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    Why Cockroaches Love PS4s

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      PetroRie @backstander
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      @backstander I'm glad I never had them. Your story really frightens me. Yikes.

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      • spruce_m00seS
        spruce_m00se
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        annoyingly I have roaches in my apartment because the neighbours are less than clean.
        It is incredible the places that you find them, and the speed with which they breed, just one, if you dont kill it instantly will become 30 within a week.

        i bloody hate them

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          mediamogul Global Moderator
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          In South Carolina, where I live, our roaches are abnormally large and actually have their own marketing spin to soften their image a bit. Here, they're referred to as "Palmetto Bugs", named after our state tree. The moniker is thought to have been born out the tourism trade in Myrtle beach, where hotels would put out notation cards in rooms, saying things like they are part of the landscape and going so far as suggesting that seeing one is good luck. In reality, it's near impossible to keep roaches at bay in a high foliage area where the tourists aren't exactly being on their best behavior with their trash.

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            backstander @mediamogul
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            @mediamogul
            I lived in Florida for a couple years and they have the largest cockroaches I have every seen. Actually I think they have the largest bugs in all of the USA. I remember seeing large millipedes with stout pincers just walking on the ground. The house I was living in at the time I had to have sprayed because the neighbors next door's house was trashed. The exterminator told me that he would never eat Chinese food in that town because he's seen the worst infections ever at one of those locations.

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            • mediamogulM
              mediamogul Global Moderator @backstander
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              @backstander

              Actually I think they have the largest bugs in all of the USA.

              With it's environment, that wouldn't surprise me. From what I've always heard, Florida, South Carolina and Texas all give each other a pretty good run for their money.

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                edmaul69 @mediamogul
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                @mediamogul cockroaches in hawaii are freaking huge too

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                • mediamogulM
                  mediamogul Global Moderator @edmaul69
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                  @edmaul69

                  Wow, yeah I bet.

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                  • edmaul69E
                    edmaul69 @mediamogul
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                    @mediamogul yeah back in '88 when i was a kid a 3" cockroach ran up my arm. I was traumatized and have hated them so much because of it.

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                      cylum
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                      Luckily I've never had any roaches in my systems, but I did find a dead spider and its web in my SNES after opening it up for the first time in 20 years.

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                      • space cadetS
                        space cadet
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                        All the old systems I buy just are brown from nicotine : (

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                        • herb_fargusH
                          herb_fargus administrators @space cadet
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                          @space-cadet technically they are brown from the tar but disgusting nonetheless

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                            A Former User
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                            I have an old wii laying around.
                            Do they love those too?

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                            • edmaul69E
                              edmaul69 @A Former User
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                              @itsnitro yes. I have opened several with roaches. All systems that have vents are potential roach motels. Heat and dark space. Everything they love.

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