rantingYoof Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Cruise is no good if you are surrounded by helmets who can't maintain a steady speed.A million billion times this. Supernaut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Speechless. Tamworthbay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Just came across a gigantic queen wasp in the house. Thankfully it was pretty docile and easy enough to let outside. It must have been an inch and a half long.... Unfortunately as I'm definitely not allergic to the stings I'm the one who has to get rid of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 ^^ There was a huge queen wasp hanging around the caravan most of the day yesterday looking for a nest site I assume. She was docile and easily chased off but kept coming back. I meant her no harm but didn't want a nest anywhere near. She buzzed off eventually to search elsewhere. Unfortunately she went looking round the static next to us and the guy sat out on the decking just belted her with a bottle and killed her. I was sad. She was only looking for a home, no need to kill her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Sorry, I would have killed a Queen Wasp as well.I go out of my way to usher bees outside, but allowing a QW to nest anywhere near me...I think not. Ants & wasps, bunch of bastards. BorniteIdentity, richardthestag, mercrocker and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Sorry, I would have killed a Queen Wasp as well.I go out of my way to usher bees outside, but allowing a QW to nest anywhere near me...I think not. Ants & wasps, bunch of bastards.Dunno.... I tolerate wasps as never been stung unless deliberately trying to swat one. I gave up killing them as a sort of experiment and not been stung since. Mrs Beard hates wasps and they appear to know and sting her for no apparent reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Wasps do the some of the same work as bees, they're pollinators. They're arseholes but if you care about bees for ecological reasons you should care about wasps too. strangeangel, purplebargeken, fairkens and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redfred Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Wasps can do one. Bees I’m ok with, but wasps can feck right off. I tolerate them to an extent but once they start not taking the hint then I get grumpy with them. Ever encountered a wood wasp? Fecking huge things with a stinger that’d put the shiters up even the hardiest of souls, but fortunately I believe they won’t sting. Mind you, if that’s the case then what’s the point of having a stinger that could double up for use in a piercing parlour. Not my thumb BTW! purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Yeah, we get them in the wood store. Fun when you bring them inside next to the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Ever encountered a wood wasp? Fecking huge things with a stinger that’d put the shiters up even the hardiest of souls, but fortunately I believe they won’t sting. Mind you, if that’s the case then what’s the point of having a stinger that could double up for use in a piercing parlour. They look formidable, but the protrusion you're referring to is how the Giant Wood Wasp lays its eggs. And, you're right, they don't sting. Redfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Wasps do the some of the same work as bees, they're pollinators. They're arseholes but if you care about bees for ecological reasons you should care about wasps too.They also eat a lot of other undesirable insects. strangeangel, fairkens and Lacquer Peel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Wasps are only a nuisance in the latter part of summer when the queen no longer requires food to be brought home. In the spring they're pretty tame and look for wood to build a nest with, flowers for food and horrid insects to paralyse to give to the Queen grubs to eat. The developing grubs produce a sweet liquid that the drone wasps feed on and get addicted. During the late summer, when the Queen grubs have pupated and developed into next year's queens (and the odd male for mating purposes), they miss this sweet goo and go foraging for anything sweet, because cold turkey. When they eat rotting fruit, it is essentially fermenting and the sugars turning to alcohol, so not only are they scrabbling around like smackheads looking for a hit, they're getting pissed at the same time. mercedade, wuvvum, Lacquer Peel and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 ^ This place, etc. Rocket88 and dozeydustman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Wasps are only a nuisance in the latter part of summer when the queen no longer requires food to be brought home. In the spring they're pretty tame and look for wood to build a nest with, flowers for food and horrid insects to paralyse to give to the Queen grubs to eat. The developing grubs produce a sweet liquid that the drone wasps feed on and get addicted. During the late summer, when the Queen grubs have pupated and developed into next year's queens (and the odd male for mating purposes), they miss this sweet goo and go foraging for anything sweet, because cold turkey. When they eat rotting fruit, it is essentially fermenting and the sugars turning to alcohol, so not only are they scrabbling around like smackheads looking for a hit, they're getting pissed at the same time. OK, nature is wonderful, but I don't want 10,000 of the fuckers nesting in my conservatory. twosmoke300, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer, Rocket88 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 A cunting wasp stung me under my shirt whilst driving the Cowley and caravan down to West Wittering a couple of summers ago. Right above my heart.... They can help nature somewhere else for my money. richardthestag, barefoot and paulplom 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 A school mate of mine had a bright orange Talbot Horizon. In a fairly low speed head on around a blind bend one night it literally fell in half.No one was hurt but the back seat passengers were left sitting, still strapped in like some sort of fairground ride. Turned out to be a back street cut and shut of the old school pre Vic days. Could have happened to them? They were going fast enough to uproot a rather large tree. I think at that point it doesn't matter whether it's a cut n shut or not. Re: the comments about "he wouldn't hurt a fly, was a nice lad" etc. I still remember a story about a stolen 4x4 smashing head on into a bus at well above the speed limit and the mother genuinely said some pish like "He was a little angel and he wouldn't hurt a fly..." Aye, but he would steal a 4x4, drive it through a 30 zone at 70mph+ and smash head-on into a bus, though. Sod off. Had a local one last year where a guy and his girlfriend were killed a few streets from me when they crashed the stolen motorbike they were on. Then the papers were full of the quotes like "kind soul" and "little angel" etc. etc.They stole somebody's pride and joy then rode it like a total cunt then crashed it. What's so "kind" about that? sheffcortinacentre, Rocket88, sierraman and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 We had one last year that repeatedly came back to scraps of ham and carefully bit pieces off to take back to the hive. It must have made about twenty trips. I am allergic to wasp stings but was fascinated to watch it. The only time I have been stung was when I took a drink from a beer bottle I hadn’t noticed was already populated by a wasp. My lip came up like Mick Jagger and I was delirious for a while. HMC, chaseracer, purplebargeken and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 My lip came up like Mick Jagger and I was delirious for a while. Blimey! What beer was that...? HMC, Tamworthbay, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Norman Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Superb* care taken of my car National Tyre Services, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Tamworthbay, earlier... mercrocker, Cavcraft, purplebargeken and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 A cunting wasp stung me under my shirt whilst driving the Cowley and caravan down to West Wittering a couple of summers ago. Right above my heart.... They can help nature somewhere else for my money.Same happened to me, driving home I had a sudden massive sharp pain in my side. I was still wondering wtf had happened when a fucking huge wasp crawled out from my shirt! Managed to smash the crap out of it all over the passenger seat with my lunch bag whilst simultaneously not crashing quite badly and came home and found the magic cream. Stung for hours after, then turned into a throbbinf sting then subsided Rocket88 and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Tamworthbay, earlier...02A1C061-566E-4D06-A60C-52D049F31692.pngIf only I had the hair....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I had a wasp fly into my shirt once whilst riding my Honda CB125T in my shirt sleeves. It stung me. That was 20 years ago, I've never ridden a bike in shirt sleeves since. Stevebrookman and strangeangel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Wasps serve no function other than to be angry about the world. Got enough people to do that, don't need wasps on the case also. We get a lot of paper wasps here, {Polistes Youlookinatmemate} which like to get up underneath things to build nests. A number of years back I piled the drawers from a chest of drawers outside on the porch so I could move everything out to let down some new flooring. That took maybe 2 hours, went to lift the drawers back in and one was underneath the damn thing and stung my little finger, right on the joint, right on the nerve. I can tell when it's gonna rain, that joint hurts. Yup. They can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. Phil mercrocker, somewhatfoolish, hennabm and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Fuck! Looks like I have to finally conceed that I'm really shit at actually looking after cars. If the Vectra is now broken beyond repair I may aswell just sell/scrap everything else and buy a K11 (but also keep the KV6 running as well because despite being a car with a shit reputation, it has kept on trying to be alive whilst everything else tries to kill itself or is killed by my sheer and utter incompetence) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I got a wasp up my trousers once. I felt a buzzing and hit myself alarmingly close to the gentlemanly area. When I went to the loo to have a look, the sting had embedded itself into my upper thigh where I'd killed it and the rest of the wasp had... snapped off. Bastards. mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I had awasp fly over my shoulder, round my head and behind my glasses once. I closed my eyes really quite quickly (as one does in these circumstances) and trapped it between my left eyelids, whereupon it stung me in the eyeball. I succeeded in killing it but all the rest of the day my vision in the left eye was swimmy and I had one hell of a headache. The next morning my left eye was swollen enough not to open and my glasses no longer fitted my face. Took a couple of days for the swelling to subside. TL/DR Waspscan go fuck themselves shedenvy, GrumpiusMaximus, barefoot and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I'm currently attempting to fill in a job application and have got to that dreaded section, "List your three main areas for development". The annoying thing is that I filled in a similar form some months ago and came up with some pretty decent answers for that section, but I can't for the buggery of me remember what they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 ^^ Irritating as fuck isn't it when that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Think I made the right decision handing in my notice last week. First, they had given me all of 48 hours notice that I was going onto 12 hour shifts, now, after a week, they still haven't given me any form of written acknowledgement of my notice. Looks like I'll just be walking out when my notice runs out, whatever happens. That's beside the fact that 90% of the work is making 2+2=5 because they sell more bandwidth than they actually have, then hope the customers don't notice (clue: they do, on a daily basis). HHHHHHHHHHHHH Stevebrookman, LightBulbFun, Sealtainn and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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