Do cicadas annoy anyone else?
 

For real

these bastards have been annoying me for DECADES

sorry, how long exactly?

1994-2007 so that's one decade plus three tenth of a decade. actually there is no cicada where i live now. but they still annoy me. silly bugs

well, not during the winter.

i like cicadas. But they look kind of creepy, and are larger than bugs need be. There is a dead one on my window sill that got baked in the heat. He is magnificent.

you should eat it.

in the summer they are highly annoying

so much for getting laid. don't they have no dignity?

i actually enjoy the noise, i have to say.

I have insectophobia.
Eradicate them all, i say.

do you? i have a much more common arachnophobia

how can you do that ? there are nearly 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 quintillion) insects in the world. even nuclear bombs can't erradicate them.

i like them. they can get loud in places. great noise soundtrack.

my mum lives in spain and the first time i saw one was when i visited her. As phoenix said, they're bigger than bugs need to be. unlike phoenix though, i really don't like them.

One time my girlfriend took me to this butterfly show at a tropical garden, and while i do think the wings are beautiful, the rest of their physical appearance is sickening. It was the horror.

Everything with more than 4 legs.....
not for me, thanks


Interested in working out a plan?
PM me if you want to join the task force.

you'll love what i found, the picture doesn't do it justice, biggest spider i ever saw outside of a pet store, this thing had facial expressions.....eyebrows,everything

Does it annoy anyone else that there are "does it annoy anyone else" threads?

That chubby kid posing in the background of the photo you have as a sig reminds me of this Greek statue.

cicadas run on a non-base 10 time system, though. so no decades....

Nearly all cicadas spend multiple years growing underground as juveniles, before emerging above ground for a short adult stage of several weeks to a few months. The seven periodical cicada species are so named because, in any one location, all of the members of the population are developmentally synchronized—they emerge as adults all at once in the same year. This periodicity is especially amazing because their life cycles are so extremely long—13 or 17 years (both prime numbers).




the next emergence in NJ will be in 2013.

So... would that be the 3rd year of the new decade? or the 4th?

I fucking love cicadas. They're one of my favorite parts of the summer. Hearing them fills me with a genuine joy that very few things do.

yeah, cicadas are my favorite bug. they rule in so many ways.

nearly every japanese movie and television show has cicadas in it.

Some of the best anime have a strong cicada presence in their environmental sounds.

Fuck yeah.

Cicadas are coo. Two? years ago. there was a giant orgy of them all over chi-town area. crazy shit. there was like a billion of them.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to atsonicpark again.

Have you seen Shigurui? Cicadas are one of the only environmental sounds.

no, sounds hot, must investigate

Yes, investigate.

Here's a trailer for the Blu-Ray:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL033M5y6T4

The show is slow-paced, intense, and brutally suffocating. In a good way.

^ looks fuckin' cool.

whoa!

Cicadas rule. come to Houston. You can hear them for miles.

When I was a kid in elementary school we had one of those 17 year swarms of cicadas where they are literally covering everything. The kids would pick them up and chase me with them. I've never run as fast since.

I do miss the annual kind that make pleasant noise in the summer since I moved to the NW. I used to pretend I was sitting on an alien planet while I sipped my drink.

http://www.cicadamania.com/audio/princeton2004.mp3