riddler 0 #51 July 17, 2013 QuoteCan someone tell me what the fuck purpose do they serve? Why do things have to have a purpose? The Earth is a place of opportunity, and if a life-form can evolve that sucks the blood out of other creatures and thrive, then it will. Just look at lawyers. Face mites. They live on your face, crawl around your pores, have sex on your nose, and eat your skin cells. There is no point! It's just another opportunistic life-form: http://dodustmitesbites.com/demodex-mites/Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #52 July 17, 2013 That's it. I'm going to start using kerosene when taking my showers now. Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 9 #53 July 18, 2013 http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/17/why-mosquitoes-bite-some-more-than-others/?intcmp=features Why mosquitoes bite some more than others Published July 17, 2013 Does it seem like you're a mosquito magnet? A new report says some of us are bitten more than others for several different reasons. According to Smithsonian Magazine, about 20 percent of us are more appealing than others to the insects. The reasons? They include: 1. Alcohol -- just one bottle of beer can increase your appeal to the nasty bugs. 2. Pregnancy -- as if pregnant women don't have enough to worry about, they get bitten about twice as much as the rest of us. The body temperature of pregnant women is a degree warmer than everyone else, and they exhale 21 percent more carbon dioxide. 3. Bloody type -- Type O blood types are bitten twice as much as Type A. Type B is somewhere in the middle. 4. Exercise -- Working out builds up lactic acid in your sweat, making you a little more tasty. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NorrinRadd 0 #54 July 18, 2013 riddlerQuoteCan someone tell me what the fuck purpose do they serve? Why do things have to have a purpose? The Earth is a place of opportunity, and if a life-form can evolve that sucks the blood out of other creatures and thrive, then it will. Just look at lawyers. Face mites. They live on your face, crawl around your pores, have sex on your nose, and eat your skin cells. There is no point! It's just another opportunistic life-form: http://dodustmitesbites.com/demodex-mites/ If one were to start pointing around at creatures on this planet that are a nuisance, or even a danger to other life-forms, one would invariably find the same critter at the top of the pile: Us. We may not like skeeters. But they cause less harm to the world by many orders of magnitude than humans. So, if a mosquito were to have cognitive abilities that recognized what we can do, I have no doubts they would be asking the very same question, but with a little more gusto: What purpose do we serve? Edit: that was an agreement and add-on to your point. Just in case it seemed otherwise.Why drive myself crazy trying to be normal, when I am already at crazy? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
forblueskies 0 #55 July 18, 2013 But then my skin would get all wrinkled...with all due respect. Referring to living in Arizona, which lacks mosquitoes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
forblueskies 0 #56 July 18, 2013 There is nothing a squirrel can't get into. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 52 #57 July 18, 2013 forblueskies There is nothing a squirrel can't get into. OK, let me rephrase: oldwomanc6 ***One day later, the mosquito trap is a fail because the squirrels got into it. They drank every last bit of it and left their sticky squirrel prints all over the table where I had the trap! Someone in a squirrel-free yard needs to try it and let us know how it goes. That's too bad, because it makes sense. I wonder if there is a commercial trap (along the same line, probably for some other bug) that won't fall apart and the squirrels can't get into before I can take a pot-shot. lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
forblueskies 0 #58 July 18, 2013 oldwomanc6 ***There is nothing a squirrel can't get into. OK, let me rephrase: oldwomanc6 ***One day later, the mosquito trap is a fail because the squirrels got into it. They drank every last bit of it and left their sticky squirrel prints all over the table where I had the trap! Someone in a squirrel-free yard needs to try it and let us know how it goes. That's too bad, because it makes sense. I wonder if there is a commercial trap (along the same line, probably for some other bug) that won't fall apart and the squirrels can't get into before I can take a pot-shot. Bingo! And I hope you have a lot of time on your hands. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 52 #59 July 18, 2013 Quote Bingo! And I hope you have a lot of time on your hands. Not as much as some here (not naming names), but enough to have taken out a few critters whilst sitting on my porch. But the darned mosquitos still bother me while I'm doing that. lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #60 July 18, 2013 ZigZagMarquis 1. Alcohol -- just one bottle of beer can increase your appeal to the nasty bugs. 3. Bloody type -- Type O blood types are bitten twice as much as Type A. Type B is somewhere in the middle. 4. Exercise -- Working out builds up lactic acid in your sweat, making you a little more tasty. That explains why I was always getting bit at boogies, booze, O Pos blood and sexercise."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
promise5 17 #61 July 19, 2013 I hate the buggers! Especially when you have to take your dog out in the middle of the night,it seems like every single one if those things in a ten mile radius finds you! How did the homemade trap work ? Any luck ?No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible. Believe me I tried. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nataly 38 #62 July 19, 2013 Haven't tried it yet - I bought a coke bottle and am still drinking my way through it... "There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rifleman 70 #63 July 19, 2013 I used to use one of these all the time. In places where there's a high concentration of mossies it's like walking inside a bubble with all the mossies on the outside. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PORTABLE-SONIC-PERSONAL-MOSQUITO-MIDGIE-INSECT-MOSQUITOES-REPELLER-ELECTRONIC-/330934426790?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D261018172739%26ps%3D54Atheism is a Non-Prophet Organisation Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #64 July 20, 2013 riflemanI used to use one of these all the time. In places where there's a high concentration of mossies it's like walking inside a bubble with all the mossies on the outside. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PORTABLE-SONIC-PERSONAL-MOSQUITO-MIDGIE-INSECT-MOSQUITOES-REPELLER-ELECTRONIC-/330934426790?_trksid=p3284.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D21%26pmod%3D261018172739%26ps%3D54 I have two of an older version of this: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Off-Clip-On-Mosquito-Repellent/16622243 works like a charm."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #65 July 20, 2013 I just saw this today: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57594592-1/kite-patch-makes-you-invisible-to-mosquitoes/"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nataly 38 #66 July 21, 2013 Went to the website and laughed at all the petty comments... Hillarious!!! Ahhh, the internet... Hours of fun!!"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse." - Chris Hadfield « Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. » - my boss Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
