I’m sick and tired of all the media scare about bedbugs! Get a life, people! :mad: it’s not the end of the world if there’s a tiny insect in your bed. Dust mites are the tiny insects that cause a lot more misery (such as allergies), but the way some people talk you’d think that bedbugs are the worse thing since the plague.
So am I, and then I see this thread…
I take it you’ve never had bedbugs, then.
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SweetLucy, bedbugs are a moot point when you have a stupidity infestation.
In Soviet Russia bed bug hears you!
I had bedbugs. They actually are the worst thing since the plague. Yah, the plauge was worse, but still…
Bed bugs are worse than Scott Baio who was the worst thing since the plague.
They are worse than the chicken at Tretskys’.
My thoughts exactly. Does the OP know what the fuck he/she is talking about? OK, granted, they are not the worst thing in the world. The Holocaust, the plague, Justin Bieber… all worse than bedbugs.
But it’s not just “a tiny insect in your bed”… when you have bedbugs, it’s hundreds of carnivorous blood-sucking parasites feasting on your flesh all night long, every fucking night. When you have bedbugs you can’t fucking sleep because they are crawling all over you, sucking you dry, and causing you to itch like you’ve never itched before in your life. As if spending all night clawing your skin to shreds trying to relieve the itching in vain wasn’t enough, there’s also the psychological anxiety that comes with knowing that every time you lay down to rest, you are going to be devoured by a bunch of little fuckers that look like this. Night after fucking night. It’s like how I imagine the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay must have felt getting tortured every day, except the torture chamber/prison is your own fucking bed.
Cite?
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read, and I read the entire Sweet Valley High series.
But apparently you’ve read nothing by Stephen King.
Okay, bedbugs are bad but what if you had to share a bed with Dick Cheney? Or even George Bush? Bedbugs would start to look pretty good if those were your choices.
I dunno, LouisB. Cheney and Bush are easier to kill. And if they followed you to a friend’s house, I’m sure someone would see them.
Preach it Lucy!
Christ people, I’ve been a single dude for the last ten years and have never had a dreaded bedbug. I’m not that anal about a super clean house either.
Pick up your shit and maybe wash your sheets once in awhile.
Slobs.
Yeah, good on ya, gravitycrash. Seems you know about as much as SweetLucy. Bed bug infestations have nothing to do with how clean (or not) your house is, or how often you wash your fucking sheets. Or your non-fucking sheets.
For those with a severe cracial deficiency, bedbugs are roughly akin to sleeping in a bedfull of mosquitos. Only the mosquitos never get full. Ans they’re very hard to get rid of, since they can live in small cracks and crevices.
And they can go without eating for months, or years, and still manage to live and look for their next meal.
You don’t get them from not washing your sheets. You get them from going somewhere with bedbugs and taking these hard-to-see-with-the-naked-eye bugs home in your suitcase or your clothes. That “somewhere” can be a decent hotel or your kid’s friend’s house where they had a sleepover. You can also get them from second-hand bed or furniture items.
Edit: I’ve never had bedbugs, but after educating myself on them, I’d rather deal with the dust mites - yes, I do have allergies - than bedbugs, at least in the short term. (You can’t ever exterminate dust mites, so you have to live with that.)
Sure, they’re wonderful things. If you don’t mind blood stained sheets and itchy welts.
I recently experience the horror of bedbugs.
The good news is that, after throwing out my furniture and having an exterminator in twice, they’re apparently gone.
I am with the OP. I got bit by bedbugs all the time traveling around before bedbugs were a “thing.”. Yeah, sometimes they itched. But really it wasn’t that big a deal n