This forum just keeps getting shallower & shallower.

I'm severely allergic to those little fuckers. I have to get injected with dead ones once a week!

hey! i have a solution i think we can ALL get behind.

hows about if we turn the tables on these little buggers?

i'm talking about, waking up in the morning and licking the sheets and blankets for breakfast. eat those dust mites up. THAT should show them

turn about is fair play

I’d like to talk about these little 8 leged spiders that crawl upon your bed and body, yall. Thousands of them.

Chemicals don’t get rid of them. They just come back. Strong soap, and bleach is not affective--they still live.

They feed upon your dead skin. Because they have a rudimentary stomach, incapable of the type of digestion we enjoy, they must excrete an enzyme on the fungus Aspergillus repens, which digests most of the material they need it to digest outside of them. It’s basically digesting the food previous to placing delicious morsels of dead skin in their mouths. And this is happening all over your body right now as you read this.

In the great outdoors, Sunlight and natural enemies keep their populations in check, but the average human home provides a nice stable environment for them to not only live, but flourish. Dust mites are thought to be one of the leading causes of Asthma in households (their waste matter which drops from your skin gets in your bed, pillows, etc. irritating breathing).

A few things you can do, in desperate attempts to control the population of them is getting rid of carpeting in the bedroom, washing sheets at least once a week. Freeze your pillow cases for an hour or two. vacuum your bed and upholstered furniture, and buy a HEPA air filter--beware though as HEPA air filters generate ozone which can irritate lungs and cause other side affects. Finally, if you own pets, you can try killing them I guess.

I feel that eventually, though it seems unlikely, that one day, dust mites will make the evolutionary leap from eating dead skin to feeding on live human flesh. Imagine thousands of these creatures feasting of you as you scream yourself delirious.

If the evolutionary step were to take place, mankind would be in certain peril.






[Edited 11/6/07 10:01am]

Imago said:

I didn't realise they were that big, if a dust mite fought an armadillo who would win?

jami0mckay said:

They both kick ass!

Neither of them needs Web Sheriff to do their fighting!

Imago said:

I guess I picked the wrong day to have the sleeve from around the world in a day tattooed on my backside. I think the Web Sherriff will look like Tom Selleck when he was in that remake of Monte Walsh

This stupid thread.

If this thread was a t.v show it would be Manimal

Aww, their so precious!!

you would bump this shit as 9b0i'm happily eating pie. [/b]

evenstar said:

evenstar said:

Imago said:

because I am not paranoid enough...

are dust mites able to survive in really really dry, desert weather?

oh great now I'm reminded of the bugs living on our bodies


clean, clean, clean OCD overdrive

statuesqque said:

Did you read the thread about male cleanliness too?