Comment on human anteaters

Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why tf would anyone crush ants? Is this a thing?

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like, killing them? One or two running across a table, and you just pop em?

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    • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You murderer!
      I hope the smell never washes off your hand, you sick son of a bitch.

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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Look, if they wanna stay alive, they can take a shower.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Huh, oh yeah, like any invertebrate, bcs they are within human space which isn’t allowed.

      Idk why my brainhole didn’t make the connection, I def know people that kill eg spiders if they see them.

      I sometimes kill mosquitos that won’t leave via regular ventilation paths.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We like you too.

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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Spider Bros can stay. Ants too stinky.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, it’s ugly? I just swish them away.

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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Like spray them with water? Sure, if they’re in the sink or on the counter. If you mean just swat them away, I wouldn’t trust that to kill them. And as soon as it doesn’t kill them, and they find their way back to the nest, there’s a chance they’ll lead others back, if they found so much as a scrap of food.

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• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It releases the smell. It stays around in the room.

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    • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t smell ants but I can smell roaches. Any house or restaurant I walk into that has that signature roach scent, I do a 180° and leave.

      As to describe the scent of roaches: Pungent, wet/moldy towel smell, worse when they’re dead.

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We need people like you as health inspectors.

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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You know, I feel like I know that smell as well. Not anywhere NEAR as pungent as the ant smell, but I’ve been in some… Unfortunate situations with enough roaches that I can conjure up that smell.

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      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait I thought wveryone can smell roaches

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.

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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Probably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.

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