Comments on: Death watch in the toilet

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:24:49 +0000

[...] we had a surveyor in to look at our deathwatch beetles. We got his name from a local real estate agent who deals in ancient buildings. It’s no good [...]

By: Hector Owen

Hector Owen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:11:02 +0000

Oh, so that was why the house was falling down around her ears …

By: scubafreak

scubafreak — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:01:48 +0000

Well, it could be worse, I suppose….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk97Oil2qnc

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:01:13 +0000

High five to Uncle Badger for leaving the toilet seat up. We can’t let the chicks push us around on this issue.

By: porknbean

porknbean — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:43:47 +0000

I really picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Maybe you’ve got worms?

*snickers*

By: Lemur King

Lemur King — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Oops. I’m too old when I go on autopilot and open the bullshit floodgates like that. LIZ. Ooops. Hope I didn’t offend.

What I had read was in the original post

Usually, they come in to the house on fresh oak planks when they are still moist, and spend a few hundred years chewing neat holes and lazy channels in the structural members.

I was thinking that people were adding on and getting newer problems.

I really picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

By: Nicholas the Slide

Nicholas the Slide — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:45:11 +0000

Could well have been one of Don Halfwit’s boats.

What would he need a boat for? There’s no windmills on the ocean… Maybe he’s going after lighthouses now.

What happened to IRB over there? He looks like Sloth from the Goonies!

“Why you talk so mean ’bout SLOOOOOOTH??”

Ender Wiggin would know what to do.

That’s cause he ALWAYS knows what to do.

By: Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:18:21 +0000

Mrs. Peel — Mister Hill and I noticed it too, last night — made me shudder! But when did it appear? (We’re either observant or slow on the uptake — heh!)

By: Gibby Haynes

Gibby Haynes — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:16:10 +0000

Long time no catch-up, hope you’re doing well, Weas. Great post-pic of MichellObama hugging da Queen Mum.

Now that I would like to see. The Queen Mum has been dead for seven years.

As for the wood, those beams are several hundred years old. I’m not sure what wood-fumigating techniques, if any, existed back then.

By: Lemur King

Lemur King — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:54:29 +0000

Would I be ridiculous for asking why they don’t just fumigate the wood when it is fresh and stop the problem before it starts?

I must say, the discussion of worms eating wood is much more palatable than the discussion of worms eating people over at Steamboat McGoo’s. Hadn’t thought it possible to send me screaming out of a blog. Doing a hell of a job over there.

Long time no catch-up, hope you’re doing well, Weas. Great post-pic of MichellObama hugging da Queen Mum.