One-minute Scottish midge challenge
From my experience of visiting the west coast of Scotland, I thought he got away lightly.
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Varmint, Thu 20 Aug 2020, 23:05,
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This year's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! challenges look good.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 20 Aug 2020, 23:37,
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Fuck that.
Western Scotland in midge season is hell on Earth.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 21 Aug 2020, 10:12,
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His first noise made me LOL
Shame as the north W. Highlands are beautiful but I don't want to wear a hazmat suit all the time.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Fri 21 Aug 2020, 10:39,
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WTF?
I knew it was a bit cold and remote, but that actually makes Scotland completely uninhabitable.
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no, no the midges are an issue when its warm and they're just distracting you long enough for the ticks to start feeding
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Meanwhile the makers of Avon Skin-So-Soft rub their hands with glee.
very soft hands admittedly
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Sat 22 Aug 2020, 10:03,
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I regularly used to train up on the West coast - one day while patrolling at dusk we got engulfed by a solid cloud of the buggers - only our faces were exposed as we were wearing gloves and hats, but all four if us dropped our weapons to cover our faces and ran away screaming. If you were ever a soldier you'll know you never dropped your weapon - when the swarm had passed we had to go back and retrieve them in mutual embarrassment, and we agreed never to mention this sorry incident. My face wasn't too bad - but my jacket rucked up at the back as I was running hunched over and I had a solid red welt across my back that was agony for days.
I've been eaten alive by mosquitoes, had malaria and all sorts of other shit, but you can keep your midges.
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