August 28, 2006: Fire ant raft - Page 2

The 42 · 08-28-2006, 04:45 PM

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Is that a whole bunch of cigarette butts those rafting ants are surrounding?

No, they're the junior queens. (Still have their wings) If they were cigarette butts then the ants would be too stoned to cling to each other- the little buggers can't hold their nicotine

Bugs and cigarettes- eep! Now my skin is crawling!

Griff · 08-28-2006, 06:38 PM

mmmm... hot cakes

xoxoxoBruce · 08-28-2006, 08:14 PM

I wonder what they taste like?

Dagney · 08-28-2006, 08:39 PM

I'm bettin a little spicy

Stonan · 08-28-2006, 08:42 PM

A garden hose, some gas and a match.

Fight fire with fire I always say...

The 42 · 08-29-2006, 01:59 AM

Works for me!

capnhowdy · 08-29-2006, 04:06 PM

Someone I know lost a few newborn puppies to these bastards. I wish I had every one in the world in a quart jar. That way I'd know they were dead. Some say everything in nature serves a purpose. Somebody please tell me what the hell good these animals are.

Flint · 08-29-2006, 04:16 PM

I'll tell you one thing, they've mostly driven the black ants off of my family's land, and therefore the Horny Toads that ate the black ants. Which sucks.

onetrack · 08-30-2006, 02:30 AM

I'm with Stonan .. I'd love to squirt a litre of gasoline on that raft and light it up ..

There is NO reason whatsoever for these things to exist .. along with mosquitoes and every other annoying useless insect ever known to annoy and injure mankind ..

Thanks to some pretty lax quarantine, these **#*%$#** things escaped into the Australian countryside, around Brisbane in Queensland .. and started breeding like wildfire ..

Fortunately some prompt action by individuals and a concerted Govt campaign, have seen them controlled, and virtually eliminated.

Meantimes .. the exercise to contain and eliminate the fire ant, has burnt up AU$173 MILLION of our hard-earned $$ .. to get rid of a pest we didn't have, and didn't need ..

http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/fireants/

08-30-2006, 02:32 AM

Mosquitoes, unfortunately, are food for a lot of awesome indigenous animals... but fire-ants are invaders and I would wipe them all out today if I could.

euchrid · 08-30-2006, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

You never know where science will lead... You'd rather the scientist be stuck hugging a dead pig than working on expanding human knowledge?

We all know where science leads. To more money for rich businessmen, who fund most of their work. Are the scientists testing the venom in fire ants to protect

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Originally Posted by Beestie

infants and toddlers in the southern U.S. ?

Or might they be submitting their findings to the Army?

Science finds cures for things that are caused by the way we live; heart attacks are more common because science has 'advanced' agriculture and food production in a way that means it has less nutrional value, while mysteriously increasing the profits of certain companies. Don't tell me science 'will save us all'; science does good and bad, often simultaneously, just like 'normal' people.

Interesting that no-one (including me) stuck up for the 'naked pig lady', but if you do something similar in a white coat, people will rush to your defence. What if the naked pig lady could be said to be pushing the frontiers of human imagination and challenging our understanding of the world; what if her art installation directly inspires a scientist to find the solution to curing cancer by using dead pig tissue (scientific research has found that pig tissue and human tissue bear an uncanny similarity)?

capnhowdy · 08-30-2006, 07:07 PM

mmmmm... naked pig lady nuggets.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-30-2006, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by euchrid

snip~ What if the naked pig lady could be said to be pushing the frontiers of human imagination and challenging our understanding of the world; ~snip

Then whoever said it would be just wacko as the pig woman.

Sarasvati48 · 09-04-2006, 02:33 PM

Ants keep the world clean. They eat dead things and clean up carrion...

capnhowdy · 09-04-2006, 07:26 PM

Damn. I do that too. But I'm an uncle.

Welcome to the Cellar, Sarasvati48. That's hard to type.

08-28-2006, 06:38 PM	#17
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08-28-2006, 08:14 PM	#18
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I wonder what they taste like? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-28-2006, 08:39 PM	#19
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08-28-2006, 08:42 PM	#20
Stonan Do-er of Deeds Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cloverdale, British Columbia, Canada, Earth, Universe #42 Posts: 41	A garden hose, some gas and a match. Fight fire with fire I always say... __________________ Jesus got it wrong by one letter: The Geek shall inherit the earth...

08-29-2006, 04:06 PM	#22
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Someone I know lost a few newborn puppies to these bastards. I wish I had every one in the world in a quart jar. That way I'd know they were dead. Some say everything in nature serves a purpose. Somebody please tell me what the hell good these animals are. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

08-29-2006, 01:59 AM	#21
The 42 I'm not lurking, I'm stalking YOU! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Somwhere over the rainbow Posts: 70	Works for me!

08-29-2006, 04:16 PM	#23
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I'll tell you one thing, they've mostly driven the black ants off of my family's land, and therefore the Horny Toads that ate the black ants. Which sucks. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-30-2006, 02:30 AM	#24
onetrack Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Western Australia Posts: 99	I'm with Stonan .. I'd love to squirt a litre of gasoline on that raft and light it up .. There is NO reason whatsoever for these things to exist .. along with mosquitoes and every other annoying useless insect ever known to annoy and injure mankind .. Thanks to some pretty lax quarantine, these *#%$#** things escaped into the Australian countryside, around Brisbane in Queensland .. and started breeding like wildfire .. Fortunately some prompt action by individuals and a concerted Govt campaign, have seen them controlled, and virtually eliminated. Meantimes .. the exercise to contain and eliminate the fire ant, has burnt up AU$173 MILLION of our hard-earned $$ .. to get rid of a pest we didn't have, and didn't need .. http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/fireants/ __________________ Illiterate??? - Not a problem! Write today for more information!! ....

08-30-2006, 02:32 AM	#25
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Mosquitoes, unfortunately, are food for a lot of awesome indigenous animals... but fire-ants are invaders and I would wipe them all out today if I could.

08-30-2006, 07:07 PM	#27
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	mmmmm... naked pig lady nuggets. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

09-04-2006, 02:33 PM	#29
Sarasvati48 Mystical Miscreant Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 46	Ants keep the world clean. They eat dead things and clean up carrion...

09-04-2006, 07:26 PM	#30
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Damn. I do that too. But I'm an uncle. Welcome to the Cellar, Sarasvati48. That's hard to type. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

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