I didn’t think they really ate clothes either LD, thankfully we haven’t seen any moths in the house for years now.
In the posh part of Dublin 4 they pronounce Moths as Mods, and I can remember as a child a cartoon strip in a children’s comic called “Maud the Moth”.
About eight years ago we bought an expensive mattress from a well known store in town. After a week or so I started scratching in the bed, then the wife started scratching too, we couldn’t figure out why. then when she was making up the bed next morning she spotted several bed bugs, at the side of the mattress was a small hole and when I opened it up more there were thousands of the little buggers all huddled together in a big ball of movement, and in a brand new mattress!!.
We never had bed bugs in all the years we lived here which would be most of our married life, they obviously came with the mattress.
Anyway we informed the store and sent them photo’s, they said it had nothing to do with them so we contacted a solicitor, presented him with all the evidence and he sorted it out quickly. The whole house had to be fumigated by Rent a Kill and the wife had to have medical treatment she was in such a state over the whole thing, it was a very traumatic time for her, she still has nightmares about it to this day and always checks the mattress before she gets into bed.
Ye gawds… now you have gone and done it Jem .:shock:
Why is it that just reading the very mention of bed bugs or head lice and you can’t help but start scratching uncontrollably .
I remember as a youngster my Mother going absolutely ballistic after allowing me to stay overnight at a friends house and I came back home badly bitten by bed bugs. Fair scared the wits out of me as I thought with that kind of reaction I was going to die. If she had got hold of my friends mother that day she would have tarred and feathered her for sure.
Mother eventually calmed down, bites went and I survived but lost a friend.
Yes bugs in a bed, horrible things, I remember writing about it on this forum at the time. Enough about that, but in a new mattress!, it just goes to show you you can’t be sure of anything can you.
Thinking about this plastic problem again, I’m sure they already have a few genetically modified humans walking around the place at the present time without anyone knowing about it, so what if with all they know now about genetics and body part transplants, they came up with a creature that eats plastic? you could have one in every household, and they could double for pets as well, they could make them any size and shape so they could fit under the sink or one could make a little sort of kennel for it to put outside with the bins, all you’d have to do is give it a kick in the arse and it opens it’s mouth, hey presto! the plastic is gone forever!
Just think of the advantage of it, no pet food bills, no recycling bin charges, his/her waste would probably be good for the garden too, and a nice little companion to keep you company. albeit an extremely ugly one judging by the designers of today.
I think i remember reading about some rats that actually thrive on eating plastic cables, scientists could start to work from that, keep them busy and stop them telling us everything we like is bad for us and looking for black holes that ain’t there.
Pug would be the man for figuring all the ins and outs of the creature, he’s brilliant at equations and stuff like that, go for it Pug put your name on the international stage!;-)
Had David Lean got a brother called Terry Lean? I know he had a wrinkly old Aunt called Crimp Lean, then you have his two sisters, Polly, Esther.
Well,in reality Jem,plastic as we know it isn’t made correctly.
By which I mean,during the manufacturing of plastic for everyday use,acetone is deliberately kept out of the process.
Adding it to the process of manufacture WILL enable many forms of plastic to slowly degenerate,eventually disappearing into sub-structure form,that can be then used as fertilisers.
The other enzyme known to dissolve the more complex forms of plastic,is
Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6. THIS little warrior can dissolve plastic into totally,within six weeks of being applied. There’s now been an update to it’s formula,known as the ‘mutant enzyme’,which actually has already showed it’s ability to completely dissolve ALL types of plastic/poly,in 20% less time than it’s original version!
So,chins up,mate-humans may be daft-but as a rule,we do [usually] try to fix our mistakes. Ask that nice Mr Midgely why he thought putting lead in petrol was a good idea.
…bit of an ‘‘oops’’ moment,that-but gradually,we’re getting it sorted,mate.
Good to know we are onto solving this plastic posing problem…the idea of a genetically engineered household plastic eating pet sounds perfect… except pets with or without a kicking tend to poop (crap) all over the place…and that poop still contains plastic.
PETAase does sound perfect for the job but there again we may end up with another Japanese HuaWei type problem which is not to be woofed at…so I will stay with the pooping pug idea and lets hope it doesn’t bite the hand that feeds it :-D.
Why the ‘you are all so clever’ sarcasm ,RJ?
Jem asked me a question.
I answered it…without once feeling the need to mention how many degrees I hold.
MAN,this site really is becoming toxic,of late.
I’m not clever as I only use my brain when I want to…and thats not very clever now is it. My philosophy has always been ‘don’t clutter up such a small space’.
Funny how odd things stick in your mind though. Take Latin. This little Twinkle, Twinkle little star verse has stuck after all these years, mainly because our Latin teacher insisted on accompaning every word of it by banging a book on our heads to make sure the poem was rammed firmly into our tiny brains. It worked…
Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific
Loftily poised in the ether capacious
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous!..and so on
How terrible. I’m scratching just thinking about it. That was another of those old fashioned things people used to say… ‘Don’t let the bed bugs bite’ but you never imagine it can come true. I suppose we are lucky these days really but years ago, they had these problems all the time poor sods.
Upon reviewing my post it does appear rather boastful.
It was not my intent for this to be.
I was merely reminiscing about a period in my past life, which I thought might be of interest to others… I have not always been a boring old fart, you know.
BTW, I failed all my GCE’s’ & am in awe of your book learning & POLYMATH status et al.
Ah it gladdens me heart to see you all in such great form.
Life’s too short for arguments folks, who cares who’s clever and who’s stupid, I don’t and I’m happy to be included in the latter, it’s all only a bit of harmless craic after all.
Naturally I didn’t mean to be cruel to the plastic eating creature Solo, I’m very fond of animals, there would be a stump on it’s ass made of the same stuff as horses hoofs ,completely without feeling and used to activate the big mouth.Tut tut one would not kick a lovable creature like that in the ass just for pleasure.
Activating big mouths ummm, deactivating them is much harder, now take my wife…
So there is hope yet, like the man going into the confession box and the man sitting in the bath, one has hope in his soul and the other has soap…, Dear old Father Kavanagh told me that one many years ago, God be good to him, he was way ahead of his time and his heart was on the side of the ordinary folk.
Thanks Pug for sharing your knowledge on the subject, yeh never let me down.
RJ I didn’t know you gave lectures on fabrics, fair play to you, a true man of the ‘cloth’
There are so many different types of plastics about now, but to the common Joe Soap like myself they’re all just plastic, a rose by any other name and all that.
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