Do you stomp on bugs/insects?

[SkiesOfArcadia]

do you just stomp them

or do you stomp and grind/drag (which) them?

If you do the former, well it's a million x smaller than you, why?

If you do the latter...you're evil.

[l.e.b]

anyone that stomps bugs on purpose deserves to get punched

sometimes if they infest your house and crawl on your food its necassery but man and insect can live alongside

[Odds]

anyone that stomps bugs on purpose deserves to get punched

sometimes if they infest your house and crawl on your food its necassery but man and insect can live alongside

agreed :p
edit; "i have a dream, that one day... man and INSECT may live peacefully among eachother!"

[l.e.b]

it is said the creature with the DNA closest in relation to the human is a fly

[NoSeRider]

I capture them and throw them outside, then I sing "Born Free" as they fly or crawl away to freedom.....unless they're ants, then I get out the RAID.

[Andrej]

I grind if I happen to step one one. I think it's more humane than just stomping which in my head may leave the poor bug to limp around for a couple minutes in it's little bug agony. However, A smear on the pavement doesn't feel the pain.

[l.e.b]

I grind if I happen to step one one. I think it's more humane than just stomping which in my head may leave the poor bug to limp around for a couple minutes in it's little bug agony. However, A smear on the pavement doesn't feel the pain.

do you grind when you stand on a snail?

[Blue]

this topic is so f***ing random...

[Andrej]

I don't make it a habit of stepping on snails.

[loomer]

I shoot them with a rifle

[SkiesOfArcadia]

I grind if I happen to step one one. I think it's more humane than just stomping which in my head may leave the poor bug to limp around for a couple minutes in it's little bug agony. However, A smear on the pavement doesn't feel the pain.

how do you even know if you've stepped on a bug? can you give an example of one time where you've so called had to "grind or make a smear" to a bug because you accidentally stepped on it?

[Odds]

when you step on a snale, you should hear a crunching sound. :)

[sour]

i had this bad habit of destroying fire ant hills whenever i saw them. they do suck but now i feel bad for it.

[Slash]

Every insect that gets in my food/drink, or cause me pain/itching must die.

Otherwise i gently but firmly show them the door/window.

[bracomadar]

If they are in my way, like on my desk, or on the kitchen counter, or on my body I will flick it. They could survive, but it should teach them a lesson not to come around anymore. If a fly is bugging me I will swat it with a flyswatter, or if a wasp/bee is in the house I will get the fly swatter. Spiders in the house, if they are in my bedroom or crawling across the floor I will destroy. If they are some corner I tend to just let them be. Scorpions and centipedes are always killed. Outside the only bugs I kill on purpose are red velvet fire ants (a.k.a. cow killer ants). You can't just step on them, you have to squish and grind, or else it doesn't kill them. Don't know why, but they will survive a stomp. You have to grind them. We've got lots of moths and crickets in this house for some reason and I've just learned to live with them. When we burn wood in the winter to keep warm we get these stink bug looking things in the house from the wood, I turn them lose outside when I find them.

[sour]

i pronounce it ourkansas:\

[LaPalida]

it is said the creature with the DNA closest in relation to the human is a fly

It is wrong. Chimps' DNA is the closest in relation to humans. There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans and 24 pairs in chimps. However unlike what the movie "Doom" would have you believe we're not missing the chomosomes. Our chomosome #2 is twice as long as the chimp chromosomes and side by side the bands all match up showing that one less chromosome is simply the result of 2 chromosomes fusing together. Fruit flies on the other hand have 13,600 genes about 50% of which have human equivalents.

http://www.actionbioscience.org/genomic/hhmi.html

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ce/4/part7.html

[WildSpruceMoose]

All spiders are kill on sight. Come on...they have 8 legs! /m\ 4 more than this fella, and like 8 eyes too. *shivers*

[stoph]

ahem. i once came across a patch of dirt with ant hills about 6 inches tall and wide, all bunched up in groups. i stomped one hill, which put the others on alert. im not kidding, they were regular bull ants, but they swarmed so thick and fast you couldnt even see the ground! it was just one big teeming mass of black, and there i was prancing around in the middle of it all, stomping them down with my size 10 boot, watching gleefully as literal waves of ants changed direction, chasing after me, trying to eat me. some of my mates then took to another patch with aerosol cooking oil and a lighter, followed by honey. dunno why. *siiigh* kids will be kids. i was a sadistic one i guess :P

[darth massacre]

Anyone who doesn't naturally flick, stomp, brush off, pinch insects have:

- never lived at least 7 days in a tropical rainforest without shower.

- never lived at least 7 days in a tropical rainforest with defective insect repellent.

- never lived at least 7 days in a tropical rainforest without insect repellent.

- never smeared wet mud onto open skin so you can't feel ants crawl over your neck and to stop the hoardes of mozzies from giving you acute anaemia when you sleep in the tropical rainforest.

- never slid your foot into a combat boot that had recently become the refuge for ants or spiders escaping rising ground water from the rain the night before.

- never found out where insects could crawl under even when you wear supposedly air tight chemical warfare suits for over 12 hours.

- never been into a real tropical rainforest.



I ain't proud of killing insects when they bother me, but I won't give any excuses for it because I've been thru the above and it ain't fun.

[Chingwa]

I hate killing bugs. But I hate bugs more than I hate killing bugs so thats that.

[JERI]

I tend to pick them up and flick them out the window.

With the exception of flies and mosquitos, I can't capture them and they're annoying as hell.

[Poohgee]

darth massacre that sounds absolutly awful ... funny as well :D
Ill put your reasons on my list of reasons against becoming a soldier.

Have you experienced the hell of Scottish midgies ?

Anything crawling can either live or be crushed & squished to death as quickly as possible so its a quick death.

Snails I usually save - save the snails !!! :D

Spiders I dont mind as long as they keep to their side & dont come into my teratory .
Spiders are cool ... they are a cool design IMO :)

Lots of silly Lounge-threads !

[oracrest]

do you just stomp them

or do you stomp and grind/drag (which) them?

If you do the former, well it's a million x smaller than you, why?

If you do the latter...you're evil.

does this make me a part of some college thesis paper or something?

...anyway, I don't generally stomp on insects, but if i must, then I usually stomp and grind. However, I dont consider it evil. the bugs i have just stomped on before generally twitch a bunch before finally dying, seems a much more gruesome end than tore up instantly.....

[bracomadar]

I remember this one time I had just gone to bed and was trying to go to sleep and this fly was buzzing around my room. I didn't feel like getting up and fetching the fly swatter, so I held out my arm and started pinching my index finger and thumb together, like bird beak while I was trying to go to sleep. It was really stupid because I knew there was no way I was going to catch that fly, but...

I suddenly felt something between them. I HAD CAUGHT THAT SUCKER!!!! I turned on the light and just stared at it in amazement. It didn't hurt it. I opened the back door and turned it lose. I had defeated it and had no reason to kill it :confident I doubt anyone will believe this, but I swear to God it's true.

[l.e.b]

One night i was asleep
i could hear this really loud scratching noise it was like someone draggin their nails along a hollow wall (?)
It was properly loud and went on really quickly a man couldnt sleep for hours
i get up and look around my room tearing shit up trying to find what it is and ifind a empty shoe box
inside....
was a stag beetle with his feet scraping the box, he was a vetebrae so the sound of legs echod of the box like proper loud
i threw him out window

i remember the next day i found one in the bathroom in a crack in the wall
shit is strange because this beetle is not everywhere like a woodlouse and i have only found 1 once inside a log

[Sady]

I´d rather draw them.

[darth massacre]

darth massacre that sounds absolutly awful ... funny as well :D
Ill put your reasons on my list of reasons against becoming a soldier.
I became a soldier by law, not by choice. I'm still in the reserves. Never volunteer, even though they let you do cool stuff and/or your country will never will go to war.

Anyway don't get me wrong, I love insects. I wanted to study entomology when I was younger but I almost flunked high school biology...and math....and physics...and...ok ok I almost flunked high school!! And I love drawing and I'm good at it, so I decided to be an artist. I still love insects. I like big beetles, little beetles, cicadas, moths and so on and so on. I like the colors, the shapes, the interesting life cycles they have. But if they happen to encroach on my living space, I tend to just kill them.....its a lot easier than catching them alive.


One exception though....I absolutely HAAAATE cockroaches. My favourite sport (besides soccer) was playing "roach hockey" with my mutt when she was still alive. Basically its flipping a cockroach on its back and using it as a puck. The challenge was preventing the stupid mutt from eating the roach :$ ....scoring against that stupid dog was easy :teeth:

[wassermelone]

I catch insects and run them through my torture chamber.

I'm still looking for some 2mm spikes for the new Iron Maiden addition.

[Blahm]

if a bug could kill you it would.

[Steinmetz]

I prefer the deodorant sparay can with a lighter trick which creates a flamethrower, I then dig up an ants nest and toast the ants till burnt then I spit on the remains. Cos that's how I rule

[Idiot Apathy]

Nah, stepping on them is moider. I just leave them be, unless they are the outside type of bug.

[Snowsfall]

Stomp, grind, twist and every other violent foot motion in the book, and the roaches still seem to live through it.

[Lauren Short]

my room houses many crickets...seriously...they must think i'm a god...they never ever leave my room

i've gotten used to their sounds...and i don't bother to throw them outside anymore...they won't quit coming back for some reason. sometimes they jump onto my computer desk, i just kindly brush them aside

if it's a spider, i usually kill it,unless it's a daddy longleg, those aren't bad. for some reason i love killing black widows *shivers*

i don't really care much about bugs though, eh they're just bugs. only bugs i can say i have a personal vendetta against are roaches ...those things gross me out

[jfwalls]

I think bugs are cool. Except for these, they get up to 8 inches long, and a bite from them can put you in the hospital!

http://www.livinginlanai.com/images/aroundhouse2.jpg

[Barts]

i make love to them :)

[corky13]

i usually dont kill them..except if there in my personal teritory...thats my place.."stay out of it if ya want to survive ya lil critter !"

[nacho]

I love the sound of big spiders getting sucked into the vacuum cleaner...
*PFUMP*

[K-17]

I got a problem with spiders. Apart from that, i try to get them out of my way without killing them. I actually try to remove ants out of my sink without harming them. And that's a challenge.

[l.e.b]

Some of you live where there are black widow spiders like australia and US there pretty common
they can fuck you up with one bite, doesnt that make you scream when you see em?

[cgfuller64]

Im in Arizona, we have brown recluses...they make a black widow look like a mosquito bite!

[l.e.b]

http://www.greengardener.co.uk/images/daddy.jpg
word these are pretty dangerous

[Professor Az]

You would be correct.... I am evil. >:D

Plus, I'm an asshole, so they really should know better than to mess with me, a higher and much bigger lifeform. However, they are quite stupid, and insist on coming into the house, even though they know I live in there. Bugs/spiders/insects all belong outside. As long as they stay outside, they are safe from my wrath. They can swarm around the garbage, and I will leave them alone, because it's obviously someone ele's fault the lid got left open. If any arthopods make it past the chemical barrier around the house without dying, they will be killed with malice once they make it inside. All of them. I even make sure their children and their mothers die by putting out treats that they take back to their house, just so it will kill them. Ants in particular, and especially cockroaches. The predators like scorpions, brown recluse and black widow spiders, should all know better.

I said I was evil, right? Just making sure. :confident

[flatliner]

If its a fly, I hit it with a peice of paper so it falls dazed. Then grab it with a pair of tweezer and stick it into the jaws of my Venus Fly-Trap. If the plant do'nt take to it, you have to make it wriggle so its moving enough to stimulate it. You should see the plant after a good feeding, its like a fly grave yard.

I used to work as a cleaner at the local school. After a six week holiday the block I worked in would be infested with spiders. Big black hairy ones. They got the hover. I hate spiders, and I swear to god they know it. If something with six legs and god knows how many eyes is gonna come streaking across the floor towards me, it aint going to get away with it.

[bracomadar]

Im in Arizona, we have brown recluses...they make a black widow look like a mosquito bite!

We got lots of those here. This is what a brown recluse bite can do to ya (or your dog)...
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A HEART CONDITION, PLEASE DON'T LOOK!!!
http://thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/brown_recluse_spider_bite_Day10.jpg
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/images/9533_days_after_the_bite_as_the_skin_dies.jpg
http://www.gpacentraltexas.org/IMAGES/fosters/iza4_bite_200.jpg

[Koen]

I love insects, they stunned me ever since i was a small kid. I used to play wars aggainst ants, making my own super water canon from a plant sprayer.

Theres no need to be affraid of spiders or other insects, i always let spiders live in my room because they eat the flies that suck your blood.

[l.e.b]

if i lived around brown recluses id make sure there were no stones anywhere near the house for nething to hide under
id check my shoes for them everytime i put them on
id smash any spider up with a broom

[SkiesOfArcadia]

You would be correct.... I am evil. >:D

Plus, I'm an asshole, so they really should know better than to mess with me, a higher and much bigger lifeform. However, they are quite stupid, and insist on coming into the house, even though they know I live in there. Bugs/spiders/insects all belong outside. As long as they stay outside, they are safe from my wrath. They can swarm around the garbage, and I will leave them alone, because it's obviously someone ele's fault the lid got left open. If any arthopods make it past the chemical barrier around the house without dying, they will be killed with malice once they make it inside. All of them. I even make sure their children and their mothers die by putting out treats that they take back to their house, just so it will kill them. Ants in particular, and especially cockroaches. The predators like scorpions, brown recluse and black widow spiders, should all know better.

I said I was evil, right? Just making sure. :confident

but aren't you kind of old to be killing bugs still?

[Anders89]

The summer i turned eight i went down to the playing grounds are besides my house and found a lupe.

The thing with the lupe is that if the sky is clear and you point it at the right direction it makes a pretty decent lazorcannon, accidentaly i burned hundreds of insects that day.

[Professor Az]

but aren't you kind of old to be killing bugs still?

Nope. :wink:

I have moved from being a kid interested in bugs to an old man who can afford to invest in interesting ways to destroy them like chemical warfare. It happens once you become a homeowner. Don't get me started on termites. They get nuked with extreme predjudice.

:confident

[LaPalida]

When I was little I used to play with ants. I would bring a handful of rice and give it to the workers and watch them bring it back into their colony. It always amazed me how strong they were; they could drag such weight, and if they couldn't they would always swarm and cooperate to bring it in. I also used to trap them in small ditches and then eat them (they're sour!). I used to like to play with cockroaches (I had a pet one) before my mom found out. She was horrified when she saw me and then taught me to be scared of them. I hate to stomp on bugs and usually make someone else do it if it gets out of hand. If I can, I trap them and then I let them out outside. Anyways I just have an aversion to killing bugs and I always hated when kids burned them with a magnifying glass or tied strings to their legs (like to beetles) and then let them fly in a circle till they lose that leg trying to get away. I find it cruel.

[davi]

fucking fuck. i hate these threads.