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Is this ant normal?
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Sat, 09 April 2005 11:34
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Hey guys,
caught this ant/thing yesterday...kinda freaky, kinda cool. its a pet now as i'm feeding it and it has a novelty value. what i want to know is if this ant is normal? and if so what breed is it? in the second pic, that lil ant is one i caught outside for comparison.
oh and should i be scared that there might be more? i found it on my wall...
cheers 
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I supported Toymods
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Sat, 09 April 2005 11:44
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omg fire ant!
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Sat, 09 April 2005 11:44
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i had one of those bite me on the arse one day at school after sat on it (on grass).
was fucken painful and the sting lasted for a few hours. i killed it good tho.
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Sat, 09 April 2005 11:46
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ahhh it's the amazonian electric ant, well known and highly sought after by natives as it brings good luck. just stick it down your underwear and buy a lottery ticket.
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Perth, WA
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Sat, 09 April 2005 12:13
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| 86DRFT wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 19:46 |
ahhh it's the amazonian electric ant, well known and highly sought after by natives as it brings good luck. just stick it down your underwear and buy a lottery ticket.
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BAHAHAHAH
dude, watch yourself, those things hurt like pain!
also, chuck a few ants in there and watch what happens 
Eldar.O.
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Rockhampton QLD
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sat, 09 April 2005 12:18
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yeah, throw insects in there and video tape it, then post it here Bug gladiators!
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sat, 09 April 2005 12:33
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fire ants are small things - not our new overlord ants...
this has lot of info about ants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
the big fella is some kinda bush ant - i've seen them at over 1" on my g/f's family farm - and the bite they leave stings like fuk and pain stays with you for ages.
see here for info about fireants.
the look like this
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Sat, 09 April 2005 13:42
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OMG!!!!!1111
I for one welcome our new ant overlords.. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted forum personality I could round up others.. to toil in their underground ant caves.
Yeh thats a fairly big one, but I've seen bigger 
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Sat, 09 April 2005 14:56
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| bathurst-91 wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 23:42 |
OMG!!!!!1111
I for one welcome our new ant overlords.. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted forum personality I could round up others.. to toil in their underground ant caves.
Yeh thats a fairly big one, but I've seen bigger
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LOL! Is there a situation where the Simpsons can't be quoted? They've covered just about everything! 
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Sat, 09 April 2005 15:03
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thats like a huge ant and shit
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sat, 09 April 2005 15:10
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| 86DRFT wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 21:46 |
ahhh it's the amazonian electric ant, well known and highly sought after by natives as it brings good luck. just stick it down your underwear and buy a lottery ticket.
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Sat, 09 April 2005 15:15
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Cunt
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sun, 10 April 2005 00:04
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| bathurst-91 wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 23:42 |
I for one welcome our new ant overlords.. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted forum personality I could round up others.. to toil in their underground ant caves.
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too funny
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I Supported Toymods
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Sun, 10 April 2005 01:46
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| da_horse wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 21:34 |
caught this ant/thing yesterday...kinda freaky, kinda cool. its a pet now as i'm feeding it and it has a novelty value.
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Feeding it? Feeding it what? Little babies? Look at the size of the pinchers on that thing... damnnn..
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Melbourne, South East
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Sun, 10 April 2005 01:51
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hey that would be the perfect snack for my catfish..
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I supported Toymods
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sun, 10 April 2005 04:09
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We call them bullants down here. Hurt a lot when they sting. The pincers don't actually do the biting or stinging - the stinger is at the end of the abdomen and it can sting repeatedly.
Looky here. http://faunanet.gov.au/wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=25 1
There are multiple different species so the one I pictured may look slightly different to the one you have.
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Sun, 10 April 2005 07:51
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damm that shits wacked.....
dude put it back too where he belongs.... por barstard is prob like wtf how am i getting food so easily?
plus it porb die from not eating rite shit... n needs to b back in its hive n shit...
dont think u would like to be held in a chinese food container who knows where its been - not the ant....
if it was a regular ant i woudl b like meh kill the barstard but thats different put bak out in the yard n let it live....
i sounds like i should b a part of green peace... not usually like this but that thing is wacked.
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Sun, 10 April 2005 08:42
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Looks to me like an inch ant (what we call em here in SA) they are pretty common around here. Yeah these ants can sting repeatedly and hurt like hell, they can also bite with their pincers which is also pretty painful. Watch out for them because they get aggressive. Try tapping the ground in front of one and watch it attack the source of the noise.
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I supported Toymods
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Sun, 10 April 2005 09:00
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Interesting how different places call them different names.
To me, a bull ant is the black one about 10-15mm in length, and I call these puppies soldier ants.
But I have a feeling soldier ants are the normal ones you see everywhere.
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Sun, 10 April 2005 09:31
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| h3ff44 wrote on Sun, 10 April 2005 17:51 |
damm that shits wacked.....
dude put it back too where he belongs.... por barstard is prob like wtf how am i getting food so easily?
plus it porb die from not eating rite shit... n needs to b back in its hive n shit...
dont think u would like to be held in a chinese food container who knows where its been - not the ant....
if it was a regular ant i woudl b like meh kill the barstard but thats different put bak out in the yard n let it live....
i sounds like i should b a part of green peace... not usually like this but that thing is wacked.
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dude, its an ant.
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sun, 10 April 2005 10:28
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| h3ff44 wrote on Sun, 10 April 2005 17:51 |
damm that shits wacked.....
dude put it back too where he belongs.... por barstard is prob like wtf how am i getting food so easily?
plus it porb die from not eating rite shit... n needs to b back in its hive n shit...
dont think u would like to be held in a chinese food container who knows where its been - not the ant....
if it was a regular ant i woudl b like meh kill the barstard but thats different put bak out in the yard n let it live....
i sounds like i should b a part of green peace... not usually like this but that thing is wacked.
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bro you must be sooo bent!!
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Sun, 10 April 2005 10:34
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in tassie we callem inchmans also we get jack jumpers and their both pretty nastie
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Sun, 10 April 2005 10:36
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It looks like an Inchman to me, slightly brown body and a bigass overall size (they'll grow to around an inch). These guys have a painful bite and they are as tuff as nails when you stomp them, they just seem to get up and keep going unless you really grind them into the bitumen.
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Sun, 10 April 2005 11:55
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| CrUZsida wrote on Sun, 10 April 2005 19:00 |
Interesting how different places call them different names.
To me, a bull ant is the black one about 10-15mm in length, and I call these puppies soldier ants.
But I have a feeling soldier ants are the normal ones you see everywhere.
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Looks like a worker bullant to me. The soldier bullants have HUGE pincers and their heads are massive.
| rob_RA40 wrote on Sat, 09 April 2005 21:44 |
i had one of those bite me on the arse one day at school after sat on it (on grass).
was fucken painful and the sting lasted for a few hours. i killed it good tho.
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That's quite impressive Rob. I've found the only way to kill one of those bastards is to get them on concrete and grind them. Stomping just doesn't work, they're fugging tough bastards!
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I supported Toymods
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Sun, 10 April 2005 14:38
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ah cool, good to know that it isnt something abnormal. atm i've transferred it to a larger box with dirt leaves etc. i'm thinking about getting a few others and keeping a colony. anyone else ever done this?
and yeah i've seen the bugger go aggressive when i tap around its box. thanks for letting me know that the sting lies at the rear, never occurred to me
i may just end up letting it go somewhere out the back if i dont do the colony thing.
Cheers
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Mon, 11 April 2005 00:05
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| da_horse wrote on Mon, 11 April 2005 00:38 |
ah cool, good to know that it isnt something abnormal. atm i've transferred it to a larger box with dirt leaves etc. i'm thinking about getting a few others and keeping a colony. anyone else ever done this?
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You'll need to dig up the queen to get a colony happening. And if you're gonna dig up a bullant nest, you're either an extremely brave man, or a candidate for the Darwin Awards...
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Rockhampton QLD
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Mon, 11 April 2005 00:09
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Forget what nark says, its easy, grab a shovel, throw some thongs on and get into it. just make sure you video tape it for, erm, documentation purposes.
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Mon, 11 April 2005 00:37
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that's not big... look how close you had to get to the bloody thing to see it!!!
back on mah ranch, we got us some ants so big you gotta make sure they don't eatcha 'orse and all.. thems the scary buggers, i remember one day one of these shifty buggers ambushed mah 'orse luckily i jumped on to the fuckah, and gouged it's eyes out, [/texan accent]
but seriously, i'm pretty sure those are what we call the "Meat ant" and the sting is so painful because it's the only and with a poisonous sting. they're also the only ant that is a solitary hunter. pretty impressive stuff... i could be wrong though, but i've seen the buggers, and i left pronto incase they weren't solitary hunters and there was the rest of his possé near by
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Mon, 11 April 2005 00:51
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Definitely a worker. The soldiers have enormous heads and pincers. The queen might come out at night and has an enormous abdomen.
A handful of people die from jumping jack bites each year due a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). There is a guy in Royal Hobart Hospital ED who has developed a "vaccine" to the toxin - I think it is at the human trial phase.
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Mon, 11 April 2005 01:33
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| Nark wrote on Sun, 10 April 2005 21:55 |
That's quite impressive Rob. I've found the only way to kill one of those bastards is to get them on concrete and grind them. Stomping just doesn't work, they're fugging tough bastards!
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my fat arse didnt kill it, what i meant was that after i got bitten i killed it good, ie by stepping on it a number of times.
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Mon, 11 April 2005 01:40
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speaking of weird medical terms (anaphylaxis for example) here's somehting for the med boys.
Friend of mine, after a few weeks in hospital with the doctors saying they didn't know what was wrong with her, had the doctors come in looking all proud and announce she had "encephalopathy with unknown aetiology". She didn't have the heart to tell them she knew exactly what that meant
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Mon, 11 April 2005 01:55
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isnt it some form of acid thay inject? my brother was bush walking one day did some 20km hike or something when he was into photography, got tired and sat doen on this nice little enbankment and got bit on the ass by one, he proceded to jump around while his mate quickly ran over and started wacking him on the back screaming "there all over you mick!!"
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Mon, 11 April 2005 02:27
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Has anyone ever seen that documentary on the killer ants in Africa? These buggers will devour a human in one night,I think they initially enter through your mouth and start eating your lungs and work their way out from there,they only eat meat and constantly take down cattle etc 
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Mon, 11 April 2005 02:31
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yeah, she was - they just didn't know why, how, or what progress the disease was going to make.
what amused me is they suddenly went from "there's something wrong with your brain" to adding a nice official title to it to make her feel better
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Re: Is this ant normal?
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Mon, 11 April 2005 06:31
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GOAT-ANT
Nolan
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Mon, 11 April 2005 06:43
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| Nolan wrote on Mon, 11 April 2005 16:31 |
GOAT-ANT
Nolan
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Mon, 11 April 2005 09:05
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| Nolan wrote on Mon, 11 April 2005 16:31 |
GOAT-ANT
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Nolan you dont understand how much that goat picture rekks me
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Tue, 12 April 2005 06:11
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Used to see a lot of those ants when I grew up in Adelaide. We called them Inch Ants (for obvious reasons). We used to call the 1cm long versions Meat Ants.
They grab you with their pincers and swivel around to repeatedly sting you in a circlular pattern. Used to have a fun time as a kid throwing rocks and stuff at the nests, and their nests actually go pretty deep into the ground.
If you throw enough rocks its like a black carpet of angry ants on the ground all running around looking for the source of the damage.
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Tue, 12 April 2005 14:11
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| Ribfeast wrote on Tue, 12 April 2005 16:11 |
Used to see a lot of those ants when I grew up in Adelaide. We called them Inch Ants (for obvious reasons). We used to call the 1cm long versions Meat Ants.
They grab you with their pincers and swivel around to repeatedly sting you in a circlular pattern. Used to have a fun time as a kid throwing rocks and stuff at the nests, and their nests actually go pretty deep into the ground.
If you throw enough rocks its like a black carpet of angry ants on the ground all running around looking for the source of the damage.
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I love running (and stomping) across the top of their nests. The vibrations make them all come out... It's freaky.
Ever seen a guy who's just realised that he's been standing on a bullant nest?! Farken funny shit (as long as it's not you).
When I was a kid, we used to catch bullants and pull their antenae off and make them fight each other... It was great fun, until you got stung...
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Wed, 13 April 2005 00:18
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| riceburna73 wrote on Mon, 11 April 2005 19:05 |
| Nolan wrote on Mon, 11 April 2005 16:31 |
GOAT-ANT
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Nolan you dont understand how much that goat picture rekks me
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bahahah just keeping my fans happy
NOLAN
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Wed, 13 April 2005 00:24
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I killed a cockroach on my kitchen floor last night all its guts were hanging out and still the bloody thing was alive, i didn't pick it up until i had eaten my dinner. Anyway by the time i got back the thing had crawled half a metre, i think the reason was cos i missed his head and even though all his guts were hanging off him he could still move.
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Wed, 13 April 2005 01:54
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you can chop a head off a cockroach and they will live untill they starve to death try it one day
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Wed, 13 April 2005 01:55
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| rob_RA40 wrote on Mon, 11 April 2005 09:33 |
| Nark wrote on Sun, 10 April 2005 21:55 |
That's quite impressive Rob. I've found the only way to kill one of those bastards is to get them on concrete and grind them. Stomping just doesn't work, they're fugging tough bastards!
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my fat arse didnt kill it, what i meant was that after i got bitten i killed it good, ie by stepping on it a number of times.
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Why did you step on it to kill it?
You should have just p00ed on it!
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Wed, 13 April 2005 04:16
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i once found a weird creature it looke like a cockroach body with thr head of a preying mantis, it was transparrent white, thought it was a mutant so i stomped on it
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Wed, 13 April 2005 04:21
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we had an albino cockroach once to pure white, so we killed it funny that.
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Wed, 13 April 2005 04:25
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fucking cockroaches think they are good surviving nuclear fall out lets see them survive my boot muhuhahahahaha. They piss me off something shocking, we need our house sprayed cos we have pulled all the sleepers out from our backyard and replaced them with bricks and since then they moved into the house,we got it sprayed got rid of them but think they are coming from our neighbours place now. they have piles of wood down the side of their house which they are probably lving in.
Really shits me when i get one in my room cos they wake you up in the middle of the night as they scurry across the desk, flik on the light grab the nearest shoe and belt the fuck out of the little pest.
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Wed, 13 April 2005 04:26
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DAMN
these ants can get hungry!!
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Wed, 13 April 2005 04:34
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i'm dreadding the next couple of weeks our gum tree is out in flower and every time it is, one we get inundated with bats, they do huge shits all over our cars two even worse, these filthy fuckin bugs about 1 to 2 cm long that have black wings and and orange body, i mean when they come we end up with a million camping out in our yard, these things fuck like no tomorrow they have orgies in balls of insects and pretty much our whole lawn will be black and crawling not one green spike showing, the gutters are alive withthem same with the tyres on your car any twig on the ground and our retaining wall as well. These things do nothing but eat and fuck thats all until there is so many of them they run out of food. We have pics somewhere of our lawn just teaming with them. If i find em i'll post em up.
They are so easy to kill don't bite or anythingbut you can't go outside whilst they are there cos if you stand still to long they will surround you and use you as a support for their mass orgy.
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Wed, 13 April 2005 06:24
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| Corona RT142 wrote on Wed, 13 April 2005 14:21 |
we had an albino cockroach once to pure white, so we killed it funny that.
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um, theyre white straight after they shed, till their shell hardens. i used to breed them for bearded dragons.
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Sun, 17 April 2005 14:29
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^^^ hahaha those orange and black bugs are insane! a family friends place used to have heaps of em when i was younger. when you squished them their guts were bright blue and sh*t! and yeh they always f*ck and interlock into pairs
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