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BingoBoingo: So yardwork story from today. This year we've had a bumper crop of what I though were bumblebees move it, turns out they are carpenter bees. Rather harmless things I'm trimming trees the squirrels planted in the flower beds and the big bees are just buzzing around pollinating the shit out of the columbine... Yellowjacket
wasp gets the jump on one of the bees near me and as I retreat because fuck yellow jackets, all of the carpente
mircea_popescu: he is simply making stuff out of masticated wood pulp, like a
wasp BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> get stung by nutso us
wasp o may gawd... << There's a burrowing and colonizing Vespid species endemic here. When they nest in the yard it is time for the serious chemicals. Eradicating a nest will scar that part of the yard for years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends on the
wasp, but not very well known really.
BingoBoingo: I'm not sure a
wasp is actually a terrorist... seems more like a drunk cursed with work
mats: i think the
WASP is a more economically feasible approach
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i got a piece of junk mail once, advertising specially-made capsules (for folks who have no idea how to use a saw or glue?) for buring rifles. << Obvious hypothesis, they found a
Wasp cache and kept the rifles
mats: the
wasp wins, actually
mats: there's one where a scorpion lookin thing flips a
wasp, pins it, and then kills it by eating his butt
decimation: in the same sense that the
wasp guy did
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But a
Wasp with a poor support network also has a death wish...
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2014 18:23:44; asciilifeform: thestringpuller: note that, for all the poetic license of the tale, it is very clear that
wasp needs a support network.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By refering to Kimbrel as Sirian I mean as in from the
Wasp, bowlegged with inhuman movements. Only way to describe the fucker.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well what protected the
Wasp's bag?
decimation: yeah, if you are going to be a
wasp with support, secure comms are pretty important
decimation: the '
wasp' model is more-or-less a pointless suicide mission for a lone wolf
assbot:
Wasp (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: asciilifeform: amusing story. the moral: once a
wasp - always a
wasp until death or total victory
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm enjoying 'the
wasp'
thickasthieves: i was loading some stuff into the fridge earlier and felt like a web or string my neck, so i grabbed and flicked to floor. it was a huge red
wasp.
bats_cd03 adds killing a shark with a
wasp knife to bucket list
assbot: Tom Walker from www.floridahoghunts.com American Hoggers kills huge boar with
Wasp Injection Knife - YouTube
ozbot: Spider
Wasp - Entypus unifasciatus - BugGuide.Net
cazalla: i don't like foreigners coming into my country and upsetting the
WASP ratio
Vexual: ill have o be the
wasp and do exactlyu as expected
ozbot: The Late, Great American
WASP - WSJ.com
Namworld: I have not. Although it seems by the new definition you gave it, I'm a
wasp.
mircea_popescu: a
wasp is a kid that grows up principally interracting with his parents, who are overly-intellectual, is never beaten, is carefully kept overclean and never gets to either injure himself or face any real responsibility
Namworld: What's a
wasp? My first thought was "You ain't getting a job with that."
mircea_popescu: ok, new definition for
wasp : person that reads the above and does not immediately think "so they fuck on campus ?"
Bugpowder: by
wasp you mean neo-
wasp meritistocrats, not WSJ Joe Epstein US was great when WASPs were kings?
mircea_popescu: only if the stanford model is applied to a well controlled environment made out of
wasp kids thoroughly acculturated.