ewwwww.

but the one i saw looks hairier, somehow. it isn't, but it looks like it. i might look for a picture

ToraToraDreams said:

Sorry about that!

Regular sized roaches I have enough problems with and I don't have a problem destroying their asses....but those other roaches that are big enough to sit in your kitchen and cook breakfast HELL 2 THA NIZZAW!!!
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Protege said:

I used to have to get drunk to have the courage to go to the bathroom at night.

KidaDynamite said:

same here, we stayed in a cheap ass motel once when i was about 12 and there were roaches there. it was the first time i'd ever really even seen one of the fuckers, but they didn't bother me. they stayed safely behind the bureau of drawers and stuff. didn't bug anything. i was sure they wouldn't be everywhere.

the scary thing about the palmetto bugs/cockroaches here is that
- they aren't afraid of light
- supposedly they get to be only about 3 inches but this one LOOKED LIKE FOUR OR FIVE DAMMIT. IT MUST BE A MUTANT
- they have a harder shell and don't want to die

but yeah, it's the big ones that scare me

foxyflawedhands said:

they always have to hide in the bathroom

there's no alcohol in the house, either

Took this pic of a tukgae in our bedroom a couple of years back. It was about 9 inches long, head to tail:



We once apparently had a snake bust through the roof above the kitchen and get stuck too, supposedly with a girth like a human leg and several metres long. It's like a bloody zoo.

foxyflawedhands said:

right, scratching thailand OFF the travel wishlist...

foxyflawedhands said:

good lawd that thing doesn't freak me out but the snake-ish leg being thing would


this is sorta what the thing i saw looked like, only with hairier looking legs.

AND BIGGER. i must emphasize the bigger part. because i keep reading that (max.) they're 3 inches. NO. FUCKING. WAY. this thing was huge and fat and gross.

maybe it isn't a cockroach but whatever, it's gross
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It's just... waiting.

evenstar3 said:

EXACTLY!!!

foxyflawedhands said:

can you vacuum it up or something protege?? i used to do that to spiders after knocking them off the ceiling with a magazine

evenstar3 said:

that's been my go-to solution in the past, but i can't because everyone else in the house is trying to sleep and it's 3 AM.

they'd come out and kill me more painfully than the bug will.
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even and kida, it's ok, you're probably not that po'.

You can have bathrooms will full floor to ceiling walls with flushing toilets and everything.

chillichocaholic said:

aww is that a lil puppy?

Christopher said:

BAD PUPPY!

KidaDynamite said:

It shits money!

Protege said:

lawd i hate bugs like that.... esp.spiders

foxyflawedhands said:

oh god

maybe there's a reason to trap this thing in a cage

nope. i'mma kill its ass when i find it.

foxyflawedhands said:

I WANT ONE!

he could live in a little glass box and fill it with quarters

Protege said:

for you it's not the bathroom you locked him into ... if so ... he will win

One4All4Ever said:

he ain't winning

Protege said:

You started this thread. He's already in your head.

foxyflawedhands said:

i wondered where he went

Protege said:

He's probably right where you saw him last, just chillin', but he wants you to think he's scuttling around all over the place.

foxyflawedhands said:

i hate him

i'm seriously sitting here with bug spray trying to work up the courage just to look at it again

Those things are horrible! When I lived in Florida they always used to try to fly into the house if they smelled you cooking. . They're really agressive to and have no qualms about trying to attack you if they feel threatened. If you go after a palmetto bug you need to know that once they start sputtering those wings they are coming at'cha and in their mind it's going to be you and him to the DEATH

y'all some scared fuckers...



they should have mad Cloverfield with a regular sized roach instead of a big ass monster...apparently the effect would have been the same...

did it kill protege while she was sleeping?