Closed Week #17 2017-08-28

[Prinza the Hunter]

It's time I did another cleanup, too.
My friends on beta are very active (as are my neighbours, unfortunately) and it highlights the slowness on live servers.

 

[vikingraider]

I hope no neighbour in particular.... I've just used the tip to aid from the filters on event history and it surprised me who hadn't aided in a week. Some I thought were mad keen players. Some however, even though inactive, we're my holy grail. GB self levellers who nobody else has found yet.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

I hope no neighbour in particular....

Hah!

I've just used the tip to aid from the filters on event history and it surprised me who hadn't aided in a week. Some I thought were mad keen players. Some however, even though inactive, we're my holy grail. GB self levellers who nobody else has found yet.

Oh yes, those goldmines of self-levellers. Grab all you can while you can. In my experience, they only go a few weeks, at best, before being discovered by hordes of other players, or they suddenly move into a guild with active swap rings and start taking part.

I assume these people come about from just getting too busy in real life to do more than log in, slap accumulated FPs on a GB - often, any of their GBs, without strategy - and log out again. Sometime later, work or whatever was tying them up relaxes and back into the game they come.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Yes, yes, we get it

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Urgh...flippin wasp snuck up on me and stung me. Little bastard was crawling up my leg, I felt it, when I reached down to grab whatever it was...Ha! Take that human! To which I replied Ha! Get crushed bug!

It still hurt like a bastard for a good 5 minutes.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Ouch!
Half a slice of bread, wetted with wam water and held on the entry point, is still the best way I know to remove any residual sting.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

I'd just run warm water over it, that did the trick.

Usually stingy, bitey bugs don't get a chance to do this, but this one was trained in guerilla warfare, I think he could've shown the ninja spiders who drop down in front of my face a thing or two.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

It's those rogue gnats that have been bothering me this year.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

In previous years it's been stinkbugs here, the gnats, conveniently, stick to the plastic grocery bag I use for garbage, which makes it easy to get rid of them, just hold it closed, tie it and toss it, with them inside.

 

[DeletedUser108047]

try bush flies -- no sting but persistently in your face for days.... and when you get rid of one or two...there's another million blowing in from the Outback

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Well naturally pests from pretty much anywhere else come in at least just 2nd, if not a distant 3rd, 4th or not even on the map, compared to what you Aussies have to deal with. I occasionally see the war between one of your fellow countrymen against an infestation of redbacks....I'd be nervous as hell if I had black widows infesting the place I live in....the occasional wolf spider is bad enough.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Totally agree, there. As much as I would like Britain to have an even warmer climate, at least our hot/cold switching about limits the bugs we have here. Not that I would have said so the other day, when facing-off with the spider who was claiming occupancy of my bath.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

I get spiders in there too, but they're the kind that hunts other spiders and can't harm people. Usually I just grab them by the legs and let them go on the floor, but sometimes I get annoyed at the frequency they occupy the sink or shower and I start a mini-purge.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

I have a house-mate allergic to spiders, so they have to be tried and executed (the sentence is always 'guilty' but the trial still goes ahead..).

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Chief Archon Prinza of the British Union.

The verdict is always the same...guilty!
Then why have a trial at all?
Because it makes the people happy! To see justice triumph over lawlessness!

 

[vikingraider]

Lots of arachnophobia on here

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Not so much arachnophobia as arachnogenocide.

 

[vikingraider]

I don't mind spiders. They do a good job. We don't have any really nasty ones here.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

I've been told that Britain has a spider with the most poisonous venom of all. Fortunately, they don't have much of it and, anyway, don't have the ability to get to inject humans. That could be a load of rubbish and if I weren't about to grumble on the beta forum, Id look it up.