How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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God Bless the Asian House Gecko ...Living in a subtropical region of Australia, as I do, I have come to know and love the Asian House Gecko.
It embodies the finest elements of the South East Asian character. Unobtrusive, industrious and damn good at sneaking into the country.
Prior to its polite invasion any Australian house in the subtropics, no matter how clean (observe tenuous link), was often invaded with cockroaches the size of your beer coaster and spiders the size of a bread and butter plate. This is NOT an Antipodean exaggeration. Those bastards will make off with your first born if you don't splat them quickly with your flip flop.
But since the arrival of the Asian House Gecko, who eat spiders and cockroaches (bless), the subtropics have become so much more livable.
So what if they're an invasive non-indigenous species. That's just misplaced Species-ist propaganda and still smarting over the Cane Toad Fiasco.
I love the Asian House Gecko.
(, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 0:43, 6 replies)
When I was young and had no sense..In far off Brisbane I did dwell, took about three months after moving into a city-centre apartment to get rid of the cockroach infestation.
Bear in mind, this was a nice house, not a hovel, yet the bastards were everywhere.
I have since seen sense (of a marginal sort) and moved to somewhat less tropical climes.
Still have to put up with colonial braggarts though.
*wears safari suit*
*drinks pink gin*
(, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 0:56, closed)
/dons pith helmet/fetches two medium sized haddock
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Too bloody rightGive me a nice little gecko that wanders in from outside, eats all your bugs and departs any day over a cupboard full of those horrid little brown German cockroaches that shit all over your dinner plates.
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difficultchild, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 3:05,
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The cockroaches in my house are more likely to eat the geckos.The fuckers are bigger. The geckos are good for mosquitoes though. They still scare the shit out of me when they get in the washing up.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 5:52,
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Plus...Geckos and their sticky feet are excellent!
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DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 13:53,
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I had one named Izod.
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