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Don't get into a pissing contest with.....

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  • MikM Offline
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    Mik
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    Cicadas! (maybe we need a Mildly Disgusting thread)

    https://local12.com/news/offbeat/cicadas-pee-on-you-waste-bodily-fluid-brood-xix-xiii-plants-gardens-spring-summer-2024#

    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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    • George KG Offline
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      George K
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      Thanks for that.

      In Illinois, we're going to be blessed with a double-whammy of cicadas this year. Two broods (13 and 17 year) will emerge at once.

      Gonna be bugtacular.

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        Here too. But I suspect it still won't be like 1986.

        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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        • George KG George K

          Thanks for that.

          In Illinois, we're going to be blessed with a double-whammy of cicadas this year. Two broods (13 and 17 year) will emerge at once.

          Gonna be bugtacular.

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          @George-K said in Don't get into a pissing contest with.....:

          Thanks for that.

          In Illinois, we're going to be blessed with a double-whammy of cicadas this year. Two broods (13 and 17 year) will emerge at once.

          Gonna be bugtacular.

          That's one broad brood, bro.

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          • 89th8 89th

            @George-K said in Don't get into a pissing contest with.....:

            Thanks for that.

            In Illinois, we're going to be blessed with a double-whammy of cicadas this year. Two broods (13 and 17 year) will emerge at once.

            Gonna be bugtacular.

            That's one broad brood, bro.

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            @89th said in Don't get into a pissing contest with.....:

            @George-K said in Don't get into a pissing contest with.....:

            Thanks for that.

            In Illinois, we're going to be blessed with a double-whammy of cicadas this year. Two broods (13 and 17 year) will emerge at once.

            Gonna be bugtacular.

            That's one broad brood, bro.

            👏

            Please love yourself.

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              But beyond their prodigious numbers and raucous noise, new research published in PNAS reveals that cicadas are special in yet another way — their urination. Based on their size and diet, scientists suspected they'd urinate in droplets, but it turns out that these insects produce jets of pee.

              The surprising results have numerous applications when it comes to manipulating fluids at small scales — including 3D printing, drug delivery, disease diagnostics, and even testing compounds in outer space.

              It's a striking discovery in a realm we know relatively little about, scientists say.

              @mik. Funny that you post this. I just read about a similar thing and it was quite interesting.

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              • George KG Offline
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                Back in the early 1990s, we had a "picnic" at our home for the work people. It was a the height of the cicada emergence. The kids loved catching them and putting them into tupperware containers.

                One of the surgeons went to the kitchen and started frying them up.

                No, I didn't.

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • MikM Offline
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                  Yeah, that was just revenge, not cooking.

                  "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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