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[Romang67]

And that's going to change how, after you marry her?

Well, first of all, it says in my contract that I can't marry anyone...

But actually, after marriage, our differing views on sex before marriage and contraceptives doesn't really matter anymore. I really should marry her.

 

[irunthepeg]

Well, first of all, it says in my contract that I can't marry anyone...

But actually, after marriage, our differing views on sex before marriage and contraceptives doesn't really matter anymore. I really should marry her.

Someone's gonna have to catch me up, what do you do for a living? Or is this a joke?

 

[Gnova]

Respectfully, the bolded portion simply isn't true to the extent that you indicate.

Bed bugs are largely nocturnal and tend to retreat from feeding once finished to their hiding places. That tends to limit their mobility to a great extent and person to person contact is relatively rare. It's not impossible but is improbable. They don't jump. They don't have wings so cannot fly. They only crawl and relatively speaking, not very quickly. That's not to say they are slow, but they aren't cockroach fast either.

The most likely avenues for "contracting" bed bugs are through visiting infested areas and while hotels are the most likely avenue, there are plenty of stranger places you can get them. The Library across from the MTS Centre is nearly perpetually infested. There have been known infestations in movie theaters (none reported in Winnipeg). It's not inconceivable that they could transfer between luggage on an aircraft, though that's about as uncommon as person to person transfer.

Living in multi-tenant dwellings can be awful for just the reason, as Hammer is experiencing. They ain't quick, but they're mobile and move through walls from apartment to apartment quite readily. Hammer did nothing to bring this upon himself but gets to suffer nonetheless.

Gm0ney is absolutely correct that the reduction and restriction of insecticides with longer residual periods is largely responsible for the resurgence. The EPA in the U.S. (and their Canadian counterpart, the PMRA) was warned about this possibility when they eliminated most of the options - resistance to insecticides developing in insect populations is hardly unknown and certainly not uncommon. Basically we got what some of us expected and what the general population asked for via unintended consequences. There was a reason that pesticides were and are used for what they're used for. But the general public is not accepting of that reality.

If you visit a location where you think there may be bed bugs take your clothes directly to a dryer and run them on high heat for 10 minutes.

Also a little surprised about people having to exit their dwellings for extended periods.
I've been told that one of the ways to keep them from spreading further in a building is to keep sleeping in the same location with the bed pulled away from the wall, no bedding touching the floor and double sided tape surrounding the bed posts.
If the person leaves the bugs start wandering around looking for new food.

 

[Hammer Slammer]

If you visit a location where you think there may be bed bugs take your clothes directly to a dryer and run them on high heat for 10 minutes.

I think I'll just start going around town in a plastic bubble.

 

[Sweech]

I think I'll just start going around town in a plastic bubble.

But what if the bubble has bed bugs? Now you're trapped inside with them.

 

[Gm0ney]

If you visit a location where you think there may be bed bugs take your clothes directly to a dryer and run them on high heat for 10 minutes.

Also a little surprised about people having to exit their dwellings for extended periods.
I've been told that one of the ways to keep them from spreading further in a building is to keep sleeping in the same location with the bed pulled away from the wall, no bedding touching the floor and double sided tape surrounding the bed posts.
If the person leaves the bugs start wandering around looking for new food.

It's this kind of chemical-free unicorns-and-rainbow-wishes thinking that got us back into the bedbug mess in the first place! In my day, we'd gargle with DDT and eat falcon eggs for breakfast and we had the problem licked!

 

[Sweech]

The DDT ban has been pretty horrible for countries fighting the spread of malaria.

 

[Hammer Slammer]

But what if the bubble has bed bugs? Now you're trapped inside with them.

 

[Romang67]

Someone's gonna have to catch me up, what do you do for a living? Or is this a joke?

I'm an au pair! It literally says in my contract that it will be terminated if I get married while working as an au pair!

 

[buggs]

It's this kind of chemical-free unicorns-and-rainbow-wishes thinking that got us back into the bedbug mess in the first place! In my day, we'd gargle with DDT and eat falcon eggs for breakfast and we had the problem licked!

The DDT ban has been pretty horrible for countries fighting the spread of malaria.

The first one made me laugh. The second one made me smile.

DDT was far from perfect and the use pattern was a really big problem. Ignorance does that. But it was a very effective product, no question. We don't need it in North America any longer. But some tropical countries, the most obvious examples in Africa, have had tremendous problems with malaria resurging after the loss of DDT. Nobody is talking about blanket spraying the country - just to use it as a space spray on surfaces within dwellings - no food application, minimal human contact with the product itself (you treat ceilings and walls) and poof, mortality rates drop. But many don't want that. I'm forever baffled by the mentality, but I guess as long as it's Africans dying thousands of miles away from us, we don't care. Sweech's comment is awfully, awfully rare in it's realization of reality.

 

[irunthepeg]

I'm an au pair! It literally says in my contract that it will be terminated if I get married while working as an au pair!

To steal from Hammer...

Didn't know such job contracts existed... TIL!

 

[Lynk]

I hear DDT ban and think this:

 

[Shakey Rustie]

If you visit a location where you think there may be bed bugs take your clothes directly to a dryer and run them on high heat for 10 minutes.

Also a little surprised about people having to exit their dwellings for extended periods.
I've been told that one of the ways to keep them from spreading further in a building is to keep sleeping in the same location with the bed pulled away from the wall, no bedding touching the floor and double sided tape surrounding the bed posts.
If the person leaves the bugs start wandering around looking for new food.

I'm headed to Israel in April and had to get a shot for typhoid - had no idea there was a chance of getting that anymore but I guess I take for granted living on the Canadian prairies.

 

[CorgisPer60]

I'm currently playing the hell out of Dark Souls 2. It feels and plays better than DkS, but the world isn't as organic feeling as the first one.

 

[Jet]

But what if the bubble has bed bugs? Now you're trapped inside with them.

You. Now you, I like.

 

[Potrzebie]

Bed bugs give me the creeps. A couple of years ago my friends' niece had to suffer through several rounds of bagging stuff spraying etc (pretty fancy apartment too). You can always tell when you drive by an apartment and see dozens of garbage bags out on balconies.

My friend was babysitting her niece's infant daughter and brought her over to our place. She was in her carseat on the floor while we chatted in the living room and my wife noticed a tiny movement on the top of the carseat fabric... picked it off and when we looked closely we all shuddered. My friend flipped out and ran home to vacuum (as did we)... luckily that was it as I understand all bedbugs are pregnant.

It really hit home that day how easily they can travel from place to place.

 

[Romang67]

I'm back y'all! 3000 miles in less than a week! That trip was awesome.

Edit: Although my back hurts. A lot.

 

[Romang67]

So, I was listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire yesterday. I refuse to believe that this wasn't intentional.

　　Harry laid down his quill too, having just finished predicting his own death by decapitation.

　　"What's in the box?" he asked, pointing at it.

　　"Funny you should ask," said Hermione...

Yes, Hermione, it is funny that he asked that.

 

[allan5oh]

[nhl]590948[/nhl]

Yummy!

 

[CorgisPer60]

Hah. I used my voice type option on my phone to say 'I want those wings.' It came out as 'I want to lose weight'. My phone knows me well.


Still, those wings look damn tasty. 4 recipes for chili? If they're all in the book, I will buy it.

 

[irunthepeg]

****! I went 16-2-2 in fantasy hockey this year (next closest person had 13 wins) and now in the 2nd (out of 3) round of playoffs and it looks like I'm gonna lose. All that hard work and now it looks like it's going to be for not

At least it's just a Yahoo league

 

[JC Numminen]

Anyone looking for a movie to go and see, I suggest Non Stop. Probably the best movie I have seen in the past year or two. Very intense.

 

[allan5oh]

Clitsome scheifele and wright just walked into earls on main.

 

[Romang67]

Clitsome scheifele and wright just walked into earls on main.

There's a joke to be made here.

 

[Evil Little]

There's a joke to be made here.

Clitsome, Scheifele, and Wright hobbled into Earl's on Main?