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Actually, assassin bugs/kissing bugs are in the states, too. Assassin bugs (reduviidae) are a family, so it contains many genus and species. (specifically, 47 genera and 154 species.) in North America.

that is fabulous news.

Also, the american species do not poop while they are feeding, and since the disease is transmitted through the poop when it gets into the bloodstream, they are of little risk, imo.

OH   MY   GOD.

Yeah, those are gross, but I still hate all of the different kinds of waterbugs the most. I can't even look at pictures of those without freaking out. We used to get a real big nasty type in the pond that would hang out on the bottoms of inner tubes. They would also bite the living shit out of you if you fucked with them. Remember those guys?

ya, i kinda remember the big waterbugs, but that memory is fairly subtle compared to the memory of not being able to keep your feet on the bottom of the pond because of the leeches. leeches trump waterbugs, for me at least. i suppose it's a personal preference kind of thing.

How could the leaf-foots get tangled in your hair? Don't you have straight hair? I'm amazed they never got tangled in my hair, cause it was a mess. Although, I don't think any ever landed there to begin with. They probably knew that it wouldn't be a very good idea. It could be due to their back legs, since that's where they flare out. Did you end up combing a lot of back legs out of your hair during late summer and fall?

i never thought to look for the legs, i was probably very busy eating and obsessing about how to get through the next rap without being noticed. and i couldn't figure out what the deal with my hair was either...super straight and fine...maybe it initially looked like a good landing strip and then things got out of out of control real quick. they probably saw your hair as their proverbial nightmare and knew to stay clear.

Also, I had no idea junebugs made noise. My first sublet after school had a bit of a population, specifically in my room. It didn't  bother me, though. They ate little.

i was conferring with some of the other so cal transplants that i work with and it's like a - hiss. hiss. hiss  - type thing.

Dunno about june bugs, but you might be getting a blast from the past, depending on how many trees have around your house. (you won't see the bugs now. They're sleeping.. shhh.) Although, I think you said you got there in fall, so they would have been coming indoors to find places to hibernate, so if you didn't see any, they might not be in that region. (However, the pacific northwest is their origin habitat.)

good to know. i'll keep my nose tuned and ready. i got a little bit sucked into the bug thing myself yesterday, work was slow, and as i was reading up on the killer bugs i followed a wiki link to bedbugs...i've had several friends from the east coast whine mercilessly about those things and was curious. i was not prepared for what i found. did you know this?

"All bedbugs mate via a process termed traumatic insemination.[2][3][4] Instead of inserting their genitalia into the female's reproductive tract as is typical in copulation, males instead pierce females with hypodermic genitalia and ejaculate into the body cavity. This form of mating is thought to have evolved as a way for males to overcome female mating resistance.[5][6] Traumatic insemination imposes a cost on females in terms of physical damage and increased risk of infection.[7][8] To reduce these costs females have evolved internal and external "paragenital" structures[7][8] collectively known as the “spermalege”.[2][3][4] Within the True Bugs (Heteroptera) traumatic insemination occurs in the Prostemmatinae (Nabidae) and the Cimicoidea (Anthocoridae, Plokiophilidae, Lyctocoridae, Polyctenidae and Cimicidae), and has recently been discovered in the plant bug genus Coridromius (Miridae).[9]"

and this?

"Remarkably, in the genus Afrocimex both males and females possess functional external paragenitalia, and males have been found with copulatory scars and the ejaculate of other males in their haemolymph. There is a widespread misbelief that males inseminated by other males will in turn pass the sperm of both themselves and their assailants onto females with whom they mate.[10] While it is true that males are known to mate with and inject sperm into other males, there is however no evidence to suggest that this sperm ever fertilizes females inseminated by the victims of such acts.[3]"

i wonder if they're into bondage at all or if it's just good ole boy bug on boy bug action.

Anyway, tell one of them I said hi.

will do, as i'm running the other way and donning a burkha.

How on god's green earth did something as huge and weird looking as a conifer seed bug make you freaked out by a little scarab beetle such as a junebug?

i think the fact that they both have ended up ridiculously tangled in my hair on more than one occasion has something to do with it. they both serve NO purpose other than to annoy...and junebugs have these weird claws that allow them to hook and bury themselves into my carpet leaving me really no option other than taking a butter knife and prying them off. and that weird hissing noise they make ~ shiver ~ i hate those damn bugs. maybe they won't have them up here in the great north west. one can hope.

i like your spore bug. i'm glad that you haven't abandoned your creature creator. you brilliant thing.

the stress of contemplating not taking a shite for 2 weeks just made me go twice in the last 7 minutes.

I assume this monumental shite it took more than 5 minutes. Therefore you were out of agreement. Write a dirt list and give it to Tim Brace.

Technically speaking, toilet stalls are gravity feed bio-turd baths. A turd bath is kin to a shower. If your turd is submerged for more than 5 minutes and you're still sitting on porcelain - it qualifies as a shower. Your turd is your self made brown and visible. Just like your work is your love made visible.

It's in the geneva convention - look it up.

good lord. and to think i'd almost forgotten the scope of your verbosity.

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So basically based on stats AARC releases, the program goes on to have a majority of its youth relapse? What a great program....

ya, the youth relapse, but they retain the parents. and their money. fabulous.

There are those who relapse like an other treatment center, but AARC has been able to reduce it to a very impressive level.  No rebates for people not willing to follow thru after they leave.

1.   Dr. Vauses education
Conclusion:  Dr. Vause continues to be active in the program and dedicated to a continuous life of learning and self improvement.  Acquiring his PhD from Union University, an accredited University that has been open since 1964 and works under the provisions of APA guidelines and ethics(American Psychological Association).

2.   AARC Outcome Study
Conclusion:  The outcome study of AARC was found to be conducted by an independent professional in the area of addiction.  To assist with the data collection and computation AARC had one of the Directors of Hazelden and their assistants  oversea and help author the study.  So the study is rock solid credible with some of it findings being:
85% of all graduates are still living a clean and sober life after 4 years
93% of all graduates are still living a clean and sober life after 12 months
52% of all graduates have had at least one relapse since graduating.

3.   Transparency:
AARC has shown it has opened its doors to independent studies and reveals its people qualifications openly.

uh oh...here we go again with the guests and their independent and conveniently unattainable studies. hide your children. hide your animals too.

 :blabla:    :bs:

my friend's 16 year old niece had been at island view in utah for the last 8 months, came home for a 4 day homevisit and took off. and is nowhere to be found. i just heard about this, and her incarceration, and was immediately suspicious. I had a feeling it would show up here on fornits.

does anyone know anything about this school? their website's the usual blah blah blah.

I was in one facility in 1982 that did this shit. It bored the hell out of me, and three of us got thrown out. We had to beg out way back into the next group so we would still get our levels. The guy was hardest on me, because I had nothing earth shattering to talk about so I did not talk. He thought there had to be something, but what was I going to say, nothing. Drinking and pot oh my! That would not pass a whole hour or ninety minutes.

Another night, while I was there I went through the confrontation thing and kept refusing to cry on demand. They were so pissed. I don't cry much. And even less on demand. Later my individual therapist there was pissed that I had not cried, and said how I thought I was so tough. I said nothing.

Then there was my last m.o. at the last facility I was in (1985-1986), I kept falling asleep from boredom in the middle of RAP. They used to grab me from my seat on the couch and throw me in a hard chair. It did not help. I sleep when I am sleepy. I have fallen asleep on the subway, at conferences, once in a job interview. I keep myself awake with humor and then get called inappropriate. Like I will notice that we are talking in circles and started imagining emoticons going in circles and then chuckle to myself (INAPPROPRIATE). Then I have to work harder at containing my chuckling.

Unfortunately, I am back in Houston where all this shit began and I feel the misery all over again. My parents live 3 blocks away and love to control me at the age of 44. I still feel like a victim. I need to leave here but don't know where to go. I am at a loss. Shit now I am depressed again. I now know why I found this board, I am back to where I started. DAMNIT

i know this is easier said than done, but you have got to get the fuck out of there. i understand, i just 2 months ago moved out of state and am really counting on the kindness of strangers. but it feels good, in some ways to be out of the reach of my insane family...at the same time it's scary as fuck. but at least it's something different.

if you know anybody in a different state, or at least a different part of TX, start there. hell if you want to come to portland i'll try to help you out. the northwest is amazing. jobs are a bitch but ... pm me if you want to talk more about it.

jesus. that was painful.

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My given birth name IS seamus so yer point is? ..........

I am happy for you . . uh seamus what a delightful 'birth name'    

seamus is a fabulous name, i like it ... what's your middle name?