This just ran into my closet

YES! it came back out, wobbling, and i had put my sneakers on, and the stupid thing tried to fly, but the exterminator must have done a great job last month because the damn thing just fluttered on the ground and I stomped it so many times that its legs came off.

Picking them up is so gross. I need like 3 layers of paper towels.

Out of order, you monster. You should have just let it out of the window. I doubt it wanted to be in your crib anymore than you wanted it there.

-AC

It probably did, actually. Just think: you're an insect and you find somewhere that's never too cold, never too hot, and always has food and moisture. Would you not want to be there?

Yea Im a monster. But I have an air conditioner in my window(I was about to call it an AC, but I think that wouldnt have sounded right), and I wasnt about to pick the thing up to throw it out of the living room window.

Originally posted by Dawson
It probably did, actually. Just think: you're an insect and you find somewhere that's never too cold, never too hot, and always has food and moisture. Would you not want to be there?

You're thinking as a human, not a cockroach.

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
Yea Im a monster. But I have an air conditioner in my window(I was about to call it an AC, but I think that wouldnt have sounded right), and I wasnt about to pick the thing up to throw it out of the living room window.

Could have captured it, observed it, set it free at a later date.

These things can survive nuclear holocausts and live without their heads, we should be figuring out how the f*ck they can do it, not killing them, haha.

-AC

I suppose I am thinking like a human. Cockroaches are just about the only animals that I refuse to touch, anything that can electrocute me or poison me at a touch aside.

I never did get that.

A dog, on a whim, could tear your arm apart, cats can scratch eyes out. It's just animals that look "gross".

-AC

What do you not get?

Of course they could. I have no problem with animals that are traditionally considered "gross" besides cockroaches. I do not like roaches because they live in my food and carry diseases, not because they look gross. For the record, I like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, just not American and German ones.

What did? Was it Tom Cruise? It was Tom Cruise, wasn't it? And now he doesn't want to get out of the closet, does he? Tom Cruise doesn't want to get out of the closet, is that what you are saying? Man, your ass is sued....in ENGLAND.

If you live in an apartment then just have your landlord fumigate the place. Those roaches spread and multiply fast.

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
Yea, the giant one that flies is the one hiding under a luggage bag right now. Damn exterminator doesn't come until saturday either. I should smush it, but the image of it flying into my face as I try to kill it prevents me from doing so.

Ew

what? you'd rather have it runnig about in your room while you're sleeping? go and kill that damn thing!

Edit: good job!

Originally posted by Dawson
What do you not get?

Of course they could. I have no problem with animals that are traditionally considered "gross" besides cockroaches. I do not like roaches because they live in my food and carry diseases, not because they look gross. For the record, I like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, just not American and German ones.

You'll have to excuse Bardock, he's mildly mental.

I meant I don't get how some people fear certain animals, it's nothing bad, just confusing. Pigeons, to me, are disgusting, not fascinating in the least. Yet I find rats to be extraordinary. Dangerous, yes, but also amazing survivors. The fact that they can survive a war that would kill everything else but bacteria is more or less a crowning achievement.

They do look a bit lame though.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I never did get that.

A dog, on a whim, could tear your arm apart, cats can scratch eyes out. It's just animals that look "gross".

-AC

Well, although i see your reasoning, I have this unreasonable disgust for some animals as well...it's probably years of conditioning.....

roaches don't "live" without their heads.

"If your head is severed, your heart will stop almost instantly and you will therefore die almost instantly. If you cut the head off a chicken, its heart will continue to beat until it runs out of blood and until that time, the chicken will still be able to move (hence the euphemism). Its probaby about the same for a roach. Its not that it really stays alive, it just takes longer to die."

plus roaches have nothing on slugs.
😘

It can live for days and, I heard, weeks on end without its head. I'd call that living.

-AC

Yea, even without it's head a roach searches for food, its ****ing freaky.

And studying it would have been great if I didn't hate the damn things.

One day I want a tarantula in a huge glass case, and I'm going to feed it roaches that I find.

The number one cause of bug deaths is my foot/newspaper/anything I can hit it with.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It can live for days and, I heard, weeks on end without its head. I'd call that living.

-AC

no i mean they "survive" but thats different from living. without their heads they just stay in one spot not doing anything. so i doubt we could learn anything from them.

not cool, you just skipped over my post

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
You'll have to excuse Bardock, he's mildly mental.

I meant I don't get how some people fear certain animals, it's nothing bad, just confusing. Pigeons, to me, are disgusting, not fascinating in the least. Yet I find rats to be extraordinary. Dangerous, yes, but also amazing survivors. The fact that they can survive a war that would kill everything else but bacteria is more or less a crowning achievement.

They do look a bit lame though.

-AC

I cannot think of an animal that I fear. I am not afraid of roaches, I simply do not like them in the least. I hold a certain respect for any animal that could kill me, but I am not afraid of them. Rats are said to make great pets because of their intelligence.

And cockroaches can live for up to a week without their heads because their brain is not located in their head. A small portion of their nervous system is in their head, but most of their "brain" is spread throughout the underside of their body. They eventually die of dehydration or starvation. They do move, and live in all aspects except that they cannot eat or drink.