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Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Dixville posted:

I'm guilty of googling brown recluse relatively recently (it wasn't one)

I think I drowned one once. I hope it wasn't some innocuous other arachnid.

They have funnel webs!

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Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
Lmao apparently my dad was not the only person annoyed by these magnolia trees

https://www.lawnsite.com/threads/magnolia-leaves.204208/


Sweet Tater posted:

I would cut down and burn every Manolia tree in the country if I could. I despise them thangs


I might have to email this to him now

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


I would think that a breadfruit tree would have breadfruit not grapefruits?

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

Sid Vicious posted:

I would think that a breadfruit tree would have breadfruit not grapefruits?

I fixed it you sonofabitch!!#

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


Dixville posted:

I fixed it you sonofabitch!!#

Ah you've met my mom

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Blast of Confetti posted:

lost my virginity at like ten or something when a neighborhood girl was like "put your thing in my thing". ofc she was dry so we stopped after like two seconds and neither of us brought it up until high school when we actually knew how to bang and laughed about it
GBS confessions threads are loving hilarious

why would you talk about this on SA

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

I think I drowned one once. I hope it wasn't some innocuous other arachnid.

They have funnel webs!

They have lovely webs

quote:

Many spiders are builders of spiral, wheel-shaped, symmetrical webs. Conversely, the web of a brown recluse spider is irregular and loosely constructed. Like other spiders, brown recluse spiders build their webs from protein-based silks, released from organs known as spinnerets. The strands of the brown recluse web are off-white in color.

They don't use their webs to hunt, just to sleep in, and their silk is crappy.

We had them in our house in Kansas. I got bitten multiple times, but anti-biotics reversed the necrosis (the skin would turn black and that's what the doctors called it.)Glue traps are fantastic for killing brown recluses.

I never had the reaction that caused irreversible necrosis that many other people I knew who had been bitten by recluse had. I just had my leg swell up a bunch after the first bite. I saved that fucker for the doctor.

Linux Pirate
Apr 21, 2012


One time my older brother and his friend got me and a few other younger kids to hide in a box on the corner of the street, then they made a sign that said "FREE PUPPIES →" and stood on another corner a block away. People would drive up expecting to see puppies in the box and then we would jump out and scare them, quite a few people got pissed off.

proof of concept
Mar 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
getting some fishing line and tying together the handles of two garbage cans on opposite sides of the street and watching the next car that drove by drag the cans clear down the block was fun

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Ol' father Finnegan don't suck our balls no more
We ratted him out to the rule of law
Turns out he sucks our balls once more
'Cause catholics rule the world as before

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
sometimes we would prank the really old lady neighbor who gave us sweet tea sometimes by leaving flowers and stuff we found and stuff on her doorstep and ringing the doorbell and running away and laughing hysterically from our hiding spot when she took them inside.

I don't think we understood what a prank was.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

LabyaMynora posted:

Me and my friends used to spend a lot of time in rain sewers. We lived in a suburban-bordering-on-rural area, so they weren't super gross, but it's weird to think of all the time I used to spend sitting in giant concrete sewer pipes and climbing down into "sewers."

One of the last times was in 8th grade, a guy had "pot" and basically poked holes in a soda can to make it a "bong." I just look back and laugh at all the loving suburban parents in our neighborhood white-flighting out of urban areas, just to have their 8th grade children literally sitting in sewers unsuccessfully trying to get high.

your friends didn't know how to make a bong by 8th grade. That is strange

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica
Definitely not weird like a lot of the posts but I wouldn’t let my kids do it

Grew up in a blue collar neighbourhood and all the kids in the neighbourhood would leave the house in the morning and maybe stop at home for lunch or eat at another persons house then be home at night, we’d play cops and robbers or whatever, no phones no way for the parents to know where their kids are

It’s basically a pedophile or serial killers dream

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Do it ironically posted:

It’s basically a pedophile or serial killers dream

AKA - the 80's.

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica

LabyaMynora posted:

AKA - the 80's.

It’s the funny the lack of parenting me and my siblings got, we weren’t necessarily latchkey kids but our parents would just say go entertain yourself, the 80s was definitely the last decade that was acceptable

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

LabyaMynora posted:

AKA - the 80's.

I am fairly sure you already made this joke but I am way too lazy to go find it

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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Do it ironically posted:

Definitely not weird like a lot of the posts but I wouldn’t let my kids do it

Grew up in a blue collar neighbourhood and all the kids in the neighbourhood would leave the house in the morning and maybe stop at home for lunch or eat at another persons house then be home at night, we’d play cops and robbers or whatever, no phones no way for the parents to know where their kids are

It’s basically a pedophile or serial killers dream

pedophiles and serial killers existed back then too. Obviously they need to be smart but the "my kids need to be in my sight at all times and/or check in every 15 minutes" attitude is not healthy and your kids will grow up weird.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

yeah I eat rear end posted:

pedophiles and serial killers existed back then too. Obviously they need to be smart but the "my kids need to be in my sight at all times and/or check in every 15 minutes" attitude is not healthy and your kids will grow up weird.

calm down michael jackson.


I didn't really read what you said. was it funny?

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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Mumpy Puffinz posted:

calm down michael jackson.


I didn't really read what you said. was it funny?

is that a serious question?

no

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

We found a small boulder sticking out of a hill and decided to excavate it and make it tumble down the hill. We were out there for hours every day with our dads shovels trying to get underneath it and when it finally shifted we were dangerously close to getting crushed by the rock and surrounding earth. We all had a good nervous laugh and went back to finding gun shaped sticks.

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
We made sweet videos of us filling my friends pool with gas and lighting it on fire, throwing poo poo over fence into busy highway, and smoking egg rolls.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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The best sleepover I had where my friend's parents went out for the night was lit up. We smoked rolled up pieces of notebook paper and pretended to be high, made a "mixed drink" of triple sec and whatever we found in the spice drawer like cinnamon sugar and pepper etc and pretended to like it, stuck one of his mom's maxi pads on his brother's forehead while he was asleep, then played duke nukem 64 until 6 in the morning. Then the next morning before I got sent home we watched the movie Kingpin while his parents cooked us breakfast, which remains one of my favorite movies.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

yeah I eat rear end posted:

is that a serious question?

no

I am confused.

Shamino
Mar 14, 2008

I am weary of loitering about Britain. There is much we could be accomplishing! Where hast thou been, anyway?
Jacked off to woods porn in the tree house

haljordan
Oct 22, 2004

the corpse of god is love.






yeah I eat rear end posted:

The best sleepover I had where my friend's parents went out for the night was lit up. We smoked rolled up pieces of notebook paper and pretended to be high, made a "mixed drink" of triple sec and whatever we found in the spice drawer like cinnamon sugar and pepper etc and pretended to like it, stuck one of his mom's maxi pads on his brother's forehead while he was asleep, then played duke nukem 64 until 6 in the morning. Then the next morning before I got sent home we watched the movie Kingpin while his parents cooked us breakfast, which remains one of my favorite movies.

Kingpin is indeed a fine film

WHO YOU CALLIN A PSYCHO?

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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haljordan posted:

Kingpin is indeed a fine film

WHO YOU CALLIN A PSYCHO?

it's also one of the few movies that exist where it's worth watching to the end of the credits. Whoever plays his landlady does that tongue thing for so long it transcends being gross to being hilarious.

Robo Turnus
Jul 12, 2006

Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
throw rocks at each other

Sjs00
Jun 29, 2013

Yeah Baby Yeah !
Smoked drugs

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



The local autistic kid kept setting his hair on fire

lvkz
Feb 26, 2013
we would play fear factor, which meant putting your hand in anthills and letting ants crawl on your hands for as long as possible

Bigchops
Mar 13, 2005
Biggus Choppus
My friends and I at night would split into two groups and stand on the front lawns of two houses on opposite sides of the street that were not near streetlights so you couldn't see anything.

We took turns throwing a nerf vortex football at each other in relative darkness. You won if you hit someone in the face.

Mimesweeper
Mar 11, 2009

Smellrose
I remember a bunch of us dressing up in dark clothes and running around at night hiding in bushes and poo poo trying not to be seen like ninjas or something. Nowadays we'd probably get the police called on us for that.

We'd also build swords out of pvc pipes and beat the poo poo out of each other. No foam padding or anything, you better block or it hurt, bad.

Also we used to jump out of one friend's second story window into his pool.

I think the weirdest thing was one time my friend called me up all excited and told me to come over and he had a drat hawk leashed to a stump in his room. His dad taught him how to make traps and he kept it as a pet for a couple weeks before letting it go. It landed on my arm once and tore the poo poo out of me cause I wasn't wearing any gloves.

Frankly I'm surprised none of us ever got seriously injured.

golden bells
Oct 17, 2013

I'm mostly certain that the neighborhood kids only came to play with me because I was the only one with a GameCube and smash Bros. They all had Xboxes and PS2s. It was fashionable to regard the GameCube as a queer kids toy that gritty manly Americans shouldn't want

lol but
Feb 24, 2007

body is a dinosaur
Slippery Tilde

golden bells posted:

I'm mostly certain that the neighborhood kids only came to play with me because I was the only one with a GameCube and smash Bros. They all had Xboxes and PS2s. It was fashionable to regard the GameCube as a queer kids toy that gritty manly Americans shouldn't want

corrupting the youth since 2001

That Dang Lizard
Jul 13, 2016

what; an idiomt
I met one of my best friends in school when we got into a random schoolyard fight and I tried to whip his face with a metal chain. A teacher came over and we had to pretend to be friends to avoid getting in trouble, and then somehow we were friends from then on.

Good times.

Odd
Dec 30, 2006

I think everybody just needs to maybe cool out a little maybe

yeah I eat rear end posted:

Probably the dumbest thing we did was whenever we found a big beehive or hornet/wasp nest in the woods we get our group of 4 to line up, someone would chuck a pinecone or rock at it and we'd see who can make it back to the house without getting stung. Only one person ever ended up actually getting stung when one of the other kid's shoved them down to get a head start and we instituted a no cheating rule which kind of killed some of the fun so we eventually stopped doing it. also i took a wrong turn trying to find a shortcut from the bees once and ran head on into a giant wolf (or something) spider web and have had a thing about spiders ever since even though he didn't hurt me.

That wolf spider got stung to death, fyi. Should hae taken him with you while screaming "GET TO DA CHOPPA" or something similar

haljordan
Oct 22, 2004

the corpse of god is love.






Mimesweeper posted:

I remember a bunch of us dressing up in dark clothes and running around at night hiding in bushes and poo poo trying not to be seen like ninjas or something. Nowadays we'd probably get the police called on us for that.


We definitely did poo poo like that too, we called it night games

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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Odd posted:

That wolf spider got stung to death, fyi. Should hae taken him with you while screaming "GET TO DA CHOPPA" or something similar

His ancestor got revenge on me when I took an entomology class in college, and for the lab we needed one spider sample for our bug collection. My kill jar was completely worn out and I was too lazy to go get it gassed up, so I was left with my minifridge freezer to kill bugs. For my spider, I picked a big orb weaver because I wanted to impress the TA. So I swung my net at the spider and what do you know, the spider isn't in the net and is nowhere to be seen. I start walking away figuring he ran away on the ground, until a couple minutes later when I felt it on my hand and it bit me. I somehow managed not to freak out and put him in the jar and stuck him in the freezer for his final fate. Then once I was convinced he was dead I started to mount him for my collection board. After pinning like 3 legs it started moving and I was like oh god i'm the bug mengele and put him back in the freezer.

So when I think maybe the spiders have it out for me, I think they have a reason to be which just reinforces my fear of them.

proof of concept
Mar 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
we would go on the tennis courts and divide up into teams usually 3+/side and dump dozens of tennis balls on the courts and just try to peg the poo poo out of each other, they put a timer to automatically turn the lights on the court off at 10 pm in my parents' neighborhood after the 4th or 5th time we did this though :(

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Odd
Dec 30, 2006

I think everybody just needs to maybe cool out a little maybe

yeah I eat rear end posted:

His ancestor got revenge on me when I took an entomology class in college, and for the lab we needed one spider sample for our bug collection. My kill jar was completely worn out and I was too lazy to go get it gassed up, so I was left with my minifridge freezer to kill bugs. For my spider, I picked a big orb weaver because I wanted to impress the TA. So I swung my net at the spider and what do you know, the spider isn't in the net and is nowhere to be seen. I start walking away figuring he ran away on the ground, until a couple minutes later when I felt it on my hand and it bit me. I somehow managed not to freak out and put him in the jar and stuck him in the freezer for his final fate. Then once I was convinced he was dead I started to mount him for my collection board. After pinning like 3 legs it started moving and I was like oh god i'm the bug mengele and put him back in the freezer.

So when I think maybe the spiders have it out for me, I think they have a reason to be which just reinforces my fear of them.

I can't take you seriously with that avatar but if i was taking you seriously i would say you deserved all of that

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