Things that annoy you ?

[Spindles]

I'd never heard the conker thing. I'd try it, but I have cats and spiders have a life expectancy slightly shorter than a moth round here.

Doesn't it usually mean it is going to rain if spiders come inside? I'm sure I've read that/been told that/dreamt it.

[feral chile]

I'd never heard the conker thing. I'd try it, but I have cats and spiders have a life expectancy slightly shorter than a moth round here.

Doesn't it usually mean it is going to rain if spiders come inside? I'm sure I've read that/been told that/dreamt it.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Talking to spiders? Shit. I actually called one lived in my shower Colin.

Mind, I spend a inappropriate amount of time singing to my cats.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I'd never heard the conker thing.

[Spindles]

Heh, that article reminds me of this salt maze for slugs picture:

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Heh, that article reminds me of this salt maze for slugs picture:

[Spindles]

It does have the advantage of having the words "you win!" written on it. You have to give it that.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It does have the advantage of having the words "you win!" written on it. You have to give it that.

[feral chile]

Apparently, my spider phobia that prevents me from cleaning thoroughly (my excuse anyway) is producing larger spider crops, so spiders have an evolutionary advantage in causing people to avoid spidery places:

http://scienceblogs....f-spiders-in-y/

So, how do I get rid of the damn spiders, then, smartypants?

You can’t get rid of them but you can reduce their numbers. Here’s how: Get a vacuum cleaner and go all around your house in the spring, after the insects and spiders have started to become active (which depends on where you live) and vacuum up all those nooks and crannies using the wand attachment. Make sure you have a good vacuum and the bag is empty and all that so you have good suction. Vacuum the ceiling of your basement, all the corners, around the molding (don’t forget over the door frames) and behind furniture, under the couch cushions (including in the deeper often missed recess of the couches and overstuffed furniture). Turn the furniture over … all of it … and vacuum underneath. Don’t just reach under your dining room table: Get on your back like you were changing its oil and vacuum out every little nook and cranny up under there.

Obsessively, compulsively, suck up every bit of dust everywhere in your house, and that will get rid of 99% of the extant spider, insects, eggs, egg sacks, and even the food may various insects will eat. Well, not really. There are entire categories of insects or other creatures that are too small to see and that can’t really be vacuumed, that that you’ll probably miss, like the mites that live on your cat’s eyebrows. And your eyebrows. Nonetheless, if you give your house a very very thorough vacuuming and cleaning you’ll stop that first generation of spiders form doing well. The remaining spiders, or the ones that sneak into your house later on, will not have the head start they usually have, and as each generation grows and grows in number they will not achieve the large population they other would have.

Edited September 2, 2012 by feral chile

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Apparently, my spider phobia that prevents me from cleaning thoroughly (my excuse anyway) is producing larger spider crops, so spiders have an evolutionary advantage in causing people to avoid spidery places:

http://scienceblogs....f-spiders-in-y/

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

So far today the thing that has annoyed me is myself. I've let myself down over a trivial matter when I really shouldn't have. However, I have forgiven myself and can move on.

[Spindles]

Good on you, that's the best way. What has annoyed me was waking up singing "falling on a bruise" by Carter USM and realising that 20 years have passed and the same problems exist, or rather they were fixed and are now back in different suits.

It reminds me, you see, that in 1992, when my son was born, we were in bed and breakfast accomodation, where the council paid a hotel hundreds of pounds a week to house a family of 3 in a room not much bigger than a double bed, where the damp was so bad it hospitalised my son. There were many empty properties and we had to locate one ourselves and threaten to squat in it, then get the environmental health department to take up our case because of the damp, to get housed. I'd forgotten about the squatting threat, but remembered this morning. Thanks Jim bob and fruitbat. You can't make that threat any more, so the council can leave homes empty whilst paying private businesses to house people at an uncontrolled cost, remind me why the benefit bill is so high again? We didn't claim benefit, by the way, I was working a factory job, but we had to pay the first £50 of the bill (more than double the rent of a council flat at the time) and the council paid the hotel the rest (£40+ per night for the room) which did go on the benefit bill.

Pound to a penny says that variations of this scam are still going on today, it might be under a different guise, but it will still be happening.

[rachbon]

Looks like I'll be adding a few more people to the forever growing scrapheap of my ex friends. I'm actually quite glad to be rid of them, but it's annoying that people keep wasting my time. I really don't know why everyone thinks they can just walk all over me.

Edited September 3, 2012 by _rachelbon

[TheGayTent]

Yeah - he's almost as bad as some union leaders

[eFestivals]

Jeremy c**t is the new health secretary.

Dave Moron obviously feels he'll get the reforms[/a] sell-off to get a better press. Bit of course nothing to do with who c**t's friends are.

[eFestivals]

Yeah - he's almost as bad as some union leaders

but neither are as bad as the average tory scum.

[TheGayTent]

Funnily enough I don't agree

[eFestivals]

Funnily enough I don't agree

that's all right, most of the country do.

There has to be some of the tory scum for the rest to hate.

[philipsteak]

Jeremy c**t is the new health secretary.

Dave Moron obviously feels he'll get the reforms[/a] sell-off to get a better press. Bit of course nothing to do with who c**t's friends are.

[eFestivals]

The Health secretary believes in magic water

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100179258/jeremy-hunt-health-secretary-thinks-homeopathy-works/

that's one way to cut down on the costs of the NHS I guess.

Fuck me he really is a mindless moron. I happened to read some blogs recently written by some of the people who used to work for him, and they said the same thing, along with how they can't believe how someone so stupid and with little in the way of political leanings has ended up at the heart of govt.

[Spindles]

that's one way to cut down on the costs of the NHS I guess.

Fuck me he really is a mindless moron. I happened to read some blogs recently written by some of the people who used to work for him, and they said the same thing, along with how they can't believe how someone so stupid and with little in the way of political leanings has ended up at the heart of govt.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Not being able to sleep at will.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Not being able to sleep at will.

[greenfairy43]

This website.

It's so slow & 'clunky' to load it's pretty much un useable.

(And before you say it Neil, it's not my pc.)

[Spartacus Mars]

(And before you say it Neil, it's not my pc.)