I always wondered why I was the mosquito magnet. But, all things considered, the little bastards will be feeding off of me for a while yet.
I always wondered why I was the mosquito magnet. But, all things considered, the little bastards will be feeding off of me for a while yet.
That does it ! No more drinking beer by the campfire … unless covered in Zika-proof netting. Sheesh … I always thought scientific studies were supposed to IMPROVE our lives ?
Years ago, my family and I witnessed a typical drunken asshole at a nearby campsite destroy a picnic table after he flew into a violent rage over mosquitoes swarming him. It was both very hilarious and very disturbing to watch.
Alcohol, the legal drug that just keeps on giving and giving and giving…..
So mosquitoes are attracted to CO2. Hmmm.. there must be some way for the greentards to tax them (us) for that.
We simply MUST ban alcohol! It worked so well before.
The key is to keep drinking but stop scratching. Just take it like you pay your taxes. It’ll hurt, but later, along with the hangover. Same idea.
Really !
Colour me shocked. Isn’t this stuff you learn at your grandparents knees and then confirm with empirical evidence in your youth?
I guess its the sort of stuff you expect from empty drums and likewise that is it a subject of research and news worthy! Maybe next they can research the link between the sun going down and darkness.
I think you become immune to mosquitoes over time. I grew up in northern Ontario, and spent years in various Canadian Forces Bases Mosquito infested swamps. I don’t even notice the things anymore. Everyone in my family will be getting eaten alive and I don’t even notice. I don’t know whether they don’t bite me, or the bites don’t swell up and itch.
I’ve noticed since I reduced my carb intake to
Really !
Colour me shocked. Isn’t this stuff you learn at your grandparents knees and then confirm with empirical evidence in your youth?
I guess its the sort of stuff you expect from empty drums and likewise that is it a subject of research and news worthy! Maybe next they can research the link between the sun going down and darkness.
I don’t want to appear smug, BUT,here in the Sunny Okanagan(trade mark registered) we don’t have mosquitoes. Go to any beach, golf course or park, no mozzies.
Lots of hot young ladies,but no mosquitoes. And when I do visit a non-Okanagan area,the little buzzers bite someone else.
If you go into mosquito-infested areas and:
1. Not drink.
You will be bitten by mosquitoes.
If you go into mosquito-infested areas and:
2. Drink.
You will be bitten by mosquitoes.
See what happens to folk when they use CTV for their science ejumacation?
I think you become immune to mosquitoes over time.
So do I.
I have similar experience to yours. Also I’ve observed that in any group of people mosquitoes [and black flies] will be most attracted to those wearing artificial scents.
I don’t get it. How did this guy get funding without a climate change angle?
The ones that bite are the females Lance. So they are not little bastards. Use a word tht starts with the next letter up. Deet works. Nothing else.
DEET works very well. Use the highest concentration available and put it on your clothes [hat brims are good] not on your skin. The ‘repellents’ that are ‘safe enough’ to put on skin don’t have enough DEET to be effective.
” I always thought scientific studies were supposed to IMPROVE our lives ? ”
They do!!!. In this one, they are just telling you to drink whiskey (not mixed with pop) at a fair distance from from the fire (just so it doesn’t warm you … the fire that is).
scientific studies were supposed to IMPROVE our lives
Verschlimmbesserung — “improvement that makes things worse.”
Not a beer drinker here but I’ve been donating large amounts of my blood to mosquitoes, no see ’ems, deer flies and black flies my whole life. Mainly due to my sweet tooth. Proof to me it’s sugar was recently my Doc said cut out sugar as part of his suggestion to reduce my high cholesterol and it worked with a bonus, barely any bug bites this summer. My spouse who drinks “near beer” as I call it never gets bites, even back when he drank regular beer it was always me that was full of bug bites. I call bunk on this study.