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Post by roly on Jul 22, 2020 2:14:27 GMT -5
The wee bug had just eaten and there was a red perimeter around the squash point
I said....."sorry to spoil your supper".
Am I cruel?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jul 22, 2020 3:36:03 GMT -5
No.
"Cruel" would be carrying out the death sentence prior to a last meal.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 22, 2020 11:32:54 GMT -5
No, but you did it without due process. There should have been a trial.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 11:48:13 GMT -5
That mosquito had just stolen your DNA in order to build a malevolent empire. It got exactly what it had coming to it.
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Post by HenryJ on Jul 22, 2020 12:10:33 GMT -5
That mosquito had just stolen your DNA in order to build a malevolent empire. It got exactly what it had coming to it. Whenever I squish a mosquito and blood comes out, I assume it's my blood. Justifiable skeetercide. |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jul 22, 2020 13:36:30 GMT -5
No, but you did it without due process. There should have been a trial. There was a trial--albeit in the classic Roy Bean style of justice: Roly wore three hats as judge, jury, and executioner. Well...two hats and a hood. |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 22, 2020 13:54:21 GMT -5
No, but you did it without due process. There should have been a trial. There was a trial--albeit in the classic Roy Bean style of justice: Roly wore three hats as judge, jury, and executioner. Well...two hats and a hood. He wasn't advised of his right to counsel. Obvious Miranda violation. |
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jul 22, 2020 13:58:55 GMT -5
Mosquitoes, ticks, and deer flies are the more vile creatures on Earth. I admit I'm concerned at the gleeful pleasure I take in murdering these particular God's creatures.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 22, 2020 14:29:20 GMT -5
Mosquitoes, ticks, and deer flies are the more vile creatures on Earth. I admit I'm concerned at the gleeful pleasure I take in murdering these particular God's creatures. Another gun owner predisposed to murder.  |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jul 22, 2020 14:36:34 GMT -5
He wasn't advised of his right to counsel. Obvious Miranda violation. Per Diptera Culicidae v. Manitoba (1967) 126 DLR (4th) 203 (Sask CA), any mosquito within or above the boundaries of the property waived their rights; Roly has one of these signs every 50 feet facing outward along his fence line.  I know Canada has no Miranda-like law, but for the sake of comedy... |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 23, 2020 9:51:21 GMT -5
^ Yup, we accept comedic license in this Court.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 23, 2020 10:30:17 GMT -5
Hey Roly, I'm curious. Do you guys have black flies up that far north or are mosquitos more the thing?
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Post by LVF on Jul 23, 2020 10:48:17 GMT -5
No, but you did it without due process. There should have been a trial. Wouldn't that require a jury of its peers? How would that go?  |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 23, 2020 11:13:49 GMT -5
No, but you did it without due process. There should have been a trial. Wouldn't that require a jury of its peers? How would that go? obviously, it would “suck”. |
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Jul 23, 2020 12:48:35 GMT -5
No, but you did it without due process. There should have been a trial. Self-defense. |
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Post by Sharkie on Jul 23, 2020 13:01:46 GMT -5
Hey Roly, I'm curious. Do you guys have black flies up that far north or are mosquitos more the thing? The infamous black fly has to be the worst. 👎 Auf - Must be fond memories of your Spring/Summer days up here in the GWN. |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 23, 2020 13:10:59 GMT -5
The infamous black fly has to be the worst. They really are, especially in June. Hard not to inhale the little bastiges. I remember them dying off in mid/late July but in the last decade of cottage ownership they seem to linger, or have a late summer hatch. I never recalled seeing them in mid-late August or after when I was a wee Yank running through the woods of the GWN. |
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Post by Sharkie on Jul 23, 2020 13:31:28 GMT -5
The infamous black fly has to be the worst. They really are, especially in June. Hard not to inhale the little bastiges. I remember them dying off in mid/late July but in the last decade of cottage ownership they seem to linger, or have a late summer hatch. I never recalled seeing them in mid-late August or after when I was a wee Yank running through the woods of the GWN. Yep. Usually around Spring / early Summer. And they like to crawl and bite behind the ears and on one’s forehead and scalp. No pain to the bite but they draw blood. |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 23, 2020 14:15:29 GMT -5
Our oldest son had a bad reaction to his first bites, looked like Alfred E. Neumann after a stroke. Now a blood soaked black fly on the window, there's a lovely squish. More like a pop.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 23, 2020 14:25:58 GMT -5
I heard it’s ironic when they are in your Chardonnay, but I don’t think that’s right.
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Post by Sharkie on Jul 23, 2020 14:32:43 GMT -5
I heard it’s ironic when they are in your Chardonnay, but I don’t think that’s right. He jumped after his pardon came. (Too late) |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 23, 2020 15:06:26 GMT -5
God, I hate that song.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 23, 2020 15:44:52 GMT -5
I am a fan of that album, but that is a terrible song. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 23:03:35 GMT -5
Hey Roly, I'm curious. Do you guys have black flies up that far north or are mosquitos more the thing? I ain't Roly but I can answer your query .... and then some. It depends on where you are. I'm in the west and I can tell you this. West of the great divide there are far fewer flying insects than on the east side of it. I can spend an entire week in BC and get 5 or six mosquitos on my windshield. As soon as I drop out of the pass and down into the Banff area on my way back east I can't go 20 miles without having to stop and wash the windshield. It will be completely covered and more than my washer/wipers can keep up with within 20 minutes, mostly with skeeters, black flies, a few yellow jackets and the occasional dragonfly. The dragonflies east of the divide are nothing at all like the dragonflies wast of the divide. On the east they are large and black and kind of ugly. West of the divide they are blue and small and kind of pretty. Point of interest: the further north you go, the bigger the skeeters get. North of the 56th parallel they get big enough you can hear them land. |
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Post by roly on Jul 23, 2020 23:29:45 GMT -5
"Hey Roly, I'm curious. Do you guys have black flies up that far north or are mosquitoes more the thing?"
Yes we have the wee buggers, but late August is when those blood sucking bastards show up....I'll take a mosquito bite over a black fly bite any day.
Winter has it's benefits and it's liabilities
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Post by K4 on Jul 24, 2020 3:21:09 GMT -5
We had a swarm of the black flys yesterday, probably 100 every square foot. I don't mess around and used chemical warfare on the bastages. Thinned them out enough I could sit on the porch.
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Post by roly on Jul 24, 2020 3:24:09 GMT -5
"North of the 56th parallel they get big enough you can hear them land."
Yes, and the ground shakes...:>)
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