# I pit Spectre of Pithecanthropus' wife

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 31, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-spectre-of-pithecanthropus-wife/770314 "2016-10-31T23:10:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-spectre-of-pithecanthropus-wife/770314/76 "2016-11-02T14:47:34Z")

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> [@Entomologists, draw near and your answers will be humbly requested. What the heck is this thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entomologists-draw-near-and-your-answers-will-be-humbly-requested-what-the-heck-is-this-thing/770310/14):
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> When I read that post, I cringed. I always feel sad when people kill bugs, and it wasn’t even in the house.
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> But the idea that it is worthy of a pitting or such vile insults is beyond my ability to comprehend. Enough people kill bugs that I recognize it’s probably me who’s a little on the weird side.
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> Has the OP ever swatted a mosquito? Or a fly? I do. It makes no logical sense to differentiate them in my head, but that’s what we do.
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> Please don’t kill bugs. Also, this is a dumb pitting.

Yeah but the fact that you failed to post this in the correct thread speaks volumes to your ability to comprehend.

Mosquitos: swatted  
Flies: shooed if necessary swatted  
Cockroaches: nuked

You don’t seem to have read nor understood my OP, let me reiterate, it is the knee-jerk, “_What the fuck s that?! Kill it quick!_” mentality that roasts my goat.

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