Ahhh!! I've got Ants on my desk!

[Rip The Jacker]

Crap!! There are ants all over me desk. :(

Dammit I hate it when this happens, I don't have any Raid around. I've been flicking them around for a good 15 minutes but they won't go away. What should I do? :(

And is it true that rain attracts ants... or makes ants... um... show up? :unsure:

EDIT: I found one in my keyboard... I tried to kill it but ended up pressing too many buttons, without killing it.

[TheDave]

yes. it's scientifically proven 4% of rain storms are made of ants :blink:

[Cheese]

I wish people would stop spamming the board with these advertisements for Ants. :glare:

[bigboab]

I agree. You should advertize them on a Forumicory. :blink:

[TheDave]

click the reply text box and put one on your keyboard while you try and squish it. see what it types :unsure:

[Rip The Jacker]

click the reply text box and put one on your keyboard while you try and squish it. see what it types :unsure:
ft654... then it went inside. :ohmy:

EDIT: Hey this is kinda fun... die ants die. :devil:

[TheDave]

http://www.meteorite.com/catalog/australasian/thai_mn/FT654.jpg

[Rip The Jacker]

http://www.meteorite.com/catalog/australasian/thai_mn/FT654.jpg
/Confused.
/Looks at image's filename.

Good Lord! The ants are trying to tell me something! :ohmy:

[Money Fist]

get a can of lynx and a lighter
use that to ward them off

[*goddess*]

:unsure: Ants are supposed to hate salt, cover your desk in it and see.

[Mr. Mulder]

put the kettle on and boil em when they go inside ;)

[Rip The Jacker]

:unsure: Ants are supposed to hate salt, cover your desk in it and see.
Are you being serious? Because I'll try it. :unsure:

@Mr. Mulder
Boil my keyboard?! :ohmy:

[Mr. Mulder]

yes, it is the only way :unsure:

[*goddess*]

:lol: I actually am for a change.

:) My auntie taught me that years ago, sprinkle the salt and it deters em.

;) I was picturing you with a desk heaped with salt which would've amused my wee mind, but give it a go tho I'd put your keyboard on top of the monitor before trying it. I don't imagine salt's too good for the keyboard.

:blink: I'm doing the 'Janeyspeak' thing again, where it's possible to even confuse myself.

Sprinkle the salt on/around your desk, don't actually pile it on.

[TheDave]

ants or slugs?

[Rip The Jacker]

Yeah, are you sure your not thinking of slugs? :wacko:

[*goddess*]

:) Nope definately ants.

:rolleyes: My memory sucks, but I have vivid lil images I can recall from when I was even shorter and less wrinklier than I am now :lol:

:) I can picture the ants crawling up the wall in my aunties flat on a rare visit to her place.

[Rip The Jacker]

Alright, I'll try it when my dad leaves the house, otherwise he'll think I'm crazy.

[*goddess*]

:lol: You mean he doesn't already??

[brotherdoobie]

Alright, I'll try it when my dad leaves the house, otherwise he'll think I'm crazy.

Try sprinkling cayenne pepper power on the desk, and Borax powder in the cracks and crevices around your house. :)

Peace bd

[brotherdoobie]

:lol: You mean he doesn't already??

Hi Janey... :)

Peace bd

[*goddess*]

Hi Janey... :)

Peace bd


:wub: Hi gorgeous fella :D

:) How's things in your neck of the woods











:dry: and where's me damn pic you promised ages ago.

:rolleyes: I know you were doing the slow reveal, but really...... :P

[DanB]

Is it sunny?

If so get a magnifying glass an burn them :01:

[manker]

I read that if you put a bowl of heavily sugared water on the floor, the ants will all be drawn irresisibly to it and drown.

I tried this a while back when I noticed a few ants around the front door. I went off to lectures and didn't really give it a second thought. However when I got back there were legions of ants making trails through our house and branching off into different rooms, the nest must have been in the back yard.

The first wave had all died for the cause and made a dead ant sugared carpet for the rest of them to walk over.

It might work for you tho' :unsure:

[*goddess*]

Is it sunny?

If so get a magnifying glass an burn them :01:


:rolleyes: Ya, hopefully you've got other stuff you can burn and maybe you'll ensure major renovations will need to be done on your house :lol:

:dry: You pull the wings off flies to Dan?

[DanB]

:dry: You pull the wings off flies to Dan?

No, but I did use to enjoy slug salting :devil:

[*goddess*]

:lol: How bout spiders, you torment them too?

[DanB]

They scare me :fear:

I washed one down the plug hole once and it came back out after me

[*goddess*]

:lol: Go spidey :01:

:D I used to play with Daddy-long-leg spiders....... really venemous but they're mouths are so tiny they can't bite ya.


:ermm: You made that phone call yet?? :whistling

[Rip The Jacker]

@Dan
Sunny? Its raining outside! :lol:

@manker
Hmm... interesting... I'll remember that.

[DanB]

@Dan
Sunny? Its raining outside! :lol:



Damn, I don't think it works with fake light



:no:

[*goddess*]

:) Maybe a lighter would work?

Hmmmmmm, baked ants....... yum :lol:

[Mr. Mulder]

A can of deodorant and a lighter is what will send them back to the fiery hell they came from

[DanB]

Lighter and deoderant would do the job nicely


I see great minds think alike Mr Mulder ;)

[*goddess*]

:01: Oooooo even better, well done Mulder :D

edit: and Dan :lol:

[Lilmiss]

As far as I know salt doesn't get rid of them. :unsure:


But they don't like chalk.
So drop a box of that on them and watch the critters squish. :shifty:


No, if you draw a circle of chalk around them, they find it hard to cross.
Not that helps in the slightest.

[DarthInsinuate]

once i had ants that had nested somewhere in the dining room - my parents only decided to do something about them when they found the bottle of ribena sitting on the table was full of dead ants

[manker]

I think fiber said that about 23 posts up :lol:


Edit: The aerosol flamethrower thing. Fecking fast posting geppers :dry:

[*goddess*]

:ohmy: Salt does bloody work.


:boxing: We goin' again Lm??


:dry: Damn aminal killer

[DanB]

No, if you draw a circle of chalk around them, they find it hard to cross.
Not that helps in the slightest.


So maybe wait till they are all on your desk, draw big circle round them and then squash the damn things with a magazine or shoe :01:

[{I}{K}{E}]

Crap!! There are ants all over me desk. :(

Dammit I hate it when this happens, I don't have any Raid around. I've been flicking them around for a good 15 minutes but they won't go away. What should I do? :(

And is it true that rain attracts ants... or makes ants... um... show up? :unsure:

EDIT: I found one in my keyboard... I tried to kill it but ended up pressing too many buttons, without killing it.

I cursed you

Its one of the seven plagues :ph34r:

[Lilmiss]

Ants are not animals.

They are critters, who come in the night to steal your candy.
They should be given the stick treatment. :dry:

[DanB]

Ants are not animals.

They are critters, who come in the night to steal your candy.
They should be given the stick treatment. :dry:

I was gonna call them critters but I thought better of it ... they rawk in the film Antz :01:

[*goddess*]

Ants are not animals.

They are critters, who come in the night to steal your candy.
They should be given the stick treatment. :dry:


:rolleyes: I meant the aminal on the mug ya smashed ya daft bugger :1eye:

[Lilmiss]

Aha....I get you now.

He's not dead. :huh:
At the moment he's sitting on me sofa wearing my O'Neills hat and floves.

Guarding the window from the evil zombies, that are trying to claw in.

[*goddess*]

:huh: You glued him back together or did ya only metaphorically smash the mug?

:rolleyes: You don't really think he can save ya from the zombies do ya?

:shifty: soon as you turn ya back, he'll be the one letting em in :devil:

[Lilmiss]

Nah, the mug is lone gone.

The real Animal is on my sofa.
He's looking mighty scared too. :unsure:

Think he wants to join me under me blanket, just in case.




Eeeeeek....gory bit...... :helpsmili

[*goddess*]

Nah, the mug is lone gone.

The real Animal is on my sofa.
He's looking mighty scared too. :unsure:

Think he wants to join me under me blanket, just in case.




Eeeeeek....gory bit...... :helpsmili


:wacko: What sorta animal is it and are you sure you want him under you're blanket? :whistling


:ph34r: cover your eyes and peep thru ya fingers, you'll be fine :lol:

[DanB]

Or press pause a lot

[Lilmiss]

I'll take a pic of him sometime for ya, but we are hiding in the dark right now. :ph34r:



My my, what big teeth we have, nanimul. :ermm:

[*goddess*]

:D Or get right under the blanket with the animal.

Or roll something and increase the paranoi :01:

[Rip The Jacker]

Update:

My brand new desk is all salty, and the damn things are still here! :no:

I guess I could try the chalk, but it'd have to be a huge and deformed circle. :wacko:

Um, I don't wanna burn my brand new desk. :no:

Damn you IKE, you with your damn plagues.

[*goddess*]

:lol: :lol: Damn, that's funny :lol: :lol:

:frusty: Awwwww, I'm sorry RTJ, maybe it's only Aussie ants that hate the salt :lol:

:ermm: Seriously tho, it really has worked for me in the past.

:unsure: Can't you get someone to get something to kill em with at the shop?

[Rip The Jacker]

Could you imagine me putting salt on my desk? Kinda like I was about to take a bite from it... :lol:

I guess these ants are too strong for salt! :ohmy:

Its okay though, tomorrow I'm going to go buy some Raid. That'll show the little bastards!

http://www.killsbugsdead.com/i/ant_roach_3.jpg

[*goddess*]

:ph34r: You're not gonna have a lighter near those cans are ya? :lol:

[Rip The Jacker]

Well... that wasn't my original idea... but I like yours better! :lol:

:shifty:

[*goddess*]

:) I can't take the credit for that one, it was suggested a few pages back I think :whistling

[Rip The Jacker]

On a serious note though, I think its because of the rainy weather all these ants show up. There wasnt a single one before it starting raining here in sunny LA. Oh well, I'll kill em tomorrow.

[{I}{K}{E}]

Update:

My brand new desk is all salty, and the damn things are still here! :no:

I guess I could try the chalk, but it'd have to be a huge and deformed circle. :wacko:

Um, I don't wanna burn my brand new desk. :no:

Damn you IKE, you with your damn plagues.

Have you seen the big lobsters yet ? :shifty:

[Rip The Jacker]

Have you seen the big lobsters yet ? :shifty:
Not yet. :no:

First ants, then big lobsters, whats next you twisted fiend?!

:helpsmili

[{I}{K}{E}]

Not yet. :no:

First ants, then big lobsters, whats next you twisted fiend?!

:helpsmili

not telling... :shifty:

maybe change all water into something else :01:

[Yogi]

#159 More on Getting Rid of Ants

This is Laurie Howell with "The GreenScene" and one of my most popular shows is the one about getting rid of ants, so stayed tuned for part two.

It's funny because you never know which shows are really going to connect with people. Without a doubt, one of my most popular GreenScenes is one of the first shows I ever wrote. It's called "Getting Rid of Ants".

Well here's Part Two. This is another natural recipe for getting rid of ants: You mix three things together in equal parts and all three ingredients are very easy to find. They are boric powder, corn meal & powdered sugar. That's it. Mix those three in equal parts.

Then make some containers out of foil and fill each one with your natural ant bait. Place those foil containers wherever you have your ant problem.

[(>Zero Cool<)]

I read that if you put a bowl of heavily sugared water on the floor, the ants will all be drawn irresisibly to it and drown.

I tried this a while back when I noticed a few ants around the front door. I went off to lectures and didn't really give it a second thought. However when I got back there were legions of ants making trails through our house and branching off into different rooms, the nest must have been in the back yard.

The first wave had all died for the cause and made a dead ant sugared carpet for the rest of them to walk over.

It might work for you tho' :unsure:


It's got Hollywood Blockbuster written all over it :01: love, deciet, romance, ant legionaires, death , life, sugar bowls, lectures....etc etc.. everything the modern fairytale should have....

:crying:

what happened next...???? :huh: :unsure:

[TheDave]

ive heard old fashioned wives tales can get rid of em.

howcome today i can remember rt645 but not my pin number

[manker]

It's got Hollywood Blockbuster written all over it :01: love, deciet, romance, ant legionaires, death , life, sugar bowls, lectures....etc etc.. everything the modern fairytale should have....

:crying:

what happened next...???? :huh: :unsure:I turned around and went to my mates house next door but one to watch Countdown and 15 to 1. The two girls that lived with us came home a bit later and bought some ant powder. Killed them all but made me pay for it 'cause it was me who had the sugared bowl idea :unsure:

I thought we'd have to move, girls rawk at that kind of thing :01:

[DanB]

ive heard old fashioned wives tales can get rid of em.

howcome today i can remember rt645 but not my pin number


I don't know :huh:

No giro today though :dry:

[(>Zero Cool<)]

I turned around and went to my mates house next door but one to watch Countdown and 15 to 1. The two girls that lived with us came home a bit later and bought some ant powder. Killed them all but made me pay for it 'cause it was me who had the sugared bowl idea :unsure:

I thought we'd have to move, girls rawk at that kind of thing :01:


ok hold everything...... :cool2:

how many lives do you lead mr I-lead-many-lives. :huh: :wacko:

You 'work' but are on here a lot???? :dry:
You have a missus, but live with two woman??????? :blink: :01:
You are a part time superhero? :ph34r:
You have a shiny bin? :P













p.s. can I be you :crying:

[DanB]

The story happened while he was at uni :rolleyes:

[manker]

:lol:

I should have been more clear but I thought the lectures part may have given it away :D



Edit: Also I do work and am here a lot. Most of the time, in fact like 90% of the time I'm posting here, I'm at work. I've got a great boss.

[(>Zero Cool<)]

The story happened while he was at uni :rolleyes:


he goes to uni too :ohmy:


:no: does this bloke ever sleep :unsure:

[manker]

he goes to uni too :ohmy:


:no: does this bloke ever sleep :unsure::lol: :D

Not recently, Zero. It is much over-rated.

[(>Zero Cool<)]

:lol:

I should have been more clear but I thought the lectures part may have given it away :D



Edit: Also I do work and am here a lot. Most of the time, in fact like 90% of the time I'm posting here, I'm at work. I've got a great boss.


nothing ever gives away the obvious where I come from. :wacko:

can me n dan get a job with him too, oh and mathea too :w00t:

edit : ps re sleep, not if you do it right, I can give yogi and booboo a run for their money :01:

[manker]

Mathea has already secured a position here at Mank Holdings. She will be making tea just as soon as she squeezes into the uniform.

I duno about you and Dan. Do you have nice tits :unsure:

[(>Zero Cool<)]

Mathea has already secured a position here at Mank Holdings. She will be making tea just as soon as she squeezes into the uniform.

I duno about you and Dan. Are you have nice tits :unsure:


yes we are nice tits :01:

you are already living with a harem worth of luverlies...how many do you need :ermm:

[manker]

You just made me check my grammar :lol:



Also you're probably right, once Mathea gets here I'll have all I need :shifty:

[(>Zero Cool<)]

You just made me check my grammar :lol:



Also you're probably right, once Mathea gets here I'll have all I need :shifty:


:P :01:

have all the what you need? Antkiller? :unsure: btw where is the young lass these days, have her and Gemby done a thelma and loiuse getaway? :ermm:

[DanB]

Her internet is broken :(

[(>Zero Cool<)]

Her internet is broken :(

:crying:
I hate when that happens :no: