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  • #32
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    Almaviva wrote: »
    So, is a pixie, the same thing as an elf ? :confused:

    I dunno...I think it depends on whether we're talkin Tolkein elves..


  • #33
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    kowloon wrote: »


    A lot of British officers on colonial service would spend as much of the time pissed as they could get away with for this reason. The mossies object to alcohol apparently.

    Well it's as good an excuse as any....

    Edit: The ad at the bottom of this thread is for a pest control company who'll get rid of bedbugs for you...nice work Adchoices, now I actually am getting itchy.


  • #34
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    I don't mind them all, they tend to leave me alone for the most part. The things I hate the most are wasps, houseflies/bluebottles, and horse flies. Also moths. I cant open my window for 5 minutes without ten of them coming in and arsing around.
    Midges are grand but the mosquitoes are coming

    Pretty sure we don't have mosquitoes in Ireland, no?


  • #35
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    starling wrote: »
    "Dwarfs" v. "Dwarves"...Geek war in 5...4...3....


    6 out of 7 aren't Happy.

    It's only a small thing really.


  • #36
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Nothing as bad as the midges in a bog. They're a more aggressive and plentiful breed. I think they get over excited because they only see people a couple times a year so they really tackle you.

    I think garlic is great for repelling them. And if you didn't like garlic, you could take the supplements. Or cigarette smoke.


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  • #37
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    Do I remember hearing before that some people are more naturally sensitive to midges than others? It could be an old wives' tale.

    I am very sensitive to them; can't sit by the river or a ditch in the evening except they're after me, I have friends who wouldn't notice them at all.


  • #38
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    Do I remember hearing before that some people are more naturally sensitive to midges than others? It could be an old wives' tale.

    I am very sensitive to them; can't sit by the river or a ditch in the evening except they're after me, I have friends who wouldn't notice them at all.

    No I think you're right...


  • #39
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Imps, anyone remember Dublin bus launched little buses called city imps?

    You could get on and off wherever you pleased. Crap service.

    Focking imps.


  • #40
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    I don't mind them all, they tend to leave me alone for the most part. The things I hate the most are wasps, houseflies/bluebottles, and horse flies. Also moths. I cant open my window for 5 minutes without ten of them coming in and arsing around.

    F*cking moths I really hate them and I like to sleep with the windows open.


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    Pretty sure we don't have mosquitoes in Ireland, no?

    It was a joke, did you see the picture?


  • #41
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I opened the door there a while ago and a small army of midges came in, the house spider that made his web on the corner of the ceiling is having a great aul time killing them.


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  • #42
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Rasheed wrote: »
    Nothing as bad as the midges in a bog. They're a more aggressive and plentiful breed. I think they get over excited because they only see people a couple times a year so they really tackle you.

    I think garlic is great for repelling them. And if you didn't like garlic, you could take the supplements. Or cigarette smoke.

    + 1

    The bog is the worst place for them.


  • #43
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    Imps, anyone remember Dublin bus launched little buses called city imps?

    You could get on and off wherever you pleased. Crap service.

    Focking imps.

    I thought imps were supposed to be mischeivous and mess with people..so an apt name I suppose


  • #44
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    starling wrote: »
    I thought imps were supposed to be mischeivous and mess with people..so an apt name I suppose

    You though buses messed with people?! Is it not the other way around?


  • #45
    off.the.walls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭off.the.walls


    This is the best thread ever!


  • #46
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    off.the.walls wrote: »
    This is the best thread ever!

    Is the thread off the wall?!


  • #47
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    Imps, anyone remember Dublin bus launched little buses called city imps?

    You could get on and off wherever you pleased. Crap service.

    Focking imps.
    oh yeah! they were around until about 2003 iirc?

    the buses were absolutely filthy.


  • #48
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    I am very sensitive to them

    Me too. The bastards chewed the eyelids off me on more than one occasion. I remember being tortured by them 'on holiday' in a forest when I was being trained in a quasi-paramilitary kids religious organisation (Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland).

    Funnily enough I was left alone by mosquitos by Bodensee while me German GF was being chewed up? Fussy little feckers those flying blood-suckers are.


  • #49
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Cathal Cloch wrote: »
    Funnily enough I was left alone by mosquitos by Bodensee while me German GF was being chewed up?

    Well, at least one of ye was having some fun.


  • #50
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    You though buses messed with people?! Is it not the other way around?

    Guess it depends whether you're actually on the bus, or waiting around for one that never turns up :)


  • #51
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Are these the same things that can sometimes latch on and stick to some skin and look like a black dot and can be itchy and you need to get a tweezers?

    Sciurtán they are in irish but I'm not too sure of the spelling.

    I've often wondered what would happen if you got one stuck in an awkward place. Like say for example your arse became very itchy and you can feel a little spot or whatever and you suspected it was a midge stuck to your arse, you can't really take a tweezers to your arse, can you? How would you get one off from your arse? Would you have to go to the doctor and tell them you suspect there's a midge stuck to your arse.


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  • #52
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    seven_eleven wrote: »



    Pretty sure we don't have mosquitoes in Ireland, no?

    No, but I think we had the odd spitfire


  • #53
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭take everything


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Midge's

    Midges.

    Sorry. :)


  • #54
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Are these the same things that can sometimes latch on and stick to some skin and look like a black dot and can be itchy and you need to get a tweezers?

    No, these are ticks.


  • #55
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    Pretty sure we don't have mosquitoes in Ireland, no?

    We sure do. There's over a dozen species of mosquito in Ireland! The most common here is Culex pipiens

    More tropical species are establishing populations here too.


  • #56
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Indeed. We even had malaria here at one time. IIRC one of it's names was the ague. Again IIRC there were dirty great marshes out Portmarnock way, so Dublin was a bad spot for it.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #57
    Madam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    Midges don't seem to bother me at all, I was told by my granny redheads have some sort of chemical (pheromones?)in our blood they just don't like - aint we lucky;)


  • #58
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Indeed. We even had malaria here at one time. IIRC one of it's names was the ague. Again IIRC there were dirty great marshes out Portmarnock way, so Dublin was a bad spot for it.

    So that's what the "ague" was! I was always reading about it in Dickens and the like and never actually looked up what it was - thanks Wibbs!:)

    Edit: Goddamnit autocorrect. What are the chances I'm actually talking about Reading and not reading?


  • #59
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    My name is URL wrote: »
    We sure do. There's over a dozen species of mosquito in Ireland! The most common here is Culex pipiens

    More tropical species are establishing populations here too.

    Thats cool. Ireland has so many animal species I didn't even realise. Its strange though, they dont seem to be that big of a problem. Well, I havent noticed them anyway.

    Unless their bite doesnt hurt very much .


  • #60
    starling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭starling


    Madam wrote: »
    Midges don't seem to bother me at all, I was told by my granny redheads have some sort of chemical (pheromones?)in our blood they just don't like - aint we lucky;)

    Gotta be some upside to it!
    I've been told by a good number of older / more experienced nurses that redheads bleed more. No idea if that's actually true.


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  • #61
    Madam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    starling wrote: »
    Gotta be some upside to it!
    I've been told by a good number of older / more experienced nurses that redheads bleed more. No idea if that's actually true.

    I was told redheads feel pain more acutely than the rest of the universe but we do heal faster than the other beings from this here planet:rolleyes:


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