Bedbugs

[Glassfan]

I thought NYC was Cockroach town? Especially Joe's apartment.

Are there bedbugs in water beds?

 

[Samez]

Sell fried bedbugs as the new trend food to Vietnam. The problem should be solved quite fast.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Umm...what?

You don't think so? Have you met hipsters?

Spray DDT on all beds and comestibles in America. ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED.

I am not certain if DDT would even work anymore.

no obligatory simpsons joke about Bedbug overlords? Shame

You sir have just won the thread!

I'm actually a little nervous about traveling anymore and staying at hotels. I don't want these things to get into my clothing and then my home.

The freaky part is, it isn't like staying at a fancier hotel is going to save you. Business class travellers are prime carriers. Apparently Mexico started seeing bed bugs from people travelling from the U.S., not the other way around.

Are there bedbugs in water beds?

They don't literally have to live in the bed, as cracks in the bedframe/walls/screw-holes/anything will do.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I remember reading not long ago that bedbugs proliferate far more if you make up your bed "properly" leaving the sheets and pillows scattered and bunched up randomly make the environment much more hostile to them, and healthier for us.

Edit: oh, wait, that might have been dust mites.

 

[Disgustipated]

I remember reading not long ago that bedbugs proliferate far more if you make up your bed "properly" leaving the sheets and pillows scattered and bunched up randomly make the environment much more hostile to them, and healthier for us.

Edit: oh, wait, that might have been dust mites.

good enough excuse for me not to make my bed (not that I ever do anyways)

 

[Skwink]

Shut down EVERYTHING.

 

[Lord Baal]

DDT won't actually work anymore. I remember seeing a documentary on bedbugs about five years ago when they first reappeared. Apparently they were very nearly wiped out in the 1950s, with DDT and other pesticides being used in dangerous quantities in the Western world. Those that survived were the tougher ones, whose descendants are now immune to most of the chemicals thaat killed their ancestors. Those more resilient bedbugs were also the varieties that caused the most complications and illnesses to humans. Essentially, we've selectively bred them to be more dangerous to us.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Is there any point to this thread?
I mean are the bed bugs really on rise?

 

[Takhisis]

As always, USA #1.
Usa bedbug rate is striving to be #1 too!!!

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Is there any point to this thread?
I mean are the bed bugs really on rise?

Perhaps you are outside of the North American news cycle? Yes, they have been doubling or tripling every year in the big cities here (or something like that).

 

[GoodGame]

Bedbugs are serious at universities too. I don't see NYC getting all the fame from them.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Perhaps you are outside of the North American news cycle? Yes, they have been doubling or tripling every year in the big cities here (or something like that).

In deed I am. Germany does not seem to share this problem, don't know about other European countries.
I hope you get it under control. Otherwise it is only a matter of time those nasty buggers make it over the ocean - and I hate nasty buggers.

 

[Dachs]

I hate nasty buggers.

Real men make their own rules.

Cognitive dissonance?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

language barrier
Did not know that buggers can mean "guy who does anal".

 

[MjM]

language barrier
Did not know that buggers can mean "guy who does anal".

I've been speaking English my whole life and I didn't know that.

 

[Lord Baal]

language barrier
Did not know that buggers can mean "guy who does anal".

It can also mean you nail animals. My "Stupid History" calendar mentioned the awesome case of a 16 year old in Plymouth during the Puritan days being imprisoned on about 50 charges of it.

 

[GinandTonic]

language barrier
Did not know that buggers can mean "guy who does anal".

Not can, it simply means anal sex (regardless of with what) or one engaging in it. Apart from that it is an all-use expletive, much like the f word. When you consider it is very strange that it is considered a far milder expletive than the f word.

 

[Lord of Elves]

On the subject of DDT inadvertently breeding stronger and more resilient species of pests, I present

 

[Dachs]

starring WILLIAM SHATNER

...as the spider?

 

[Lord of Elves]

...as the spider?

Sadly, no. He was the womanizer whose brother died in Vietnam. That's about all the depth the character had to it.

The moral of the movie is, "If you're saving a small child from a room infested with murderous tarantulas, you don't pick her off the bed just to drop her on the floor."

It's one of those movies that are so bad, it's good.