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Discussion Thread Sunday 27 🐈 April 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Damn, every time I leave this place I delete the memory of how disgustingly huge cockroaches get, and then every time I come back I get a rude shock. 🤢 Loathsome creatures...

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In Sydney I had ones that had been poisoned so many times they stopped dying and grew curly wings 🤮

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My friends had ones that learned to run upright on their back legs to keep the poison offa their mouth-hand-legs.

[–] anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

They’re genuinely invincible

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, flying cockroaches are the end boss nightmare. Ewwwwwww

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Probably far too late, but do not play RE2

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me of Super Mario Bros where there are those flying turtle things as you progress through the levels

[–] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the white stuff that comes out when you thwack it with your thong shudders

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My mum is vehemently anti-killing to the point that she won't even relocate bugs off her treasured curry leaf plants that are constantly under attack - I've never seen the insides of a roach and don't think I'm in a rush to 😬

At my old place I'd catch them under a cup and throw them outside. My mum puts kitchen gloves on and grabs them just like that which freaked me out massively as a child and as an adult

[–] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Wow. Full props to your mum. My mum (when growing up in the tropical soup) was fully supportive of killing. I don't think we dented the numbers though