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two minutes
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
I stopped being bitten so frequently by mosquitoes after puberty. At first, I thought it was because the chemicals from my first perm scared them away. Now I think it's my onion-y body odor.
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femputer
09/01/09

@two minutes: Maybe your teenage years are just super fucking stressful. Actually, I'm willing to wager on that.
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two minutes
09/02/09

@femputer: You could be right about the stress. I'm 23 now, but I've always been high strung and I haven't been bitten in a long while.
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KookyMonster
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
Also celebrating gay marriage in VT? The Westboro Baptist Church. Those fucking assholes drove a minivan from KANSAS. To hold six half hour protests about some shit that doesn't impact them at all.
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lollapulizer
09/01/09

@Turtleface: Those guys will protest almost anything. They protested my old high school last year because it's named for Walt Whitman, and he might have been gay.
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willwriteforfood
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
My bf swears people with stinkier feet get bitten more often because mosquitoes are attracted to the smell. I don't know if this is grounded in any scientific proof or if he's just shining me on but my feet do stink more than his and I get bitten scarily often.

On a related note, does anyone know if those new Off! gadgets that hook onto your belt and have a tiny little fan inside them to ward off mosquitoes actually works? I would much prefer that to bathing in DEET.
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The Lone Scout
09/02/09

@willwriteforfood: Here are a couple of quotes from the Off! Clip-On mosquito repellant product web page:

"The quiet, battery-powered fan circulates repellent all around you."

"If you move, allow a few minutes for the unit to rebuild its protection."

"Avoid breathing vapor."

So, I'm supposed to sit still and let the DEET vapor waft about me, but not breath it in.

I'll take my chances using 98% concentration DEET carefully, so that I can get off my ass out into the woods and hike all day.

Still, one should expect mosquito, fly, and tick bites. That's why it's called "outdoors."
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
-The Taco Bell story. 16 years for raping two 16-year-olds? Really? So eight years apiece. I know that's standard, but still, if I were one of those girls I'd be mighty pissed and a little scared when my 30th birthday came around (assuming he even serves the entire sentence). Screw the money.

-According to friends of friends (I swear), GHB's glorious effects include throwing up all over yourself, passing out cold and, yes, blacking out and forgetting everything that happened. So even if people are doing it by choice, you've got to wonder what sort of company they're in.

-Dangerous abortions? Yikes. What a time for abortion-providing doctors to be dwindling. Keep scaring them out of it and no one will even know what to do in an emergency birth.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
Goddamn fucking mosquitos. I'm sitting here reading this, absentmindedly scratching my maimed ankles, and feel something wet on my fingers. I accidentally ripped off one of my (many) scabs and now it's bleeding it's ass off. And itching all the while, no less. They only bite my ankles, for whatever reason, and every year around this time, my lower legs are covered in welts and scabby-looking patches. There's more bite than leg, basically. I say, let the little motherfuckers go suck on their own stupid blood and scratch themselves to death and leave my fat ankles alone.

Sorry. That bit just really hit home for me.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
09/01/09

@now it's just Aesop's Heatstroke.: Skin So Soft Bath Oil from Avon. Really.
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Ultraprison!
09/01/09

@now it's just Aesop's Heatstroke.: I'm sorry about your scabs, but mega-queasy from your enthusiastic description. Can we get a warning next time??
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broad
09/01/09

@now it's just Aesop's Heatstroke.: (strokes head, hands beer in total commiseration)
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greengrey
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
I thought bugs left you alone if you're REALLY drunk?
I'll go out drinking and feel NO BUGS. But the next morning I'll see bite. They must get me in my sleep!
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schweppes
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
There was a really good radio lab (a great program on npr from wnyc) short recently about babies and how they think/see/hear/etc. The guy they interviewed wrote a book called (I think) 1000 days of wonder. Fascinating - for instance, infants' brains sometimes misfire - the respond to auditory stimulus in the "vision" part of their brain and their eyes see things very bright "like we would imagine Greece at midday" to be because their eye lenses haven't yellowed from exposure to light. Science is awesomes.
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randomnessish
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
About the ageism in young people: are you talking about kids with grandparents? WHY do they have ageism? Because I know when I was 5, I was creeped out by old people because I was creeped out by my grandparents: they're old, they smell weird, they whistle all the time, they have to get their legs amputated and live in an oxygen tank--the kind of things that would scare any self-respecting toddler. And I know my 8 year old cousin was super-scared of my grandfather, who was always serious all the time and expected him to "be a man" and understand opera. So.
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LuvEwan
09/01/09

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"I think that for babies, every day is like first love in Paris."

Who knew first love in Paris included shitting your pants, watching 101 Dalmatians on a continuous loop and puking on your aunt.
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wtfox?!
09/01/09

@LuvEwan: Well, I don't know what you got up to in Paris after you met that spiritual, old-soul bohemian artist.
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LuvEwan
09/01/09

@wtfox?!: You mean this one here? He taught my bitter prostitute heart to love again!
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
09/01/09

@LuvEwan: How about peeing in an alley, watching crappily dubbed MTV shows and puking in the Seine?
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wtfox?!
09/01/09

@LuvEwan: This one, on the other hand, stole my formula for cold fusion, but at least he also taught my cold, unfeeling scientist heart to love for the first time!
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fluxus flucker
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
Ironically, mosquitoes sting the hell out of allergic Fluxus. Yet, the sound of their buzzing is incredibly stressful to this generally anxious person. I just can't win.
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JerseyGrrrl
09/01/09

@fluxus flucker: I feel like those findings directly contradict my personal observations (which I admit are non-scientific). The ladies in my family, myself included, are all high-strung, Type A control freaks with organized sock draws. We get mauled by bugs on our front porches.

My laid-back husband, on the other hand, can roll in 6-inch grass and splash in stagnant water and emerge unharmed.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
09/01/09

@JerseyGrrrl: It's those sock drawers. We talked about those.
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JerseyGrrrl
09/01/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Must align in rainbow order.....must....
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clevernamehere
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
I thought the reaction to bug bites was an allergic reaction. I though the people most likely to react are descended from people from colder climates where they wouldn't be used to these bugs.
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Lymed
09/01/09

@clevernamehere: The finding isn't about how people react, but which people get bitten. I've never met anybody who had no reaction to mosquito bites. But I do know that people with allergies get larger welts.
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egg cream
09/01/09

@clevernamehere: It is (although I'm not sure about the descended-from-colder-climates thing) but they're talking about why some people get bitten more often, not why some people have worse reactions to the bites.

I get bitten all the damn time, so I must be super laid-back.
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vanka-vstanka
09/01/09

@clevernamehere: I live in a cold climate, and there are a ton of mosquitoes here. Sometimes they're still a problem in the middle of winter because they'll live in damp basements and such.
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legallynonblonde
09/01/09

@Lymed: I am one of those lucky few that has no reaction to mosquito bites.

In the innocence of youth, I thought that the absence of welts was just because we had an "understanding" (me and the mosquitoes) and that I had coaxed them all into a peace accord with me.

Now, I realize it is more likely that I just don't react. :)
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onestrawplz
09/01/09

@clevernamehere: I have Sicilian and Neapolitan blood and I get WELTS from mosquito bites. I realize this is entirely anecdotal, though.
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Scout
09/01/09

@egg cream is here, is second tier, get used to it: I'm uber stressed and neurotic...and get MAULED by these bitches!!
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Hana Maru
09/01/09

@onestrawplz: Another anecdote: I'm from equatorial stock and I get eaten by those buggers like you wouldn't believe.
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wtfox?!
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
I think that for babies, every day is like first love in Paris

So... pretentious, cliche, and self-absorbed? That sounds like a lot of babies I know. Thanks, Philosopher Alison Gopnik!
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valhalla_i_am_coming
09/01/09

@wtfox?!: They're wearing berets and chain-smoking Gauloises.
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wtfox?!
09/01/09

@valhalla_i_am_coming: Babies and Ernest Hemingway... are they the same thing?
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badmutha
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
I am clearly one of the healthiest people on my block, considering how the mosquitoes love to bite me.
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wtfox?!
09/01/09

@badmutha: Woo! No West Nile virus for me, bitches!
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Lymed
09/01/09

@badmutha: I used to be a mosquito magnet, but since I started treatment for Lyme disease, I get bitten much less. I just figure that the medications must give off some crazy odor.
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SweetIo
09/02/09

@Lymed: Heh. I have a friend who is going through chemo right now and she got bit by a mosquito and she took great pleasure imagining the little bastard dying horribly after realizing she'd sucked some f-ed up blood.
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egg cream
09/01/09

In reply to Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit
An obvious antidote? Taking toddlers to visit their grandparents.

Not in my case -- thanks to my awful, awful grandmother, I have really visceral negative reactions to elderly women. (Like, you know how TV shows sometimes put old people in danger, or make them deal with sad things, in order to tug your heartstrings? When it's an old lady, my first reaction is, "Good.")
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clevernamehere
09/01/09

@egg cream is here, is second tier, get used to it: You're going to be fun to be around in a retirement community someday.
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egg cream
09/01/09

@clevernamehere: It's gonna be nonstop knife-fighting at the Wednesday-night bingo game, let me tell you.
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schlegs84
07/23/09

In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
Does anyone else cry at this commercial? Not that I do....
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