the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Seabiscuit36]

i have a towel that i keep on the floor to the side of my porch door to put my shoes on when i come inside from out back....well i just picked it up and unfolded it to put in front of the door cause its pouring out and coming inside a little bit....as i did this 12 stink bugs dropped out of the towel all over onto my arms

sickening

When we bought our house in 2011, it was a foreclosure.  That entailed no door from the garage into the house, which meant animals and stink bugs had full run of the place.  I'd say we easily had over 5000 stink bugs to start with.  Not sure if your local bug guys do it, but they offer a way to "Stink Bug Proof" your house.  It's basically giving them 800 bucks to seal every entryway that a stinkbug could find into your attic/house. 

[ice grillin you]

i dont have a stink bug problem...at least i dont think i do.....occasionally ill see one on my screen door (the outside of it) but thats it...the towel was outside the day/night before so i think they probably crawled in it for warmth or some shtein

[Seabiscuit36]

Thats definitely what they did.  They'll roll up inbetween door sills and anything they can.  They're almost  like cockroaches in that if you see two, there's 30 you dont see.  And once it warms up outside, you'll see the mass exodus of them from your walls etc.  It took us more or less two years to get them out of the house and to prevent them from getting back in this time of the year.  PITA.  Plus they farged up my tomatoes this year. 

[ice grillin you]

stupid question but do they actually stink?

one or two im sure arent going to smell but is odor the way youd know if you had a shtein ton of them in your house

[Zanshin]

They stink if you squash them, mostly.

[Seabiscuit36]

Yeah, you either need to piss them off and they'll spray or step on them and they do stink.  But I read something a while back that not everyone can pick up the scent from them which is odd. 

[Sgt PSN]

A stink bug was just buzzing around my head so I swatted it with my bare hand (because that's how real men do it) and it hit my monitor and exploded. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

The smell is awful. When I lived there I would keep a Gatorade bottle to trap them in to avoid smashing them and having that smell.

SB is right - if you see a few there is a ton of them hiding out in the crevices of the house. One of my upstairs windows was old so when I replaced it I found a nest of about a thousand hidden inside the cracks.

[Diomedes]

I must be one of the people who can't smell them because I've killed dozens and always wondered what everyone was being so girlish about.  Just a goddamn bug.  They're kinda cute, actually.

[Dillen]

My buddy is a pharmacist. He said some guy came in today, went to the bathroom, clogged the toilet, came back out and grabbed a plunger, unclogged the toilet, put the plunger back on the shelf and left.

[Eagaholic]

hope he doesn't come back for refills

[Yeti]

Did you know that "Stink Bugs" aren't indigenous to North America?  Scientists believe that Halyomorpha Halys were in some packing containers delivered to an Allentown PA export company in 1998 from China.  Since then it has doubled in numbers every year and is now found in 40 states.  It is considered an agricultural pest damaging fruit and vegetable crops.

Enjoy your cheap Chinese toaster oven. 

[Seabiscuit36]

Mr Woo is the worst

[PhillyPhreak54]

lol Dillen - WTF did your buddy say anything to him?

Yeti - yeah, I looked those fargers up when I was back home and they first appeared. I am shocked that we don't have them here in Houston because of the port and all the shtein we bring in from China. We have multiple containers of plywood that come in from that shteinhole and I have never seen one in there.

[Dillen]

lol Dillen - WTF did your buddy say anything to him?

Nah didn't say anything, just astonished. I think it's hilarious the guy had the initiative to do it himself without telling anybody. Also wondered what they did with the plunger, if they took it off the shelf or marked it down or something... it's not like the thing's ruined.