Isn't everything bad in America either from Arkansas, Florida or California?

-10 interwebs for you subby

I respectuflly put forth the birthplace of sara palin and you cant forget the state that hosts jersy shore

arkansas certainly isnt that bad compared to either of those places.

Well, they're not the only kind of Bug to come from Arkansas...



/hot

sparky191: arkansas certainly isnt that bad compared to either of those places.

Yes. It is. It so very, very much is.

/futureless rural slum from border to border.

The whole "incest is taboo" thing is interesting, because it is pretty much universal, but it doesn't mean the same thing in every culture. For example, in some cultures your mother's family is considered your relatives, while your father's family is fair game. Others reverse this. Many others extend the taboo to both extended families. And there are others that feel that as long as no one gets pregnant, it's not really sex. At least one culture forbids physical intimacy between different genders except for ritualistic mating, and the rest of the time it's a same-sex free-for-all. Dunno about how the incest taboo plays out in that group,

So although the taboo may be universal, what it means is not. The label of "incestuous" is condemned by all (at least publicly, there are enough fetish websites to show it's actually a pretty common kink, and the "old/young" videos clearly play to enthusiasts' fantasies), even though everybody doing the condemning may have a different image of what that relationship was.

Ugh bedbugs.

My co-workers call me paranoid and say I have OCD, but I have a clean uniform for every day of work. Every night/morning when I come in off shift, I take my uniform off inside the garage, and then straight to the shower. There is a laundromat nearby that I clean my uniforms in. It is very nipply in the winter as my garage isn't heated.

The places I see in the course of my career disgust me, and I'm more than sure there are bedbugs in these places. Just recently I was doing compressions on an elderly male who lived alone and his once a day caretaker warned us about the bedbugs in his place. I was so disgusted I moved the patient out in the hall. I also promptly threw that uniform out and had the truck taken out of service for a serious deep cleaning.

I hate bedbugs, bugs, cockroaches, anything! After having lived in an apartment with cockroaches, I never, NEVER want to see another one in my life.

Adam and Eve were just like bedbugs? Wow, the things you learn every day.

/ Adam and Eve: Figments of deranged imaginations.

Yeah, it's just a social taboo.

Incest away all you want, and pleased to be enjoying your genetic deformities.

mr.april.esq: Ugh bedbugs.

My co-workers call me paranoid and say I have OCD, but I have a clean uniform for every day of work. Every night/morning when I come in off shift, I take my uniform off inside the garage, and then straight to the shower. There is a laundromat nearby that I clean my uniforms in. It is very nipply in the winter as my garage isn't heated.

The places I see in the course of my career disgust me, and I'm more than sure there are bedbugs in these places. Just recently I was doing compressions on an elderly male who lived alone and his once a day caretaker warned us about the bedbugs in his place. I was so disgusted I moved the patient out in the hall. I also promptly threw that uniform out and had the truck taken out of service for a serious deep cleaning.

I hate bedbugs, bugs, cockroaches, anything! After having lived in an apartment with cockroaches, I never, NEVER want to see another one in my life.

If it helps, bedbugs hate body heat and almost never hitch a ride on a person.

BolloxReader: The whole "incest is taboo" thing is interesting, because it is pretty much universal, but it doesn't mean the same thing in every culture. For example, in some cultures your mother's family is considered your relatives, while your father's family is fair game. Others reverse this. Many others extend the taboo to both extended families. And there are others that feel that as long as no one gets pregnant, it's not really sex. At least one culture forbids physical intimacy between different genders except for ritualistic mating, and the rest of the time it's a same-sex free-for-all. Dunno about how the incest taboo plays out in that group,

So although the taboo may be universal, what it means is not. The label of "incestuous" is condemned by all (at least publicly, there are enough fetish websites to show it's actually a pretty common kink, and the "old/young" videos clearly play to enthusiasts' fantasies), even though everybody doing the condemning may have a different image of what that relationship was.

Dud,, Your sisters still not gonna sleep with you. Let it go.

mr.april.esq: Ugh bedbugs.

My co-workers call me paranoid and say I have OCD, but I have a clean uniform for every day of work. Every night/morning when I come in off shift, I take my uniform off inside the garage, and then straight to the shower. There is a laundromat nearby that I clean my uniforms in. It is very nipply in the winter as my garage isn't heated.

The places I see in the course of my career disgust me, and I'm more than sure there are bedbugs in these places. Just recently I was doing compressions on an elderly male who lived alone and his once a day caretaker warned us about the bedbugs in his place. I was so disgusted I moved the patient out in the hall. I also promptly threw that uniform out and had the truck taken out of service for a serious deep cleaning.

I hate bedbugs, bugs, cockroaches, anything! After having lived in an apartment with cockroaches, I never, NEVER want to see another one in my life.

You hate bed bugs because you had roaches once? God lord, wait till you actually experience bedbugs. You're not even afraid yet.

ununcle: You hate bed bugs because you had roaches once? God lord, wait till you actually experience bedbugs. You're not even afraid yet.

I hope to never experience bedbugs. I had a friend who experienced it and she basically had to throw everything out of her room after commercial cleaning services couldn't do it.

Bedbugs? in my house?! I shudder even thinking about it. Cockroaches was enough for me thanks! I can't imagine the horror people go through after finding out they have them. I'm getting the creepy crawlies just thinking about it.

I HATE bugs. Hate hate hate hate hate.

Juc: If it helps, bedbugs hate body heat and almost never hitch a ride on a person.

That does help. I have never read up on them. Guess I probably should before I get even more paranoid about them than I am now.

This thread has probably elevated my blood pressure.

Gyrfalcon: ongbok: Isn't everything bad in America either from Arkansas, Florida or California?

Well, Rick Perry...

Which is a code word for a past leader that was such a curse to America that both parties dare not speak his name. Rick Perry in his own right? Meh.

mr.april.esq: Juc: If it helps, bedbugs hate body heat and almost never hitch a ride on a person.

That was a totally idiotic thing to say. The bedbugs totally hitchhike attached to clothes. So if you go out in public naked, yeah, the bedbugs won't be sticking to your body heat.

Forget bedbugs, it's bird mites that are making a real comeback, damn near an epidemic around here. You can get rid of bedbugs, you can see bedbugs. You can't see bird mites. To get them out of your house, burn it.

Global Warming and overuse of pesticides to keep pussy ass nancy boys feeling safe FTW.

I've got them now. They're in every bit of furniture. Throwing everything out tomorrow, vacuuming, everything, then having the exterminators do their thing. Twice i've had one hitch a ride on me to school, maybe more. Yesterday i killed one on my white shirt while i was in class and it left a blood stain of what i presume was my own blood. Pissed me off. Can't even sleep on the floor.

Slesfo: I've got them now. They're in every bit of furniture. Throwing everything out tomorrow, vacuuming, everything, then having the exterminators do their thing. Twice i've had one hitch a ride on me to school, maybe more. Yesterday i killed one on my white shirt while i was in class and it left a blood stain of what i presume was my own blood. Pissed me off. Can't even sleep on the floor.

Sorry to hear of your nightmare. I went through a small infestation about 6 months ago and it cost me $1k in exterminator fees and the price of a new box spring and headboard. There is absolutely nothing worse than having these bastards in your home, going to bed knowing that you will soon be some crawling bugs meal is psychologically tormenting.

I have broke down in tears believing I was rid of 'em only to wake up with that all too familiar itch.

Its the most horrible thing you can't imagine w/o having gone through it. *shudder*

Slesfo: I've got them now. They're in every bit of furniture. Throwing everything out tomorrow, vacuuming, everything, then having the exterminators do their thing. Twice i've had one hitch a ride on me to school, maybe more. Yesterday i killed one on my white shirt while i was in class and it left a blood stain of what i presume was my own blood. Pissed me off. Can't even sleep on the floor.

How did you deal with the bites? I had a few bites on my legs from when I was at a friend's house who had them. It was a year ago and I still have the scars. It was the worst itching I've ever had.

I have them too...they live and thrive under the first layer of my skin. Writhing and clawing their way to my brain. They communicate with me via the undulations of their maggoty thoraxes...they often just talk about the weather and stuff...I hate them so...

//got nuthin
//'cept da bugz

Link (new window) For everyone with bedbugs, what you want is that steamer. Wash all your clothe/sheets/pillows with hot water, dry for at least an hour. In the meantime, steam all the things.

Arklop: sparky191: arkansas certainly isnt that bad compared to either of those places.

Yes. It is. It so very, very much is.

/futureless rural slum from border to border.

Rural yes, I like it that way, far less insane asshats to deal with. I have a good bit of land too. Futureless no lol and Ive never seen a bed bug in my life. If you think arkansas is bad go to west virginia /shudder

Ok, who here has seen the short video with the lead actress from Blue Velvet about the sex life of bedbugs?

/can't remember her name...
//need more coffee

Gyrfalcon: ongbok: Isn't everything bad in America either from Arkansas, Florida or California?

Well, Rick Perry...


or Kenya

PghThermal: Gyrfalcon: ongbok: Isn't everything bad in America either from Arkansas, Florida or California?

Well, Rick Perry...


or Kenya

Or your momma's coont...

Arkansas resident here. Never had bedbugs, never had relations with my sister.

/Come visit The Natural State!
//Shoes optional

snuffy:and they all moved to nyc.

enjoy your new bed buddies.

Rounding out the Top 10 bedbug-infested cities:

Philly
Detroit
Cincinnati
Chicago
Denver
Columbus
Dayton
D.C.
L.A.

I just did an GIS for bedbugs.


Now I can't stop scratching myself.

Ugh, my apartment had bedbugs and it took me 3 months to get rid of them. I had to outline my entire apartment, along every wall and around all my furniture, with Diatomaceous earth. Then I would steam my bed with a clothes steamer every night. I'd sit in a chair in the middle of my apartment with a spray bottle full of rubbing alcohol and spray any stragglers I found. I had to get a new bed and seal it in a mattress case. I had to bring all my clothes to the laundromat and wash them in hot water, then dry them on high heat several times. Then the exterminator had to visit twice. Finally got rid of them, but even though that was 2 years ago sometimes I still think I feel them crawling on me, even though they are long gone. It sucks!

I've got bedbugs in Arkansas, and I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies...

Not really. It sucks.

/I want to have soft furniture again!!!!
//That doesn't bite me.

If it's good enough for royalty it's good enough us.

/Arky

Juc:
If it helps, bedbugs hate body heat and almost never hitch a ride on a person.

In fact the usual way to kill them is to turn up the heating in the house for a day. Anything above 113 degrees F is lethal.

I thought they were all Uptown.

Typically this happens when humans bring infested furniture into their homes, and he warns people to inspect second-hand furniture carefully.

If you can avoid it at all, just don't buy used furniture that has cloth or cushions. The price you pay for getting rid of bed bugs isn't worth the low cost of used furniture from Craigslist. When I listed my bedframe on Craigslist when I moved I was surprised how many people wrote back asking if I was selling the mattress too - I didn't have bedbugs but I assumed no one would actually want a used mattress just in case.

natmar_76: Yeah, it's just a social taboo.

Incest away all you want, and pleased to be enjoying your genetic deformities.

Interestingly, outside of populations that are relatively small and isolated, more recent research seems to indicate that recessive genes being in both parents is fairly rare in family lines that have been in dense population areas for a number of generations. As a result, at the very least 1st cousin offspring would be within normal risk percentages (as is borne out by a variety of modern cultures where 1st cousin marriages are not uncommon) and the increase with brother-sister (who don't have obvious genetic diseases) offspring is (apparently, according to statistics) only a couple percent higher than in the randomized pairings.

/other fun fact, modern sea lions apparently all came from a single female a couple tens of thousands of years ago after some sort of mass-die-off

subby misspelled Kentucky

Knara: Interestingly, outside of populations that are relatively small and isolated, more recent research seems to indicate that recessive genes being in both parents is fairly rare in family lines that have been in dense population areas for a number of generations. As a result, at the very least 1st cousin offspring would be within normal risk percentages (as is borne out by a variety of modern cultures where 1st cousin marriages are not uncommon) and the increase with brother-sister (who don't have obvious genetic diseases) offspring is (apparently, according to statistics) only a couple percent higher than in the randomized pairings.

/other fun fact, modern sea lions apparently all came from a single female a couple tens of thousands of years ago after some sort of mass-die-off


Duh. Counterpoint: a rise of a few percentage points is a significant increase when it comes to offspring. Genetic mutations in bacteria are an example of this. Schizophrenia has a prevalence rate of 1% in the population. That's 1 of every 100 people. Raise the rate to just 3% and now that's 1 of every 33 people. That is extremely significant.

The greater point is not that incest is going to give you yourself a third arm. The point is that the taboo exists as more than a polite social nicety.

And, yes, many species have low genetic variability. Almost any endangered species is an example. For instance, the population of grizzlies in Yellowstone is expected to die out within 100 years if genetic diversity is not introduced into that population.

So where do the insects originate from?

whiterrabbit: I have them too...they live and thrive under the first layer of my skin. Writhing and clawing their way to my brain. They communicate with me via the undulations of their maggoty thoraxes...they often just talk about the weather and stuff...I hate them so...

//got nuthin
//'cept da bugz

Uhhhh....

a) As disgusting as bedbugs are, I think you've confused them with some OTHER buggy disease. Like maybe scabies or actual myiasis (maggot infestation, ohgodEWWWWW).

b) If you're hearing your local scabies infestation having conversations...either the "bugs are in your brain", so to speak, or something else is amiss. Thankfully, Seroquel and other modern antipsychotics seem to work well as "brain debuggers" in such a situation...

/50cc's of Thorazine, stat
//I get paranoid when it comes to bedbugs when travelling just because of all the horror stories I've heard on here with folks dealing with infestations, but I don't hear bugs talkin' O_o
///wonders if I should just smile and nod politely like I do with the Not Exactly Mentally Stable Folks At Downtown Bus Stations Who Insist The CIA Put A Lazer In Their Butt

speaking of heated clothing this stuff is the shiat: