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23 Apr 2008, 10:16 am

All around us!

(btw, I know what it's like to talk to ants, nasty critters...)


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23 Apr 2008, 10:21 am

*Looks anxiously at floor and walls*

I feel a bit itchy now



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23 Apr 2008, 10:23 am

Burn them with a magnifying glass...

(yes, I don't like ants)


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23 Apr 2008, 10:26 am

I don't think I could burn them, I hate using antkiller too, I have become soft in my mid-age.



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23 Apr 2008, 11:12 am

I would do that mostly in my childhood, but pretty much just ignore them now (unless they get all over me in which case I flick them away, of course).


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23 Apr 2008, 11:17 am

My aunt used to put boiling water on the ones by the front door.



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23 Apr 2008, 11:18 am

I used to do that too (on a farmish property I lived on - plenty of ants) when they became pests. I didn't really work though, only the right sort of poison would take them out.


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23 Apr 2008, 11:27 am

Are we nearly there yet?



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23 Apr 2008, 11:49 am

Did I seriously manage to turn this thread into a discussion of ants? :o


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23 Apr 2008, 12:00 pm

Yes, it was YOU!



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23 Apr 2008, 12:39 pm

I blame the germans!

(Because I always blame the germans for everything... except when I blame the french)


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23 Apr 2008, 1:10 pm

:lol:

I always hated french class in junior high.


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23 Apr 2008, 1:13 pm

Wish I had stuck with French lessons.



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23 Apr 2008, 1:15 pm

Why's that?


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23 Apr 2008, 1:19 pm

I think its still a useful language and since I already had the foundational lessons at age 11, it would have been a good starter language.

Quite fancy Spanish though.



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23 Apr 2008, 1:20 pm

I don't really like Spanish, it isn't that audibly pleasing IMO.


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