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You’re a retard. :slight_smile:

If you really want I can bring myself to PM you the things that didn’t make sense.

What do you mean by those things don’t make sense?

They see me trollin’…
They hatin’
Moderatin’ they try to catch me postin’ dirty

Hornets have been living in England since god was a boy. Not the crazy-ass Japanese ones that are the size of a small planet with an attitude somewhere south of Charles Manson, just your common or garden 1" long European ones that make a noise somewhere between a 24KV transformer and an orbital sander (almost as loud too!) :fffuuu:

Would love to do that, however the last time I did that I ended up being stung just below my left eye… hence the wasp-phobia thing… D’OH!

They’re living in perfect harmony about 6 feet away from each other, mocking my mild panic attacks… :frowning:

I’ve heard if you burn the nest they pop like pop-corn… tasty! Which leads me to…

Yes, it’s a possibility, and there’s an RAF munitions logistics base just down the road from me… reckon they’d lend me a canister or two?

Hmmm, vespids & children or napalm & children… how to choose…

I suspect because controlling napalm’s a bit like controlling explosive diarrhoea… you can do it, but not without highly specialised equipment.:fffuuu:

Anyhow, thanks for giving me a good chuckle y’all! :smiley:

I now live in fear. :fffuuu: Oh god, just remember that we found one in our garden not too long ago! Even more fear! :fffuuu:x2!

The only time I’ve been close to hornet and not broken a landspeed record I emptied most of a canister of wasp killer on it. Bastard still took five minutes to die.

That’s because most insect killing sprays work by gumming up the pores in their exoskeleton through which they respire to suffocate them, hence they can take a while to go down.

I found it easier to just ignore it.

But you’re still young and innocent and suffering from ‘someone on the internet is WRONG’ syndrome. :wink:

@ijgs - my dad has a fair bit of experience getting shift of the wasp nests that periodically appear in the rafters of their house, I can ask him for suggestions if you want.

Petrol and Polystyrene.

Aka, Balloon full of petrol with polystyrene foam covering it and a fuse of some sort.

Cheers for the thought, I’d happily receive any advice for future reference.

That said, I’ve got a pest-control bloke coming to wage war on my behalf on Saturday… just hope the wasps don’t chew their way through the ceiling by then; it sure sounds like that’s what they’re doing… lots and lots of soft “tick…tick…tick…” noises coming from the nest area; I’ve seen them in my garden, chewing on the wooden fence (I guess for nest building materials), so I have no doubt the rafters are equally tasty!

The crazy thing is my rational brain is finding them absolutely fascinating, doing lots of research and getting to understand them (for instance, apparently Hornets are normally about as aggressive as bees, which is to say not at all, until you get within about 6 feet of their nest, when they get seriously pissed at you :FFFUUU :slight_smile: meanwhile, my limbic brain is hiding behind metaphorical cushions and squealing like a sissy. :meh:

I knew someone on here would know the recipe… sounds like the kind of thing I’d have considered when I was not a supposedly[/SIZE] responsible adult with small people running around underfoot! I suspect I may be getting old… :’(

There’s a giant spider that likes to hide in this folder I have hanging on my wall, I can hear him walking around sometimes. He shit on my bed.

ijgs, post some pics please! Of the nests I mean.

I’ll do that then. Yeah, wasp nests (hornets too I guess?) are essentially made of paper, they strip wood pulp with their mandibles and mix it with their saliva. I wouldn’t worry about them actually chewing through anything though, they take pretty tiny thin strips and it would take a lot of wasps a lot of time to make any headway through a plank or something.

Oooh, good idea.

I’ll see what I can do… one of the nests might be completely inaccessible (I think it’s in the boxed-in eaves) the other one’s in my loft space. You’ll have to wait till Saturday evening at the earliest though, sorry I’m not getting close enough to take a decent picture until the threat level has lowered! :wink:

If I can get any pictures of copious insectoid carnage I shall!

I killed a wasps nest last summer, it was bugging me whilst sun bathing, it was in this useless bush in my garden, so i drowned it in petrol, burn it to the ground and dug out the bush.

Simple = ]

Guys DO NOT click this link :slight_smile:

https://www.dontclick.it

I hate you.

I know it’s reverse psychology but fuck it I still want to click it.

Okay.

Its okay if you do, you won’t get rickrolled or anything. Its actually a pretty cool flash site.

hey guys dont click this link

https://hiwhispees.on.nimp.org/

[COLOR=‘White’]haha yes, the ultimate ass raping link.

We didn’t miss you, either. :stuck_out_tongue:

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