I saw an earwig wandering around on the kitchen floor last night. I wasn't afraid to pick it up!

This is nothing to scream about. Now if you had video of me while camping when I took my bathing suit off a line and put it snugly on only to discover about 500 earwigs inside it.

*promote earwig

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Good thing I don't have an ear hole and my other one is tiny (born like that and yes I am deaf).

Let's see an earwig!

Looked more like an earwig to me. Which I was told actually didn't crawl into ears. And then I see it here. Which disgusts me. A lot.

Are we sure those are actually ladybugs? We get huge numbers of beetles that look like ladybugs, but are actually some sort of related beetle from Asia. I mean, *lots* of them, but not that many of course. I was once sucking them up with a vacuum cleaner and counting as I went and I ended up with over two-hundred after only a few minutes and I was still just working the one bay window. Legend has it that if you see that many in your room, inside the walls they're swarming.

When you squish them they leave some sort of stain and a foul odor and I've heard they bite though I've never actually been bitten. The most annoying thing is that because there are so many, they're all half dead and they fly drunkenly around the room running into things. It's actually a little amusing when the ceiling fan is running, but those things would probably put your eye out at such velocities.

Still, if you're going to be infested with bugs, it could be worse. At least they aren't earwigs or cockroaches or something gross looking like that. Still, an invasive species reproducing so prodigiously has to be screwing up some ecological balance or other.

>> ^Irishman:
Dirty dirty dirty filthy evil bastard thing.
Do the troops also tie Iraqi children down like that and poke them in the face with a knife?


Because as we all know, poking spiders with a knife is really just a gateway to stabbing kids. It's all peer pressure, and the need to get that sick thrill again and again as the tolerance starts to build up.

I started with earwigs myself, and it's not enough anymore. Let's just say I'm headed down to the old folks' home tomorrow.

It's like listening to an earwig talk about how disgusting centipedes are.