# I'm tired of hearing about bedbugs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 3, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031 "2011-09-03T04:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/1 "2011-09-03T04:51:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/2 "2011-09-03T07:32:04Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > **I’m tired of hearing about bedbugs**. So am I, and then I see this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/3 "2011-09-03T09:48:05Z")
I take it you’ve never had bedbugs, then. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/4 "2011-09-03T11:57:54Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > Get a life, people! :mad: zzzzzZZZZING!!! ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/5 "2011-09-03T12:57:01Z")
**SweetLucy** , bedbugs are a moot point when you have a stupidity infestation. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/6 "2011-09-03T23:23:12Z")
In Soviet Russia bed bug hears you! ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/7 "2011-09-04T05:44:39Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > but the way some people talk you’d think that bedbugs are the worse thing since the plague. I had bedbugs. They actually are the worst thing since the plague. Yah, the plauge was worse, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/8 "2011-09-04T07:07:33Z")
Bed bugs are worse than Scott Baio who was the worst thing since the plague. They are worse than the chicken at Tretskys’. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/9 "2011-09-04T07:23:30Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > I take it you’ve never had bedbugs, then. 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](http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/48623000/jpg/_48623048_bugs_01.jpg). 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/10 "2011-09-04T08:32:34Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Bed bugs are worse than Scott Baio… Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/11 "2011-09-04T09:20:18Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > Dust mites are the tiny insects that cause a lot more misery (such as allergies) This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read, and I read the entire Sweet Valley High series. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/12 "2011-09-04T09:25:32Z")
> [@Algorithm](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/13 "2011-09-04T11:17:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/14 "2011-09-04T11:47:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/15 "2011-09-04T12:08:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/16 "2011-09-04T12:17:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/17 "2011-09-04T14:59:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/18 "2011-09-04T15:12:24Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > 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.) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/19 "2011-09-04T15:28:16Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > 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. Sure, they’re wonderful things. If you don’t mind blood stained sheets and itchy welts. I recently experience the horror of bedbugs. > **[Bedbugs!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=615059)** > > AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! :eek: Shit. I would have pitted the damned things but I doubt that they read the Dope. ☹ The good news is that, after throwing out my furniture and having an exterminator in twice, they’re apparently gone. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031/20 "2011-09-04T17:57:34Z")
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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-hearing-about-bedbugs/595031.md?page=2)