Silverfish
My first flat was very clean and tidy, but at night, hundreds of silverfish would dart across the bathroom floor. I tried to kill them but they're nippy little fuckers, and I only managed to assassinate a couple. I hate silverfish. Why did they want to live in my bathroom? What is the point in silverfish? Does the presence of silverfish mean my bathroom was dirty?

Silverfish scare me. Wikipedia refers to them as fishmoths and carpet sharks. Horrible little things are Silverfish.
(Monkey the Chicken Twitter: death_stairs, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 15:54, 11 replies)

They like moist areas.
Oo-er, and so forth.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:04, closed)

DAMP

( sleepybinky, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:06, closed)

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i quite like them - they remind me of Zoids.
(i anglepoise, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:47, closed)

I think I shall now refer to them as Carpet Sharks
That's much better than Silverfish. Carpet Sharks sounds far more dangerous, like if you walked into the bathroom barefoot one might eat your toe...
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 25 Mar 2010, 17:18, closed)

And so shall I!
That's the best name ever! Unfortunately I haven't seen one for years... Bah!
( JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 20:55, closed)

this
has made me feel quite quite ill!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 17:40, closed)

get a cat
and take it into the bathroom at night.

my cat loved to hunt silver-carpet-shark-fish - was quite good at it too for a tubby fucker. haven't seen any for a couple of years now
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 17:42, closed)

I'm in halls
and occasionally get them in my bathroom. A good spray of dettol usually stops them in their tracks. When they're dead and swimming in their little pool of dettoly goodness I just wipe them up and bin them.
( Poppy The Platypus was abducted by an army of toast soldiers on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 19:07, closed)

They're horrible
and we get them in my lab. One climbed into a flask and died, and I dissolved its body in our acid bath.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 22:33, closed)

build a bridge for them
Then hang a model helicopter under it with sticky pads on, that'll catch the fuckers.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 0:31, closed)

office lol
funniest reply this week click!
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 9:31, closed)