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[CanuckMama]

Hopefully we won't get bed bugs here 'cause it is too cold.

(Yep, my first post...go nuts)

[Lanfear]

Wait what? Didn't Bush declare 'Mission accomplished' in 2003 already?
2003 Mission Accomplished Speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Mr Bicester]

Originally Posted by CanuckMama

(Yep, my first post...go nuts)

Fuuuuuck yoooou! And welcome to the Forums

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by CanuckMama

Hopefully we won't get bed bugs here 'cause it is too cold.

(Yep, my first post...go nuts)

Count down to doctorsleep advance

[CanuckMama]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

Count down to doctorsleep advance

Ummmm, huh?

[rodimusprime]

It felt like Micah was just released from Prison. He seemed amazed by every occurance of the past 4 months. It was still funny but I felt like he had just discovered all those celebrities existed.

[MrBrit]

Hey guys. Just thought I'd comment on bed bugs. One several occasions over the past few years, I've picked up bed bugs. I was fortunate because I never had an infestation. I was only picking up one at a time. (The bites were infrequent - about once per week, which is the normal time between feedings for one bug. I eventually caught a single bug and the bites stopped.) It was horrible, and I only had one bedbug. I think I'd go crazy if I had an infestation.

As far as how long the bedbugs can survive: this has been exaggerated in the popular media. When I captured the bedbugs, I put them into a ziplock bag. They survive for maybe a month in a ziplock bag. It's pretty actively walking around the bag for the first week, then it slows down over the next few weeks. It doesn't move at all after about a month. I've also heard that they can go dormant if they have nothing to feed on, so maybe it was just going dormant. I'm sure the three-year thing is wrong though, because they look visibly dead (dehydrated, flat, hollow) within a few months. There's no way they survive for three years.

As far as the AIDS and bedbugs thing - I think scientists wanted to find out if HIV could be transmitted by bedbugs, since bedbugs drink people's blood and could potentially transmit disease between people (like the way mosquitoes transmit malaria). So far, no one has found any diseases that can be transferred by bedbugs.

[TrickyToro]

Unfortunately Klingon was developed at my school, UC Santa Cruz home of the banana slugs, by a linguist. Our department is considered one of the best. Even more unfortunate I met the guy at an alumni event. He was king of the nerds and they were just enthralled by him. *rolls eyes*

[EnochFrance]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

Indeed, his mouth does need nuts in it.

I strenuously disagree!

(Just for the record.)

[CanadianBacon]

Speaking of bed bugs. This is really fucking creepy.




They are an epidemic here in Vancouver too, due to the failrly mild weather and high density. The became a real problem after they started showing up in low-income, subsidised housing for the drug addicted and mentally ill: people who are too ill to take care of the problem themselves.

I have several friends who work as support workers in these buildings and they take extraordinary precautions to avoid getting bed bugs. Designated couches for guests in their offices. The legs of all chairs and couches are dipped in vaseline. Wearing one set of clothes to work, changing after a shift and putting the work clothes in a garbage bag that immediately goes into the wash when you get home. Clean-up and exterminator businesses are making a fortune. They even have sniffer dogs to find them. From all the stories I have heard you never ever want them as they are sooo difficult to get rid of. Ick.