslips Warren posted:Middle class to wealthy white men complaining that racism is really over and you're the real racist if you point something out. At ASU there's some stupid "blackout game" this weekend and last year a bunch of dumb fuckers painted their faces black to celebrate/show school spirit? Well clearly some frat white bros doing blackface is going to piss off some people, so this year no face paint, at all, any color. And everyone is bitching that it's the Liberal PC Police when there was nothing racist at ALL about painting your face and hands black to scream and cheer at a college football game. To expand on this point, I hate that people have turned the definition of racism into institutionalized racism and then started dismissing anything that's not white on non-white racism. The Korean girls I knew were the nicest people you'd ever met until you mentioned Japan. My Chinese aunt would loudly complain about Filipino women and how they're only good for being maids. I was woken up today by a gay black man screaming racial and homophobic slurs at another gay man outside my window this morning  Like yeah racism between asian people isn't a "big deal" if you live in a Western country, but christ, it isn't any nicer.
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Tendai posted:People who brake on anything even resembling a curve in the road oh look, a 30-foot wide driveway, better take this at no more than 5 mph
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ElwoodCuse posted:oh look, a 30-foot wide driveway, better take this at no more than 5 mph  I decided in the end that when I finally passed the guy, howling "GO BACK TO TEXAS" out my window would probably be inappropriate. But it was tempting.
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socketwrencher posted:I'm fine with spiders, mice, snakes,. scorpions and just about all bugs, but for some reason centipedes seriously creep me out. Me too. Spiders? Cool. They eat the bugs. Snakes? Whatever. Centipedes? Run screaming like a little girl. Especially house centipedes. Cowslips Warren posted:Another delivery peeve: fuckers who follow delivery vehicles in the holiday season, wait until they make a drop (no signature needed) and then run up to the door and steal the Amazon box for themselves. People, please have your presents Held at Location for Fedex or UPS or whatever. Or ship to your work! Don't leave it on the porch, we lose a lot of presents that way. Our local FedEx distribution place would make sure expensive-looking packages never made it onto the truck, they walked out with employees never to be delivered. It got to the point if I needed to order something and saw it was shipped via FedEx I'd find a different place to order it that used UPS instead.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:Centipedes? Run screaming like a little girl. Especially house centipedes. Completely unpopular opinion, but I think house centipedes are funny. Also, if it makes anyone (not necessarily you) feel better, they are apex predators and they eat roaches and bed bugs. When I was younger, I had a peeve about being told I should be happy about looking so young and that I would crave being mistaken for a junior high student as I got older. Now that I approach my thirties, I am occasionally NOT carded and it makes me feel powerful and cool, and I get sandy about people who do NOT call me "ma'am". Retroactive peeving.
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AlphaKretin posted:Actually while I'm whining about driving in Melbourne, requiring a pre-bought digital thingo instead of allowing cash on toll roads is a pretty slick way to keep out interstaters Oh gently caress you for getting this song in my loving head. I hate this song but it sticks in my brain and is played ALL THE TIME. It's so terrible. Usually Adam Levine's voice is only mildly annoying, but this song makes me want to rip the stereo right out of my car. And the "skittleydongdongdongdang" part in the middle makes me want to punch a bitch. There are a lot of songs like that on the radio. Most of them I can make my peace with, but there are a lot of whiny bitches on the radio. Ed Sheeran, Rachel Platt, and Sam Smith, I'm looking at you guys. Quit whining, or if you must, please make a song that is not quite so catchy. I can tolerate it but when it won't get out of my head, it's unforgiveable.
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Tendai posted:People who brake on anything even resembling a curve in the road And when going down even the slightest incline - happens here all the time, usually some old whitehair having to hammer their brakes because they think coasting 2mph over the limit will get them arrested. Although I wish they would get pulled over for slowing traffic and drifting in and out of lanes like assholes, I've nearly been sideswiped several times by elderly people who can barely see over the dashboard, let alone see anything at all with their gigantic 3" thick Hubble glasses.
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Sorry!  Ear worms annoy me too. My solution is to force something else over it - musicals help because a good one is pretty drat memorable. I accept no responsibility for loss of friends as a result of accidentally singing out loud when remembering Popular
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AlphaKretin posted:Sorry! Seems like an ironic way to lose friends if you singing Popular 
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Actually I'll ask here since I didn't get an answer last time I shoehorned Wicked into the conversation: do we have a theatre forum on SA?
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As far as I'm aware, no, but there is a PYF Musicals thread?
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My little pet peeve is when people hit their brakes, but do so so lightly that it accomplishes basically nothing. It seems like drat near every time I drive I'll be behind someone and their brake lights will come on. All I do is take my foot off of the gas pedal and I don't catch up to them at all. It's like they feel they need to be pressing a pedal at all times, even if it's just a little bit.
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:Me too. Spiders? Cool. They eat the bugs. Snakes? Whatever. Centipedes? Run screaming like a little girl. Especially house centipedes. I don't know house centipedes but if they're the smaller, slighter type I'm okay with them. It's the kind in this pic that freak me out, and I saw many in SE Asia.
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socketwrencher posted:I don't know house centipedes but if they're the smaller, slighter type I'm okay with them. It's the kind in this pic that freak me out, and I saw many in SE Asia.  They're prone to detaching their legs when threatened.
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Nuebot posted:
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I have the smaller kind of Centipedes in my apartment but I'm ok with them, as they rarely come out. They live under the windowsill of my bathroom if they are even still there, but the only times I ever saw them was when I left a washcloth on the windowsill and it crawled underneath. My washcloths no longer live in the bathroom, now they just visit.
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Well I guess that limits its fight or flight option. This thing doesn't bother me, don't really know why. It's kind of silver-fishy.
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Seeing a picture is one thing but when they're skittering across your kitchen floor and all their legs are all moving and walking I bet they're a real nightmare.
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