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The midges...

  • 02-06-2016 10:43PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭


    ...is it just me, or just Kerry...or have they gone stone bloody nuts this year?

    I can't step outside the door these evenings without being eaten alive. And the seem particularly aggressive, have had a few "zzzzzzz in the ear" moments, which I hate more than the noise of the dentist drill.


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  • #2
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    They prefer the term 'little insects'.


  • #3
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    It's the zika virus.

    This means Kerry has to be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, to be sure.


  • #4
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,403 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    It's worse out in the bog. Try footing the turf when you have millions of the feckers on you.


  • #5
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Just don't walk around with your mouth open.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    It's worse out in the bog. Try footing the turf when you have millions of the feckers on you.

    Oh did my time at the bog, midges and ticks and black fingernails...


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  • #7
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    It's the start of the Zombie Apocalypse. It was always going to start with the midgies.


  • #8
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    The joys of urban living, that and fibre broadband :D


  • #9
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHLTKGyJ58


  • #10
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Perhaps they are just flies OP.
    Try having a wash?


  • #11
    Wonzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Wonzy


    Tyrion?


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  • #12
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    the midges don't come near me

    they don't like alcohol


  • #13
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    ...is it just me, or just Kerry...or have they gone stone bloody nuts this year?

    Perfect.


  • #14
    Moo Moo Land
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Moo Moo Land


    The very wet and yet very mild winter means the midge hatch will be very high this year. Yes, they are a nightmare.


  • #15
    cuppa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭cuppa


    Its the time when two mortal enemy's stick together.
    The smoker and anti smoker. :pac:


  • #16
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Dab some Vicks Vapo Rub about your person and they'll avoid you. They hate the smell of it. Also it will clear your sinuses. Win win.


  • #17
    HardenendMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭HardenendMan


    Wait...what...they're not called midgets?


  • #18
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    HardenendMan wrote: »
    Wait...what...they're not called midgets?

    No Irish people are funny, if it finishes with a T, leave it out, if it doesn't add one in!

    Like H's


  • #19
    Moo Moo Land
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Moo Moo Land


    mansize wrote: »
    No Irish people are funny, if it finishes with a T, leave it out, if it doesn't add one in!

    Like H's

    Most people I know call them the "midgees".


  • #20
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Out for a lovely evening run in the sunshine after work.

    Ah sure I'll pop down and have a little jog along the river bank, that'll be nice.

    Getting a bit warm now in the sun, ah great there's a bit of tree cover coming up. The shade will be nice.

    AH OH MY GOD THEY'RE IN MY EYES AND MOUTH!


  • #21
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,028 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Little bastards eat me! ...and then I come out in itchy lumps :(

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  • #22
    Not that one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Not that one


    Can anyone back up the claim that Vicks Vapo Rub keeps them away.
    This could be the most wonderful I've read on boards if proven correct.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Know so many people that call them midgets. And always conjures images of little people running around and taking bites out of people.


  • #24
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,635 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Know so many people that call them midgets. And always conjures images of little people running around and taking bites out of people.

    Well at least it's better than calling little people, midgees. We can't have everyone running around trying to kill them with their bare hands.


  • #25
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    So what are midges ? are they mosquitoes basically ?

    I remember going on holidays to Cork and Kerry as a kid and getting eaten alive, but are they a species of Mosquito ?


  • #26
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I have survived a day working in Glenveagh National Park's walled garden when it was warm and humid - now that's what you call being attacked by midges.

    They're so legendarily vicious they even mention it on their website:
    Q How do you cope with the midges? Do you become immune to them?

    A We don't become immune to them. When they are bad, we use midge-hoods and a limited amount of insect repellent.


  • #27
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    When I was younger, my pals and I use to go down to the fields that were behind the houses. There were these ditches separating the fields with trees and bushes. We use to spend the whole day there making a hut with whatever we found. We took it real seriously.

    You'd come home covered in midge bites, a load of sticky backs that someone stuck to the back of you and you'd be searching for doc leaves on the way to relieve your nettle stings.

    We'd go back the next day and the hut would have fallen down over night so we'd start again :)


  • #28
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,226 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    It's worse out in the bog. Try footing the turf when you have millions of the feckers on you.

    Never got them in the bog years ago.
    I always remeber they appeared later in summer when doing hay.

    Worst was in near hedges of warm august evening.

    And if you think they are bad here, they are really annoying feckers over in Scotland.

    I remember putting up a tent late on an August night around Callander, as good as in Highlands.

    Of course the two Paddies that arrived late got the site next to the bushes. :mad:

    They usually are worst around mountain areas where there is also water.
    Something in the heather I guess.

    Only comparable thing I have found are sandflies in New Zealand, much bigger and as annoying and the fecking house type fleis in Outback Australia which apepared to be hjust waiting for you even if you stepped out of a jeep 100 miles from nowhere with not a sinner within 50 miels.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #29
    Autonomous Cowherd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    I went out to cut some grass with a sickle, and now, 5 minutes later, I am in on the laptop, scratching and furious, because I am covered in the insanely itchy bites from those sadistic little fcukers. Even in my hair, and INSIDE my clothes they got me. They are AWFUL this year, really, really bad! (NW here, so not just Kerry). In the morning the hang in their hundreds like a drape in front of the door, and we have to kick the dog out for her pee to make her move faster so we can keep them back. :(

    On a positive note, like vampires they dwindle when the sun gets high, so we just have to wait till about noon to emerge.


  • #30
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    Penfailed wrote: »
    Little bastards eat me! ...and then I come out in itchy lumps :(
    I met a Wan in coppers one night, same outcome.


    Probably for another thread.


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  • #31
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    People who complain about midges are silly

    Sensible people seek shelter far far away from the bastards when they start biting


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