Random Thought Thread

Blues said:
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"We're only here for the children...and the dogs."
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Nasty!
 
Our children lived their whole lives in south Florida. Moved up north (Tallahassee) a couple years ago, youngest daughter comes running out of her room quite excited about a cockroach that she encountered.

Her: "Oh my God, it was going to fly at me! Help!!"

Me: "Babe, calm down its just a roach, they don't fly"

Cockroach: Immediately flies across the house right in her direction. Oops. :eek:
 
soflaac said:
Our children lived their whole lives in south Florida. Moved up north (Tallahassee) a couple years ago, youngest daughter comes running out of her room quite excited about a cockroach that she encountered.

Her: "Oh my God, it was going to fly at me! Help!!"

Me: "Babe, calm down its just a roach, they don't fly"

Cockroach: Immediately flies across the house right in her direction. Oops. :eek:
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When I lived in Georgia as a child my mother always called those “ palmetto bugs.”
 
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Blues said:
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American cockroach. Grows up to ~2" long.

Seen those in L.A. and FL. When I first moved to MI for college, a roommate went, "EEEEEEE!!! Cockroach!!!".

I grabbed a magazine and rolled it up and went, "Where?!!!"

She says, "There!!!"

I go, "WHERE?!!!"

She points and says, "Right THERE!"

I look closer and there's this bug that's about 1/3" long, and say, "You guys call THAT a cockroach? Don't go anywhere warmer. You're in for an unpleasant surprise", then smacked it.

One weird thing I learned in Asia (they have roaches that look like these, too. Don't know why they're called an 'American cockroach'); those suckers can fly, and when they do fly when there are people around, they seem to like aiming for people to land on (and boy, do they stink. You can smell one in a room, before you even see it).
 
SwarthyGnome said:
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Fellas [and ladies?] I’ve been in Turkey the last two weeks and I have come to find out that they have corn on pizzas.
I’ve never heard of this in the States before.
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Hmmm... that pic reminds me of cleaning out the forgotten/neglected corners of the fridge, back in my college days 😂
 
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I've seen some giant friggin' Palmetto bugs and cockroaches in both NYC and FL...and they are skeevy to the max...but the scariest SOB I ever saw was a giant tarantula or tarantula-like spider that was in my motel room as a kid during a trip to FL.

I called my dad into the room and he hit that bastard with his moccasin...the thing shrugged it off, laughed and ran behind the radiator in the room.
My father told me and my sisters to go to sleep. I was like "yeah, right" and spent the rest of the night with one eye open waiting for it to come out of hiding and abscond with us to Central America aboard a banana boat.
 
SwarthyGnome said:
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Fellas [and ladies?] I’ve been in Turkey the last two weeks and I have come to find out that they have corn on pizzas.
I’ve never heard of this in the States before.
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I'm just glad it's corn and not roaches. Because the way this conversation was going I was getting concerned. Corn is fine. Carry on.
 
Blues said:
I've seen some giant friggin' Palmetto bugs and cockroaches in both NYC and FL...and they are skeevy to the max...but the scariest SOB I ever saw was a giant tarantula or tarantula-like spider that was in my motel room as a kid during a trip to FL.

I called my dad into the room and he hit that bastard with his moccasin...the thing shrugged it off, laughed and ran behind the radiator in the room.
My father told me and my sisters to go to sleep. I was like "yeah, right" and spent the rest of the night with one eye open waiting for it to come out of hiding and abscond with us to Central America aboard a banana boat.
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I've seen a LOT of big bugs while traveling.

Biggest spider I ever encountered, was in Malaysia. The web looked like something from the movie Arachnophobia (which came out quite a bit later than my encounter). The web spanned the legs of a rural wooden water tower (maybe 7' - 8' apart?).

I thought to myself, "What the heck built a web THAT large?", then saw this big, black furry spider near the top. Sure as heck didn't get closer, but it looked about the size of my handspan (can juuuust palm a basketball). 😬

Also saw the world's biggest moth in Malaysia. We were up in the (lower) mountains. Heard a thump on the window at night. Sounded like a bird flew into it, but since it was nighttime, my first thought was, "Maybe a bat hunting insects?". Opened the curtain and there was this giant moth on the window. I couldn't believe the size of it. When I held my hands to the window in the typical '2-handed butterfly' position, it matched the size of this thing on the other side of the window.

Also got to see their giant centipedes while we were hiking through the rainforest (that one was about 18" long and the body segments, not including the legs were about 1/2" - 3/4" wide). Bite supposedly hurts like heck.

On a more local scale, while in college, I moved into one of those 'partially below ground' apartments (i.e., when you look out the windows, the ground outside is at chest height). It was right by a wooded area.

What we discovered in the Fall, was that when it got colder, big huntsman spiders somehow scuttled into the HVAC from the outdoors for warmth, then when we finally turned the heat on, the spiders scuttled out into the apartment.

I think the biggest one I saw inside the apartment had a leg span of about 4" - 5". Didn't help that the apartment had dark brown shag carpeting.

I was chilling on a bean bag watching TV, when I saw movement out the corner of my eye, but when I looked in that direction, greaaaatttt... furry dark brown spider on furry dark brown carpet. Perfect friggin camouflage. Had to wait for it to move before I could pinpoint it.
 
trevitrace said:
No cheese? What a letdown. I mean, I'm glad you don't have to deal with thousands of pounds of funky cheese but the build up that it could be thousands of pounds of funky cheese was very exciting.
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Very exciting indeed. I literally lost sleep over it.
 
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