[moyses]

Is coward a verb now?

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by moses

Is coward a verb now?

Depends. What's a verb? Noun, verb, adjective...why did they make it so complicated??

[Persian-Fred]

Originally Posted by moses

I've relocated downstairs. Lying there waiting for the mouse traps to go off is no way for a man to spend his time.

Just curious, how come you're not using humane traps? Are they expensive, difficult to set up without being a nuisance? Never had a mouse problem before so just curious why people would choose a painful trap over a safe one.

[Vidic_In_Moscow]

*cowering

[DeweyMUFC]

How long is the life spam of a moth? I reckon I could just wait for it to die.

Are they the ones that only last a day?

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

IT'S A PHOBIA.

Someone back me up here...

hoofdaphobia?

[Vidic_In_Moscow]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

How long is the life spam of a moth? I reckon I could just wait for it to die.

Are they the ones that only last a day?

You're thinking of Owen Hargreaves.

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

hoofdaphobia?

Huh? It's called Mottephobia.

You're a Doctor maybe you can cure phobia's?

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by Vidic_In_Moscow

You're thinking of Owen Hargreaves.

But he looks fit on Youtube

[moyses]

Originally Posted by Urbanned

Just curious, how come you're not using humane traps? Are they expensive, difficult to set up without being a nuisance? Never had a mouse problem before so just curious why people would choose a painful trap over a safe one.

I have no idea, never gave it any real thought. I suppose I just want rid and don't want the hassle of a relocate of who knows how many mice.

[Persian-Fred]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

How long is the life spam of a moth? I reckon I could just wait for it to die.

Are they the ones that only last a day?

Depends on the type of moth and the temperature. Most house moths can live for longer than a day, for sure.

[moyses]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

How long is the life spam of a moth? I reckon I could just wait for it to die.

Are they the ones that only last a day?

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[Paolo Di Canio]

i had a bad mice problem last year..i felt bad killing them so my neighbour lent me some peppermint liquid and i dabbed it on cotton buds and left them all over the house..that got rid of them sharpish

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by moses

I have no idea, never gave it any real thought. I suppose I just want rid and don't want the hassle of a relocate of who knows how many mice.

It's a smart mouse if it hasn't gone off yet. You have a fight on your hands, just like me.

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

Huh? It's called Mottephobia.

You're a Doctor maybe you can cure phobia's?

pffft, it's simply dysfunctional thought. the moth wants nothing to do with you, he is busy with his fire quest.

[Persian-Fred]

Originally Posted by moses

I have no idea, never gave it any real thought. I suppose I just want rid and don't want the hassle of a relocate of who knows how many mice.

Fair enough. I could just never bear to cause that much pain to an animal, I'd have to go to the extra lengths... but I can see why it'd cause the extra hassle

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by moses

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'Moses' is meant to have a capital 'M'. He is famous for the burning bush thingy and it is a name so they get capitals.

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by moses

I have no idea, never gave it any real thought. I suppose I just want rid and don't want the hassle of a relocate of who knows how many mice.

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

pffft, it's simply dysfunctional thought. the moth wants nothing to do with you, he is busy with his fire quest.

Oh so now I am dysfunctional?? That's not very nice...

[Vidic_In_Moscow]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

IT'S A PHOBIA.

Someone back me up here...

Excellent research on insect phobia's.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13982886

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by Vidic_In_Moscow

Excellent research on insect phobia's.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13982886

Oh....my.....God.

Will the one in my room grow that big?!?

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

Oh so now I am dysfunctional?? That's not very nice...

just the thought is. seriously, how could the moth upset you, it's only a moth? it can't premeditate against you.

there is no rational argument to support your position.

[moyses]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

Oh....my.....God.

Will the one in my room grow that big?!?

Only if it eats you while you sleep.

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

just the thought is. seriously, how could the moth upset you, it's only a moth? it can't premeditate against you.

there is no rational argument to support your position.

I don't know. I try to convince myself they are harmless but I always have a heart attack when they move!!

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

I don't know. I try to convince myself they are harmless but I always have a heart attack when they move!!

it's the seemingly random nature of their flight path. used to drive me crazy.

[moyses]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

just the thought is. seriously, how could the moth upset you, it's only a moth? it can't premeditate against you.

there is no rational argument to support your position.

It's just a bad case of the heebie jeebies though, I have it with mice, just don't dig em.

[DeweyMUFC]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

it's the seemingly random nature of their flight path. used to drive me crazy.

Some call it random, I think they know exactly what they are doing though.

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by moses

It's just a bad case of the heebie jeebies though, I have it with mice, just don't dig em.

oh yeah mice are creepy, right up there with seeing a cat devour one or finding a mouse arse on your door mat when you get home from walking the dogs in the morning.

probably the fact that you know they're curious enough to come over and inspect you. not many people like strange creatures crawling all over them.

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by DeweyMUFC

Some call it random, I think they know exactly what they are doing though.

the moth has only one thing on his mind.

The Fire Quest

The Wise Poet sat reading by the light of his taper. It was a night of the seventh month. The cicala sang in the flower of the pomegranate, the frog sang by the pond. The moon was out and all the stars, the air was heavy and sweet-scented. But the Poet was not happy, for moths came by the score to the light of his taper; not moths only, but cockchafers and dragon-flies with their wings rainbow-tinted. One and all they came upon the Fire Quest; one and all they burned their bright wings in the flame and so died. And the Poet was grieved.

“Little harmless children of the night,” he said, “why will you still fly upon the Fire Quest? Never, never can you attain, yet you strive and die. Foolish ones, have you never heard the story of the Firefly Queen?”

The moths and the cockchafers and the dragon-flies fluttered about the taper and paid him no heed.

“They have never heard it,” said the Poet; “yet it is old enough. Listen:

“The Firefly Queen was the brightest and most beautiful of small things that fly. She dwelt in the heart of a rosy lotus. The lotus grew on a still lake, and it swayed to and fro upon the lake’s bosom while the Firefly Queen slept within. It was like the reflection of a star in the water.

“You must know, oh, little children of the night, that the Firefly Queen had many suitors. Moths and cockchafers and dragon-flies innumerable flew to the lotus on the lake. And their hearts were filled with passionate love. ‘Have pity, have pity,’ they cried, ‘Queen of the Fireflies, Bright Light of the Lake.’ But the Firefly Queen sat and smiled and shone. It seemed that she was not sensible of the incense of love that arose about her.

“At last she said, ‘Oh, you lovers, one and all, what make you here idly, cumbering my lotus house? Prove your love, if you love me indeed. Go, you lovers, and bring me fire, and then I will answer.’

“Then, oh, little children of the night, there was a swift whirr of wings, for the moths and the cockchafers and the dragon-flies innumerable swiftly departed upon the Fire Quest. But the Firefly Queen laughed. Afterwards I will tell you the reason of her laughter.

“So the lovers flew here and there in the still night, taking with them their desire. They found lighted lattices ajar and entered forthwith. In one chamber there was a girl who took a love-letter from her pillow and read it in tears, by the light of a taper. In another a woman sat holding the light close to a mirror, where she looked and painted her face. A great white moth put out the trembling candle-flame with his wings.

“‘Alack! I am afraid,’ shrieked the woman; ‘the horrible dark!’

“In another place there lay a man dying. He said, ‘For pity’s sake light me the lamp, for the black night falls.’

“‘We have lighted it,’ they said, ‘long since. It is close beside you, and a legion of moths and dragon-flies flutter about it.’

“‘I cannot see anything at all,’ murmured the man.

“But those that flew on the Fire Quest burnt their frail wings in the fire. In the morning they lay dead by the hundred and were swept away and forgotten.

“The Firefly Queen was safe in her lotus bower with her beloved, who was as bright as she, for he was a great lord of the Fireflies. No need had he to go upon the Fire Quest. He carried the living flame beneath his wings.

“Thus the Firefly Queen deceived her lovers, and therefore she laughed when she sent them from her on a vain adventure.”

* * * * *

“Be not deceived,” cried the Wise Poet, “oh, little children of the night. The Firefly Queen is always the same. Give over the Fire Quest.”

But the moths and the cockchafers and the dragon-flies paid no heed to the words of the Wise Poet. Still they fluttered about his taper, and they burnt their bright wings in the flame and so died.

Presently the Poet blew out the light. “I must needs sit in the dark,” he said; “it is the only way.”

Grace James's Short Story: The Fire Quest [Japanese Fairy Tale]

[Dr. Dwayne]

hehehe it says cockchafers.

[moyses]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

probably the fact that you know they're curious enough to come over and inspect you. not many people like strange creatures crawling all over them.

Cheers for that Dwayne.

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by moses

Cheers for that Dwayne.

oops.

[moyses]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dwayne

hehehe it says cockchafers.

Their larvae are mental.

[Dr. Dwayne]

Originally Posted by moses

Their larvae are mental.

ooh that's dirty.

[DeweyMUFC]

That's really confusing. So moths are sent on a mission by the Queen? I was right then, they are on a mission. And they are from the same family as dragons??

Story makes no sense.

[Vato1979]

Originally Posted by moses

No, they are quite common.



Although I had never seen one til I moved out of the city.

They are about the size of an adult's finger.

the moths are quite small and pretty though.

Holy shit, never seen one of these.
Looks like a snake from a cartoon or one badly photoshopped.

[moyses]

[DeweyMUFC]

Jesus Christ That'll drive the mouse out!!

[Creepy]

What scares me is the diseases that rodents carry..

Kidney Failure, Hepatitis, Gastric problems...


GET A CAT, MAN!

[DeweyMUFC]