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There are some roach like insects on the wall behind my Random Pile Of Clothes, or wardrobe, as I prefer to call it. Every time I have to rummage through to find anything they run about. The problem is that I am not especially bothered by this. They're not hurting anybody. Should I be more disgusted? I did think this morning, that they are not that far from my pillow and what would I do if I were to wake during the night to find one in my mouth. I reckoned on spitting it out, it may be poisonous, making consumption folly. Anyway. Should I kill the buggers, to make me more normal?

― alix, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

STOP LIVING IN FILTH! DESTROY THEIR LITTEL WORLD! YOU ARE THERI GOD!

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm thinking their murder (mor-dorrr) may be a good idea, if only to prevent them from bimbling up the stairs to my room. I was thinking of 'tidying' my wardrobe tonight but now I haf fear of roaches. Then again, I moved the bed and what was down the side of that was pretty yucky. But it was just dirt and crumpled curtains. i can live with that. On a more practical note, the insects might be there cos your wall is damp or something. It is no doubt 'something' like our entire flipping flat. And if they covered the bed you would have to sleep on the balcony w/ pigeon poop.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Can British people stop posting about household infestations as it is giving the rest of the world the impression that we live in a filthy country not far removed from the Blitz hell portrait that Dave Q likes to paint.

― N., Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

We had an infestation of one solitary mouse in my old house, I saw it running around one evening when alone watching TV and the boys decided I had made it up or that it wasn't a mouse at all but one of my legendary clumps of hair which had come to life. However the mouse droppings and a sighting convinced them I was telling the truth and we took precautionary measures i.e. putting a tile over the hole the mouse ran into. I was concerned that there were more where that one came from but it seems that it was indeed, as Pete suggested, a littlest hobo mouse travelling alone which moved on / died in the fullness of time.

Lixi it is possible that you will swallow one in your sleep without even realising, someone once told me that the average person eats 8 spiders in their sleep in their life though it is more than likely that this is a factoid / made up to scare me.

― Emma, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

in crouch end it is as much as eight per night, i read

― mark s, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Surely you remember the corpse of the mouse underneath the fridge Emma? And luckily in our spanking new joint we do not have infestation problems so eight spiders a night is highly unlikely Mr Sinker.

That said I have probably injested 400 miles worth of Emma's hair in my sleep because it gets everywhere.

― Pete, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

shared house hell. in my cricklewood days we had a cracker of a mouse problem. the landlord took many weeks to repair a GInormous hole in the kitchen floor and we had mouse poo popping up in all sorts of places. one morning i'll never forget one mouse had burrowed into a loaf of granary bread, still wrapped in plastic bag, tunnelled all around it leaving a neat pile of spongey de-grained bread next to the loaf. The loaf looked OK, but it was entirely hollow!

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

NB following Pete's ambiguous remarks I would like to make it clear that we are not now(+ never have and never will) sharing a bed, if he is eating my hair I don't wish to know anything about it.

― Emma, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Actually, I couldn't see them this morning. Or rather, Alice couldn't see them. For some reason she wanted to borrow some socks. My wall isn't damp, btw. It's oddly warm though. Perhaps I should cook them. I don't think I'll kill them unless they get bigger.

― alix, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

KILL ALL ROBOTS!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Away w/you dastoor, any native new yorker will tell U that their roaches are like sheman tanx, compated to ours, which are like austin princesses, or suchlike. Also, I am informed that in warmer areas ov Australia, they have roaches which A/ fly and B/ occasionally land on your shoulder for a little rest.

as far as the original question goes, they must all DIE because they will multiply horribly otherwise.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pam tells me that darker, smaller roach-like creatures which prefer damp walls rather than crumb-laden crevices are called water bugs ("but that's not the scientific name", she says).

But now you say it's not damp, but strangely warm? Perhaps there's more in the wall. Perhaps that's where the host is.

I shan't be coming back to the Lufbra Estate in a hurry.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can't see any holes in the wall, though I've not looked hard. I have bigger fish to fry. Like writing stupid essays that mean I have to read books called things like 'Men Engaging Feminism' and 'In The Way of Women'. Which sadly, wasn't about the sex trade...'ere, wotcha got in the way of women?'

― alix, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

people writing books called MEN ENGAGING FEMINISM shd have their pens taken away and preferably stuck in their eye: korrekt title = MENGAGEMENT W.FEMINGIzMoR

― mark s, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

twenty-three years pass...

I have drugstore beetles walking around... I think I figured out why they're here and took care of it (some old Wasa crackerbread), but there's still a couple stragglers wandering about

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 00:45 (two days ago) link

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