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Tyranexx

@ThanosReXXX I mostly joke about "being blind" to some of my immediate family. I know I'm a far cry from legally blind as my vision could be fully corrected with lenses of some sort. It was pretty difficult to do much of anything though unless something was shoved up almost to my nose otherwise....

But no, I'd never joke about it to someone who actually WAS blind, or close to it.

Yep, Japanese beetles were accidentally introduced to the US over a century ago. They have no natural predators here and can be pretty destructive to some plants and trees.

@HobbitGamer They like eating on the flowers (thankfully not the leaves) on a couple of tree-like bushes in my side yard (No clue what they are; gonna have to ask my knowledgeable grandma on that one. They were here before I was! XD) as well as the knockout roses that I put in last year. Thankfully they aren't AS partial to them as normal roses since they sit lower to the ground, but it's still a pain to keep them off. Then there's the actual rosebush that somehow survived last year's onslaught....

Unfortunately there isn't much that I can do about them. They're primarily attracted to a large elm in my backyard and tend the stop by on the way. The best I can do is knock them into a sudsy bucket as other treatments I've considered will harm beneficial insects like bees.

The good news is that the elm is large and hardy enough that they only ever partially defoliate it. Plus I wouldn't be able to treat the whole thing properly anyway lol.

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HobbitGamer

@Tyranexx Yeah, my grandmother used to walk through her rose garden with a small pail of gasoline and drop the buggers into it.

@legendcoworker You might have something stuck in there. Blow on it, or used compressed air around the button crevices.

#MudStrongs

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Snatcher

@HobbitGamer ok i will

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Tyranexx

Morpheel wrote:

It's always fun to pretend you're like Velma and can't actually see without your glasses.

There's a kernel of truth to that, though even I could tell the general difference between a monster and another member of the gang by their general shape and the colors of what they're wearing. XD

@HobbitGamer I'll stick with the shallow bucket of Dawn, but I find your grandmother's approach somewhat attractive. Then she could've blown the suckers to smithereens for good measure.

The grandmother I mentioned had to have someone else take care of the things as she sometimes had a slight reaction to them.

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Anti-Matter

@Tyranexx
Sometimes i want to wear a nerd glasses as my alter ego.
My alter ego is handsome nerd with a few blue ombre on my black hair.

Anti-Matter

Snatcher

IT did not work but thanks

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MsJubilee

Can anyone tell me why my comment and Rika's got deleted in that one piece article? I don't think we derailed anything and none of us were insulting each other.

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HobbitGamer

But morph, that person wass just mc hammersapiens lieks ewe.

What an interesting day indeed.
Also, how do I know if my usb c cable is plugged in upside down?? Should I just make a new thread for that? Or should I make two just to be safe.

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Octane

Well, even this thread doesn't make sense anymore...

Octane

ThanosReXXX

@Octane When did it ever?

@Tyranexx Well, I'm glad we don't have these beetles over here (yet). We do have a slight upsurge in those Japanese hornets, though, and I've seen documentaries about them wreaking havoc both in Japan and the States, so I kinda figured that they would be a bigger or at least more familiar issue.

Over here, we're currently struggling with the caterpillar of the oak processionary moth. Entire hordes are overwhelming trees in woods and parks, and because there have been several windy days over here, they have spread wider and farther than usual, also landing in people's backyards and such.

And they multiply like rabbits too. The danger is in the caterpillars: they have very long, almost invisible hairs on their backs, which break off quite easily, and these can cause inflammation, allergic reactions and irritation of the skin, eyes and airways. I've already seen quite a few gruesome pictures, displaying the effects. And because you can't see the hairs, you just start scratching or rubbing your skin, only working the hairs further into it, making it worse.

So, even though we don't have them over here yet, I'm tentatively saying that I'd prefer the beetles over the caterpillars. Then again: I don't have a garden to worry about...

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bimmy-lee

@ThanosReXXX - I watch predominantly horror movies, so I sit through/fall asleep to a lot of bad movies. As Above is definitely not an A+ movie, but within the genre, I’d give it a solid B+. No matter how desensitized I become, being lost/tight spaces still get my pulse racing. Much like the classic The Descent, As Above pretty much nails those aspects, and I find those themes much scarier than some of the jump scares.

Horror movies are the best source for dark comedy in my opinion, and I watch them more to laugh than to be scared, though I do love the rare movie that can freak me out. Hereditary was one of them from last year. There are a couple scenes in that movie that will stick with me forever.

If you have even a fleeting interest in Baum’s Oz stories, I can highly recommend Return to Oz. It was a “kid’s movie” in 1985, but make no mistake; it’s absolutely a horror movie in 2019. It’s like Majora’s Mask If Wizard of Oz is OOT, only turned up five more notches in the creepy department.

At any rate, less than ten minutes until the Dutch/American war. Enjoy. Good luck.

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ThanosReXXX

@bimmy-lee Match starting in 7 minutes...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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bimmy-lee

@Anti-Matter - Queen Mombi is the creepiest part of the movie, but there are lots of other creepy parts. The moose head they bring back to life with the magic powder, the wheeled monkeys, it’s a very dark story. So was Oz, but they made it a musical. L. Frank Baum’s books are pretty dark, especially by modern standards. If you’ve never seen the Return to Oz movie, it’s definitely nothing like Wizard of Oz.

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bimmy-lee

@ThanosReXXX - Jenkies, what a half. Both teams got good looks but couldn’t convert. Seems like there’s slight momentum for the Dutch team as you mentioned they prefer to lay back, play D, and sneak out a goal in the 2nd half.

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ThanosReXXX

@bimmy-lee Yup, it's nail biting-a go-go...

Not having been able to make their usual goal within the first 10-15 minutes, must have slightly fazed team USA, hence probably also that sudden speed up in the last moments, to force something. Didn't work, so on to the second half...

Here's hoping it's not going to end in a penalty shootout, because I hate those.

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