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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, skeeters are not hard to be free of most of the time but if they are a real problem you need insect screens

pisses me off here in damp northern madeira still i see nobody has this most elementary technology installed.. i come from the warm subtropics of southern queensland and skeeters are the hell
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matata | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 they are the worstttttt man

next to flying ants
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 flying ants at least they are only around for a few weeks in summer and that's it, but skeeters all year except the coldest months, if you are lucky
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 bulgaria has snow... but in some places, like the remand centre i spent 8 months in... the plumbing in the walls was shit and the whole building was a nest of mosquitoes

you get used to it but some nights you get no sleep
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matata | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 you know so much it keeps on surprising me 🧠
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 flying ants are the worst tho... vivid memories from my school days in the hot days of summer in Toowoomba... ants everywhere, and when it was at the hottest, flying ants
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matata | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 this.

i went to try and go tanning yesterday (tanning booth, as relaxation).. they were fking everywhere i freeaked ouut

they kept on flying in my booth up against me 

employee helped out a bit killing them, but they were w too many, she gave refund eventually

never going back there again, desgustinggh😂😂
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 oof

it must be pretty warm there... your story is reminding me of an old friend from malaysia
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matata | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 no it's not even that warm here (Netherlands)
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 ohhhhh that swampy place

yeah, as soon as it's comfortable to go outside without a jacket on in amsterdam i remember that many places next to the boggy areas near canals and parklands would get a bit bitey

i dunno which parts you are in but for sure southern amsterdam around the big park there, amsterdamse bos? yeah... it's damn near rainforest how wet it is, nice, but skeeters