They're only ants. But what could I do? An ant hill was practically on my door step. I know I shouldn't feel bad about it but I do. I've just wiped out a colony of living creatures. Hundreds of them. With an ant killer spray. I know you'll all laugh but why do I feel so bad about it?
Why would we laugh? Ha ha!! Sorry.....Maybe because they are living things like me and you?
What are you, some kind of hippy?
Pete from Big Brother is now going to hunt you down and set psychotic Jimmy Klankie onto you.
I'm no hippie, just your average guy that's spending some quality time on the internet. Just feel bad about it, that's all.
Well shut up about flower power and loving all creatures of the earth and kill more ants then!
ALL INSECTOID SCUM MUST DIE!
You gonna join that sect that wear cloths over there mouths stop them accidently swallowing a fly or something?
Who's eaten Gilberts Grape? Boo hoo, who cares. Give him another. It's only a grape.
Well, there goes your next Bon Jovi gig...
Ant-Spray is for poofs. Should've burned the fuckers with aerosol/lighter flamethrower and danced over their still twitching, crispy-creepy-crawly-carcasses. Make sure you burn the eggs good- until they pop under the intense heat. NYAHH HAHH HHHAAAAR!
your bad feeling does you credit. Just don't spend the rest of your life feeling bad about it
When they take over you will be tried for war crimes.
"Don't muss a movele"
bad karma dude
So all this is your fault?
Link: They want revenge
Completely agree with Mr Floyd. Killing things is never as much fun as it oughta be.
Right, I now have to go to work and play with line cleaner, cheap ale and a pub full of miserable old scrotes. Who are, of course exceptions.
If they were coming into your home you did the right thing. If they were a general nuisance in your garden or just minding their own business, then you were probably being a bit harsh.
Don't know about 'ant spray'. There's a sweet, sticky poison gel you can put down in little drops that they take back to the colony and kills them all.
There's a sweet, sticky poison gel you can put down in little drops that they take back to the colony and kills them all.
Before I moved, I had an an infestation and that stuff didn't work. A combination of finding out where their nest was and few kettles of boiling water did the trick, though.
>There's a sweet, sticky poison gel
Seem to remember back in the 70s it had the fantastically un-pc name of Nippon
I think it still does. I used it to stop an ants' nest on a roof terrace coming in through the kitchen door of a first floor flat I lived in.
On another occasion I think it was ant powder I used on the entrance of a very small ant colony that had ill-advisedly established itself in a crack in the floor of my understairs cupboard in another house I lived in. That did the trick as well.
Generally though, I live and let live.
I also lived in a house with a small lawn, and where a seed tray had blown over on the grass, ants had pushed up soil to fill it from underneath, and were using it as a nursery for their eggs and larvae. When I discovered this by lifting the seed tray, I carefully replaced it and didn't disturb it when mowing the grass. I just had a look at it now and then to see what was happening.
ny chance you can come round our place monty, we've got a persistant ant problem in our back yard and I just can't locate the nest, in a few weeks they'll probably work their way back into the kitchen, bastards...
To much of this sort of thing is going to drastically effect our ecosystem.
You what??
Once they get into the house there's nothing else you can do.
They never actually nest in the house, they just make hunting forays under the back door...
Anyone know where I can get a pet Aardvark?
You feel bad??? What about the poor ants? If sci-fi has taught me anything its when the insects mutate and grow to mammoth proportions people like you are onto a hiding!
C'mon the Ants!!!
Don't worry Monty - it's a little known fact that ants have an amazingly short life-span. It's only when we observe them through a magnifying glass that we realise how quickly they age - after only a few seconds they just sort of shrivel up and die.
(Jack B Quick by Alan Moore, Tomorrow Stories #12)
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