Do you think it's immoral to step on bugs?

@izzythepush,

I remember an episode of Night Gallery, when I was a kid, had a rather twisted take on earwigs.

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

I remember an episode of Night Gallery, when I was a kid, had a rather twisted take on earwigs.

Do u remember an episode of Star Trek, when u were a kid, when Spock's ears were rather twisted ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

Can't say I remember that one, my 5th grade teacher was an ear twister though.

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

Can't say I remember that one, my 5th grade teacher was an ear twister though.

Was she from Vulcan ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

Actually, we all thought she was from hell, but she never said as much.
She was pretty emotionless, so she may have been of Vulcan ancestry.

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@wayne,

There is a story of them entering the ear and eating through into the brain, but I think it was attributed to some South American jungle type, not the sort we get in Southampton.

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@izzythepush,

That was the story in the Night Gallery episode, right through and out the other ear. At the end, the doctor gives the guy the bad news, the earwig was female and females lay eggs.
Night Gallery may have scarred me for life.

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@Ceili,

Ceili wrote:

Earwigs seem to have nine lives too. They are very hard to kill and seem to take a stomping as a challenge to defy laws of physics.

Not to mention, they're seemingly insane and insanely fast. On many an occasion/encounter, once I noticed one on the floor it started running not away from me like most bugs would when a larger species is nearby but starting to run towards me. That always freaks me out. Shocked

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

That was the story in the Night Gallery episode,

That sounds way too much like 'In The Night Garden.' I can't see Iggle Piggle telling such scary tales.

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@izzythepush,

I can't believe I watched that, now I am well and truly scarred for life.

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@wayne,

You're scared now? You wait until the young minds forged by such babble come of age.

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@tsarstepan,

so they don't live in ears and eat your brains as I had suspected.

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@izzythepush,

See I am not the only one that thought that!

My daughter when she was in first grade or kindergarten was told by a boy one year older than her - that there were bugs that would climb in her ear and eat her brains out. When we told her that was not true, she didn't believe us. My response you believe a 2nd grade boy over your parents! Well of course he knew more.

We had some tough nights with her being fearful of bugs eating her brains.

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@wayne,

I remember that!

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@Linkat,

I have heard slight variations of that explanation as the insect earned its name because it made homes in people's wigs as well as it was attracted to people's ears.

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@tsarstepan,

I used to call these bug - pincher bugs - didn't know their real name

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

I can't believe I watched that, now I am well and truly scarred for life.

I know, I kept waiting for something really horrible to happen.

Re earwigs, I have truly never heard of them.

I've always had cats in my adult life, so that probably goes a long way in why I've never seen them.

crunch crunch crunch.

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@izzythepush,

I kept waiting for the pavillion to collapse and squash them all. I'm very dissappointed.

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@chai2,

I just saw 1 on TV; Animal Planet. Thay r big bugs.

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

I've always had cats in my adult life, so that probably goes a long way in why I've never seen them.

crunch crunch crunch.

Your cats implicit action just made me shudder! Confused

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