Submitted by sakuraruby on November 22, 2011 - 8:36am.
I wish we had compost bins in Florida. It would be so good! And it would keep the bugs out of our trash cans... The amount of ants that materialize out of thin air as soon as fruits/veggies enter the trash can is disgusting... ;___;
Submitted by matrixviking on November 22, 2011 - 9:47am.
I can imagine you making those big eyes at Trev, Jam (as many a-women has done to their men for time imemorial) and I can see (as many men would do) Trev rollling his eyes in a "oh my gawd" kind of thing. Very amusing comic!
Submitted by Suilean Dubh on November 23, 2011 - 8:27pm.
Completely undirected at Trevor since we are assured that they were manilily dealt with, I have no patience with people who fear something so innocuous. Spiders? Sure, some of them things be dangerous. Worms? Wtf are they gonna do to you?
Submitted by CrazyAlmostCanuk on November 24, 2011 - 10:21pm.
Some of them wormseses are dangerous, too. In fact, I think there are more potentially deadly worm species out there than spider species (parasitic, not directly venomous)...of course, they aren't cute little fishbait earthworms like jam was having delivered.
Submitted by antisense on November 25, 2011 - 7:19pm.
Hookworms are nasty little critters. The larvae enter your body through your skin. Then they travel through your blood until they get to the pulmonary capillaries, whereupon they break through the alveoli to get into the lungs . They then crawl out of the lungs, up the trachea then down the esophagus. Finally they attach themselves to the walls of the GI using hooks on their heads and then suck your blood from the inside and continually release eggs for the rest of their lives. Lovely, eh?
Submitted by CrazyAlmostCanuk on November 28, 2011 - 12:18am.
See? Icky!
I can handle nightcrawlers and leeches. Most grubs don't weird me out (unless I find half of one wiggling in the apple I just took a big bite from), including maggots. Snakes I am absolutely unafraid of, simply being aware that knowing WHAT snake you are dealing with tells you HOW to deal with it. Spiders, I can handle any of them that are smaller than my thumbnail without jumping, or getting the creeps. Parasites of ANY sort, though? Yeah, I start freaking out, just thinking about them.
Submitted by Rashkavar on November 28, 2011 - 2:41am.
I've never understood that kind of philosophy. Parasites are really interesting.
The things that creep me out are mostly Australian. Based on reading up what they can do to you and assessing just how horrific the means of dying is. Some of the worst creepy things for me aren't even alive, and not even organic molecules. Nitrous oxides (NO2, specifically, I think, though everything but laughing gas does a variation of this) cause blistering in the lungs, which traps the nitrous oxide and fills with a pus. Eventually, the blister pops, ruining that little bit of lung, and the pus oozes around elsewhere, carrying the nitrous oxide with it for more blistering and pus. You either drown in blister pus or die as your lungs fill with scar tissue and become nonfunctional. A borderline fatal dose takes just over a week or so to do this to you.
Or there's that snake (King Brown, I think) that has a venom that paralyzes you and starts the digestive process with you still alive and conscious. I don't think they're big enough to eat a person, so they just abandon you to slowly digest or dehydrate to death.
If I had the choice between one of those and having a tapeworm infestation for the rest of my life, I'd gladly take the tapeworms.
Trevor insists that this is *patently* false and he only had the manliest of dealings with the wormies but, hey! Those things are weird lookin' up close! It's ok to get a little wigged out, I think.
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super mario delivers worms on his day off
Love this comic, this is the kind of style I want to see in WT. Really like the style of the "talk-bubbles"!
Should maybe add that I love the third panel.
Your word bubble experiments are working, methinks. I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down.
I wish we had compost bins in Florida. It would be so good! And it would keep the bugs out of our trash cans... The amount of ants that materialize out of thin air as soon as fruits/veggies enter the trash can is disgusting... ;___;
I can imagine you making those big eyes at Trev, Jam (as many a-women has done to their men for time imemorial) and I can see (as many men would do) Trev rollling his eyes in a "oh my gawd" kind of thing. Very amusing comic!
I love how jam looks on the third panel (both of them)
WORM DELIVERY!! :D
Completely undirected at Trevor since we are assured that they were manilily dealt with, I have no patience with people who fear something so innocuous. Spiders? Sure, some of them things be dangerous. Worms? Wtf are they gonna do to you?
Some of them wormseses are dangerous, too. In fact, I think there are more potentially deadly worm species out there than spider species (parasitic, not directly venomous)...of course, they aren't cute little fishbait earthworms like jam was having delivered.
Hookworms are nasty little critters. The larvae enter your body through your skin. Then they travel through your blood until they get to the pulmonary capillaries, whereupon they break through the alveoli to get into the lungs . They then crawl out of the lungs, up the trachea then down the esophagus. Finally they attach themselves to the walls of the GI using hooks on their heads and then suck your blood from the inside and continually release eggs for the rest of their lives. Lovely, eh?
See? Icky!
I can handle nightcrawlers and leeches. Most grubs don't weird me out (unless I find half of one wiggling in the apple I just took a big bite from), including maggots. Snakes I am absolutely unafraid of, simply being aware that knowing WHAT snake you are dealing with tells you HOW to deal with it. Spiders, I can handle any of them that are smaller than my thumbnail without jumping, or getting the creeps. Parasites of ANY sort, though? Yeah, I start freaking out, just thinking about them.
I've never understood that kind of philosophy. Parasites are really interesting.
The things that creep me out are mostly Australian. Based on reading up what they can do to you and assessing just how horrific the means of dying is. Some of the worst creepy things for me aren't even alive, and not even organic molecules. Nitrous oxides (NO2, specifically, I think, though everything but laughing gas does a variation of this) cause blistering in the lungs, which traps the nitrous oxide and fills with a pus. Eventually, the blister pops, ruining that little bit of lung, and the pus oozes around elsewhere, carrying the nitrous oxide with it for more blistering and pus. You either drown in blister pus or die as your lungs fill with scar tissue and become nonfunctional. A borderline fatal dose takes just over a week or so to do this to you.
Or there's that snake (King Brown, I think) that has a venom that paralyzes you and starts the digestive process with you still alive and conscious. I don't think they're big enough to eat a person, so they just abandon you to slowly digest or dehydrate to death.
If I had the choice between one of those and having a tapeworm infestation for the rest of my life, I'd gladly take the tapeworms.