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Pharmaskittle posted:Like none. They just fly around, seemingly oblivious to their surroundings, and don't do anything at all. The worst thing they can possibly do is leave a corpse, usually near your A/C vent. Or, since they don't seem to understand how flying works even when doing it, they also occasionally fly into your face, which is basically like getting hit by a big bundle of spider legs out of nowhere. Little unnerving, but they're just too goofy to bother killng.
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Krinkle posted:I've never been stung by a live bee. Only dead bees floating in pools. Zombees? 
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Blistex posted:Crows are basically birds with the brain capacity of a 2 year old. I know grackles are not corvids but I remember those fuckers eating my dog's food. Since the kibble was too hard to break or swallow, what they would do is take a nugget and drop in the dog's water bowl, wait a few minutes until the nugget got soggy, acquired a wet bread consistency and chow down. The dog didn't give a gently caress. edit: as a citizen of a country that has four mosquito-borne diseases, I say we wipe the fuckers out. Having Dengue fever, Yellow fever, Chikungunya and Malaria in one country sucks. Most of those diseases have no vaccines too. TerryLennox fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Kilo147 posted:That'd be dope. I mean, I haven't seen a goddamn snake up here in Washington in a decade or more. I live out in the Seattle burbs and have garter snakes that live in my yard, they seem pretty chill.
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Kilo147 posted:That'd be dope. I mean, I haven't seen a goddamn snake up here in Washington in a decade or more. I'm just up in Victoria. When I was a kid we had TONS of snakes in our front yard which had a big bouldery rock garden, but about 15 years ago or so they vanished and I never saw one in the neighbourhood ever again. I see them in parks and dry rocky areas, even various lizards. We still got em so you must too, you just have to look in the right places. Sometimes they even chill out in trees. Also to keep things OSHA, it's crow nesting season. Saw a couple crows dive bombing a dude on a genie lift trying to fix some flashing on an apartment building. I think they had a nest in the tree right next to him. Good thing he had a hard hat. I don't understand how city crows who are surrounded by humans every day all the time suddenly flip out during nesting season. Ok a guy getting up high by their nest in a lift I can see, but they still yell and dive bomb every pedestrian. You built your nest above a busy downtown sidewalk how do you not get exhausted flipping out at every single human all day???
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VectorSigma posted:Mosquitoes are a goddamn keystone species. It sucks for us but it's a fact. Considering how many food chains they are part of, that's one domino I'd be wary of tipping. They are also really important pollinators
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Facebook Aunt posted:Zombees? The funniest short story I ever read was by Jack Handey in his book What I'd Say to the Martians. It was an SNL skit he wrote in the 80s that was never picked up. The special guest was carl weathers and I had just learned who he was by the arrested development episodes where he kept giving acting tips about how to scrounge up free food and get a stew going. It was called zombies vs. the bees where carl weathers is a sheriff of a twin peaks like town that is attacked by zombies, and then bees, and he decides to do nothing about the situation at all, despite the panicky people coming into his office demanding action, because the zombies are too occupied with the bees, and the bees only attack the zombies, so it's a wash as far as he cares. I can't find it online. Thank you for listening to my story that didn't need to be told. P.S. I read the story on my phone during a safety briefing about lock out/tag out.
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Improbable Lobster posted:They are also really important pollinators Of the deadliest diseases in human history, so gently caress 'em. If humans are going to be blamed for widespread extinctions and global disasters, we may as well cause an extinction on purpose for our own benefit  vvv: we all have to go at some point, so if we can take our vengeance on those winged blood suckers then it's a fair price Sentient Data fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Sentient Data posted:Of the deadliest diseases in human history, so gently caress 'em. If humans are going to be blamed for widespread extinctions and global disasters, we may as well cause an extinction on purpose for our own benefit Extinction of humans being the benefit.
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And just for some content, today I was carrying a piece of machinery with a co-worker and he dropped his end causing it to slip out of my grip and carve 4 of my fingers up pretty well. Then as it slipped out it landed on my knee. The best bit is finding out while hobbling around all our buildings for a first aid kit...that we don't have a single one on a city block sized compound of offices, workshops, warehouses, motorpool and sales floors. I left quite the trail of blood around the place and ended up wrapping my hand in a rag and driving to the nearest chemist and bought a huge wall mounted First Aid kit myself. Worst bit is now I have to type like an old man pecking at keys. quote:3. FIRST AID EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND TRAINING https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/58162/first-aid-in-the-workplace-cop-2014.pdf
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Humphreys posted:qld.gov.au Welp theres your problem
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SynthOrange posted:Welp theres your problem In a way, yes. In another way we come under Mines and Energy which have had a hardon for loving our company in the past year.
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They breed them special up there. I process job orders from several states and every batch from Queensland has some stupid gently caress-up in it that I have to fix for them before I can do my own job. Queensland produces more problems than all the other states put together.
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GotLag posted:They breed them special up there. Try being behind the lines! I posted a while back that an inspector came to do his thing on a fire hose reel. It was in an alcove with a filing cabinet in front of it. I had been at the place for maybe 3 months and didn't know it existed.
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Delivery McGee posted:So, what, dragonflies (the larvae eat mosquito larvae and the adults eat adult mosquitoes)? Anything that eats dragonflies can learn to eat other bug that eat less offensive things. Hell, dragonflies could probably find something else to eat. Overall, a positive. Or a complete collapse of the ecosystem in which the dragonflies and the small birds/bats/dragonflies/etc wipe out their alternate prey species due to eating more of them rather than mosquitoes, which apparently scientists don't think will happen. Oh, ok. I'm sure that's all of the things that eat mosquitos. Definitely none we don't know about. Genocide away! What could possibly go wrong?
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Hyperlynx posted:Genocide away! What could possibly go wrong? It's all well and good unless you happen to be a dwarf.
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Reddit posted:I work in a lab and put a small eppendorf tube in my bra to defrost it quickly (a surprisingly common practice at work). Turned out the sample had leaked slightly before freezing and is an extreme skin irritant, and now I have an itchy left boob.
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You'd think they'd at least put the tube in a plastic baggie or something like that, rather than sticking a glass icicle between their breasts.
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TTerrible posted:These guys are loving morons. Holy poo poo. He said someone threw a keg into a camp fire.
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Jabor posted:It's all well and good unless you happen to be a dwarf. walking down stairs with a cockatrice corpse is probably an MSHA violation
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Hyperlynx posted:Oh, ok. I'm sure that's all of the things that eat mosquitos. Definitely none we don't know about. Genocide away! What could possibly go wrong? Did you get upset about rinderpest?
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Baronjutter posted:Also to keep things OSHA, it's crow nesting season. Saw a couple crows dive bombing a dude on a genie lift trying to fix some flashing on an apartment building. I think they had a nest in the tree right next to him. Good thing he had a hard hat. I don't understand how city crows who are surrounded by humans every day all the time suddenly flip out during nesting season. Ok a guy getting up high by their nest in a lift I can see, but they still yell and dive bomb every pedestrian. You built your nest above a busy downtown sidewalk how do you not get exhausted flipping out at every single human all day??? Most animals get kind of crazy when it is babytime. A switch flips and they go from being chill to freaking out because IT MIGHT GET MY BABBIES AERGH KILL IT.
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General Bullshit: WGBS Channel 4 - Your local news leader > OSHA Mosquitos aren't important to the ecosystem
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GenericOverusedName posted:Most animals get kind of crazy when it is babytime. A switch flips and they go from being chill to freaking out because IT MIGHT GET MY BABBIES AERGH KILL IT. Humans are always in baby time, is that why we're always crazy and freaking out???
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Why is that one boar an aardvark?
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Mithaldu posted:You'd think they'd at least put the tube in a plastic baggie or something like that, rather than sticking a glass icicle between their breasts. They don't have extensive procedures in place yet since the method is still relatively new. It seems to have begun after the staff started reading Twilight
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Baronjutter posted:Humans are always in baby time, is that why we're always crazy and freaking out??? Looking at this thread, yeah, evidence seems to match.
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Report the lack of first aid kits to whoever you can and involve the Aussie version of Workman's Comp. If nothing else, I'd go to an urgent care for a tetanus booster, properly cleaning and bandaging, and reassurance you don't need stitches. Then take a copy of that paperwork to your supervisor.
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Sentient Data posted:They don't have extensive procedures in place yet since the method is still relatively new. It seems to have begun after the staff started reading Twilight What I don't get is why would somebody freeze a bra in the first place. No judging I just don't get it 
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GovSchwarzenegger posted:Just seeing this. Great memories but here is the reality. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4ovi84/til_during_filming_of_conan_the_barbarian_arnold/d4iqrfe
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Drunk lice.
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Mithaldu posted:You'd think they'd at least put the tube in a plastic baggie or something like that, rather than sticking a glass icicle between their breasts. When your breasts are long and floppy who cares
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Atticus_1354 posted:
They're actually still hanging there even now
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Some say that even now, if the wind blows just right, you can still hear them say PULL US UP YOU loving ASSHOLES
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FogHelmut posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4ovi84/til_during_filming_of_conan_the_barbarian_arnold/d4iqrfe I really love that I've found out now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a really active Reddit account.
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LivesInGrey posted:Report the lack of first aid kits to whoever you can and involve the Aussie version of Workman's Comp. If nothing else, I'd go to an urgent care for a tetanus booster, properly cleaning and bandaging, and reassurance you don't need stitches. Then take a copy of that paperwork to your supervisor. I spent the better part of the morning doing all you have mentioned. Oh boy the bosses are pissed off. I have put up the kit I bought with a note saying 'loaned to X company by Humphreys until more adequate model supplied by management'. My direct manager and I are the only ones working tomorrow. He at least tried to help me with what he had in his personal stash, I am going to have some serious discussions about my position. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:I really love that I've found out now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a really active Reddit account. quote:Watching Terminator: Genesys with my father. (Some spoilers) by bizzyjay in movies  This isn't even rare for him, he does this poo poo all the time; that's so loving cool.
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These guys have spent the last week repainting the water tower across the parking lot from my office: Near as I could tell, they were being pretty OSHA complaint, except the guy on the ground doesn't have a hardhat on.
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