Random Rants LXXII - What is wrong with us?

[GoodSarmatian]

OK, it "works".
It doesn't really.
I can access the internet, but it can't make or receive calls. It also can't send or receive messages, even over Skype or Whatsapp or whatever although basic internet seems to work.

On a completely unrelated note, Ted Kaczinsky was almost exactly my age when he sent his first mail bomb.

Edit:
Now the damned thing is keeping itself damned busy downloading/updating damned apps that I'll never use.
Glad to see that at least that basic damned service works

 

[cardgame]

Rant: the thread title is good so I can't provide the obligatory rant about how bad it is.

Real rant: almost identical to boots, ant invasion. They're everywhere... I lean back in my desk chair and five seconds later there's an ant on my shoulder. I put my feet out and there's an ant on my ankle. Aaaargh

 

[Timsup2nothin]

My son went on a campaign of laying on ant hills. According to him once he determined that the "creep factor" was entirely internal he realized that he had to concentrate really hard to even feel insects crawling on him, so now he just doesn't give a <fill in with the usual undesirable gift that is typically given here>. Even bitey ants generally don't suddenly take it into their little ant heads to randomly bite the surface they are walking on, so ignoring them is actually a viable option.

 

[Takhisis]

Even bitey ants generally don't suddenly take it into their little ant heads to randomly bite the surface they are walking on, so ignoring them is actually a viable option.

I have taken the liberty of modifying the typeface of your key words in your sentence to highlight the inherent contradiction. Add a derisive snort, if it helps.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

If the occasional crazy ant happens to be on you when it gets that "I wanna eat the planet" urge, Tak, is it really that big a deal?

 

[Synobun]

Stop it, you guys. You're reviving my wish for an ant colony.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Stop it, you guys. You're reviving my wish for an ant colony.

That's an encouragement. Ants need good homes. Get an ant colony.

 

[Takhisis]

If the occasional crazy ant happens to be on you when it gets that "I wanna eat the planet" urge, Tak, is it really that big a deal?

I propose to the good townsmen and burghers of CFC that we bring Tim here and get him personally acquainted with the local variety of ants.

Stop it, you guys. You're reviving my wish for an ant colony.

And this would be bad because…? It's not as if you were going to train an army of mutated radioactive ants to take over the world as Bootstoots would.

 

[Synobun]

And this would be bad because…? It's not as if you were going to train an army of mutated radioactive ants to take over the world as Bootstoots would.

Grayditch is my hometown.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I propose to the good townsmen and burghers of CFC that we bring Tim here and get him personally acquainted with the local variety of ants.

I'm always up for a trip.

My experience is that ants bite to hang on when you are trying to brush them off or shake them off or whatever. They don't just chomp for the heck of it. But your ants may have a different world view.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Ants have invaded my apartment. This wouldn't be a big deal to me - ants are really cool and these ones are small and non-bitey. But they're living behind my bed and keep crawling into bed with me, which is seriously not cool.

Also, I left uneaten pizza in its box for a few hours on my bed, and when I opened the box to have more after digesting the previous slices, there were like 100 of them chowing down. Of course that didn't stop me from eating it; I just put the pizza in the freezer, waited for it to freeze, and brushed off all the little antsicles before microwaving each piece. It was still kind of gross though.

I've put down some ant baits now. Hopefully they take some home to Her Majesty and die out soon.

I know you didn't ask but I heard yeast is a good ant killer.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's too bad there aren't any Mike Neun videos posted online (at least that I've ever found). I'm referring to the comedian from Washington who used to have a show on PBS, not the other guy.

He did a song called "Drug the Bugs" - which was full of advice on how to deal with ant hills. My dad actually tried it, with some bemusing results.

 

[Bootstoots]

It's Them!

It's not as if you were going to train an army of mutated radioactive ants to take over the world as Bootstoots would.

I understand the concern, but no need to worry about radioactive ants this time. They have 5 body segments and 14 legs, just like they're supposed to.

I know you didn't ask but I heard yeast is a good ant killer.

That's strange - how does that work? I didn't know yeast produced anything toxic, besides ethanol that is.

It's too bad there aren't any Mike Neun videos posted online (at least that I've ever found). I'm referring to the comedian from Washington who used to have a show on PBS, not the other guy.

He did a song called "Drug the Bugs" - which was full of advice on how to deal with ant hills. My dad actually tried it, with some bemusing results.

Do you remember any pointers? I'd happily drug some of them and watch them skitter around in a stoned daze. Even better if they started spraying alarm pheromone everywhere and freaking each other out.

That reminds me, I remember reading about a prank an entomologist would do to leafcutter ants. He'd drop a pheromone that ants release when they die onto some living ants. Those unfortunate ants would get hauled away, kicking and flailing around, to the garbage chambers by their colony-mates on waste collection duty.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That reminds me, I remember reading about a prank an entomologist would do to leafcutter ants. He'd drop a pheromone that ants release when they die onto some living ants. Those unfortunate ants would get hauled away, kicking and flailing around, to the garbage chambers by their colony-mates on waste collection duty.

Obviously ants have a higher culture. I used to work with a guy who routinely smelled like he was dead, and it never occurred to us to just haul him away and dispose of him.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Do you remember any pointers? I'd happily drug some of them and watch them skitter around in a stoned daze. Even better if they started spraying alarm pheromone everywhere and freaking each other out.

Nothing that exotic. Just pour hot coffee down the ant hill. The idea in the song was that the ants would be so hyper from the caffeine that they'd burn themselves out from hyperactivity and keel over dead.

My dad tried this, and while the ants did become extremely active, he wasn't sure if it was the coffee itself, or because the coffee was hot. But there weren't any massive piles of dead ants (at least above ground), so take this with a shaker full of salt.

I did get to meet him a year or two later when he did a stage show here, and told him that my dad had tried his "drug the bugs" solution. He laughed and asked if it worked, and I said it certainly caused the ants to take notice... but it didn't work like the song said it should. But nevertheless, it's a cute song. Most of his songs had a chorus that he invited the audience to sing along with.

 

[JohannaK]

Once, when I was a wee lad in the school playground, and it was time to go back to class, I headed to the fountain for a last sip of water. Suddenly, intense pain on my right side. I lifted the t-shirt and lo and behold, an ant had its jaws embedded in my skin. I plucked the little Fogger out and threw it into the fountain drain. That'll teach 'em.

 

[r16]

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Rah asking an important question.

This should do it:

[url="https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/random-rants-oa-i-have-71-problems-but-this-thread-aint-one.628916/"]Random Rants LXXI - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One[/url]

hopefully ı will learn to use this , considering ı haven't been able to properly link anything since the forum changed into Xenforo . Did ı mention ı hate Xenforo ?

 

[Synobun]

The BBCode for URLs remained the same between vBulletin and Xenforo.

Pepto Bismol has seemingly stopped working.

 

[Takhisis]

The BBCode for URLs remained the same between vBulletin and Xenforo.

Not all of it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Not all of it.

I thought Petek fixed that.