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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Person. Odds are that they’re not as bad as media has been trying to convince us that we are; that said, 1k(^4^) cockroaches can still be managed with enough effort

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'm sorry but 1K^4 is a trillion cockroaches in which case you have Time Lord Technology in your attic

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A person. It's your property and you can have the police come and evict them. Very easy to do.

Roaches on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Cockroaches. You can call the secret police and have them exterminated.

On the other hand if they are in my attic I am probably gonna be exterminated too.

[–] ICastFist 8 points 2 days ago

Person, easily. 1k roaches means i'm bound to find another 1k all around the house on the following weeks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Person, easy

If I hadn't noticed them before now, then they're a spectacular neighbor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

1000 half burned joints please.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only a hard choice if you've never dealt with roaches. 1000 roaches is enough to convince me that the house would never be free of them ever, roaches are incredible in the way they survive and thrive. Unless you made sure you killed every single last one and their offspring, you ain't getting rid of them.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago

At least you don't have to explain roaches to the cops.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

A few hundred dollars will take care of the roach problem

The human is the biggest wild card situation yet and you're immediately going into fight or flight no matter what

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless the person is there to kill me they win easily

Call police they leave issue solved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tell me you're not black without telling me you're not black

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh absolutely, the person's relationship with the police definitely matters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol.

All the person has to do to avoid arrest is be calm and assertive; if he insists that you invited him, that he paid you rent, that it's his house, here's the police response:

"That's a civil matter, you're going to have to call a lawyer."

If he's competent, he may even have a deed with the town's seal already in it. Anyone can file anything in the land records. It's up to title holders to protect their titles and clear any fraudulent entries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While true, if they're "living" there, they're most likely in the attic or crawl space or something. Or they have no items of their own. Anything is possible and there are always outliers, but the chances are pretty low they got set up enough to convince people they're legitimately there.

P.s. going to check my basement...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This probably feels like a type of thing that happens much more often than it actually does. But for real I'm going to go check my basement too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve had roaches before. I’d pick the person 10 out of 10 times.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Roaches don't survive in my climate, bring 'em on. (Also, millennials have no idea what it's like to own a home so what's an "attic"?)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (14 children)

I love these! My favorite one is, “if you were forced to shove a whole pineapple up your ass, as a matter of life and death, would you insert it top or bottom first?”

Keep in mind, you’ll need to get it back out once it’s in.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bottom first. The leaves would serve as a flared end and a handle. You’d want it to be ripe-ish I imagine. Ripe enough to have a little give, but not ripe enough that the leaves come out too easily.

Pineapples also come in different sizes, I’ve seen some homegrown ones posted on Lemmy that seem…manageable.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just keep in mind that the hard, pointed spikes on the outside face up, so you’ll be pulling it out against them.

If you do top first you get the harder part over with, and then have plenty of blood to lubricate the way out.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It’s a horrific image but it’s the right way to go. You’ll simply never, under any circumstances, make it work the other way.

I mean it won’t work either way but if you don’t fucking die by the end of it at least you could theoretically get patched up.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Phrasing it like that means death is still a choice.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can kill one person. You can’t kill 1000 roaches.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bro, it's not a CEO, they have human rights.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

a person, I only have to exterminate one large thing vs 1000 tiny things that could potentially crawl up my pee hole in my sleep.

no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How wide is your urethra that a roach can fit up there?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (4 children)

doesn't matter, they love warm moist dark cracks.

that's why they're called cockroaches

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (11 children)

The roaches. At least you know their true nature, not surprising to find them there and, in days of high frustration, one can go up and stomp a few for that crunchy sound of bug demise.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look at this guy, he doesn't comprehend the true nature of man or like human crunch.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Sounds like you've never had the misfortune of being somewhere with a roach infestation.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Dead or alive?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

You can solve both problems by throwing 5 bug bombs in there

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

1000 roaches? So like... more toys for my cat?

roach squishing noises

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

person, though a much more difficult encounter it'd probably cost nothing to get them out of there, and the likehood of them coming back is much lower. all it'd take for the roaches to come back is the exterminator missing 2 or 4 of them

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Roaches, but I suppose enough bug bombs would work either way

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I live in an apartment building, I'll take the person. Roaches won't stick to the attic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

A person, unless the way I found out is they're trying to murder me and/or my family.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

as someone that has a person living in their attic ... FOR FREE, RUPERT ... I would say neither.

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