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Damn, every time I leave this place I delete the memory of how disgustingly huge cockroaches get, and then every time I come back I get a rude shock. ๐คข Loathsome creatures...
And the white stuff that comes out when you thwack it with your thong shudders
My mum is vehemently anti-killing to the point that she won't even relocate bugs off her treasured curry leaf plants that are constantly under attack - I've never seen the insides of a roach and don't think I'm in a rush to ๐ฌ
At my old place I'd catch them under a cup and throw them outside. My mum puts kitchen gloves on and grabs them just like that which freaked me out massively as a child and as an adult
Wow. Full props to your mum. My mum (when growing up in the tropical soup) was fully supportive of killing. I don't think we dented the numbers though
In Sydney I had ones that had been poisoned so many times they stopped dying and grew curly wings ๐คฎ
My friends had ones that learned to run upright on their back legs to keep the poison offa their mouth-hand-legs.
Theyโre genuinely invincible
Oh god, flying cockroaches are the end boss nightmare. Ewwwwwww
Probably far too late, but do not play RE2
Reminds me of Super Mario Bros where there are those flying turtle things as you progress through the levels