Things That Annoy You

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

We have Thanksgiving up here already, but it's in October and not as huge a deal as it is down there. The whole pilgrims/Natives story isn't really part of it, we don't have the football association, etc. Mostly it's just a day to eat turkey and pretend to be thankful for stuff.

[Random Gal]

As disgusting and creepy as certain animals are, my least favorite has to be the mosquito. Even though centipedes, roaches, etc. look creepier, at least they just mind their own business and don't go around stabbing me with their jaws all the time.

[Witchyjoshy]

As disgusting and creepy as certain animals are, my least favorite has to be the mosquito. Even though centipedes, roaches, etc. look creepier, at least they just mind their own business and don't go around stabbing me with their jaws all the time.

I would sit in a room full of spiders, centipedes, and whatnot for an entire day if the end result was that mosquitoes would no longer consume blood to nourish their eggs.

Doesn't help that I'm especially allergic to the little buggers, like golf-ball sized welts that itch so badly that I sometimes get tempted to gouge out the welt with a knife just to end my suffering.

By the way, we live right next to a marsh.  Yay...

[mellenORL]

My hatred of mosquitos borders on irrational, yet...

Even more so than the deadly viruses and bacteria themselves, mosquitos are the deadliest animals on Earth from being the main

vector of pathogen spread. They have caused the death of more animals and humans combined than any other cause since life

began, including the several major extinction events.

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[Meshakhad]

There's a reason why, with all the money being spent on saving species from extinction, there are plenty of scientists busy trying to find ways to wipe out mosquitoes.

[Witchyjoshy]

I know of a laser system that's programmed to kill female mosquitos (not the males because they actually pollinate stuff) on sight, kinda like a laser fence.

[Ironchew]

My hatred of mosquitos borders on irrational, yet...

Even more so than the deadly viruses and bacteria themselves, mosquitos are the deadliest animals on Earth from being the main

vector of pathogen spread. They have caused the death of more animals and humans combined than any other cause since life

began, including the several major extinction events.

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[citation needed]

I have a hard time believing mosquitoes wiped out more species than the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

[Witchyjoshy]

So in this other forum I go to, the administrator has gone on a huge power trip.

She just suddenly removed administrator privilege from her partner and friend one day with the explanation of "I want to run this site my way."  (She happens to be the one who pays for the site, so he hasn't protested this)

Since then, he understandably has maintained distance to her, and she has responded with very passive-aggressive attacks on him here and there.

I actually spoke up in protest of her behavior towards him, because it's very unprofessional as an administrator, and a couple of other people have jumped in to support the friend who was removed.

Her response is more or less "If you don't like it, leave."

So, I'm staying to spite her (and also because I like Quest for Glory, which the forums are about).

It may be her right to decide who she has on staff, but it is also my right to criticize her.  And if she bans me for it, too bad, she'll just prove me right.

Her actions have made it everyone's business.

[Askold]

There is a forum for Quest for Glory series? I am going to take a look at it.

[mellenORL]

My hatred of mosquitos borders on irrational, yet...

Even more so than the deadly viruses and bacteria themselves, mosquitos are the deadliest animals on Earth from being the main

vector of pathogen spread. They have caused the death of more animals and humans combined than any other cause since life

began, including the several major extinction events.

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[citation needed]

I have a hard time believing mosquitoes wiped out more species than the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

Can't find where I read it, but, do the "math"/consider the implications.

The oldest fossil mosquito found so far is 150 million years old. They must have existed long prior to that, naturally. Mosquitos are

found in every climate on Earth, including the Arctic Circle, on six continents (Antarctica has no mosquitos today, but probably did

during earlier climatic periods when it was warmer there, and when it was nearer the Equator via continental drift).



Mosquitos carry deadly parasites, viruses and bacteria. So 3,500 species (known as of today, anyway) of mosquito evolve during

150 million years at minimum, actively infecting and often killing their hosts continuously for that duration of many millions of

years, and you have an estimate that exceeds singular extinction events. Consider that just one species of mosquito today

kills 2 million humans a year by infecting them with malaria, even while we are at war against them through anti malaria

programs world-wide. The death toll was vastly worse, prior.


So, that is one death toll caused by one disease vectored via one mosquito species to a single victim species in one year.


Consider that many more pathogens than Malaria are passed around by mosquitos to humans. Consider the numerous species of

animals besides humans that can and do die from mosquito borne illness and parasite infections every year. Multiply all of that by

at least 150 million (years).


The statement I posted from memory is nevertheless difficult to quantify; we do not know and may never be able to estimate the

amount in total non-plant, non-fungus, non-protist biomass that perished in the major extinction events, since the comparison is

versus Mosquito vectored deaths in animals. 

[Art Vandelay]

Decided to check my Facebook account after over a year and a half of abandonment. Apparently Facebook won't let me change my name to Adolph Hitler, the sanctimonious fucks.

[Witchyjoshy]

The GameFAQs mods have stopped caring.  I've been pushing the envelope here and there, trying to get them to actually take action.  I thought I had crossed the boundaries of what is acceptable, by making a passive-aggressive attack (and I do mean attack) on someone because of their Christian Persecution Complex (albeit I felt it was a well-deserved one considering they do the same thing to liberals and anyone who doesn't believe that the Stormcloaks are an honorable, just, and totally not-racist group of people)

It's been almost a week now, I know that people on GameFAQs are quick to report people, but still no moderation.  The fuck.  That was a moddable offense, HIT ME WITH THE MOD HAMMER ALREADY!

Bearing in mind that these are the same mods who modded me once for "trolling" when I made a humorous topic.  Because apparently, making a topic based on a joke (even a self-mocking one) is trolling.

Geez... and to think I actually felt kinda bad for trying to do this.

[Alehksunos]

When I'm talking with my brother - usually sharing a joke - or when I'm reading a post out loud (which is a bad habit of mine):

Then my mother hears me say the combinations of the words 'god,' 'damn,' and 'it.'

And the fact that my mother is another of those passive-aggressive crybabies who take their faith too seriously as to be offended every time someone - especially me - says 'god damn it.'

(I was reading a caption to an image.)

[Søren]

One of my boyfriends housmates hates books and thinks they should all be burnt to halt the spread of intellectualism.

And this guy wants to live on an organic farm commune

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

I misread that as "headmates".