The three choices are the same in that the cleanup is the same, so no difference. But add in something wet, perhaps a toppled over pie or mashed potato, something gooey, now that’s a pain to clean. Can’t just wipe or Swiffer.
@catthegreat@Kyeh
My renter. He’s broken a glass and a lid on my expensive Italian cookware. He’s since decided to buy his own stuff so he doesn’t have to keep replacing my expensive stuff.
@catthegreat@kittykat9180@Star2236 Especially if it’s something sticky or oily. But that kicks it out of the “small” mess category into the BIG mess one IMO.
Rice after toddlers have been trying to eat it, but mostly flinging it around. It’s sticky, gets on the chairs, the floor, they track it everywhere if you don’t clean them up before they run off. And the easiest way I can think to clean it up is when it’s dried up. But it doesn’t seem very clean to just leave it and wait.
But trying to wipe up rice just smears it around.
Luckily my kids are out of the toddler stage, so I don’t deal with it as often now.
@stolicat@werehatrack Yes I was going to say the same thing although it is on my bed that I hate the most. My previous cats I had trained to jump to the floor to puke. This batch, for the most part, are refusing to cooperate with that.
Cat yack, or any kinda yack! I had to clean up barf that landed between the door and the back seat, due to my son having an epileptic episode.(after dinner)
I once dropped my compost bucket in the kitchen halfway to the back door. Week old coffee grounds, old potato peels, leftovers… it was disgusting and required three different types of cleanup before it was done.
@heartny@mediocrebot@pmarin@unksol@yakkoTDI I live on the 4th floor and had ants. I put ant poison on the outside window sill. Dead ants, unfortunately, also meant a dead salamander and dead bat. I felt so guilty about that. I wasn’t even thinking about the fact that the two of them were hanging out by my window due to the trail of ants.
@Kidsandliz I live on the second floor and had ants right after they sprayed for insects in my community. I guess they migrated inside instead of dying. I opted to switch from using glue boards after I caught a mouse. Terro ant bait and squishing with my shoe seemed to ultimately help get rid of them.
@heartny@Kyeh@mediocrebot@pmarin@unksol@yakkoTDI I use bait traps for roaches (a chronic problem in an apartment building where they don’t have pest control come often enough). Most of the time I manage to get rid of them and then they come in from under the door or via the motel style heater we have (brick exterior and they climb up that (as do the ants).
@heartny@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@mediocrebot@pmarin@yakkoTDI mmm glue boards are. Not what I would do. The best performing “humane” for rodents I have is just a plastic rat trap which is an instata kill get one or two a month. Can’t really stop them getting in.
The cats would do even more damage than they already do if let in those areas.
I doubt an ant pesticide could kill both a salamander and a mammal. Never mind the amounts required. Just cause biology. To be that high up a lizard/gecko/newt probably?
And most bats eat flying insects. Other than fruit bats. They would not be feasting on ants. Of impacted by that type of pesticide that is an insect/fish neurotin. More probable for it to run into a building
So you don’t like how I put a glue trap under the eves to try to catch whatever was in there. I had heard what I thought was mouse squeaking. I had mouse traps in there too and they caught nothing so then I resorted to the glue trap. I had no clue it was bats in there. And you are right the glue traps weren’t humane. When I couldn’t get the bat off I put everything in a zip lock in the freezer to get it out of it’s suffering and then removed everything out from in there. I was 19 at the time and a group of us (college students) were renting that house. I was not exactly well versed in pest removal. Since bats lived there I/we just left them alone after that.
As I know, unfortunately too well, that glue boards for roaches work quite well. i also put out combat roach traps. I need two sizes - one for American and one for German roaches. Using just these things I’ve managed to get rid of all the roaches. Yes on occasion one comes in under the door but as I live at the end of the hall I don’t have nearly the problem that those do who live closer to the garbage shoot.
The lizard had been living up there on the glass for ages. The steady stream of ants was a visible ant train both outside and inside. He was a cat toy running around on the outside of the window which the cats adored batting at the glass as it would run around the window. It was green with suction feet - I have no clue what kind it was. The ant trap thing was one of those square plastic things with openings for the ants to go inside. We’d watch the lizard eat the ants. One morning both the lizard and bat were dead on the window sill. Maybe the bat died the way you suggest. I have no clue but both were dead the same morning on the window sill.
I never leave traps, bait, etc. of any kind where the cats can get at it. Twice, when I used to leave a glue trip under the dish drain a cat (and I mostly don’t have cat problems on the kitchen counter due to training the cats) managed to get stuck to one and did the “cat dance” - on one case getting it off, in the other case I had to cut it off. I can’t leave anything but the enclosed plastic traps anywhere due to the cats. Too dangerous for them otherwise.
@unksol Catching the mouse on the glue board was not intentional. I didn’t know I still had a mouse problem. When I did try to eradicate mice in the past, I used catch and release traps.
@heartny@Kidsandliz apologies wasn’t trying to imply you did anything wrong. Just was trying to agree with the whole awful experience/do not recommend aspect.
That’s being said. They have to die… Don’t bring up Ratatouille
I love how on TV (including Morningsave promos) almost all vacuum ads feature sucking up colorful fruit (froot?) loops. Seems to be the standard for suck-up devices, just like all urinary hygiene products seem to feature mysterious blue fluid, and if that is coming out of you, you should go to a urologist, unless you are a smurf.
@pmarin always wondered about that blue stuff, but I guess it’s to demo absorption. But i do “love” the 30-somethings vacuuming up the spilt neat dry cereal, not the milk sopped spittle mess that’s more likely.
@pmarin@stolicat I mean it’s a obvious visual thing so you get see the movement of material. If you are in your 30s. And using a household vacuum for wet things.
I have serious questions
Go to the rag pile, grab the towel a kid ruined, mop it up like an adult, shake it off out side and rince it and put it in laundry for next time
Using your shop vac to clean up a pile of diatomaceous earth but putting the hose the wrong end and blowing fine powder all over your kitchen and dining room.
@catthegreat@jitc
Yup, pest prevention. I had an indoor tree with fungus gnats. I covered the soil with DE to get rid of them but I had to vacuum it up before each watering or it turns to paste.
I’ve since gotten rid of the tree.
There’s also food grade DE that people apparently use for consumption purposes.
@macromeh Grocery store and restaurant. Some people don’t realize that hot grease doesn’t go in a pickle bucket. Green blob and gallons of grease to clean up.
Dry activated yeast. I’m still cleaning it up after I broke a jar of it while cooking last year. Then it’s gets activated from the moisture in the air and sticks to whatever it was on. I’m sure if I pull out my oven it’s everywhere between that and the counter.
The trunk.
@yakkoTDI dude get that body out of there
@unksol If it were only one.
Glitter. Even the smallest amount is a nightmare. Frickin herpes of the crafting workd.
@kjady but… I hear it you are worried about dating a married man…
/youtube Taylor Tomlinson glitter
@kjady @unksol
That was fucking hilarious
@kjady @Star2236 Taylor Tomlinson is very funny in general. But I like most standups. She has a few specials plus the CBS show.
Now why is someone random on a meh forum bringing up glitter at the same time someone mentioned they saw a good glitter joke?
CONSPIRACY. better get little black book.
@kjady 100% agree!! It never completely goes away. Years later you still find that random sparkly little shit on the floor, in the carpet, anywhere…
The three choices are the same in that the cleanup is the same, so no difference. But add in something wet, perhaps a toppled over pie or mashed potato, something gooey, now that’s a pain to clean. Can’t just wipe or Swiffer.
Broken glass or ceramic, in tiny shards.
@Kyeh I had someone break glass in my kitchen over a month ago and I still find shards.
@kittykat9180 @Kyeh “someone”
@catthegreat @Kyeh
My renter. He’s broken a glass and a lid on my expensive Italian cookware. He’s since decided to buy his own stuff so he doesn’t have to keep replacing my expensive stuff.
@catthegreat @kittykat9180 @Kyeh
Anything glass containing liquid
@catthegreat @kittykat9180 @Star2236 Especially if it’s something sticky or oily. But that kicks it out of the “small” mess category into the BIG mess one IMO.
Rice after toddlers have been trying to eat it, but mostly flinging it around. It’s sticky, gets on the chairs, the floor, they track it everywhere if you don’t clean them up before they run off. And the easiest way I can think to clean it up is when it’s dried up. But it doesn’t seem very clean to just leave it and wait.
But trying to wipe up rice just smears it around.
Luckily my kids are out of the toddler stage, so I don’t deal with it as often now.
@LaserEyes easiest way to avoid that is to never have toddlers.
@LaserEyes Cooked rice (or other edible spills)? Easy: Here Fido!
@macromeh You’d think so. But plain white rice is apparently not very appealing to our two dogs.
partially digested kibble
@stolicat I was going to say cat barf on the carpet or upholstery, but you got there first.
@stolicat @werehatrack Yes I was going to say the same thing although it is on my bed that I hate the most. My previous cats I had trained to jump to the floor to puke. This batch, for the most part, are refusing to cooperate with that.
/showme cats making a huge mess
Cat yack, or any kinda yack! I had to clean up barf that landed between the door and the back seat, due to my son having an epileptic episode.(after dinner)
I once dropped my compost bucket in the kitchen halfway to the back door. Week old coffee grounds, old potato peels, leftovers… it was disgusting and required three different types of cleanup before it was done.
@DLPanther BTDT
Nothing else comes close to cleaning up after a sick pet or small child. Noxious fluids erupt from both ends in the most inopportune times and places.
@2many2no I guess I wouldn’t call those messes “small!”
Ants. Lots of them. Small, but mighty.
@heartny Eek yes you are right. I thought @mediocrebot used to hate ants but now seems OK with that?
@pmarin Yeah, I was waiting for @mediocrebot to respond to the ants, but I guess they are slacking off today.
@heartny @mediocrebot @pmarin I miss his ant hatred.
@heartny @mediocrebot @pmarin @yakkoTDI I stand by bifen xts for all your insect murdering needs.
Ok it’s great for making a barrier and spraying the house base siding. Don’t spray the garden
@heartny @mediocrebot @pmarin @unksol @yakkoTDI I live on the 4th floor and had ants. I put ant poison on the outside window sill. Dead ants, unfortunately, also meant a dead salamander and dead bat. I felt so guilty about that. I wasn’t even thinking about the fact that the two of them were hanging out by my window due to the trail of ants.
@Kidsandliz I live on the second floor and had ants right after they sprayed for insects in my community. I guess they migrated inside instead of dying. I opted to switch from using glue boards after I caught a mouse. Terro ant bait and squishing with my shoe seemed to ultimately help get rid of them.
@heartny @Kidsandliz @mediocrebot @pmarin @unksol @yakkoTDI Those bait traps that you can hide in the cabinet were recommended to me by the Integrated Pest Management guy where I used to work.
@heartny Many years ago I caught a bat on one of those glue boards. That was a sad thing.
@heartny @Kyeh @mediocrebot @pmarin @unksol @yakkoTDI I use bait traps for roaches (a chronic problem in an apartment building where they don’t have pest control come often enough). Most of the time I manage to get rid of them and then they come in from under the door or via the motel style heater we have (brick exterior and they climb up that (as do the ants).
@heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @mediocrebot @pmarin @yakkoTDI mmm glue boards are. Not what I would do. The best performing “humane” for rodents I have is just a plastic rat trap which is an instata kill get one or two a month. Can’t really stop them getting in.
The cats would do even more damage than they already do if let in those areas.
I doubt an ant pesticide could kill both a salamander and a mammal. Never mind the amounts required. Just cause biology. To be that high up a lizard/gecko/newt probably?
And most bats eat flying insects. Other than fruit bats. They would not be feasting on ants. Of impacted by that type of pesticide that is an insect/fish neurotin. More probable for it to run into a building
@heartny @Kyeh @mediocrebot @pmarin @unksol @yakkoTDI
So you don’t like how I put a glue trap under the eves to try to catch whatever was in there. I had heard what I thought was mouse squeaking. I had mouse traps in there too and they caught nothing so then I resorted to the glue trap. I had no clue it was bats in there. And you are right the glue traps weren’t humane. When I couldn’t get the bat off I put everything in a zip lock in the freezer to get it out of it’s suffering and then removed everything out from in there. I was 19 at the time and a group of us (college students) were renting that house. I was not exactly well versed in pest removal. Since bats lived there I/we just left them alone after that.
As I know, unfortunately too well, that glue boards for roaches work quite well. i also put out combat roach traps. I need two sizes - one for American and one for German roaches. Using just these things I’ve managed to get rid of all the roaches. Yes on occasion one comes in under the door but as I live at the end of the hall I don’t have nearly the problem that those do who live closer to the garbage shoot.
The lizard had been living up there on the glass for ages. The steady stream of ants was a visible ant train both outside and inside. He was a cat toy running around on the outside of the window which the cats adored batting at the glass as it would run around the window. It was green with suction feet - I have no clue what kind it was. The ant trap thing was one of those square plastic things with openings for the ants to go inside. We’d watch the lizard eat the ants. One morning both the lizard and bat were dead on the window sill. Maybe the bat died the way you suggest. I have no clue but both were dead the same morning on the window sill.
I never leave traps, bait, etc. of any kind where the cats can get at it. Twice, when I used to leave a glue trip under the dish drain a cat (and I mostly don’t have cat problems on the kitchen counter due to training the cats) managed to get stuck to one and did the “cat dance” - on one case getting it off, in the other case I had to cut it off. I can’t leave anything but the enclosed plastic traps anywhere due to the cats. Too dangerous for them otherwise.
@unksol Catching the mouse on the glue board was not intentional. I didn’t know I still had a mouse problem. When I did try to eradicate mice in the past, I used catch and release traps.
@heartny @Kidsandliz apologies wasn’t trying to imply you did anything wrong. Just was trying to agree with the whole awful experience/do not recommend aspect.
That’s being said. They have to die… Don’t bring up Ratatouille
I love how on TV (including Morningsave promos) almost all vacuum ads feature sucking up colorful fruit (froot?) loops. Seems to be the standard for suck-up devices, just like all urinary hygiene products seem to feature mysterious blue fluid, and if that is coming out of you, you should go to a urologist, unless you are a smurf.
@pmarin always wondered about that blue stuff, but I guess it’s to demo absorption. But i do “love” the 30-somethings vacuuming up the spilt neat dry cereal, not the milk sopped spittle mess that’s more likely.
@pmarin @stolicat I mean it’s a obvious visual thing so you get see the movement of material. If you are in your 30s. And using a household vacuum for wet things.
I have serious questions
Go to the rag pile, grab the towel a kid ruined, mop it up like an adult, shake it off out side and rince it and put it in laundry for next time
Hair
a shitty baby diaper
Dog anal spray. She was startled by a delivery guy and ran. Black/brown liquid down the hall on the wall. Smells like rotten fish.
@cbooboo2
Using your shop vac to clean up a pile of diatomaceous earth but putting the hose the wrong end and blowing fine powder all over your kitchen and dining room.
@kittykat9180 should i ask what the diatomaceous earth was doing in the kitchen and dining room to begin with?
@catthegreat @kittykat9180 I’m guessing pest prevention. We stuck some in spots around our home during particularly bad ant invasions.
@catthegreat @jitc
Yup, pest prevention. I had an indoor tree with fungus gnats. I covered the soil with DE to get rid of them but I had to vacuum it up before each watering or it turns to paste.
I’ve since gotten rid of the tree.
There’s also food grade DE that people apparently use for consumption purposes.
A raw egg that falls on the floor is absolutely the messiest to clean up.
@Katyboomboom Make that a rotten raw egg and now you’re talking.
@Katyboomboom @macromeh Make that a dozen eggs that fell out of your shopping bag and onto a rug.
@Katyboomboom This is exactly what I was going to say!
@Katyboomboom @shoelessjoek It’s just Zuul pranking ya.
KuoH
Dog hair that gathers at the baseboard. I just vacuumed!
I overloaded my blender while making coquito, and it exploded. That is worse by far than any of these choices.
@PocketBrain far sadder at any rate. recipe?
Karo Syrup or grease. I know how to clean it up now but its a process. Especially a case of karo or a 5 gallon bucket of grease.
@nasman6 Whoa! You must throw some wild parties!
@macromeh Grocery store and restaurant. Some people don’t realize that hot grease doesn’t go in a pickle bucket. Green blob and gallons of grease to clean up.
@macromeh @nasman6 Again, those are BIG messes!
Dry activated yeast. I’m still cleaning it up after I broke a jar of it while cooking last year. Then it’s gets activated from the moisture in the air and sticks to whatever it was on. I’m sure if I pull out my oven it’s everywhere between that and the counter.
Milk
@5665150 No use crying over it.
Why wasn’t Danny DeVito a choice?