Roaches don’t have squatters rights.
But does anyone else know you have a rando living in your attic?
You can call the police for a person.
You can’t fir 1000 roches.
Hell i’d take a person over 10 roaches
You can just call an exterminator for the roaches though. I would definitely rather invite an exterminator into my house that the cops.
You need 1 bullet to deal with a person, and 1000 to deal with 1000 cockroaches.
Math is pretty easy.
And then a shitload of contractors to repair the 1000 bullet holes in your house due to the massive overkill of shooting roaches.
Nice accuracy tho.
I think using 1000 bullets in your home to kill roaches would be…ya know what, nah, go for it
there’s an extremely early episode of Family Guy where they use guns to shoot at fleas. Because obviously that would be ridiculous.
People that live in attics write best selling books. I bet I could negotiate at least 60% of that profit if it was my fucking attic. Easy Choice.
It’ll be just like The Sims
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As a homeowner? Person. While it might be terrifying to discover a hobo living in the attic, at least they won’t infest every electronic item I own. And they can’t fit into the walls.
I made the mistake of staying with a boyfriend who didn’t disclose his roach infestation until I was already there. My god. They were everywhere. They didn’t even run when you turned the light, just give me a wave with one leg like, hey, how you doing?
A roach waving at me would make me drop dead on the spot.
That’s some Joe’s Apartment shit
Kinda shows who is the real boss there.
Aww, they liked you. They probably would have sung and danced for you if you gave them treats
Am I the only one here who can’t work out what the second person is saying in that reply? Having a “has anyone really been far even as decided…” moment.
Paraphrased, it says: “this made me think hard because I don’t like either option”
Nothing else is important information, just sensational fluff to make a regular statement sound more exciting.
lmao I had flashbacks to the same line as well. For old memes sake, Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
As [email protected] translated:
This is truly, on god, the first “would you rather” that I’ve ever had to devote significant thought to.”
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[@[email protected]](https://instance.tld/u/username).No, I forgot the first @. Just a slip up.
Id rather find a person. Finding them implies i was looking for them all along right? Haha
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100% would do the person
you can befriend them easier than roaches
A person can’t hide in my shirts to crawl on me when I put them on
Not with that attitude
Fun one. I grew up in trailers and we had roaches. Id wake up with them crawling all over. Turn on a light and up the walls they go. Now I’m a behavior therapist and I’d take the person who obviously means me no harm over skittering ass bugs. There’s nothing that says they have to stay either or that they can’t be helped :)
As someone who had bedbugs, I’d rather wrestle a person than ever see a bug in my place that isn’t a spider again.
From a practical standpoint, the person is theoretically easier to get rid of than the roaches because there’s almost certainly only one of them and even if there’s two, of opposite sex, it takes considerably more time and effort for them to produce any more of them and even then more than a decade before those offspring can themselves breed. That said a person is as big as at least 1000 cockroaches and has more natural defences.
It’s a bit of a conundrum because there’s probably more readily available resources for getting rid of roaches than a person, but they’re probably less effective than most anti person resources that you can get if you can get them. You could try the anti roach tactics on the person but you’d have to get like a lot of roach spray and a lot of protective equipment because the cornered person is pretty dangerous. You couldn’t even really call in a professional either because I reckon they’d likely run away when they discovered they weren’t dealing with roaches.
Depending on your area the local police would probably be the best stand in for pest control at this scale and probably pretty effective too so ultimately the person is probably the better option of the 2 but that said it’d be an awful lot more disturbing than the 1000 roaches. There is at least the option of becoming friends with the person though which is not really an option with the roaches.
I’m leaning roaches just because I won’t have as much difficulty explaining why I killed them.
I’m sure tenting the whole house for a few days will get rid of both easily
Yeah but I feel like modern insecticides/ pest control methods are pretty good. Probably could have the roaches nipped in the bud with 1-2 visits from a decent exterminator. Involving the police etc sounds like a much bigger ordeal
If you have both, you could set them against each other and the problem might solve itself
Thunderdome! 1001 creatures enter, only one leaves!
“This is truly, on god, the first “would you rather” that I’ve ever had to devote significant thought to.”
They just don’t like punctuation.
Edit, sorry @ [email protected] I meant to reply to you.
1000 roaches or a human in my attic is not what fucked me up, it was that damn second comment and I scrolled furiously thinking surely it’s not just me. Thanks for the explanation.
Oh ffs. How you managed to decipher that, I don’t know. Thank you!!
Thank you!
What does “on god” mean? First I’ve heard that term.
Truthfully
like, “I swear by god”, I’m guessing
They’re swearing to god that what they are saying is true. It’s phrased a bit awkwardly, I think they’ve mixed up “I swear to god” and “hand on heart” or maybe “on my mother’s life”, something like that.
“on god” is just zoomer slang.
Ah! I’m pretty old, definitely not up to date on the latest slang.
It can also be abbreviated to “ong” which is not the same as “omg”.
For once I am glad I live in a location that I would be too hot for anything to live in my attic.
That’s what you think. Roaches can survive extreme heat. Humans, not so much.
I didn’t need to hear this before bed time.
Both problems can in theory be solved with a flamethrower
In practice choosing 1000 roaches would make for a legal solution (i don’t know how to survive jail)
The right amount of borax also takes care of either problem.
