Jesus, so imagine you're sitting at your computer and you see something out of the corner of your eye on the wall. You think you might be a large roach, which would be bad, but nothing too shocking. Then you turn to look at it and see a big-ass insect with a pair of huge PINCERS four inches away from your face.
I did not need that. I have no idea what the hell it was, besides dead now.
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Yeah, earwigs are gross. We used to have an infestation of them in my old apartment. Made me not like to eat stuff out of our kitchen for a good 6 months before they stopped showing up.
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facepaImer posted... that picture is going to haunt my nightmares
i thought moths trying to get in your ear was the worst thing ever -_-
For the record that picture might be a fake. The largest earwig I've ever seen was maybe.... between a half and two thirds of that one's size. And they aren't called earwigs because they like to crawl into ears, but because of the ear shape their wings (which they rarely use) make when fully extended.
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This reminds me of one time me and a few friends went camping, and there was one really weird insect climbing a friend's shoulder. She began to freak out, naturally.
Her:"AHHHH" [Insect falls off from her shoulder] Her:"WHAT IS THAT?" [Friend stomps on it] Friend:"It's dead." [Immediately walks away]
I still don't know what the hell it was. But I will always remember that moment.
earwigs are pretty tiny. This would be much more intimidating...
and that picture is only a little larger than actual life size. It's more bark than bite though. That one is a male and the pincers aren't strong enough to hurt you. They're just big like that so he can pin the female to have his way with her.
smaller pincers, but much stronger
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From: NioraptH | #017 ....seriously... why are you guys so afraid of bugs?
I'm not. I just have a thing for things not crawling into my ears (I've always had issues with my ears), so when I saw that picture, my mind immediately went to terrible things. That's along the lines of a scarab crawling inside you and up to your brain, euugh. Thankfully things like that don't actually exist, it's just the thought that's icky.
Overall though, bugs don't scare me, spiders don't scare me, I often have to pick them up to escort them out of the area so my gf will stop freaking out. She tells me to just kill them, but unless it's a bug I highly disapprove of (like a fly or an equally annoying flying enemy) I won't kill it and just act like I got rid of it to appease her.
From: Haguile | #020 Her:"AHHHH" [Insect falls off from her shoulder] Her:"WHAT IS THAT?" [Friend stomps on it] Friend:"It's dead." [Immediately walks away]
Your friend is a badass.
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I've just always had sensitive ears or something. Never enjoyed anything being inside them, that's why I hate wearing the earplugs that most people use. I have to have headphones that clip on, and those are getting more difficult to find it seems.
From: Inviso | #025 Your friend should've put on sunglasses before he said that.
Her: WHAT IS THAT? [Friend stomps on it] Friend: *puts on sunglasses* It's dead. [Walks away into the sunset]
He really should have done that. The worst thing is that I think he might have had sunglasses back then. He just...didn't do it. Bastard. Next time I see him I'll bring that up and complain about it. Though to his credit him immediately walking away after "it's dead" was hilarious.
Not the one I saw. I thought it would have been too big when I thought it was a roach, and I didn't consider the picture posted earlier to be an exaggeration.
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Well, the largest earwig I've ever seen couldn't have been more than 2 cm (~2/3 of an inch), so I'm preeeetty sure that pic ain't real. Looks pretty convincing though, lol.
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