Okay, there’s a mosquito in my room, caught in an old spider-less web. He’s one of those really long legged mosquito types, and I’ll call him Chuck. I was just going to leave him there, but I’ll put it up to you –
What should I do? Free him? Leave him there? Go out and have a beer? Leave your compelling arguments here and I’ll do whatever popularity dictates.
*“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller
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Free the weed.
Um, I mean, free the mosquito. He’ll just go pollinate some plant somewhere.
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If he was just hanging out in your room all pesky-like, then I’d say trap him and squish him, but since he’s already trapped, I can’t help but feel sorry for the little guy. LET HIM GO!!
‘When I feel friendship for you, I am ashamed.’
Negative.
He dies, the little blood sucker.
Let him rot, filthy, stinking sonofabitch! Go find as many of his blood sucking siblings and squish them in front of him while he writhes in agony. Then, cut your finger and bring the drop of blood as close to his disgusting little face as you can and watch him squirm. I hate the little bastards!
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
when I said I’d like to smash every tooth in your head.
The vote is in: Chuck chuck.
It sounds to me, though, as if the little guy is really a male, meaning he’s not actually a bloodsucker at all.
Does this change anyone’s opinion?
Um, are you sure it’s a mosquito? You said it’s one of the really long legged types. How big is really long? If the legs are over an inch, Chuck is probably a crane fly rather than a mosquito. Crane flies eat mosquitos. Let Chuck go.
Of course, if Chuck really is a mosquito, then my vote is introduce him (her, more likely) to a web that’s still got a spider.
One of the few irritants left on this great earth are mosquitoes, and although I believe all things have their place, to leave the critter in a trap is to me unconscionable, kill the little fucker
Thats not a Mosquito. It eats Mosquitos!! Free it!
No! He might breed. Smoosh him…unless he’s a crane fly. Then give him a new suit, 10 bucks, and cab fare to the bus station.
“It sounds to me, though, as if the little guy is really a male, meaning he’s not actually a bloodsucker at all.
Does this change anyone’s opinion?”
No.
He dies.
Long legs = crane fly = FREE CHUCK!
(Short legs = smashed diptera.)
Nine out of Ten Entomologists agree:
A pest is a pest. Kill the little guy.
[chanting]Free Chuck! Free Chuck! Free Chuck![/chanting]
If it was a mosquito, I’d say squash the little bugger. But since it’s not, and he actually eats the loathesome pests, do the right thing, man. Let Chuck go!
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
crisantemi, we are specifically discussing skeeters of which only the female sucks blood. Please contain your humor to other Fora. Show some respect for Chuck’s plight.
Oh, toughen up here, Chuck isn’t bright enough to stay away from playing in the spider’s den, he plays, he pays!! Chuck is stuck.
“Um, according to who? Nothing more than a high brow troll, though occasionally the bi polar personality swung in a constructive direction on innocuous topics.” Omniscient
Co-opt.
OK, ya’ll have convinced me.
Crane fly–Free Chuck!
Mosquito–Leave Chuck there; just go out and have a beer.
free chuck… he’s pretty well been punished… he’s probably been all hungry, and stuff… no chick wants a damn scrawny
mosquito…
he’ll never get laid… just let’m go