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Bedbugs in the news, movies, etc?
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blazing
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Posted 6 months ago
Wed May 13 2009 15:28:51
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When you look at a commercial and you look at real life, the difference between what you see in fantasy land and the real world is much more striking than even 5 years ago. While before, what you saw was at least attainable perhaps, these days it is not. The dramatizations in these commercials are NOTHING like real life, and the people in them live in a world devoid of bedbugs.
No mention of bedbugs in movies that i can remember. There need to be a bounty of hardhitting docs on them released! They would be fascinating to watch. The newspaper is also full of stuff which is not news... false opinions on the economic forecast, and frivolous stories about issues which really distract us from the REAL things GOING ON in our WORLD. Everything I read has a patronizing tone to it.. as if they have no clue how serious this is.. always mention of that nursery rhyme thing as if bedbugs are funny or just a nuisance.
Bedbugs are VERMIN, period. I don't need an organization to help me add up two plus two. I also don't need them to tell me that 2+2=5 either.. a total insult. The reason they are not classified as vermin is because then the organmizations would have to do more.. and they simply lack the resources to do that, because North America is slowly, or in some places quickly (like Detroit), turning into a second and even third world region.
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brbugfighter
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Posted 6 months ago
Wed May 13 2009 18:49:18
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Bedbugs isn't a bad idea as a plotline for a horror movie but I doubt it will ever be a box office hit. An idea even more terrifying for a flick is an adaptation of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka where Gregor Samsa turns into a bedbug instead of a roach!
Blazing, I know you are enraged but Pluto in Capricorn is hardly to blame. We are down on our luck. Shit happens. Will the media eventually discuss bedbugs with the same duly alarmist tone as the swine flu? I don't know.
They are a pain and turn your life upside down, but they don't kill you even though there are times you will wish they would.
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If you saw the recent 3-D movie Coraline, you may remember when she is trapped in the "other" house and a big bug is blocking the door. Remember that bug, it was the biggest of them all. Red, and icky. I'm quite sure it was a BB. The meanest bug of all.
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Posted 6 months ago
Thu May 14 2009 8:39:47
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Kafka's insect of choice was most likely a beetle.
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Just itching to get rid of them
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Posted 5 months ago
Sat May 30 2009 0:15:01
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I don't buy that bbs don't kill you, brbedbugfighter. Stress, lots of stress slowly kills human beings, and what could be more stressful than bbs. In addition, people with less money who are already stressed out, are more stressed out by not being able to afford a healthier way of dispatching bbs than pesticides. My husband has ended up in the hospital after an exterminator went crazy and made this place unlivable for weeks. I agree with blazing. The Bush era was conceived by and further led to a mindset that government was mostly for making war, but not taking care of the people. Katrina was the best example of that, although the dreadful conditions exposed at Walter Reed Hospital is another example of grotesque callousness. To care for people who have been touched by catastrophe ,the government can't lower taxes and pump up the deficit. We are paying for such policies with this recession--depression , whatever it is. And the bedbug epidemic is merely another symptom of the great malaise caused by the glorification of what was touted as the "ownership society,"the idea that getting and staying rich is the main and maybe the only thing that government should encourage. Nice idea, but in reality such thinking led to the kind of "ownership" that ended in today's forclosures. Bedbugs devouring the people, and being allowed to continue to do so epitomizes a world gone out of control. It may take years to rebuild an America built on the ancient exhortation that we must take care of our neighors as we , ourselves wish to be cared for. That was the spirit that built up this country, but you can't just bring it back with the snap of a finger. When we find our way again, we will humanely rid ourselves of bedbugs.
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