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[Tabbyman]

Just wiping them out near population centres would be sufficient.

This is probably why the boonies are where you find the most bugs.

[Loud Whispers]

A few days ago, a family came in, and they got a few small items. I asked what kind of bag they wanted. Two of them both replied at the same time. "Plastic" "Paper" Awesome, do I get to pick? Anyway, they pick plastic. The one who said paper says, "I was just thinking of the environment."
Okay. You know you have to cut down a tree to make paper, right? Actually, they cut down a bunch, grind em up and make pulp, so its probably like twenty trees. I understand plastic doesn't rot/rots incredibly slowly. But what is worse, trash that never disappears, or cutting down trees? Trees make AIR. I know what I would pick.

Plastics are made from polymers. Most polymers are extracted from refined oil.
Paper bags are made from trees. Tree are renewable.
When presented with the choice of picking an option that contributes greatly to CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption vs a recyclable option formed from the destruction of a renewable resource, the choice is easy.
As long as wooded environments are conserved, paper bags will always be the preferable option.
[Also trees don't make air, they convert 6CO₂ and 6H₂O into C₆H₁₂O₆ and 6O₂, helping slow down the fuck up of humanity that is global warming]

Woah.

This thread be crawlin with creepies.

I love spiders. But damn do they love jump scaring people.

[Tabbyman]

Lately I've seen a lot more of those plastic bags made with some kind of plant product, biodegradable ones.

And one of the major contributors to global warming is the fact that we just came out of a mini ice age and are returning to what we had during the medieval warm period. It's the upswing of a natural oscillation.

I'm one of those annoying "deniers" who believes scientific consent is an illusion.

[penguinofhonor]

Any evidence for that? Because I've heard otherwise.

[kilakan]

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Those things generally make me freak out... largely because they invade your house, live in around any form of slightly rotting wood and tend to love gardens.  Oh and did i forget to mention that they WILL activily charge people, they bite bloody hard, and their stinger makes you go fucking numb!  Earwigs, actually names because they like crawling in ears.  KILL THEM ALL!  (oh and only insect I've found where you can cut the head off and it will keep trying to sting or bite you.)

[Loud Whispers]

I'm one of those annoying "deniers" who believes scientific consent is an illusion.

Argleblarge

Nothing makes me wince harder than people accepting the extinction of humanity ;_;

But... But it's scientifically proven that global warming is caused by us D:
We're the largest contributors of CO₂ emissions D:
/rant/
Also, there are people who deliberately waste energy in the hopes of forwarding the end of the world, cause gawd + apocalypse = good apparently. It's like a cliche movie that lasts 2 centuries. I'm not sure what their angle is. It is a confusing one, full of millipedes with sharp teeth.

[Nega]

earwigs

Oh my god, I hate earwigs! They always try to jump scare me whenever I'm trying to go to sleep. Even worse when the bathroom, where I usually get jumped by them most, is literally a door away from my room and there's one right inside there at the worst of times. 

[Loud Whispers]

earwigs

Oh my god, I hate earwigs! They always try to jump scare me whenever I'm trying to go to sleep. Even worse when the bathroom, where I usually get jumped by them most, is literally a door away from my room and there's one right inside there at the worst of times. 

Never understood why they were called earwigs. They do not make great replacements for ear hair.

[Hanslanda]

I've got nothing on earwigs. They're just meh to me.

[Svarte Troner]

I wish to go on a genetic extinction rampage.  I actually contemplated something like this before, trying to figure out ways to genetically doom variations of certain people.  If I had my own lab and several billion dollars....

Is that you Hitler?

I haven't seen an earwig since I was probably 6. Boy do I wish winter would return so I wouldn't have to deal with these fucking bugs. In due time, Svarte, in due time...

[helmacon]

Finally a rage thred!

FUCK EVERTHING.

i hate the world. especialy people, like the people that think that they are sooo smart and tell you random bullshit and insist that its true, even though its commen knowledge that thier wrong. and they just keep insisting that its true while presenting no real evidence. then when you finaly give up and let them think thier right, they act like they "proved you wrong" and won the argument, and then tell other people that and make you even madder, then you finaly tell them thier an idiot, and they act like they had nooo idea, and insist you tell them why your mad, and when you do they start the same stupid argument agin.

in short, fuck people.
*note, this is NOT about anyone on the forums, just in case.
also- Rated PG-13

[Tabbyman]

Any evidence for that? Because I've heard otherwise.

I don't want to take over the thread with an arguement between two sides that will never agree no matter how much evidence builds up for either side. Climate science is one of those things. But here's one link since you asked.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/

[Tabbyman]

Finally a rage thred!

FUCK EVERTHING.

i hate the world. especialy people, like the people that think that they are sooo smart and tell you random bullshit and insist that its true, even though its commen knowledge that thier wrong. and they just keep insisting that its true while presenting no real evidence. then when you finaly give up and let them think thier right, they act like they "proved you wrong" and won the argument, and then tell other people that and make you even madder, then you finaly tell them thier an idiot, and they act like they had nooo idea, and insist you tell them why your mad, and when you do they start the same stupid argument agin.

in short, fuck people.
*note, this is NOT about anyone on the forums, just in case.
also- Rated PG-13

I find it particularly frustrating when people have absolute faith in an unproveable and undisproveable hypothesis. And I'm not talking about religious people either... It's more frustrating in atheists because they think they're incapable of believing something without evidence to back it up.

Also not talking about anyone on here, or specifying a faith-based scientific theory I particularly facepalm about.

It's so much better to argue about things on 4chan where people will vent and then leave it behind in anonymity. No getting frustrated over a message in your inbox from someone you disagreed with months ago. 4chan may have a bad reputation but it's VERY good for unleashing unpleasant topics without having them follow you around.

EDIT: And I love bay12ers. Generally such calm and mature people. It takes lots of patience to play a game like Dwarf Fortress so I suppose there'd be much more civil people on here than other major forums. Either that or we've got very good moderation.

[Tabbyman]

Okay so who else here thinks it's the ultimate frustration to get popcorn husks under your gums and be unable to pick the husk out with a fingernail?

[Hanslanda]

I do hate that, but the ultimate frustration for me is pain in relationships. I... Don't handle strong emotions well. I very very rarely actually get angry or happy or anything. Usually its just a vague 'meh', all the time. So when something happens that actually causes strong emotion in me, it is very far beyond what the the 'normal' expected response is. So when I get hurt, then get angry, they get freaked out because mild mannered me turned into the Hulk over some basic relationship bullshit.
Which makes me not want to get angry, but in reality, that fuels the whole cycle, because I deal with stuff that would bother me until something actually truly bothers me, then the whole laundry list of anger comes pouring out into my mind like gasoline onto a grease fire.
And THAT is why I'm single, and have been for 2+ years.

On a unrelated note, I really don't like people that talk just to fill the silence. It annoys me. Motherfucker, maybe I like the silence. Silence is a magical gift from whatever powers may be. And you're shitting ALL over it. Just shut the hell up, please for the love of all that is good and pleasant, just shut up. No, I do NOT give the tiniest shit over what you ate for lunch, what you did last week, what you think about Subway, what Joe Blow did to Suzy Smith a month ago, or what you're doing on your day off. Stop. TALKING.