- bane_killgrind ( @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml ) English41•5 months ago
This is how women feel when people tell them to smile more
- PersnickityPenguin ( @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ) English5•5 months ago
I had an ex girlfriend who used to tell me to smile more. I guess I was her trophy boyfriend
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) English36•5 months ago
PSA for people with cockroach problems: Diatomaceous earth is a lifesaver! Non toxic, (also a good fertilizer for the garden) and keeps working until it gets wet.
What is it? fossils of diatoms in a chalky-powder what do you do with it? Sprinkle (dusting) into hard to reach areas (think behind & under kitchen equipment, drawers, along baseboards)
what it does is sticks to anything with an exoskeleton & dehydrates them…they die.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
we live in a humid, costal town where they are endemic and we have ZERO of these motherfuckers in our shop & home
- BlueSquid0741 ( @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ) English18•5 months ago
Yes, I used to use this stuff all the time in my old roach infested apartment. And then I felt really bad for the cockroaches and had to stop though.
- nossaquesapao ( @nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ) English8•5 months ago
Nice to know I’m not the only one. I feel bad about them too.
- Forester ( @Forester@yiffit.net ) English5•5 months ago
HEY JOE HOWS THE WIFE?
- Remy Rose ( @MxRemy@lemmy.one ) English19•5 months ago
Why are people afraid of house centipedes? They already ARE cute! It’d be one thing if they were at least somewhat willing to bite you, like some spiders, but they won’t. They’ve got the best eyesight of any centipede, which inadvertently gives them really cute little eyes too.
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English30•5 months ago
Though i agree they are harmless, they do not meet any classical, popular definition of cute
- aport ( @aport@programming.dev ) English21•5 months ago
They have too many legs and move too quickly. It just freaks me out, man.
- criticon ( @criticon@lemmy.ca ) English8•5 months ago
For me it’s the fact that I lived in a desertic place for most of my life and centipedes there have a very painful bite
I know house centipedes are smaller and harmless but it’s difficult to re-train the brain
Edit: words
- el_abuelo ( @el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ) English3•5 months ago
Gosh this was hard to read. Those centipedes really did a number on you huh!
- DoucheBagMcSwag ( @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English17•5 months ago
Also I move really fucking fast.
Deal with it
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) English13•5 months ago
I still appreciate it a lot
- JCreazy ( @JCreazy@midwest.social ) English11•5 months ago
I’ve heard of a legend of a man named Joe who lived with cockroaches in his apartment.
- rimjob_rainer ( @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ) English11•5 months ago
Never had any cockroaches (do they even exist in Germany?) but I have those from time to time in my basement. Not sure what they eat there.
- higgsboson ( @higgsboson@dubvee.org ) English9•5 months ago
I mean…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cockroach
To be fair, they really originated elsewhere, but Germany certainly has cockroaches. I think Germany is probably too cold for them to be a big problem, though.
- Slovene ( @Slovene@feddit.nl ) English13•5 months ago
You mean the climate or, like, emotionally?
- Pleb ( @pleb_maximus@feddit.de ) English9•5 months ago
Yes.
- rimjob_rainer ( @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•5 months ago
wow, TIL. Never seen them.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English1•5 months ago
Depends what you mean by cockroach. I haven’t seen the pests around. But there are some smaller ones that are sometimes also found inside the house. I frequently find this one in my home for example, which is really cute <3
- rimjob_rainer ( @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•5 months ago
Yes, I know those. They accidentally end up in houses but they can’t survive there, they can only live outside.
- stembolts ( @stembolts@programming.dev ) English6•5 months ago
I see these leggy boys in my basement all the time. Wolf spiders, leggy boys, and me are allies. I often have to save the spiders from my cats. Damn things suck at not dying to cats. Never seen my cats kill one of these tho.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) English3•5 months ago
It doesn’t even get to pay taxes. Why bother?
- rockerface 🇺🇦 ( @rockerface@lemm.ee ) English2•5 months ago
Based and true