Bugs, Dirt and other Nasties...

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I'm cleaning my room and I find that dead/live bugs, dirt, dust and things of that sort gets me extremely more mad than anyone I know. I get pissed and start yelling curses at them. I can't even do it by myself, so I'm waiting until my parents get home!

Does anyone else have this problem?

[Beirut]

Howard Hughes had the same problem. But he had more money than you.

For my part, I did the dishes, and washed out the kitchen garbage can and the Shopvac today, both of which were Gah! Plus, I scrub both bathrooms in our house from top to bottom every Saturday along with cleaning the kitchen floor on my hands and knees with a spray bottle and rags. (I refuse to mop.) That's aside from all the other things that I have to clean at any given moment in a house with four people.

You're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from me, my brother.

[Csargo]

Normally don't yell at bugs. I doubt they understand me. But I do get frustrated cleaning my room.

[Samurai Waki]

Thank god for house cleaners. I know that sounds lazy, but its one small luxury we afford ourselves so that more time can be spent with the little ones and less time spent cleaning their messes. The Lady Cleans every other day for an hour or two and walks away with 30-40 USD pretty good all in all. More puzzling is the fact that she isn't an immigrant, I didn't think Americans wanted these kinds of jobs.

[RoadKill]

i just broom the dead bug into a corner of my room, the piles starting to get big also

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I have no big problem with messes of any sort really. Living with a dog who has a disorder that causes him to puke, cats that bring dead animals into the house all the time, and having several cleaning jobs as well as being the primary house cleaner around here does that to you. And unless you're female I won't be giving you any sympathy either. And even if you are I'll eventually get fed up.

[AntiochusIII]

I'm the delicate (read: annoying) prince/scared of bugs kind.

I do make a point of keeping my room exceedingly clean though. We are also lucky to have a very clean house and only the occasional bugs pay a visit, almost exclusively downstairs, far from my own room, and only during the night, so I can avoid them until I grow some senses.

Dead bugs don't agitate me. Living, crawling ones do.

As of dirt, dust, and other nasty particles: easy to clean. They don't move I'm not bothered :P

[Moros]

Nope bugs or dirt don't gimme the creeps. As long as I don't have to eat it, I can't be bothered by them. I usually clean my room and my bureau enough, so I don't have many bugs, but if there are I just leave them if they leave me.
Spiders for example, I just let them be, let them kill the bugs and there are thousands in every house anyway, so killing them is impossible anyway.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Bugs are cool, especially spiders, except those caterpillars which come in great force every seven years or so, but those don't creep me out I just kill them by the hundreds to save our trees.

[doc_bean]

Bugs rarely annoy me, but zooming insects at night have certainly angered me

One of the reasons I'm not likely to kill (small) spiders, I hope they catch whatever flies around. I used to be afraid of spiders when I was little, but I see their use now

[Subedei]

I hate mosquitos...by heart. they are pretty much the only bugs i try to hunt down. I don´t mind spiders . They are on my side!

I once read in a paper that the average Western citizen swallows while sleeping around 6-7 spiders in his live.....Bon apetite!!!

[AntiochusIII]

Spiders for example, I just let them be, let them kill the bugs and there are thousands in every house anyway, so killing them is impossible anyway.

Come to think of it, I actually *like* the spiders.

They never bother me the way crickets (very little, live and let live, but if I see you you die), flies (moderate, I don't like my food "touched"), or cockroaches do (very high...almost a phobia really or may be it is ; damn bastards). Like Subedei said, these guys are allies!

Subedei: That comment is actually a very old and classic example of an urban legend actually.

[I of the Storm]

Spiders are good for you. They are almost as venerable as the almighty camel. I'm keen on keeping them in my place. If it's getting too much, I take away some of their webs or if they overpopulate, I take a few of them out of the house but generally I let them go about their business.

I'm not much of an insect killer anyway, I even let the common house flies escape. Except gnats. For them it's sudden death.

[R'as al Ghul]

I'm not much of an insect killer anyway, I even let the common house flies escape. Except gnats. For them it's sudden death.

Way to go. We generally leave a spider or two in every room. If they venture to places we don't like them to be I'll escort them outside with a glass. Same with other insects. Agree about the gnats, though. BTW, the spiders let their finished prey fall down. If you don't clean up after them it can pile up.

[Subedei]

Subedei: That comment is actually a very old and classic example of an urban legend actually.

O.k., so no actual unconscious midnight-snacks?

But do you guys realize how good we treat animals? Carry them out with glasses [I am doing the same, even if it is hard to get the little buggers in there!]. We are sending thousands of men to war and death without raising an eyebrow, but we carry our little 6-leged friends out of our houses!!!

[Mikeus Caesar]

I don't mind bugs being in my house, it's when they're in my hair that it's horrid. Some jackass of a 'friend' has given me and lots of other people headlice. Horrid little sods, it's horrid to scratch your head and have a bug fall out, engorged on your blood.

Satisfying to crush them beneath your fingernails though. A nice pop as your stolen blood squirts out.

[I of the Storm]

Oh, that reminds me of something: flea!!

Had them twice in my place. I have not the slightest remorse about using whatever possible horrid things against them. Preferably the biggest, ugliest chemical club. They're a pain in the ***.

They pop nice too when you crush them.

[Sigurd]

Man!!!

I sometimes wonder what kind of country people lives in that see the necessity of keeping spiders in the house to kill other bugs.
I used to live in Aussie... I have never been more scared of insects since. Not knowing the fauna of the nation you live in is scary. You see a bug or somthing and wonder: Is that dangerous for my kid?
We deliberately lived on the third floor in the middle of the city in a new built apartment complex (first resident in the flat). Those damned Australians keep a slit at the bottom of the frontdoor. What an insane idea with all that creepy crawling things found there.
Our first appartment with the frontdoor out to the streets on the ground floor was a nightmare and we didn't stay there very long.

I am glad I live in a new house in a cold land. No bugs and the occational stray fly that promptly leaves either by window or death.

[R'as al Ghul]

I sometimes wonder what kind of country people lives in that see the necessity of keeping spiders in the house to kill other bugs.

Well, in my case it's not a necessity. It's more a "let live" mentality.
Creatures in my household in Germany:

• ladybug
• green lacewing
• common fly
• fruit fly (comes with the fresh fruit)
• moth
• crane fly (daddy longlegs)
• gnats/mosquitos
• sometimes Opiliones (better known as "harvestmen")
• I don't know what the spiders are called but they are harmless
• there're some other "real" bugs but I don't have time to translate names and some I don't even know. All harmless creatures that get lost indoors when attracted by lights

Oh, and I only keep those spiders that behave. Meaning those sitting up in a corner in their net waiting. Those hunting spiders that run everywhere to catch their prey freak my girlfriend out. And I admit I feel uncomfortable with them, too. Then there're those that my father breeds in his pile of firewood. If you can hear them walk they're too large.
I reckon in Oz you'd need one or two of those nasty non-endemic frogs that eat everything.

R'as

[Abokasee]

Bugs... I have no fear of them, infact when over a estimated 10 million ants decided to surrond are house we poured them with petrol and set it a light (ANTS GOT PWNED)

[Martok]

Gah! I hate ******* spiders. When I see anything with eight legs, it dies. Quickly.

[Caius]

We love spiders, because they predict the climate. When they are inside, rain is coming!

[Sigurd]

We love spiders, because they predict the climate. When they are inside, rain is coming!

If that were true, you would have no outdoor spiders where I live.

[Caius]

If that were true, you would have no outdoor spiders where I live.

You know Sigurd, our spiders are more desarollated than Norwegians ones.

[macsen rufus]

Spiders are quite welcome in my house - they keep the flies down. Mosquitoes get squitted ASAP, nothing worse than lying in bed at night, and hearing that whining noise, waiting for the bite, so mozzies are on the "must die" list. Ants have somehow found a way in, and I think I might need to do some repointing outside to repair the crumbling mortar that may be the route in. Daddy-long-legs (ie craneflies) are just so damn ugly and ungainly they have to die too. I don't bother too much about their grubs in the lawn, as I quite enjoy the magpies coming down to ferret them out (hey, what else do you watch when you have no TV ).

The only time I had a real PROBLEM with bugs was in Ecuador, when I woke up to find a four inch (10cm) long centipede in my bed. Waaah!!! I did get up rather quickly

[Papewaio]

You know Sigurd, our spiders are more desarollated than Norwegians ones.

How big are your spiders?

I'd rather look out the window and see if it is raining rather then have a bunch of huntsmen come indoors to tell me it is raining.

[naut]

Don't get too many nasties here, the wind does blow in dust and such. The worst are Red-backs, White-tails and Red-Bellied Blacks where I live.

Edit:

bunch of huntsmen

Gah! I hate those so much.

[Caius]

How big are your spiders?

I'd rather look out the window and see if it is raining rather then have a bunch of huntsmen come indoors to tell me it is raining.

Pape, you mis understood me.

Those little spiders come inside the house, and its proven that it will rain.

[CountArach]

I haven't cleaned my room in about a month. That's why we have cleaners :biggrin:

My desk is absolutely shocking. Stuff is stacked over a foot high in most places, but I know where everything is... it is all chronological..

[master of the puppets]

i love my house man, we have tons of spiders in the basement, mostly wolf spiders and jumping spiders, both keep insects down and neither leave webs.

we never have any mosquitoes at my house because we have a large pond in our back yard, in the day the 1st army aircorpse of dragon flies are on patrol for mayflies, and the bats swarm when dark falls annihilating the mosquito population.

we have a kind of wasp (don't know what kind, not a yellowjacket or mud wasp tho) that has a huge nest outside in one of our trees, honest to god twice the size of my head, they werent there last year and we had plenty of flies, this year we have none, i have an army of fly killers outside w00t.

at night the darkness is thick with the chirps of ciquedas, crickets, spring peepers and bullfrogs.

our garden is brimming with all sorts of insects, bees, grasshoppers, ladybugs, and about 40 different kinds i've seen but cannot name.

the only problems are the japanese beetles (hate those things) and occasionally gypsie moths attack our mulberry tree (but a lighter and a bit of hairspray takes care of them.)

...wow, i just made my house seem real nice... i'm gonna invite freinds over and have a bonfire... need marshmallos tho...