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[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem with this old chestnut is that nut-tapping yourself is way better than walking around with a mosquito bite on your ball sack.

[–] teft@piefed.social 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The real problem is you can just wave your hand near a mosquito and it will take flight again. You don’t have to rack yourself at all. And then you can go put on some undies, you savage.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don’t have to rack yourself at all.

Don't tell other people that! I'd look a lot weirder in public if people knew that. /j

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

rack yourself

I can extrapolate the meaning from context, but now I just want to play Pool.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Pocket pool in public is fun

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

And then you can go put on some undies, you savage.

Spoken like a slave to Big Fabric(tm)!

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You want me to wave it off so it can bite me somewhere else? No thanks, I've already had dengue.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

A lot more fun, too

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1: nonviolently remove mosquito from testicle.

2: kill the mosquito.

3: kill the mosquito's friends, family, neighbors, distant relatives.

4: full on mosquito genocide.

5: don't stop until they're completely extinct.

 

The food chain can either adapt or collapse. Fuck it. Worse case scenario, we snuff out life on this planet a few years earlier than we're doing anyway via our increasingly relentless attacks on our climate. At this point it's worth the risk.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Humanity agrees. We are currently undergoing a massive genetic weapons test against mosquitos to get them to stop breeding, and recent research hints at a generic switch for malaria. It's terrifying but if theere's anything that humanity was going to yolo, it was going to be mosquito genocide.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

I can be violent to the mosquitoes without hurting my nuts.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Mmmm yes very wise

[–] XiELEd@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

CBT Enthusiasts: 😶‍🌫️

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to have testicles, and I can confidently say it's possible to squeeze a mosquito to death between your fingers while it drinks your blood.

I've also heard legends of people flexing their muscles to pop a mosquito from the blood pressure. Someone should try using an erection to kill a mosquito.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I used to have testicles

My first thought was that you learned the value of non-violence the hard way

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Haha, just dronegender and post-op

Googling that was a journey

[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You know that you can use both hands to kill flies and mosquitos easy-peasy, right? It just takes a modicum of patience, and you don't have to hit yourself at all.

In other words, you need to plan your violence, instead of being impulsive with it.