Assume you were a deity and....

JonIrenicus · Post by **JonIrenicus** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:25 pm

It was an original movie though.

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:22 pm

Leeches. The Amazon gave me a good reason to hate bloodsuckers of all kinds, not necessarily the ones that climb into your socks and swell to a foot in circumfurance.

Other than that, perhaps the evilest of evils, the horsefly. Unlike mosquitoes, these little buggers take a chunk of skin with them when they land. There's a good reason to avoid the East. They also have the heaviest buzzing noises and like to circle your head, so you know that they are there and you know what they can do, but you can't find them.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:33 pm

[QUOTE=Hill-Shatar]Leeches. The Amazon gave me a good reason to hate bloodsuckers of all kinds, not necessarily the ones that climb into your socks and swell to a foot in circumfurance.

Other than that, perhaps the evilest of evils, the horsefly. Unlike mosquitoes, these little buggers take a chunk of skin with them when they land. There's a good reason to avoid the East. They also have the heaviest buzzing noises and like to circle your head, so you know that they are there and you know what they can do, but you can't find them.[/QUOTE]

Indeed! I loathe horseflies, as well as deer flies. We get lots out here around lakes and rivers. I most enjoy swimming in cold river pools, and those damned flies love to land on you just as you surface.....

I haven't had any experience with leeches though, at least not the nonhuman variety.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:08 pm

For those treehugging hippies that want to do away with humankind for it's damage to the ecosystem: you do realise that the first polutant that caused a mass extinction of lifeforms (that didn't rely on oxygen) on earth was oxygen and that it was produced by precursors of our photosynthetic friends the trees (well actually cyanobacteria in fact)?

Just to say one species's poison is indispensible for another one's life and that Gaia is quite a resilient ladydog and Bios is not easily stamped out. The face they show is highly variable though.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:26 pm

[QUOTE=Lestat]I'd go with DW's suggestion (to keep in mind though that "mosquitoes" covers a whole range of specieses), with the added reason that some of those little buggers spread malaria (and some other nasty diseases).[/QUOTE]

I'm with Lestat and DW here: mosquitos. Not only do they spread malaria and some other diseases, I also have something personal against them since they love me and I am allergic to their anti-coagulant. I am the perfect camping company in mosquito rich environments since I will attract every single mosquito within a radius of 50 km. I usually get 100s of bites while my companions don't even notice there are mosquitos around. Horrible little creatures. Then I get this really big bumps that don't itch, they ache and last for 1-2 weeks. A lot of climbers and mountain bikers I know have developed allergy to mosquito bites, probably due to oversensitation, and I guess it's the same with me because I wasn't allergic as a child, it started after I took up mountaineering.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:34 pm

Cockroaches.

I am not scared of them. Just utterly repulsed by them. They are the only organism on this planet which truly fill me with a cold sickening digust, something stemming from a certain scene in a certain film I watched as a child.

The name, the appearance, the sound, their resilience.

Argh.

TheAmazingOopah · Post by **TheAmazingOopah** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:14 pm

[QUOTE=JonIrenicus]Good thing you aren't a god otherwise you would have made a huge mistake. It is so rare, even in the universe, that there is such intelligence like humans. Sure we make mistakes because we are human, it happens. You can not judge us. Even if you got rid of humans, all it would take is another animal to evolve and start things over again. Granted it may take a while or never happen again. Either way it is a shame. There is other great intelligence in the galaxy but with us gone, it'll just make the universe a little more lonely.

The way I see it, getting rid of humans is NOT a solution -- just like getting rid of jews was not a solution

It was a great mistake.

Anyways if you think humans are the bane on this world, go shoot yourself or do something about it

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I would really like to answer your post, but I'm very tired right now and I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so I'll come back to this (and Gamebanshee in general) in about 3 weeks. Be prepared!!

(Or not)

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:24 pm

[QUOTE=Denethorn]Cockroaches.

I am not scared of them. Just utterly repulsed by them. [/QUOTE]

I used to feel an unpleasant repulsion towards cockroaches when I was young. The first time I shared bed with one I almost got stomach cramps when I saw this reddish brown 5 cm cockroach walk across my pillow. However, after extensive travelling in South East Asia I got used to them. You will too if you are forced, I promise.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:48 pm

[QUOTE=C Elegans]I used to feel an unpleasant repulsion towards cockroaches when I was young. The first time I shared bed with one I almost got stomach cramps when I saw this reddish brown 5 cm cockroach walk across my pillow. However, after extensive travelling in South East Asia I got used to them. You will too if you are forced, I promise.[/QUOTE]Ah, cockroaches! Well, nothing that a bit of Spri-Gone or Bay-Gone can't deal with. See them run around like mad and end up in spasmic death! Sorry, even after over close to 5 years of Africa, I'm still repulsed by them, certainly the 5 cm ones that appeared from time to time in my appartment in Liberia. The little (or not so little) waving antenna's sticking out of the sinkhole of your washing basin.

Still better than scorpions though.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:21 pm

[QUOTE=Lestat]See them run around like mad and end up in spasmic death! Sorry, even after over close to 5 years of Africa, I'm still repulsed by them, certainly the 5 cm ones that appeared from time to time in my appartment in Liberia. [/QUOTE]

You're an evil man Lestat, poor little creatures, they are not that bad...You haven't done proper exposure traing then. Not that I exactly love to have the 5 cm ones drop in my face while I'm asleep, but still...I just ignore them.

A lot better than scorpions, they aren't dangerous in any way.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:43 pm

Hah, should have seen the spectacle when they cleaned out a whole nest of them in my Head of Mission's house in Rwanda: hundreds of them crawling out of the house running up the trees in the garden and then dropping out of them on to the lawn.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:07 pm

@mr. sir: Good call on eradicating all flies. The following is not for the weak of stomach...it is 50 seconds from the life of the typical house fly:

1. Land on rotting refuse. Place raspy/sucking mouthpart directly on the material. Release a gout of digestive juices from mouthpart upon the material. Proceed to slurp up the soup. Launch into flight when finished.

2. Using frightfully accurate compound eyes able to individually track nearly 300 separate movements in a virtual 360 degree field of vision, spot a fresh sandwich sitting on the counter, vulnerable and inviting. Land on sandwich. Bacteria from rotting refuse on tarsals (feet) fall off and land on bread. Place raspy/sucking mouthpart directly on multigrain bread. Release a gout of digestive juices upon the bread. Slurp up the mushy soup. While doing this, share some more pathogens picked up from the rotting refuse. When finished, take off. On the way out, chuckle as an unsuspecting human shares your virulent meal, biting off the portion of the sandwich where you recently dined...

3. Spot a garbage can...

Ugh. I've had enough!

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:35 pm

@Chan,
I'm about 5 minutes away from dinner, and just had to happen on your post!

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:57 pm

[QUOTE=dragon wench]@Chan,
I'm about 5 minutes away from dinner, and just had to happen on your post!

[/QUOTE]

Bon appetit.

Really, flies make roaches look like neatness freaks. :speech:

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:32 pm

Roaches are actually supposed to be quite clean animals.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:39 pm

@Chan,
Thanks!

Actually despite your educational post on flies, dinner was pretty good. Southwestern themed pizza cooked on the BBQ

@Chim,
I've read that about roaches too. They're not even dangerous (I don't think so anyway). I think it is just their appearance that gives people the reaction. Though... I'd much rather share a bedroom with a roach than a mosquito......

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:02 am

Yeah, there's something about the appearance of roaches that strikes a chord with a majority of us. Maybe, millions of years ago, when we were more apeish, there were roaches twice our size always invading our trees and eating us. Or impregnating us with their eggs. :speech: Either way, millions of years of evolution has taught us to fear their descendants. :laugh:

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:29 am

Humans. Arrogant, selfish, evil humans. They enslave other species which are useful to them and chalk it up as being "efficient and intelligent". Produce more harmful waste than all other species combined. Refuse to acknowledge the need for natural environments untainted by the workings of mankind except for the fact they are "pretty". Suck the life out of every area of the world that has some useful substance in the area without a care for future problems resulting from such actions. Have no thoughts regarding whether they are breeding too much until hundreds of thousands of people are starving, homeless and dying of plagues and diseases. Rampant, disgusting and even fatal sexually trasmitted diseases do not even stop them from pushing population growth far beyond the death rate.

Oh yeah, and are horrid hypocrites which are afraid to be themselves for fear of being mocked. Ha. Most intelligent species my eye.