Stevo985 Posted July 23, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 YEah that's why I want to get rid of them. The first hill was miles from the house, but the new ones are creeping closer. Luckily I have a long garden so they're still 10 metres from the house, but still. I'll attack the **** later with rakes, poison, hot water and bread (to attract birds) That should show them I mean business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 When do Flying ants arrive ? Isn't it late July / early August ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Try this: 2 table spoons of boric acid 2 table spoons of borasic acid half a cup of sugar half a cup of water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 23, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 I can't remember the last time I saw an ant. Maybe they're more common in the midlands than Yorkshire, but it literally must be years. When I was a kid they were everywhere, but all I see round here are flies, spiders, woodlice, beetles, the occasional earwig or centipede - but no ants. Odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Just about everywhere outdoors has ants here in WA.They are Argentinian ants,tiny sods that are forever enlarging their ant nests. They piss everyone off,they are so small that you have to get down to see them but they get right up your nose with their non stop digging. Yes, I know I worded the getting up your nose bit wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 23, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 I'll try your concoction, PussE. But, seeing as it's you, I'm torn between thinking it'll work, and thinking it'll explode and blow me away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Actually its my uncle`s recipe and he never had any trouble with ants.He used to swear by it. I have tried it an it worked for me but there is a better solution that you can buy in the shops here for only $4:50 and what it does is poison any ant that eats it and the poison stays in the ants body so that when other ants eat the dead ant they die also and you get a snowball effect.In the end it wipes out the whole nest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I'll try your concoction, PussE. But, seeing as it's you, I'm torn between thinking it'll work, and thinking it'll explode and blow me away. Look on the bright side.No matter what the outcome is,the ants will not bother you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockStockVilla Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 So spotted this in Dublin last week. BOF, surely you frequent this bad boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 23, 2012 Moderator Share Posted July 23, 2012 Good old Ben Dunne. I used to be a member of one of his gyms fwiw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Kids today... kid whose hip-hop epiphany was Drake hears It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back for the first time "Old" music (i.e. music of a different generation from the one you grew up in) is always an acquired taste. Source: Personal experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 23, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 "New" music (i.e. music of a different generation from the one you grew up in) is always an acquired taste. Source: Personal experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Aye Mike, you sure you've ever tried? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockStockVilla Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Good old Ben Dunne. I used to be a member of one of his gyms fwiw I was very excited when I noticed that, much to the extent that nobody around me knew why I would be so pleased to see a gym named BenDunne Gym...the little things haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 23, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 Aye Mike, you sure you've ever tried?Not sure how hard I'm supposed to try. Life's too short, and there is so much good old stuff that I know I will enjoy. BTW I have found it quite easy to enjoy the music from generations previous to mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Aye Mike, you sure you've ever tried?Not sure how hard I'm supposed to try. Life's too short, and there is so much good old stuff that I know I will enjoy. BTW I have found it quite easy to enjoy the music from generations previous to mine. Fair enough, again I was talking from personal experience, as were you It's true though. Used to listen only to mainstream music (I don't consider the likes of Jimi Hendrix mainstream btw, not in this part of the world anyway, nobody under the age of 30 here listens to musicians like him) - the music you hear on the charts - but got bored of hearing the same songs played on the radio again and again so I branched out, but it wasn't a quick transition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 It is f**king boiling in our office today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockStockVilla Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 In an attempt to outdo Gareth in the namedropping competition :winkold: ...just got back from the gym after training alongside the one and only Jordan Rhodes...made sure to let him know the sooner he signs for Villa the better, old Paul Lambert loves a good League 1/Championship gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Aye Mike, you sure you've ever tried?Not sure how hard I'm supposed to try. Life's too short, and there is so much good old stuff that I know I will enjoy. BTW I have found it quite easy to enjoy the music from generations previous to mine. Fair enough, again I was talking from personal experience, as were you It's true though. Used to listen only to mainstream music (I don't consider the likes of Jimi Hendrix mainstream btw, not in this part of the world anyway, nobody under the age of 30 here listens to musicians like him) - the music you hear on the charts - but got bored of hearing the same songs played on the radio again and again so I branched out, but it wasn't a quick transition. I would say that most people would like a lot of music from a specific generation/genare and a few songs/music from other generations/genares. Thats how it is with me anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 24, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 24, 2012 Early music (mediaeval, etc.) - OK, very occasionally Baroque (Handel, etc.) - Like it Classical (Mozart, etc.) - OK, occasionally Early Romantic (Beethoven, Brahms, etc.) - Like it Late Romantic (Mahler, Wagner, etc.) - Like it a lot Opera - OK, very occasionally Early 20th Century (Stravinsky, Shostakovich, etc.) - Love it Ragtime (Scott Joplin, etc.) - OK, occasionally New Orleans jazz (Louis Armstrong, etc.) - OK, occasionally Swing era jazz (Ellington, etc.) - like it Bebop jazz (Charlie Parker, etc.) - like it a lot Hard bop jazz (Miles, Mingus, Monk, etc.) - Love it Lounge/soundtrack MOR - OK, occasionally Country blues (Robert Johnson, etc.) - OK, occasionally Chicago blues (B B King, etc.) - Like it 50s rock'n'roll (Chuck Berry, etc.) - OK, occasionally Soul (Motown, Otis Redding, etc.) - Like it 60s reggae (Jimmy Cliff, etc.) - OK, occasionally Trad Country (Hank Williams, etc.) - Like it 60s beat era (Beatles, etc.) - Like it Psychedelia (Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, etc.) - Like it a lot Progressive rock (Jethro Tull, Caravan, etc.) - Like it a lot Country rock (Eagles, etc.) - Like it a lot UK Folk (Martin Carthy, etc.) - OK, occasionally Krautrock (Kraftwerk, etc.) - OK, occasionally Punk - OK, occasionally Disco (Donna Summer, etc.) - dislike it Post-punk (New Order, Smiths, etc.) - hate it Britpop (Oasis, etc.) - OK, occasionally Hip-hop (**** knows) - hate it 'Dance' music (**** knows) - hate it Current commercial pop/"r'n'b" - hate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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