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- grafician0
ok, so randomly while watching a show and having a beer, with enough light in the room, and 2-3 mosquitoes doing circles on me (I stay near a park), while I was checking my phone, one of them suddenly landed on my left pointer finger - for a second I wanted to squash it, then I realised I might be a witness to a mosquito attack and let it carry on...out of curiosity
so at first, the mosquito used its main legs to set itself up better on my finger...then he set its pump/tongue on my skin, gently pushing and pushing it to go through the epiderma...
all this while it waved it’s two antennas - at first both of them, then just the right one buzzing, kinda like in a signal to other mosquitos in my area that maybe she’s set and ready to continue the attack - then with its tongue, she pressed and pressed until I felt an acute pointy acke feeling like I was being stung...just like a bee sting, but waaay more gentle - but still felt it and got an “aaahcke!” sensation - all this while observing the creature and not moving a bit...then it just kept pushing and pushing thru’ my skin until she must of got under the skin layer to the blood vessels and while there, she again signaled with it’s right antenna to whoever was around that she got a byte...
From that moment on she used all its legs to push firmly into my skin and dug deeper with its tongue to reach a blood vessel and slowly started pumping...I watched all this from a range of 5-10cm, trying to be as still as possible to just watch and observe its behaviour...
She got to a blood vessel in the end and slowly started sucking...I could see its body pushing and sucking to draw blood from my body - its belly slowly starting to fill with blood...up until she got maybe a half-full belly with my blood...
then I put an end to this madness, squashed the creature and left some blood on my finger with its dead body...I went to wash out and kept thinking - mosquitoes are actually communicating while attacking a victim - maybe to signal “ok fuckers, this one is mine, stay away while I feed” or something, but def they are signalling to the other mosquitoes “something”...
As I’ve read, only the females mosquitoes attack as they need blood from mammals for its protein and iron needed to produce eggs and perpetuate the species
These fuckers are here since the Jurassic era and yeah in Jurassic Park they’ve used some of the blood to get DNA and clone dinosaurs so maybe in the distant future some kind of new intelligent and more evolved species will use that to clone us after we let capitalism destroy us in the next century...
Anyway...thought of sharing this with you ‘cuz I really can’t publish this little “story” in Nature and call it a day...
the main conclusion being these creatures are really at an intelligent level and have a complex communication/signalling strategy to talk with each other - the females - while feeding to perpetuate their species
p.s. ref from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo…
p.p.s Also I’ve read today randomly that Avon’s Skin So Soft lotion repels mosquitoes and if you have blood type 0 you're basically a magnet to these creatures
p.p.p.s. I might regret posting this on a public forum, but until we can delete QBN posts the show must go on, in the interest of Science!- *shegrafician
- it turns out that no, mosquitos aren’t intelligent and their communication, if any exists, isn’t complex. nothing to worry aboutmonospaced
- you now have malariaimbecile
- lol It was just an observationgrafician
- *might email discovery to turn this into a show*grafician
- crazy u saw it turn from a he to a she. true gender fluidity.deathboy
- who says she's communicating - maybe she's using antenna to detect movement in environmentshapesalad
- OH MAN, WHY DID YOU KILL HER?!
*zips fly back up*
That was just getting good.Nairn - No regertscannonball1978
- Cool story bro :)pedromendez
- I’ve heard, if you hold them down when they’re feeding, they can’t stop sucking blood and they burst.spunji
- Great story! Was compelled. Why kill her? Do the Right Thingsarahfailin
- Dengue.maquito
- freedom-5
Best way to get $100?
- pay day loan.pango
- Uberpablo28
- random BJBusterBoy
- Charge for it.monospaced
- Face down, ass up.deadsperm
- One $50 bill, two $20s and a $10Nairn
- I’ll Venmo it with 20% interest.HijoDMaite
- 99 ones and a two rolls of penniesimbecile
- HJ in back alley?pango
- sell your kidney?pango
- Sell your pantiesfuturefood
- *used panties got more valuepango
- Find it lying on the sidewalksarahfailin
- planting tulipsbezoar
- stalk someones Linkedin pageutopian
- Steal itcannonball1978
- fist fuck your neighbor for dumber questionsutopian
- Give Blood, or stand on corner of busy road and beg.ShenanigansTV
- freedom-5
Got an email from an old coworker who I was friendly with but haven't talked to in at least a year.
I Googled her quick and was surprised she got a new job.
In my response email, I told her, I saw that she got a new job, and her response was "that's creepy".
So it's creepy now that I Googled and looked at the Linkedin page of an old coworker.
- Ya creep! jkbezoar
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- She has a boyfriend, creep. You can’t give just any woman $100 to date you.imbecile
- Woman, put casually put down men tend to be "#LosersLadies". Unemployed, lots of roomates, money/emo probs, fat, etc. There are lots of loser ladies out thererobotron3k
- You should have responded in a short sentence, "Don't flatter yourself, I was just surprised someone would even hire you."robotron3k
- "Sorry I was curious to know if you were still at x, so I checked your LinkedIn and was happy to see you had moved on. Apologie, now realise it was creepy"shapesalad
- Don’t explain shit. Just start sending her floral arrangements to her job along with objects she used to touch while working together. Costs about $100futurefood
- get a bear. leave it next to her. start leaving notes in the bear's voice.imbecile
- hahah robo.
@imbecile - damnit - I came here to suggest sending a bear!Nairn - Actually, I'm loling at Robo's second comment, not the first. Definitely not the first.Nairn
- Haha send a bear!!!!robotron3k
- Tell her the lord jesus told you about her new job and you've prayed for her and if she wishes to find jesus you are here for her.shapesalad
- Why did she email u to begin with?autoflavour
- Send her a teddybear with a note saying it misses her.Maaku
- pango1
So I walked right pass Jack White today. Gosh, he is pale....
- tell him we want a new white stripes albumNBQ00
- Vitamin Dshapesalad
- imbecile0
This thing. I’ve thrown every part and cleaning / maintenance option I can at it. Why tf does my #3 cylinder die and resurrect while riding? :(
- freedom0
Just sent a gmail email in "plain text mode" by accident and it did all the stupid line breaks for no reason.
Now when it's read in the recipient's phone, it's gonna look messed up.
Ughhh.
- I never send emails in anything other than plain text.Nairn
- ^DRIFTMONKEY
- PonyBoy2
Just found out my young buddy (barely 25) has testicular cancer. :( Doctors have already removed one testical and he's just completed his first round of chemo. He's only 25 ffs... this really sucks.
I had just texted him to see what he's been up to as he's been fairly distant lately... the silence now makes sense. :(
His attitude is OUTSTANDING though... this is how he responded to me when I went hunting for him earlier today:
"Hey dude! I'm actually in the hospital! 4th day of my first round of chemotherapy! Got testicular cancer! But I'm winning this shit dude. Walk in the park really. It was bad at first but they got me on all the drugs and shit. This is nothing for a young man like me. I'll be done with this in a couple months. They took one of my nuts but I got one left and a gnarly scar to tell the ladies haha"
I'd be scared out of my mind (and I'm sure he's sugar-coating his reality a bit so folks like me don't get all sappy and annoy the fuck out of him w/our 'worry').
Kiss and hug your friends, friends... love you guys (even if you hate me). <3
- damn... that's young. Did his lifestyle indicate an increased risk?shapesalad
- Like Lance Armstrong... Sending positive vibes his way. Indeed appreciate your friends.robotron3k
- Three of my close friends all have different types of cancer, all in different stages. It seems like everyone in my life is either sick or dying.utopian
- And I lost my best friend last year, my mom. This is fucking a depressing. Just be there for your friend PonyBoy, that's all you can do!utopian
- sorry to hear utop. hope they pull through.
pony - all the best to your friend, cliche I know but if caught early the odds are good.fadein11 - Not sure, shape... only just found out. :(
Yeah, 'topes... that's good advice... and sorry for all your loss, dude <3PonyBoy - is he an avid bicyclist?hotroddy
- Testicular cancer is most common in young men. https://blog.dana-fa…voiceof
- i am not sure but i was told that this kind of cancer can be cured in many cases today. anyway hope he will get better soon.api
- shapesalad0
I went to the supermarket today (a Waitrose but it's same story with all of them) and noticed...
• The entire cheese aisle = everything is covered in plastic, except the brie.
• Meat section = all plastic packaging.
• Fish section = all plastic packaged.
• Ham/Salami section = all plastic packets, plastic wrap.
• Yoghurt and deserts = all plastic containers.
• Bread/Pastry = all plastic packaged except 20% in house bakery stuff.
• Breakfast Cereals all in plastic bags(inside cardboard boxes) except Organic Irish oats in paper sack.
• Frozen section = all in plastic except a few items such as pre roll pastry.
• fruit / veg section, a good 80% in various types of plastic packaging, mostly a plastic tray with plastic bag around it.
There's something very wrong about all this plastic, this single use plastic.
Especially when you consider how much plastic is in the ocean, and how much gets dumped in each day - how it's ending up inside the stomachs of seabirds, fish and marine life.
Then add to it the knowledge that plastic containers are contaminated with micro particles of plastic:
https://time.com/5581326/plastic…All this plastic wrapped food can't be good for humans and the environment in the long run.
But it's so hard to buy foods not in plastic. I managed to get the Oats and Brie, some loose fruits/veg...All the biscuits were plastic wrapped. KitKats aren't within a multipack, but the overall pack is plastic wrapped. Will have to bake my own biscuits - was able to buy flour, butter, sugar, honey, oats and chocolate in non plastic packaging.
Really hard to go 1 week without consuming something that's been inside plastic. Really hard to reduce you plastic waste output.
- I remember in Beijing, yoghurt coming in ceramic pots, with a paper cover and rubber band holding paper on. Pots were washed and reused again.shapesalad
- Would be great to see that in UK. And other alternatives.shapesalad
- With the story below, surely all this increase in plastic wrapped food has some correlation to cancer rates increasing...shapesalad
- Incredibly hard, I’ve been trying for a few months now.futurefood
- There are no alternative materials reallydrgs
- pango6
I have not been drinking for 3 weeks now! WTF!
- https://media.giphy.…utopian
- Everyone's like"congrats for no booze for 3 weeks!"
No! I just forgot about it!pango - see you don't need it. I was like that for me a while until last weekend visiting Hamburg made me remember how shitty it is the feeling next day.Beeswax
- I had the exact same experience in Hamburg about a month ago. Fun little city.noRGB
- of course i don't need it. i'm not alcoholic! i just really like alcohol!pango
- ^lolmaquito
- pango1
Also my phone is magic.
Left my house with 50% battery.
Now it has 75%... Wtf
- Or maybe I've been trying to make up for 3 weeks of not drunkingpango
- Yes. Drunking is a word now.pango
- Maybe it backwards.. 75% emptyautoflavour
- autoflavour0
my new Dolch DSS keycaps arrived today.. super happy..
only problem now is my aesthetic radar is going batshit with the white switches below..but given the cost so far, I will just deal with it..
but yep, new keys are so nice to touch.. they are slightly textured and just feel so much nicer to type on than the smooth keys of my MacBook Pro or the old Mac keyboard.
its a totally different experience.
- autoflavour3
oh, I forgot..
- love me a distressor.kingsteven
- slight be of distraction in the background..autoflavour
- neat, it's sort of like a modern day BBC Micro!Nairn
- yep nairn, get Elite fired up! happy days.fadein11
- ALL the gears...keewee
- feels amazing tho..autoflavour
- eighteen0
Overwhelmed by professional jealousy today.
- Nairn6
Boyeeee
I have 420 unread personal emails.
*sparks up
- blaze it!renderedred
- select all. Trash em!pango
- or smoke em?pango
- do you need to do update you junk filter or are you just REALLY popular now the weather's nice?!Ianbolton
- sexy singles in his are are interested now that he's brought a little one into the worldimbecile
- mg332
Never forget:
Rainey clashed with his roommates over his hygiene, as when Pedro Zamora complained that he used his finger to scoop peanut butter from a jar after he had used that finger to pick his nose.- fucking... puckPonyBoy
- Napalm the buildingOBBTKN
- No idea what you are talking aboutautoflavour
- Ianbolton18
I'm 42 and have spent the past 42 years mucking about living my life around others - often needing acceptance and validation for all the things I do. I've had no real assertive plan, i've been fucked over by people probably because of that and I've also fucked other people off (especially in relationships) because of my lack of commitment and self belief. I'd say I've chosen to be lazy, but actually dealing with deep bouts of depression and having a difficult childhood has never really made it as simple as I see things right now. I've been on here for years and it's been a great source of inspiration and motivation but for the first time in such a long time I finally see just how ridiculous I've been and how much time I've been wasting. We can all have opinions, but can we all be supportive? We can all sit here and be critical, but can we ever see beyond our often narrow minded views and accept criticism of ourselves.
So here's my first post as someone who's been around the bend a little and managed to come out the other side. Let's all try to be a good encouragement in some way and support the often superficial, ego-led creative abilities of each and every one of us. LONG LIVE QBN or whatever!!
- Weird. I turned 42 today and could have written this whole post.Poochie
- Suck a dick! cunt!pango
- kidding~
you know i love you guys.
xxoopango - Haha. What a small nob! Love you man. xIanbolton
- 'Midlife crisis thread'
I'm 40 and I'm really analysing myself lately too. I guess its what happend when you hit midlife.Bennn - I'm also dealing with a midlife crisis, i'm 40 and feel like my life passed me by, but I guess it's normal, but I'm trying to be more calm and positive.dmay
- I feel you Ian; Poochie, same.maquito
- The lessons we're taught as children, we finally learn when we're 40. This is hilarious, sorry man, you gotta laugh.robthelad
- Whateveri_was
- or the lessons we're supposed to learn as children?Ianbolton
- It sounds like we've had similar life experiences and I'm glad you made it out to the other side. Likewise... It's a better place to be.ayport
- all these posts are "signs your getting old" I've prepared and not posted mine a few times.imbecile
- tldrMilan
- LOL @ Pango. and +1 for the post... positivity needed in this world and in this place.dee-dubs
- 40. Samesies. *chest bump*cannonball1978
- welcome to the real world! sorry, i just watched Matrix 1,2,3 on Netflix again and i think it helps against midlife crisis. :9api
- Haha, I also watched the Matrix last night and everything is much better now! Apparently love saves EVERYTHINGIanbolton
- NBQ005
Aren't beach holidays overrated? I get bored after 1-2 hours in the sun.
- It depends on what you do while being in the sun I suppose.maquito
- https://media.tenor.…maquito
- Unless they're attached to a cool city, yes.section_014
- Nah, I dig the beach. . .robthelad
- find a beach with trees a waves. go surf.uan
- You don't go to the right beach, Calanques, Marseille Mediterranean sea is greati_was
- You wouldn't here: https://i.imgur.com/…freedom
- Bring a book, enjoy your lady's bikini.freedom
- It's all about swimming in the sea, showing off body, looking at bikini's, enjoying the relaxing sound of sea, marvelling at the point where two worlds collide.shapesalad
- Nothing beats coming home with sand between the toes and a salty crust on your skin. And it's a good way to get vitamin dshapesalad
- You need to make sure you position yourself near tits...but don't make it obvious.BusterBoy
- https://www.youtube.…MrT
- lol, Bill's the bestNBQ00
- Boredom is THE BESTnb
- freedom0
I made a post in a Facebook group for people in a similar field as me and now I'm getting a few "friend requests" from people I don't know.
I guess it's good networking potentially but also, why?
Should I accept and message them or ignore or accept and not think about it and probably never speak?
- HijoDMaite0
Geico insurance on our vehicles slowly creepin
1. new car lease full coverage
2. older car full coverage
3. Daughter 20 y/o car liability only$413 per month.
This is with all the discounts available and I brought comprehensive deductible down to $100.And our second daughter will be driving in about a year.
Fucking A.
- I got Geico (1 & 2 on your list) for $126Krassy
- Driving is bad for the environment, consider a lifestyle change so you can all walk/cycle?shapesalad
- Cuz your deductible, raise it to $1000Hayoth
- freedom13
✌️out
- out what?NBQ00
- kingsteven
- two outsarahfailin
- please be true
i upvoted this postimbecile - playboy out_niko
- #MAGA Nationutopian
- front page postutopian
- thanks for telling usdorf