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kegsy (expat clique) no more cockroaches for me yet...you?

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

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Wow I'm finally in a clique but not sure if the cockroach clique is anything to be proud of. I found a baby one last week - which spells trouble and my girlfriend successfully killed a larger one. It was successful because she didn't have to wake me up to do it.

Keep checking those shoes Swifty

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001


As an ex-pat in Sydney, I can boast a roach problem at wor hoose. Not the big boys, you understand, just one or two of the 1cm fellas. It's quite common to see 3inch roaches walking about in pubs and what not. Filthy Ozzies.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

a mate of mine worked in Libya, he said he shared a bed with a 11 incher, the mind boggled.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

I told him not to tell anyone.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

I had one when I lived in the country that was about 4 inches. I finally understood why it was important to have a good heavy dictionary handy at all times.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001


That's why I live in a oxygen tent.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

How did you mate manage to grow it to 11 inches, swift? ;-{)

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

Anything over three inches is surplus to requirements.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

Bill, don't listen to Gav, you're a bloody doctor man, listen to experts...anytime :-)

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001

We're really lucky , living in he frozen wastelands of northern England. The scariest cratures that we have to put up with are probably wasps.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2001


Have a look under your fridge Swift, apparently that's where they like to hang out and, er, chill

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

really? eeugh

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

It's the hottest part of your house apparently, so put all your spray/traps etc under the fridge

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

i bet its a sprawling mass of wriggly squishing cockroach

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

My morbid curiosty brings me back and this time I feel quite faint.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001


waite 'til you hoy a pair of Jeans on and there's a cockroach in 'em - strides off sharpish. certainly here in NSW they can be real bad in summer, those 1cm jobs nick was on about live in your hoose all year round, so bad at one point they ate my mothers answer machine.....serious (not like we came down one mornin' and it had gone or anything, just chewed the insides beyond repair.)

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

they shuffle don't they?

apparently you can eat them, and they taste great...

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001


Yeah you can hear them - they also fly you know. Ome flew into my girlfriends face.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

Apparentlty the female cockroach gets more and more picky about prospective mates as they get older. Radio 4 is a wonder, isn't it?

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

When I was a physiology student we used to cut of their heads, and they would carry on living for hours afterwards. In fact, if you didn't tie them down (we used to do this by putting them in wax but sometimes it didn't work properly) they'd be scuttling about all over the place. Apparently, they have such a simple central nervous system that they don't really need to use their brain to move. Parallels could perhaps be drawn with our midfield at times last season

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

I've stood on them before (cockroaches not our midfield) and they've still continued to run around. I think that's one of the reasons I hate them so much is becuase they are so difficult to kill.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

nice

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

OOOOOOOOh dear, here I go again.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

Bill, don't listen to Gav, you're a bloody doctor man ...

Wrong Bill , I think, Swifty.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001


No need to spoil his fun PB ;))

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

if you can apply a plaster you qualify as a doc

sorry to have associated you with Bill, Bill

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001


It's probably Bill you should apologise to, Swifty, not Bill.

Bill. :-)

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001


i'm so sorry Bills

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

Gordon Bennett! No, not that Gordon Bennett, the other one.

Can I just say that I really don't take offence at being mistaken for any of you nice people on here. Well all right, there might be the occasional exception, but I'm far too polite to say so. Just don't mention Clive Bleedin Sinclair is all.

However, I can't imagine why you would think that I'd wish to comment on the merits of three inches versus eleven. Is that the kind of depths I normally stoop to? Oh well, yes, alright, maybe you're right.

Anyway, I'd always heard that it was more to do with the firmness of the, er, carapace I suppose, given that we're talking about cockroaches. No no, not that Given, Swifty, please...

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001


Eleven inches? The poor lad...must be difficult to cope with such a tiddler :-)

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2001

don't mention old

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2001

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