Roaches- and instinctively ugly creatures

a cicada got into the house some fucking how the other day. woke everyone up that thing was LOUDD. The cat stunned it while i got it with a shoe. You hear em every night, but until you're listening to that thing inside your house you dont know how loud it is.
And yes, cockroaches are nasty vile little creatures. Thats about all they're good for.

 

They are real charmers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjiOb8WZoEo&feature=related"]YouTube - Damnation Alley Giant Cockroaches



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I opened the back door of our building at work last month to let in a truck driver who had a delivery for us. As soon as he walked through the door a cicada flew in right behind him and went up to the skylights to try and get back out. The dummy only stayed up there for about thirty seconds and then fell to the concrete floor completely covered in spiderwebs. So I picked it up and started to gently clean the webs off its legs and wings while it was going BZZZT!! BZZZZZZT!!!!! BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!!1!!111!!eleven!!! in my hands.

The funny part was the truck driver. He looked like he was going shit his pants when I picked up that completely harmless bug. I swear, if there had been a chair around he would have jumped up on it and squealed like the women in the old Warner Brothers cartoons when they see a mouse.

 

I rescued one from my cat last summer and my fiance had never seen one before, so I brought it over and showed it to him and he thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen (they're like a giant housefly, and they don't bite). They really are loud, because when I was grabbing him around the wings to get him off of my hand, he buzzed at me. In response, I heard an enthusiastic "neat!" from my fiance in the car behind me. We're huge nerds, we can't help ourselves.

Hahaha, there was one I rememeber where they came up from the Earth's core, so they were FIREROACHES and they were even harder to kill than regular roaches and were super-intelligent (enough to spell out "WE LIVE" on the wall by organizing themselves into letters), and they found out the only way they could kill them was to prick them with something sharp and they would explode, because they all essentially had the bends from the pressure difference between the center of the Earth and its surface. Maybe that's why they were so grumpy in the first place...

Found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk35zer0T10"]YouTube - BUG - 1975 - Bradford Dillman - killer bugs Horror Science Fiction Movie Trailer

Poor kitty.

 

That’s fucked up

Kind of reminds me of The Nest by Gregory A Douglas about killer cockroaches on a small island off Cape Cod

The story was partially based on a real life incident back in 1974 when US Army carried out top secret experiments on Madagascar Hissing cockroaches by subjecting them to massive amounts of radiation.

The Natick Massachusetts Laboratory that conducted the tests then disposed of the cockroaches in plastic bags filled with carbon tetrachloride. Apparently someone forgot that carbon tet melts plastic so they escaped into the local neighborhood and the residents immediately reported an infestation of what they referred to as horrible mutated cockroaches


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Nice. What morons. Poor things. Hissing cockroaches are perfectly harmless. I looked into getting one as a pet. Still might some day.

And that movie was so gross... I remember when they played it on USA. I was on board until that guy puked up a bunch of them. I don't deal well with vomit, in movies or otherwise... bugs sure, but don't puke or I'll run away screaming. uke::willy_nilly:

 

Ali didn't like roaches also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XftrXVOZehQ"]YouTube - Mohammed Ali Roach Spray Commercial

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