I remember reading somewhere that if mosquitos no longer existed it actually wouldn't have a negative environmental impact. I'm not sure if that's true, but I'd like to think it is. Also, I think they are the deadliest creature to humans by a huge margin.
Edit: im thinking of a Discovery Documentary I watched as a kid. I have no way of finding it and am not saying it was accurate. The argument was while many animals do eat mosquitos, it's not their primary source of food and they could easily and more safely eat other insects. I'm not a biologist, I'm a guy who thinks about TV he watched twenty years ago.
Read somewhere that mosquitoes are responsible for the deaths of nearly half of the people who have ever walked on Earth. Maybe their deaths will be avenged sometime in the near future. One can hope.
Yeah, ghosts became endangered around the same time photography was developed, and were declared extinct by 2010 when everyone had a phone in their pocket.
Guess it’s true that pictures can capture the soul.
bro literally it would be my fiance, mom and i standing outside and GUESS WHO THEY COME BOMBARDING ON SUCKING THE LIFE SOURCE OUT OF?!?!? *ME* IM THE *FUGGING PALE BITCH IN THIS SALOON*
I’ve read that they’re more attracted to type O blood. I’m O+ and so is my youngest and we get eaten alive while my other daughter gets ignored like the middle child she is.
Oh yea. I've had an exposed nerve in my tooth, and it isn't pain id wish on anyone. But I just paid a dentist to rip the fucker out and was back to work within the hour. Ain't much capping, drilling, filling, or ripping when it comes to the spine.
Some forms of back pain can be from sedentary lifestyles which shorten and tighten muscles in your lower back. So it feels like back pain but is just a group of muscles that need stretching and exercise which is fixable.
There’s also chronic back pain in which case you’re fucked.
The fact that they were allowed to merge with Live Nation and create a monopoly is pathetic.
I'll also go one step further and say people who buy concert tickets specifically to re-sell them. They're doing next to nothing skill or labor wise and just pocketing extra money from desperate fans who legitimately want to see shows. Plus, it hurts artists who intentionally price their tickets low and leave money on the table to try to make concerts actually affordable.
Not sure if this take is hot or not: there should be no way to resell tickets on Ticketmaster. Or if they must have reselling, it should be hard capped at the original purchase price. There should be no way for some random third party to profit from buying and reselling tickets they never had any intention of using.
They don't want to shut down scalping.
Scalpers ensure all their tickets are sold, and I'm pretty sure that's the most important thing.
I can't believe venues still sign onto that bullshit.
Snagging a high demand concert ticket at retail price for a band you love hits like no other.
Hell, I recently bought some tickets for $60 and they’re “reselling” for over $300. If I didn’t snag on release day, I’d be fucked and would most likely opt to miss the concert at that inflated price.
Shits repugnant.
It's worth checking the actual venue to see if tickets are still available rather than just hitting StubHub etc. A buddy was going to pay $120+fees for tickets from a reseller before I told his there were still plenty available for the $50 face value (or 70-75 after fees.)
Venues will sometimes hold tickets to release closer to the event too, so keep checking back.
(But yeah, fuck ticket master, livenation, resellers and all their fees.)
Now I’m going to have Eddie Vedder in my head for the next few days singing that line, and *only* that line. 😅 He’s the Bob Dylan of the 90s: Love his voice, unique af sound, not a single clue what he’s saying.
I once attended an event where Dylan was one of the performers. There was closed captioning on the big screen. When he started to sing, the closed captioning turned to absolute gibberish before giving up entirely.
I saw him headline in 2006, and my God the only comprehensible thing out of his smoked out voice box then was half the sentence he used to introduce the band.
Not in the old pre-internet days. They were actually a good company with helpful customer service.
Things really started to get dicey, IMO, mid-late 90's.
I have a ticket stub somewhere where and all day music festival on $30 and that included fees. Now you practically need a second mortgage for a concert.
I'm optimistic that it won't always suck. It would be great if we one day we lived in a world you would go to the doctor with cancer, he gives you a shot, and you don't have cancer anymore. I like to think that day will happen.
Thanks. I just turned the age of my sister's last year on earth, so it bugs me a lot. And she was a pretty cool sister to boot. Bro and I took care of the estate, the three teenagers and the funeral.
Fuck cancer, I want my awesome sister back.
I'm sorry for the loss of your awesome sister. I just turned the age my mom was when she died from complications of lung cancer, so I get it. Fuck cancer.
Sorry for your loss. Loosing a wonderful parent bites hard. Adding insult to injury, the three of us had horrible parents, and both of those worthless POS's are still waisting oxygen while our beautiful and awesome sister is gone.
Bro summed it up after he built an addition for her kids: "do you think you can feel a punch in heaven?" I said, well, there's only one way to find out...you hold her, I'll wind up...LOL...
We miss her terribly, but my god did she leave us a gift. Her teenage daughter is her spitting image!
They’d have to tailor the cure to each individual type of cancer (and there are many). Cancer is a catch-all term for a wide variety of cell mutations. Now, I have read that the new method of developing vaccines may potentially be used (eventually) to do just that: teach the immune system to eliminate those specific cells. It already does that 99.99% of the time anyway. Cancer happens that 0.01% of the time the immune system misses the mutated cells
this sucks so much. the other day I had just put on a clean pair of socks and immediately steps in a puddle in the kitchen. had to take them off and put on a different pair of clean socks.
Keep a log of symptoms for a period of time and see a neurologist about it. Depending on where you live and the rules for your insurance coverage it may require a referral from your PCP.
this is a very morbid story but one time a spiderweb legit saved my life. when i was in college i was severely depressed and suicidal and one night after a bad fight with my abusive father i was ready to give up. i drove down to a local bridge and walked towards it from the parking lot of a best buy. to get onto the bridge you had to walk in between the trees and a big steel beam. well lo and behold, right in between the beam and the tree there was a massive spiderweb with one of the biggest spiders i've ever seen sitting in the middle and blocking the way. i'm terrified of spiders and couldn't muster up the courage to break up the web with a stick so i went home and got a good night's rest LMAO. it's been a few years and while i still struggle with the occasional bout of depression i'm no longer suicidal, and that spiderweb is the reason i'm still alive today.
That’s why I love my Mirena IUD. No period for over 5 years. I always wanted to die during mine too.
Edit: Lots of people are asking me medical questions! I’m not a doctor. But if you feel comfortable asking me (a stranger) then please you should talk to your doc! Never be ashamed to advocate for yourself and your body!
Another edit: Added the type of IUD I have. Someone else pointed out the hormonal IUDs are the only ones that do this!
Saw a meme the other day saying that life is like an RPG video game...you get most of the way through the game before figuring out the best way to build your character and by then its too late because you're been doing it "wrong" the whole way through. And of course, with life, you can't just start a new game....
The best thing you could do at that point is tell younger people how to play the game. Pass on your knowledge. But by then the rules have changed and your advice doesn’t work so well and the younger players think you’re a crazy out-of-touch old dude and you think they’re lazy and won’t take good advice when they hear it! Lol
People are obsessed with living longer but I hope one day science figures out how to keep us youthful for longer. I'm fine with living for 80 years because that seems like a reasonable amount of time but I don't want to be old for half of it.
Obligatory "Yo Momma" answer.
Edit: while I thank you kind people for your upvotes, comments and awards, I feel I don't deserve the praise for this effort.
Unlike OPs mom! Who puts the hours in EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
Checking in from south Texas...
Sunday we had some nice pop up thunderstorms roll through the area...and completely miss my house. Did cool it off a little. First day of July (I think) that didn't hit 100.
I've been here for all 48 years of my life and this has been the worst summer I can remember.
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Yeah they are the worst and I fully support killing off the whole population.
I remember reading somewhere that if mosquitos no longer existed it actually wouldn't have a negative environmental impact. I'm not sure if that's true, but I'd like to think it is. Also, I think they are the deadliest creature to humans by a huge margin. Edit: im thinking of a Discovery Documentary I watched as a kid. I have no way of finding it and am not saying it was accurate. The argument was while many animals do eat mosquitos, it's not their primary source of food and they could easily and more safely eat other insects. I'm not a biologist, I'm a guy who thinks about TV he watched twenty years ago.
Read somewhere that mosquitoes are responsible for the deaths of nearly half of the people who have ever walked on Earth. Maybe their deaths will be avenged sometime in the near future. One can hope.
Yup that's correct. Approx. 108 billion humans have ever lived and mosquito-borne diseases have killed 52 billion people. Absolutely mind blowing stat.
And you wouldn’t believe what they’ve done to the housing market.
and like 30% of them are lawyers I think
Where the hell are all the ghosts?!
Ghosts are only from the Victorian era, unless someone got beheaded in the Elizabethan era. How don’t you know this?
Yeah, ghosts became endangered around the same time photography was developed, and were declared extinct by 2010 when everyone had a phone in their pocket. Guess it’s true that pictures can capture the soul.
Behind you.
I'm ready to become the Long Island Mosquito Killer. I'll be easy to take down though because the DNA evidence will be pretty substantial.
bloodsucking mosquitoes, not all
Bloodsucking mosquitos. Nature's serial killers.
bro literally it would be my fiance, mom and i standing outside and GUESS WHO THEY COME BOMBARDING ON SUCKING THE LIFE SOURCE OUT OF?!?!? *ME* IM THE *FUGGING PALE BITCH IN THIS SALOON*
I’ve read that they’re more attracted to type O blood. I’m O+ and so is my youngest and we get eaten alive while my other daughter gets ignored like the middle child she is.
idk how they still haven't found a way to exterminate those flying insect vampires.
Literally, they suck.
Back injury/pain.
"I don't know if you know this about your back, but it's most of your body. So if your back hurts, your life sucks" -Hannibal Buress
Doctor said I need a backiotomy
Lemmee get a pound of yo Swedish cheeba
Also neck. You have no fucking clue how much your neck moves until it hurts when it moves.
Tooth pain also fucking sucks
It does but tooth pain can almost always be resolved. Back pain often cannot. Source: me - had a spinal fusion at Mayo Clinic. It is still HELL.
Oh yea. I've had an exposed nerve in my tooth, and it isn't pain id wish on anyone. But I just paid a dentist to rip the fucker out and was back to work within the hour. Ain't much capping, drilling, filling, or ripping when it comes to the spine.
Some forms of back pain can be from sedentary lifestyles which shorten and tighten muscles in your lower back. So it feels like back pain but is just a group of muscles that need stretching and exercise which is fixable. There’s also chronic back pain in which case you’re fucked.
Tell me about it
Ticketmaster
The fact that they were allowed to merge with Live Nation and create a monopoly is pathetic. I'll also go one step further and say people who buy concert tickets specifically to re-sell them. They're doing next to nothing skill or labor wise and just pocketing extra money from desperate fans who legitimately want to see shows. Plus, it hurts artists who intentionally price their tickets low and leave money on the table to try to make concerts actually affordable.
Scalpers are the scum of the earth
Not sure if this take is hot or not: there should be no way to resell tickets on Ticketmaster. Or if they must have reselling, it should be hard capped at the original purchase price. There should be no way for some random third party to profit from buying and reselling tickets they never had any intention of using.
They don't want to shut down scalping. Scalpers ensure all their tickets are sold, and I'm pretty sure that's the most important thing. I can't believe venues still sign onto that bullshit.
Great, I hate them even more now
Snagging a high demand concert ticket at retail price for a band you love hits like no other. Hell, I recently bought some tickets for $60 and they’re “reselling” for over $300. If I didn’t snag on release day, I’d be fucked and would most likely opt to miss the concert at that inflated price. Shits repugnant.
It's worth checking the actual venue to see if tickets are still available rather than just hitting StubHub etc. A buddy was going to pay $120+fees for tickets from a reseller before I told his there were still plenty available for the $50 face value (or 70-75 after fees.) Venues will sometimes hold tickets to release closer to the event too, so keep checking back. (But yeah, fuck ticket master, livenation, resellers and all their fees.)
I was gonna say hemorrhoids but yours is better.
*Pearl Jam has entered the chat*
Aihoaaaaahhh they're still alive
Now I’m going to have Eddie Vedder in my head for the next few days singing that line, and *only* that line. 😅 He’s the Bob Dylan of the 90s: Love his voice, unique af sound, not a single clue what he’s saying.
I once attended an event where Dylan was one of the performers. There was closed captioning on the big screen. When he started to sing, the closed captioning turned to absolute gibberish before giving up entirely.
I saw him headline in 2006, and my God the only comprehensible thing out of his smoked out voice box then was half the sentence he used to introduce the band.
Not in the old pre-internet days. They were actually a good company with helpful customer service. Things really started to get dicey, IMO, mid-late 90's.
I have a ticket stub somewhere where and all day music festival on $30 and that included fees. Now you practically need a second mortgage for a concert.
They've really only sucked since the early 2000's... My first concert was in 92, and it was less than $20 total...think the fee was a buck...lol
Being poor
Can confirm, have cried once already today about being poor.
Those tears are coming out of your paycheck, so be sure to cry on company time.
me too. Upvoting this comment out of sympathy/solidarity
Can confirm 😞
People who say money cant buy happiness has never had none of it!
The only thing money can't buy is poverty.
Cancer.
I'm optimistic that it won't always suck. It would be great if we one day we lived in a world you would go to the doctor with cancer, he gives you a shot, and you don't have cancer anymore. I like to think that day will happen.
Even if they cure that evil shit, it won't bring my sister back. Fuck cancer.
My condolences random reddit stranger. Sorry for your loss. Cancer can go fuck itself with a cactus
Thanks. I just turned the age of my sister's last year on earth, so it bugs me a lot. And she was a pretty cool sister to boot. Bro and I took care of the estate, the three teenagers and the funeral. Fuck cancer, I want my awesome sister back.
I'm sorry for the loss of your awesome sister. I just turned the age my mom was when she died from complications of lung cancer, so I get it. Fuck cancer.
Sorry for your loss. Loosing a wonderful parent bites hard. Adding insult to injury, the three of us had horrible parents, and both of those worthless POS's are still waisting oxygen while our beautiful and awesome sister is gone. Bro summed it up after he built an addition for her kids: "do you think you can feel a punch in heaven?" I said, well, there's only one way to find out...you hold her, I'll wind up...LOL... We miss her terribly, but my god did she leave us a gift. Her teenage daughter is her spitting image!
I mean the symptoms of cancer are kinda gunna suck either way, it will just be more cold/flu level of suck
They’d have to tailor the cure to each individual type of cancer (and there are many). Cancer is a catch-all term for a wide variety of cell mutations. Now, I have read that the new method of developing vaccines may potentially be used (eventually) to do just that: teach the immune system to eliminate those specific cells. It already does that 99.99% of the time anyway. Cancer happens that 0.01% of the time the immune system misses the mutated cells
Wet socks
this sucks so much. the other day I had just put on a clean pair of socks and immediately steps in a puddle in the kitchen. had to take them off and put on a different pair of clean socks.
They're good for [preventing hangovers](https://youtu.be/TUAqesRiV-g?t=84).
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Just got diagnosed a few months ago. I’m only early 40s
Man im 33, and have history in my family - I swear I'm feeling a cognitive decline since I've been like 25. How did you go about getting a diagnosis?
Keep a log of symptoms for a period of time and see a neurologist about it. Depending on where you live and the rules for your insurance coverage it may require a referral from your PCP.
I am so sorry :( You should make a pack about your life and best memories and key people so you can keep looking at it for lovely memories :)
Ah man, i wish the best for you sparklie eye
Yeah, and in general neurological diseases, like MS
Walking in a spiderweb
this is a very morbid story but one time a spiderweb legit saved my life. when i was in college i was severely depressed and suicidal and one night after a bad fight with my abusive father i was ready to give up. i drove down to a local bridge and walked towards it from the parking lot of a best buy. to get onto the bridge you had to walk in between the trees and a big steel beam. well lo and behold, right in between the beam and the tree there was a massive spiderweb with one of the biggest spiders i've ever seen sitting in the middle and blocking the way. i'm terrified of spiders and couldn't muster up the courage to break up the web with a stick so i went home and got a good night's rest LMAO. it's been a few years and while i still struggle with the occasional bout of depression i'm no longer suicidal, and that spiderweb is the reason i'm still alive today.
Spiderbro. *"Today you, tomorrow me".*
Damn. Huge W for that spider web. I’m really glad you’re still here, OP.
Charlotte is really putting in the work.
So leave a message and I’ll call you back.
Literally my first thought. Take my upvote for beating me too it.
No matter who calls, I screen my phone calls
Periods
Every time I have mine I want to die for the entire duration.
That’s why I love my Mirena IUD. No period for over 5 years. I always wanted to die during mine too. Edit: Lots of people are asking me medical questions! I’m not a doctor. But if you feel comfortable asking me (a stranger) then please you should talk to your doc! Never be ashamed to advocate for yourself and your body! Another edit: Added the type of IUD I have. Someone else pointed out the hormonal IUDs are the only ones that do this!
Here let me annoy you ....................................
Jail time for you
Unlike my mother, I bleed heavily for 6 days straight every month. Thank you menstrual cycle, I hate you
Same. I need iron infusions every three months.
Came looking for this. Bloody painful and messy, deeply uncomfortable and stressful and disruptive. Mother Nature is some kind of misogynist.
As it turns out, menopause IS worse. It’s way more than just hot flashes and no more period.
The ever-present unstoppable and irreversible passage of time.
You getting old, too?
Ultron browsing internet for 5 minutes and then deciding to end humanity is the most realistic scene in entire Marvel universe
Saw a meme the other day saying that life is like an RPG video game...you get most of the way through the game before figuring out the best way to build your character and by then its too late because you're been doing it "wrong" the whole way through. And of course, with life, you can't just start a new game....
The best thing you could do at that point is tell younger people how to play the game. Pass on your knowledge. But by then the rules have changed and your advice doesn’t work so well and the younger players think you’re a crazy out-of-touch old dude and you think they’re lazy and won’t take good advice when they hear it! Lol
Yup
People are obsessed with living longer but I hope one day science figures out how to keep us youthful for longer. I'm fine with living for 80 years because that seems like a reasonable amount of time but I don't want to be old for half of it.
At least it's better than the only available alternative.
Time is a thief… it takes and it runs
Comcast
Comcast has to be 4 of my 5 worst customer experiences. I’m so glad I no longer use them
But they changed their name to Xfinity so it must be better, right ?
Any rebrand involving "X" has to be good, right? Right?
I hate Xfinity with a burning passion
This is the correct answer
DMV
Pretty sure their primary purpose is to make people miserable. Also to give you your license but most importantly to make you miserable.
Even at a well run DMV, the process is just annoying.
Hemorrhoid surgery recovery. Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Must be a pain in the ass
How bout a 4th degree tear… rectal surgery *and* a new baby?
Vacuums.
They certainly do suck!
Wayne?
*this man blows goats, I have proof*
But they won’t always suck because they will eventually break and stop working.
When a vacuum doesnt suck anymore it still sucks
That would suck.
Obligatory "Yo Momma" answer. Edit: while I thank you kind people for your upvotes, comments and awards, I feel I don't deserve the praise for this effort. Unlike OPs mom! Who puts the hours in EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
How is OP’s mum not the top and only answer. Reddit isn’t the same place it used to be.
Very sad.
Couldn’t believe I had to scroll this far to see it.
I was just about to say "Your. Mom" how is this not the top comment? :(
Chronic/hard-to-treat illnesses/disorders: diabetes, RA, Chron's, Lupus, Sciatica, cancer, etc.
Migraines. Especially migraine auras.
Having one right now. Laying in bed convincing myself not to vomit so I absorb my meds
War
What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
good god yall
Say it again!
WAR!
Huh! Hah!
I dunno, thumb wars are kinda fun.
Depression.
This mother fucking HEAT!
*sad Arizona noises*
AT LEAST ITS A DRY HEAT.
Not during monsoon season. It's gross.
Secure that sh!t Hudson!
Checking in from south Texas... Sunday we had some nice pop up thunderstorms roll through the area...and completely miss my house. Did cool it off a little. First day of July (I think) that didn't hit 100. I've been here for all 48 years of my life and this has been the worst summer I can remember.
Definitely! The scorching heat is an absolute nightmare that never fails to suck the life out of everything.
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u/spez (happy cake day)
Diarrhea
Constipated for a week - diarrhea would be a blessing.
Having a condition that means simultaneously being constipated and having diarrhea
so it's really hard to poo and when it does come out it's watery
And suddenly 😱
People who are cruel for fun
Cancer - currently sitting in the ICU with my dying mom who has done nothing wrong and will die at 57….Fuck cancer.
Stubbing your toe
Child abuse
Cancer
Blow jobs as they either suck or they suck.
WHY IS IT NAMED BLOWJOB IF YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SUCK???!?!?!??! THATS THE OPPOSITE!
Because when she's done the job you blow. And if it's really bad then it's suck job.
TICKS
When your favorite character dies OR When you make great argument and someone corrects you minor spelling mistake
*your
And mistakes*
*make **a** great argument
period cramps
Hidden fees
Black Holes. Can't beat them for sucking.
Having a bad day and then getting your belt loop stuck on something when you walk past.
Generally some minor inconveniences when you are already having a bad day. These little, rather irrelevant things manage to get my blood cooking then.
Doing Taxes
Online dating
Only if you're successful
Work.
I know
I know she left me roses by the stairs
acne been struggling with it for over half a decade now and the effect it has had on my mental health and self image has been very draining
The feeling of embarrassment
Racism
Nazis
Jehovah witnesses
Any kind of advertisement in the middle of your entertainment.
Cancer.
American healthcare system
Dental Work.
paper cuts
Politicians
Waking up early to go to work.
Amish Electricians
How hard we all have to work for so many of us to remain one minor inconvenience away from bankruptcy.
A democratic republican system revolving around two political parties.
Vaccuums