The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

I understand the critical importance of bees, but I am not keen on living right next to a hive of them.

Yeah, I agree, especially as my wife is an insectophobe... It would be either her or the bee bricks for me

Why insects in particular?  Why not other arthropods?

[Gaijin de Moscu]

Why insects in particular?  Why not other arthropods?

Ah, you're right — most arthropods, I should say.

[Maladict]

There's also bat bricks which alarm me because we have really strict bat protection laws. So it'd basically make knocking down any building with a bat brick impossible unless you can prove no bats use it

You would have to prove that regardless, no?  Lots of city councils here now require new buildings to have bat or bird friendly spaces. Those bricks wouldn't be made if there was no demand for them.

[Razgovory]

Why insects in particular?  Why not other arthropods?

Ah, you're right — most arthropods, I should say.

How does she feel about scale worms?

[Josquius]

A very Tyr take on where the South starts: North Yorkshire

It is hard to think of a more Southern bit of the North to be fair :p

[garbon]

There's also bat bricks which alarm me because we have really strict bat protection laws. So it'd basically make knocking down any building with a bat brick impossible unless you can prove no bats use it

Oh come on, bee bricks, bird bricks, now bat bricks? Surely you are making this up.

Yeah we have them on my building.

[Tamas]

It's good they put a bat sign on it this way the other flying animals/insects know it's rude to take it over.

[Gaijin de Moscu]

Why insects in particular?  Why not other arthropods?

Ah, you're right — most arthropods, I should say.

How does she feel about scale worms?

I'll never know, because I'm never going to show her this 

[HVC]

Do uk bats carry rabies?

[Sheilbh]

Very, very rarely. It's more or less eradicated in the UK. I think there's been one case in the last 120 years of someone getting rabies from a bat.

[viper37]

I said the other day that Canadians were slow drivers.  But that doesn't mean they don't dislike traffic jam like the rest of us.

Here is a Canadian woman, from the Ottawa area, trying to avoid traffic jams on highway 417, by taking a small shortcut:
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/unfazed-woman-takes-selfie-from-her-car-sinking-through-the-ice-in-rideau-river/ar-AASS4RL?li=AAggNb9

The vid:
https://youtu.be/fuEYMQiCb88

How it ended:

[Josquius]

Pumping the water out of my moat I found a dead mouse

On the bright side I've seen no more signs of a mouse in my garage

[The Larch]

Pumping the water out of my moat I found a dead mouse

On the bright side I've seen no more signs of a mouse in my garage

You have a moat? Do you live in a castle?

[garbon]

Why would you be sad about a dead mouse?

[Grey Fox]

I've gotten rid of hundreds of pest like mouse & squirrels. I still feel sad when I find one dead by it's own mistake.

It's weird.