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[heydude6]

Spoiler: rant (click to show/hide)

I've been infuriated the past few days. Two uncommon interesting events on back to back days that are also my rare chances to get any social interaction at all (because nobody ever fucking invites me to anything otherwise) and I missed both of them for asinine reasons so instead I kept rotting in my room. Truly my rage is persistently consuming me. It's this sort of bullshit that makes me want to obliterate everything in sight.

Were those asinine reasons family? Cause if so, I can relate.

[scriver]

Wait until you see Maratus volans.

Honestly I don't get the massive ick factor with insects. Except craneflies, something about those proportions slam my panic button. I had a practical where we got to handle stick insects and I was the only one in the group willing to. Kind of pathetic for a group of zoologists-to-be.

I refuse to believe anyone could think badly about the harmless cutieflies that are craneflies but not recognise the horror come alive that are the shape of parasitic wasps, just impossible

Stick insects are really cool though but for some reason they feel unsanitary to me – a different kind of ick perhaps but not the same as the primal terror ick of the wasps. I'd still opt to hold one if I got the chance.

[Egan_BW]

Wasps would be an issue if they were on the same scale as me, but they're really not our problem if you remember to not poke the yellowjackets. Mosquitos are our problem, though, since they drinky our own precious blood and carelessly spit into us doing so.

[King Zultan]

Why worry about wasps when you can just smash them and their nests with a shovel, I mean that's what I do to them.

[dragdeler]

Where I have you running around slapping wasp nests around that where hanging above head hight now ^^.

[McTraveller]

My preferred method of dealing with stinging flying insects is a strategically placed shop vac.

I removed a yellow jacket nest from under my front porch step that way.

[scriver]

Why worry about wasps when you can just smash them and their nests with a shovel, I mean that's what I do to them.

Parasitic wasps don't have nests that you can smash, they nest in your body

_{provided yoh have the body of their victim species}

Like ya'll keep bringing up normal wasps like they're the same thing, but they don't look the same at all. Normal wasps just look like angry bees. Parasitic wasps look like nightmare fuel.

[Maximum Spin]

Lots of things nest in your body. I don't get why you care about this one particular thing so much. Do you have any idea what's already in your body?

[None]

yes i do

it's not wasps

i'm not sure why that's difficult to comprehend

[Maximum Spin]

yes i do

it's not wasps

i'm not sure why that's difficult to comprehend

I just don't see wasps as especially worse than lots of other options.

[Schmaven]

The images of caterpillars covered in dozens of  parasitic wasp larvae bursting from their backs and sides, as they still try to crawl around are quite horrifying.  I imagine doubly so for the caterpillars to experience that.  Like, "phew, close call with that wasp, I'm glad it didn't kill me back there"... only to later have all those babies eat it from the inside out.

[Frumple]

Tried this... crustless pizza on a lark. It. It's basically the saddest pasta I've ever seen in my life, and everything mediocre about cheap bottom barrel pizza, just. Without crust to hold anything together.

Like. I bought it, and I'm going to eat it, but. I have regrets. This ain't good stuff. You'd think it'd be hard to screw up cheese and tomato sauce and pepperoni but by the gods someone's achieved it

... actually.

I have regrets, and I think I'm going to have more by doing something I really shouldn't salt intake wise and dump this mess into a bowl of mac and cheese -- this thing's basically one of those red box t-something pizzas without the crust, and I know from actual experience shoving one of those into a bowl of mac is actually pretty tasty. Lemme' go do that real quick. Just got to remember not to eat all of it in one go, lest it kills me or somethin'.

E: Okay, noticed the primary problem: Was looking more at price than brand when I made the order for the thing, and missed it was frikkin' Banquet. For those that don't know, it's a common low end frozen food brand in at least parts of the US, and it's, like. Ubiquitously terrible. To the point it's given me actual food poisoning before. Mistakes were made.

Sticking it in a bowl of mac has made it better, though. Somewhat.

[martinuzz]

Sometimes life can be complicated.

Went out to the pubs today. All evening, had two girls hanging around my neck and kissing me. Lesbian girls. Or okay well, one lesbian one bisexual.
Hey... I know I am a man with some feminine sides. That's what you get when raised by only women.
But but but.... I am a man. I fancy women. I lke the kisses hugs and attention for being 'the sweet safe guy', and I enjoy the company and the compliments.
But why do I always end up with lesbian woman attention.
I'd like to have a girl who likes me and just me
I am sorry that I am a feminist egalitarist anti-macho, that doesn't mean I am gay or a boy toy for lesbians.

In related news, I believe that tradwives should be neutered so they don't spread their genes.

[heydude6]

What’s wrong with the bisexual? Doesn’t that count as a win?

[nenjin]

I think he means something more than surface level sweet nothings. People can have this really unfortunate tendency to be nice/sweet/sexy to you because your attention makes them feel good, while having no actual intention of having a relationship. As someone who always seems to draw the attention of people already in relationships, I can relate. It's difficult not to feel used after a while. I don't flirt with people I don't intend to try and date, and I'm always confused when others do that because it feels incredibly dishonest to me.