Could be useful
At least they'd keep his ear canal tidy and free of flies and stray earwigs.
A doctor in Oregon flushed out the aching lughole of a nine-year-old boy to find two spiders had set up home inside his ear canal. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports that one of the arachnids was still alive. Traumatised juvenile aural spider blockage victim Jesse Courtney said: "They were walking on my eardrum and I kept …
This story reminds me of incident last year when I saw a motorcyclist
writhing around on the pavement and his bike laying down. I thought they had a crash as one car had stopped and driver was standing over him but found out that a wasp had flown into his crash helmet and thence into his ear as was stinging him down deep in his ear.Painful !
There are bug bombs in Blighty, no? You might call them pressurized aerosol insect killer dispenser or some such. I find it hard to believe that someone would actually stay in the building as they emptied can after can of bug spray in the air. On the other hand, you folks might just stab a can of bug spray with a screwdriver and toss it in before heading down to the pub.
Wasps inside crash helmets are no fun I can tell you... I caught one last year at about 30mph... It survived the initial impact with the helmet and sneaked inside, all I could see was the yellow and black annoyed thing about half inch away from my nose!
I tried opening the visor and turning my head to get it blown out, but he was hanging on good.
So I pulled over PDQ. It was only after pulling the crash helmet off and waving it about in the dance of nasty insect panic, that I spotted it was only a damn hornet!
Grrrrr!
Perhaps for this audience (the .co.uk version) you should annotate the American vernacular. When the lady says she wants to "bomb" the house, she is talking about a type of insecticide delivery system used to blanket rooms with the stuff.
Search bomb and insecticide for a list of do's and don'ts, the stuff is nearly as lethal as the namesake.
Beck
"Something happens and the American womans first reaction is 'BOMB IT!!!!'"
Of course, the woman is referring to what we Americans call 'bug bomb', or insecticidal spray. We would never use actual bombs on our own homes, ha ha!
I would, however, caution other nations to not allow their spiders to crawl into our ears. I hope the Canadians are listening...
The guy made the mistake intentionally... that is so obvious to me.
Of course he knows what it means! How else is he going to rant his political views!
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As an fellow Oregonoonian.... wow... been a while since that's happened last... rather surprised such a localized event would even show up here...
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Glad the kid is ok!
> the woman is referring to what we Americans call 'bug bomb', or insecticidal spray. We would never use actual bombs on our own homes, ha ha!
Unless of course, you use too much of the stuff and there's a naked flame or a spark... BOOM!
See Mythbusters or Snopes for more details http://www.snopes.com/humor/follies/bugbomb.asp
I had a mosquito fly into my ear drum, and it was very very loud and quite a shock to wake up to.
Only took me a few seconds to work out the solution though, which was to rush to the bathroom and pour water into my ear (just need to turn your head on its side for the water to go in). Not sure how someone can sit in an NHS waiting room for 7 hours and not think to put a bit of water in there.
What, eh?
But seriously, I'd like to personally thank the Reg and all of the kind folks who felt it necessary to post vividly descriptive experiences with bugs in their ears...
This is going to wake me up screaming tonight and many nights to come... What's more, I'm pretty safe in concluding that I can kiss another 5 or 6 K away for therapy as I positively despise spiders...
Beady eyed little bastards...
You just had to turn an innocuous comment into yet another criticism of Americans, huh? Yes, we're all just a bunch of war mongering, gun happy idiots. Next time check your colloquialisms before you shoot your mouth off. And I don't mean you would actually use a firearm to shoot off your mouth. IT'S AN EXPRESSION! Wankers.
The woman's comment about 'bombing' her house has nothing to do with destroying it with explosives. There is a means of insect extermination that involves setting off an aerosol can (or 'bomb') that releases pesticide as a fog. You set this thing, then leave the house for a few hours. The fog penetrates into places that cannot be reached by dusts or ordinary sprays.
I would point out that Americans have no monopoly on stupidity. It is international, and rampant.