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STEED
10-01-07, 06:01 AM
People of Great Britain the time has come to take up your flame throwers and go to war. We are under attack and we must fight back or we could all be bitten to death. :huh:

Bedbug epidemic that's turning Great Britain into Great Bitten (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=484900&in_page_id=1770)
Deamon
10-01-07, 06:07 AM
Time for debugging :yep:
SmokinTep
10-01-07, 06:22 AM
Remind me not to sleep over there..............:lol:
The Avon Lady
10-01-07, 09:24 AM
we could all be bitten to death.
If they do,
then squeeze them tight,
so they won't come back another night.
Jimbuna
10-01-07, 09:31 AM
The perfect excuse to ask for my back scratch :p
joea
10-01-07, 02:01 PM
Better bedbugs then brain eaters. ;)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=122827
Letum
10-01-07, 03:16 PM
A topic not about islam?

We can't have that now can we? (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/24/ncops124.xml)

*edit* It's the telegraph and it's a load of bollocks, but I couldn't resist it.
Jimbuna
10-01-07, 03:55 PM
"What makes it even worse is they have to pay for their own accommodation."

So what does an insect bite cost these days ? :hmm:

Perhaps it depends on the type of insect you would like to be bitten by :lol:
The WosMan
10-01-07, 06:37 PM
This may sound a bit insensitive but I call it as I see it. My guess is the open immigration policy is causing some of this. Some cultures don't exactly have the best hygiene. This is almost the same as how in the USA the southern and southwest hospitals and clinics that border Mexico are getting more and more people with forms of TB and other diseases that haven't been problems for years but are coming back.
Letum
10-01-07, 06:53 PM
This may sound a bit insensitive but I call it as I see it. My guess is the open immigration policy is causing some of this. Some cultures don't exactly have the best hygiene. This is almost the same as how in the USA the southern and southwest hospitals and clinics that border Mexico are getting more and more people with forms of TB and other diseases that haven't been problems for years but are coming back.
I follow the logic, but I'm not sure it would work in practice with bed bugs.

Some diseases and parasites are carried with immigrants and migrants. See fall of Aztecs.
However, in the case of bed-bugs you would either have to import vast amounts of
them to increase the native population or provide prime breeding grounds for them.
The first option can be ruled out as "not usually carried from place to place by
people on clothing they are currently wearing" [wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug)]. They are not likely to travel in
large numbers across countries unless large amount of bedding material is being
moved and this is not the case for most immigrants.
As far as "prime breeding grounds" go; bedbugs are not fussy about weather the bed
is clean or dirty as long as they have someone to feed on and are not exterminated. I
don't think there is any evidence that immigrant's are less willing to exterminate bed bugs
than long term residents of a country.

At a guess I would say that bed bugs are booming because:
1) People are less aware of them than they used to be.
2) Many pesticides such as DDT that used to control them are now banned.
3) Warmer climates in the northern hemisphere
4) Continued urbanisation

*edit* RE: TB, doesn't most TB come from animals? Most wild animals round here are infected.