There is a small dog's worth of hair covering my apartment if i don't vacuum more frequently than every three days :( I try not to be outraged because i know she can't help it, but it is pretty darn outrageous!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
i saw the first fruit fly of the year
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
since it's just the one maybe you could make a jarbl out of a thimble.
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
in related news we are having a problem with sugar ants :-(
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm experimenting with a jarbl variation which is really just some pancake syrup on a piece of waxed paper. jergins reports that we have one victim so far.
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
of course now i feel guilty.
lol @ victim
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
^ ban iirc
― estèlauder (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
okay it's not working. the victim has freed himself after gorging on syrup, and none of the others seem interested. just 6 ants wandering aimlessly around the countertop.
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
jergins swiped up the wanderers with a sponge, and the experiment has thusly concluded.
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
jergins otm as usual
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
There are tiny ants in my office. I find them on the whiteboard during meetings. Its weird but they are mostly harmless. We have those liquid trap things that worked ok last year but not so much yet this year.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
they sound cunning, i wouldn't relax if i were you.
― estela, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
i had them in another apt and used traps that were like little homes they would crawl into to get poisoned before crawling away to die somewhere. they worked pretty good.
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
so i guess not traps, they went in and then out
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
For healthier, happier fruit flies: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/04/18/teen-scientist-says-fruit-flies-prefer-organic
― jaq, Thursday, 18 April 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
uhhh, ant problem maximized itself over night. gross.
― lxy, Friday, 19 April 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
now i'm sort of terrified to leave for a week, because what if they take over??!!!
― lxy, Friday, 19 April 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
if I spot your furniture parading slowly down the street, I promise to make them put it back before you get home.
― jaq, Friday, 19 April 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
thank you, neighbor!
― lxy, Saturday, 20 April 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
Bumpy arsed pan makes omelettes stick and makes me outrage
― estèlauder (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 29 April 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
there are baby birds in my kitchen exhaust fan what do I do??
― tehresa, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
oh god
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
i think it's time for a jarbl. so many of these little guys and there's not even much food around. also windows are closed.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 22 June 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
i had to ask someone what a jarbl was
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
lol who did you ask? what answer were you given?
― lxy, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
lol! just some lady at the grocery store i imagine
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 24 June 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
i asked a sandboxer, since i assumed the name was sandboxish and might be different in other realms
i was told it's to do with the punishment of fruit flies
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
alternatively you could've read the thread. in fact, i would recommend it, on account of it's fucking funny.
― lxy, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 03:03 (ten years ago) link
;)
― tehresa, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
Mookie, were you embarrassed to ask here?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
I bought a pre-marinated pork loin a while ago because it was on sale for $5. I stuck it in the freezer for whenever. Just cooked it and it is inedibly salty :( I am outraged.
― tehresa, Friday, 28 June 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
it's jarbltime
― lxy, Saturday, 29 June 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
always
― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 June 2013 04:22 (ten years ago) link
:(
i have another sandbox confession and this time it's almost certainly a yellow card minimum
― estèlauder (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 22 July 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
it's much worse than when i voted for discouraging harbl, which didnt in any way reflect my true feelings on that subject
o dear
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 July 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
i googled the right term and i am trepidatious
― estèlauder (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 22 July 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
so i stayed up and figured out a guitar lick or two nbd right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvr3t68nf8
― estèlauder (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 22 July 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
my rice was infested with tiny ant-like things, ewwww! :( on the plus side this led me to discover that farro is great in soup!
― tehresa, Sunday, 13 October 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
rice weevils?
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 13 October 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
i cried when i found weevils in my oatmeal.
― lxy, Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
(i was 6 years old, but i would probably cry if it happened now, too.)
― lxy, Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
i googled and that seemed like the most likely culprit :(
― tehresa, Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
i've gotten those before. so unsettling. the main problem in my old apartment was carpet beetles which imo is even worse because they like any organic material, not just foods. huge domestic outrage.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
a fucking stray fucking bobby pin in the fucking load of fucking laundry i did yesterday has just cost us $400 for a new fucking washing machine!!!!!!
i guess it jammed in one of the holes around the tub, horizontally, and during all the spinning it just stripped the plastic outer tub and then my whole kitchen got flooded with a full load of water.
― smoove operator, Friday, 25 October 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
Oh no!!! So sorry :(
― tehresa, Friday, 25 October 2013 10:55 (ten years ago) link
that's the worst bobby pin I've ever heard of in my life.
― estela, Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:21 (ten years ago) link
argh!!!!!
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1030/483478-dublin-households-facing-water-disruption/
i ask you
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 31 October 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link