• default_ex (unregistered)

    Oh god I had hoped to forget the part of my life I had to deal with roaches.

    It was about 6 or 7 years ago, I was too broke to replace all the electronics, and the house had a bad roach infestation due to neighbors on all sides. When I moved out I got the clever idea to leave everything in the back of a u-haul for several days in the dead of winter, figure it'd either send those bastards into hibernation or kill them. It killed them, thankfully.

    But then it came to cleanup. Dawned a cheap painters mask, thick rubber gloves, and waders. Took everything apart, even the power strips, and scrubbed it all down good with strong chemical cleaning solutions rated for conductive metals and circuitry. It was a nightmare, the smell took serious scrubbing to get rid of, and the dead roaches filled half of a plastic grocery bag.

    I have no idea why, but there was not a single roach inside my computers. Maybe it's because they were always on and the only holes in the cases have fans behind them, or maybe it was just the regular cleanings (once every 3 months), but I consider that a miracle.

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    I wish people wouldn't use language like "miasma". It stinks.
    I used to drive a Mazda Miasma, but I traded it in for a Toyota Plethora.
  • Unregistered (unregistered) in reply to default_ex
    default_ex:
    It was about 6 or 7 years ago, I was too broke to replace all the electronics, and the house had a bad roach infestation due to neighbors on all sides. When I moved out I got the clever idea to leave everything in the back of a u-haul for several days in the dead of winter, figure it'd either send those bastards into hibernation or kill them. It killed them, thankfully.

    If you could've lived off without them for several days might as well just trash them directly.

    Also, you left those outside but have you left everything else in your u-haul? You do know that they can get inside anything that provides no sunlight at all.

  • jay (unregistered)

    Wow, after reading the first two or three paragraphs, who could ever have guessed how this story would end? What a bizaree twist!

  • Wonk (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Wow, after reading the first two or three paragraphs, who could ever have guessed how this story would end? What a bizaree twist!

    They're still working on getting M. Night Shyamalan to do a few of these. It will be a few weeks.

  • (cs)

    Only one question, which country was this happening?

  • Ibi-Wan Kentobi (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Rot is rot-- it doesn't "intend" anything, it's a dumb organic process.

    Of course it didn't intend anything. Among the things it didn't intend was to stop rotting... which is exactly what the sentence says.

  • Esten (unregistered) in reply to Cbuttius
    Cbuttius:
    A shame it was cockroaches and not spiders.

    Then they could have had web access.

    But with the cockroaches they have disaster recovery.

  • AC (unregistered)

    RAAAAAIID!?!

    Akismet is a liar! This is NOT spam!

  • Spewin Coffee (unregistered)

    This was the case of Really Acrid Insect Droves.

  • DB (unregistered) in reply to Cbuttius
    Cbuttius:
    A shame it was cockroaches and not spiders.

    Then they could have had web access.

    LOL

  • Spewin Coffee (unregistered)

    TRWTF is the fact that the place was cleaned up. I'd just burn the whole building with fire and then nuke it from orbit...just to be sure. And then educate the slobs who created that disaster on a little thing called hygiene.

  • Some Jerk (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Only one question, which country was this happening?
    Well it wasn't India, because there was food.
  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    The other day the boss sent me to clean out the bathroom in the basement that nobody ever uses because it smells so bad. I thought I was psyched up for the job but when I got there I found a server under the sink. I attached a monitor, booted it up, and discovered it was loaded with gigabytes of tubgirl, lemon party, etc. Barely able to control myself, I opened another folder and found some VBscript. That's when I threw up.
    If you had kept looking further, you would have found the PHP.
  • (cs) in reply to Some Jerk
    Some Jerk (unregistered) :
    Nagesh:
    Only one question, which country was this happening?
    Well it wasn't India, because there was food.

    ummm... wtf?

  • Some Jerk (unregistered) in reply to Some Jerk
    Some Jerk:
    Some Jerk (unregistered) :
    Nagesh:
    Only one question, which country was this happening?
    Well it wasn't India, because there was food.

    ummm... wtf?

    If your not making comments like this, you're not jerking right.

    (And really, who hasn't made comments like this?)

  • (cs) in reply to Some Jerk

    ummmm... no jerking in public!

  • Xagyg (unregistered) in reply to Mason Wheeler

    However, I can testify to the fact that a single roach will stand up to a 1200 Watt microwave on high for 8 minutes. And when the door is opened, come to the edge and GLARE at me.

    The King of the Roaches was then crushed like a bug before he got back to his subjects and rallied them against me.

    So their dense forms have SOME resistance. :)

  • null (unregistered)

    "scream like a little girl falling of a cliff into lava"

    Interesting simile. what part 'of' a cliff did she originate from? We know what you meant... I would just like to know what a little boy would sound like if he was falling off a cliff into a river of lava?

  • null (unregistered) in reply to Spewin Coffee
    Spewin Coffee:
    TRWTF is the fact that the place was cleaned up. I'd just burn the whole building with fire and then nuke it from orbit...just to be sure. And then educate the slobs who created that disaster on a little thing called hygiene.

    How else do you burn a building down in lieu of fire? More interestingly though is why would you burn down a building right before nuking it, and why from space? But wait, in order to teach those 'slobs', make sure they are in the building before you nuke it from orbit. Then and only then will you be sure!

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to Some Jerk
    Some Jerk:
    ummmm... no jerking in public!
    And why not? I mean, everybody does it. What's the big secret?
  • (cs)

    Did you guys know there's a cool page called BugMeNot? I don't know why my username isn't there anymore, but the password isn't too hard to guess.

  • OccupyWallStreet (unregistered) in reply to Unregistered
    Unregistered:
    default_ex:
    It was about 6 or 7 years ago, I was too broke to replace all the electronics, and the house had a bad roach infestation due to neighbors on all sides. When I moved out I got the clever idea to leave everything in the back of a u-haul for several days in the dead of winter, figure it'd either send those bastards into hibernation or kill them. It killed them, thankfully.

    If you could've lived off without them for several days might as well just trash them directly.

    Also, you left those outside but have you left everything else in your u-haul? You do know that they can get inside anything that provides no sunlight at all.

    Well, he did say WHY he didn't trash it. He was too broke to replace it all. And going without for a few days is different from going without until you can afford to buy a replacement (which to save up for it would take months). After all, I can probably go a few days without say, my file server, but going a few months without is more problematic.

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Some Jerk
    Some Jerk:
    QJo:
    So the real WTF is employing an engineer who screams like a little girl when he encounters God's little creatures? He probably also doesn't eat rabbits because they look too cute, and won't eat fish with its heads on, but lunches regularly in conventional burger chains because he doesn't need to think where the meat comes from.

    1. I suspect the reaction would have been similar reaction if he discovered that the server in question had been used as an auxillary restroom durring a particularly virilant bout of I.B.S.

    2. Yes, roaches are God's creatures. They should spend more time with him, and get to know him better.

    3. I preffer to remove the hair from my rabits before I eat them, for the same reason I preffer women with a good hair cut.

    I insist women shave before I do any eating....

  • Andy (unregistered) in reply to QJo

    This seems pretty reasonable to me. Minus fast food. That shit is nasty.

  • dogmatic (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    So the real WTF is employing an engineer who screams like a little girl when he encounters God's little creatures? He probably also doesn't eat rabbits because they look too cute, and won't eat fish with its heads on, but lunches regularly in conventional burger chains because he doesn't need to think where the meat comes from.

    I'm happy to admit that I would scream like a little girl if 100 roaches jumped out at me.

    On another note, why are there so many pedantic motherfuckers on this site? How bored do you have to be to argue about whether 'rot' can 'intend' or not?

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to dogmatic
    dogmatic:
    On another note, why are there so many pedantic motherfuckers on this site? How bored do you have to be to argue about whether 'rot' can 'intend' or not?
    Protip: This is the pedantic motherfuckers' site.
  • (cs)

    Has anyone told sales that there is at least one problem that a RAID can't solve?

  • A nony Mouse (unregistered) in reply to Jack

    A few years ago had a similar situation, except it was a printer that stopped working. Filled with roaches. The horrible part was that it was in a restaurant

  • sdaz (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    Has anyone told sales that there is at least one problem that a RAID can't solve?
    World Hunger?
  • (cs) in reply to MrDaniil
    MrDaniil:
    IBM:
    Oh, come on! Another "the bug in the computer was actually a bug in the computer" story? This joke is like 50 years old.

    I like that joke.

    Bug in the hardware is actually longer than that, more than 65 years. The lab book (in the Smithsonian) dates from 1947.

  • Peter (unregistered)

    When I click on the word miasma, pictures of unicorns pop-up on the screen. WTF?!?!?

  • pto (unregistered)

    I used to work at a TV repair shop in one of the poorer areas of town. That meant people used to bring in TVs and VCRs (it was a long time ago, kids) for repair that would long ago have landed on the rubbish heap elsewhere. I quickly learnt to identify VCRs that were filled with dead cockroaches by smell. That lessened the shock somewhat before I opened the thing.

    For some reason cockroaches really love the insides of VCRs.

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    PiisAWheeL:
    It means that the doublewide is in disrepair and is rotting. It also means that nobody is probably going to do anything about it for another 50 years or until the next tornado takes it out.
    Yeah no shit the first part means it IS rotting. It's the bolded part that's nonsensical. Rot is rot-- it doesn't "intend" anything, it's a dumb organic process. Is he saying that the trailer was ridiculously huge, thus providing enough raw material to rot for decades? Lord only knows.

    Much like coding, anybody can write, but few people can do it well.

    It's called: anthropomorphisation for humorous effect.

  • (cs) in reply to Some Jerk
    Some Jerk:
    ummmm... no jerking in public!

    Please show a little sensitivity. I had a young relative who jerked in public, and let me assure you, it was no laughing matter.

  • (cs)

    Here, on this nice subtropical island that I live on, roaches can easily be two inches in length. My wife has a phobia for them; I just hate them with a passion.

    There's an insecticide with the fairly innocuous name of Pif-Paf, which deals very effectively with roaches. I'm surprised it's not actually banned by some international treaties on chemical warfare.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Jack
    Jack:
    dogmatic:
    On another note, why are there so many pedantic motherfuckers on this site? How bored do you have to be to argue about whether 'rot' can 'intend' or not?
    Protip: This is the pedantic motherfuckers' site.
    The Old New Thing comes a close second, though.
  • (cs)

    Why would the author create popups of unicorns and rainbows on a site that attracts the cynical? Why was the word "miasma" chosen to activate them? Normally, I'd assume he's another brony but they're the wrong images.

    I never understood the attraction of a show aimed at 8 year old girls anyway.

  • pwolk (unregistered) in reply to Stev

    Oh my god! It's full of bugs!

  • Dave (unregistered)

    "scream like a little girl falling of a cliff into lava."

    So very loud, but soon stops. Nasty.

    warmachine:
    Why would the author create popups of unicorns and rainbows...?
    He wouldn't - he simply invoked Christoph Ono's cornify function from www.cornify.com

    But I thought Remy had finally grown out of unicorns, in favour of firing up random video clips? So why are they back? Did he get lonely?

  • (cs) in reply to QJo

    he! he! he was a jerk!

  • (cs) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    I insist women shave before I do any eating....
    Agreed. I don't like to floss until I am done.
  • Ciaran (unregistered)

    Why are the stories here always so well written, almost like a novelist was writing them??

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to pto
    pto:
    I used to work at a TV repair shop in one of the poorer areas of town. That meant people used to bring in TVs and VCRs (it was a long time ago, kids) for repair that would long ago have landed on the rubbish heap elsewhere. I quickly learnt to identify VCRs that were filled with dead cockroaches by smell. That lessened the shock somewhat before I opened the thing.

    For some reason cockroaches really love the insides of VCRs.

    They probably liked to watch all those documentaries about cockroaches being the only survivors after some disaster. I understand they show them to the baby cockroaches to help build their self-esteem.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to null
    null:
    Spewin Coffee:
    I'd just burn the whole building with fire and then nuke it from orbit...
    How else do you burn a building down in lieu of fire? More interestingly though is why would you burn down a building right before nuking it, and why from space?
    He doesn't say he'd "burn it down", just "burn it". You can burn something with acid, you can burn it with lasers, you can burn it with friction. There are lots of alternatives to fire.
  • MIck (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    "scream like a little girl falling of a cliff into lava."

    So very loud, but soon stops. Nasty.

    warmachine:
    Why would the author create popups of unicorns and rainbows...?
    He wouldn't - he simply invoked Christoph Ono's cornify function from www.cornify.com

    But I thought Remy had finally grown out of unicorns, in favour of firing up random video clips? So why are they back? Did he get lonely?

    The Video Clips weren't Rem,y _ I think they were Mark Borwytz

  • sdaz (unregistered) in reply to Severity One
    Severity One:
    Here, on this nice subtropical island that I live on, roaches can easily be two inches in length. My wife has a phobia for them; I just hate them with a passion.

    There's an insecticide with the fairly innocuous name of Pif-Paf, which deals very effectively with roaches. I'm surprised it's not actually banned by some international treatise on chemical warfare.

    FTFY

  • (cs)

    Yay! A featured comment! I can stop moaning now...

  • null (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    null:
    Spewin Coffee:
    I'd just burn the whole building with fire and then nuke it from orbit...
    How else do you burn a building down in lieu of fire? More interestingly though is why would you burn down a building right before nuking it, and why from space?
    He doesn't say he'd "burn it down", just "burn it". You can burn something with acid, you can burn it with lasers, you can burn it with friction. There are lots of alternatives to fire.

    Did you see the phrase "just burn the whole building with fire? What does that mean to you? Please read, comprehend, and only then react.

  • bkDJ (unregistered) in reply to null
    null:
    Peter:
    null:
    Spewin Coffee:
    I'd just burn the whole building with fire and then nuke it from orbit...
    How else do you burn a building down in lieu of fire? More interestingly though is why would you burn down a building right before nuking it, and why from space?
    He doesn't say he'd "burn it down", just "burn it". You can burn something with acid, you can burn it with lasers, you can burn it with friction. There are lots of alternatives to fire.

    Did you see the phrase "just burn the whole building with fire? What does that mean to you? Please read, comprehend, and only then react.

    The "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" thing? You should go watch the movie "Aliens". Or just google the phrase.

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