Animals that need to be extinct

[daschoo]

Yankees fans, Celtics fans, Pats fans, and Packer fans

i'm kind of honour bound to disagree with that

 

[Yeagermeister]

i'm kind of honour bound to disagree with that

Wrong Celtics lol

 

[Big Dakota]

 

[daschoo]

Wrong Celtics lol

we're celtic not celtics but i still feel the need to defend them though due to the name and colours

 

[Warick]

Add termites to that list, if they haven't been added yet.

 

[Temo]

we're celtic not celtics but i still feel the need to defend them though due to the name and colours

Dude, they don't even say it right. (They say it like sell-tick, rather than Kell-tick). And Boston is all full of Irish dudes.

 

[daschoo]

Dude, they don't even say it right. (They say it like sell-tick, rather than Kell-tick). And Boston is all full of Irish dudes.

glasgow celtic is also pronounced with a soft c and is steeped in irish tradition as the club was founded in 1888 by an irish priest to raise funds for the poor mainly irish catholic immigrant population of the east end of glasgow so both those reasons just give me more in common with them :

regarding the soft c this post that i have copied and pasted from another site sums it up far better than i ever could

A tricky one this. Ed Mortimer started us off. "The answer is simple," he said. "We are wrong to pronounce the word Keltic. It's one of those words where the pronunciation has changed for some reason in one context but not in others. Following the general rule that 'c' followed by 'e' or 'i' is pronounced as an 's', we have Seltik, as in the football club. The same pronunciation used to apply to the adjective describing the ancient inhabitants of the western fringes of Europe, including parts of modern-day Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, France and Spain. The 's' pronunciation still applies in French, Breton and Galician - but for some reason English has changed to the keltic variant. Put simply, the football club pronunciation is the right one."

Graeme Gardiner offered an alternative view. "Celtic were founded in 1888 to benefit the Irish immigrant population of Glasgow's east end. The name Celtic was chosen to reflect the common roots of the Scots and Irish, who were on the receiving end of considerable sectarian prejudice. Unfortunately the name wasn't used much outside academic circles and was simply mispronounced by the local population. Of course the de facto pronunciation among the faithful is Sellick."


However, the truth, if it is to be had, seemed to be that both pronunciations are ostensibly correct, with Keltic having become the more accepted usage only in the last 30 years. Celtic, having been formed in the last century, naturally retained the Seltic pronunciation. This from the Medieval Scotland website, which a number of readers kindly pointed out:

"The reason the Boston Celtics and Glasgow Celtic and all those other sports teams founded around 1900 (give or take a couple decades) pronounce their names Seltic is not because they were founded by ignorant folk who didn't know any better, but because they spoke English and did know the proper pronunciation of the English word 'Celtic'.

"So what happened? Well, any number of things might explain why the in-crowd pronunciation shifted to Keltic (such as the German influence on Celtic studies, which was strong in the 19th- and early 20th-centuries) but the upshot is that it is now fashionable - almost obligatory - in certain circles to pronounce the word with a K sound rather than the original S sound. In fact, in certain circles (both in and out of academia) it is something of a litmus test - if you don't use the K sound, it will be assumed you are not knowledgeable about things Celtic. But the one and only reason Keltic is now one of the correct pronunciations of the word is because that is how many educated people pronounce it. That is the only logic in the Keltic pronunciation's favour. The standard rules of English, the rules of language, long use and practice, all argue in favour of Seltic, not Keltic. But it still remains that Seltic is a long-established, traditional pronunciation of the word in English. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pronouncing Celtic as Seltic."

 

[jimmy40]

I hate wasps. They'll sting you for no reason and it hurts like hell. I got stung on the back of my neck last summer and the pain kept getting worse and worse for about 30 seconds.

When I was a kid I rolled over in bed one night and a red wasp stung me in the stomach, now that's a hell of a way to get woke up.

 

[Jon88]

When I was a kid I rolled over in bed one night and a red wasp stung me in the stomach, now that's a hell of a way to get woke up.

I bet that hurt like crazy. I've been stung on my calf while mowing the yard, on the back of my neck, and one more time where I can't remember. I got stung by a honeybee once and it didn't hurt much at all. I think my worst insect sting was getting bitten on the forehead by a horsefly. That hurt bad.

 

[daschoo]

I bet that hurt like crazy. I've been stung on my calf while mowing the yard, on the back of my neck, and one more time where I can't remember. I got stung by a honeybee once and it didn't hurt much at all. I think my worst insect sting was getting bitten on the forehead by a horsefly. That hurt bad.

i've only ever been stung once. a wasp got in my wellington boot when i was a kid. very painful! midges are also a nightmare, the bite is not that bad but when you've got a few of them and then you start reacting and you're scratching at the spots you know all about them.

 

[Jon88]

i've only ever been stung once. a wasp got in my wellington boot when i was a kid. very painful! midges are also a nightmare, the bite is not that bad but when you've got a few of them and then you start reacting and you're scratching at the spots you know all about them.

Mosquitoes actually sting too when they bite.

The wasps here suck. They're all huge and either have a red torso and black abdominal or are totally red and referred to as "red wasps." I was cleaning some tile at a house one day and walked out the front door to the truck (which the homeowners never used.) Some wasps had built a nest on the light than hangs down over the door and one flew down and popped me right in the middle of the neck. It was a big red/black one. I mixed up some extra strong tile cleaning solution and sprayed the crap out of the nest.

I was also moving the out of my apartment the other day and about 5 of them were building a nest between the window and the screen outside right where I would pass by about 50 times (there was a hole at the bottom of the screen). I didn't take any chances so I boiled some water and threw it on them. It was a good solution.

 

[Duane]

 

[Kevinicus]

Manbearpig

is real!

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

 

[vta]

 

[Viper]

Mosquitoes actually sting too when they bite.

The wasps here suck. They're all huge and either have a red torso and black abdominal or are totally red and referred to as "red wasps." I was cleaning some tile at a house one day and walked out the front door to the truck (which the homeowners never used.) Some wasps had built a nest on the light than hangs down over the door and one flew down and popped me right in the middle of the neck. It was a big red/black one. I mixed up some extra strong tile cleaning solution and sprayed the crap out of the nest.

I was also moving the out of my apartment the other day and about 5 of them were building a nest between the window and the screen outside right where I would pass by about 50 times (there was a hole at the bottom of the screen). I didn't take any chances so I boiled some water and threw it on them. It was a good solution.

The Red Wasp is a Paper Wasp, it isn't very aggressive but will attack if provoked. Now the Yellow Jacket or the Bald Faced Hornet will attack in groups without being provoked. They sting repeatedly, I once had a bald faced bite and sting me. The bite drew blood. My worst attack came on day when I was in some weeds, Bald Faced Hornets attacked, I had over 50 stings on my body. Spent the day in the hospital. Yellow Jackets are by far the most dangerous, you can walk by a nest over and over, than all of a sudden the entire nest will attack.

 

[Passepartout]

Spiders and snakes as they are deadly and poisonious!

 

[lewpac]

I got stung by a wasp when I was a little kid, right above my right eye. It swelled so much that my eyebrow skin flopped over my eye for a couple days.

Snakes are cool, spiders suck. Scorpions are cool too. There are no snakes in Hawaii, but we got scorpions. Not the kind you see on National Geographic, but little white ones. They can't kill you, but if they sting you you'll know it.

In Hawaii, we got killer Centipedes. Sometimes three or four inches long, and about two inches thick. If one of these critters bites you, you're going to the emergency room. The only way to kill 'em is to snip their heads off.

 

[CliffnDallas]

Grub worms!

 

[Doomsday]

Rodants, thank goodness for cats.

I dont mind spiders as long as they aren't poisonous.