I rarely ever see roaches in my gaff, but I just encountered a massive unit scurrying across the floor in my flat. I gave it an absolutely savage whack with an empty 1 litre tetra pack drink bottle that was sitting on the counter. Just grabbed the closest thing within reach because I did not want to give the little charmer time to pull a Houdini and vanish into another dimension. Proper full blooded hit. Guts splattered across the floor and all over the side of the container. Absolute homicide looking scene from a single blow. I thought there was no possible way that thing was surviving it.

So I sauntered off (thinking it had already checked out) to grab some paper towel to pick it up and send it on its final voyage down the bog.

But when I turned back around, the little ba*tard was actually starting to scurry away again, and at a surprisingly decent clip as well. Honestly, the determination was almost admirable. But I nabbed him quickly and wrangled him over to the bowl in a Bangkok minute. I was even more shocked to see the filthy little mutant trying to climb back out after I dropped him in the porcelain void. He was truly giving it a 12 round effort, no match for the big flush though.

I honestly do not understand it. How was that nasty little oozing sack of guts still operational when half its internal organs appeared to be outside its body? At this point I am convinced roaches are basically tiny armoured apocalypse survival creatures. No doubt they will make it through and thrive in the dystopia following a thermonuclear annihilation of the planet while the rest of us are reduced to radioactive slime.

Pretty sure if the planet gets nuked, the only things left will be Keith Richards 🎸, Nokia 3310s 📱 and your flatmate from the kitchen floor

I prefer something a bit more theatrical. A quick blast of spray, then watch them flip onto their back, legs kicking the air for a few minutes, before they finally give up the ghost. Good thing you did not let him get away though. Nothing worse than finding the little bugger back again, this time crawling across your neck at 3am.

17 minutes ago, Nemises said:

Pretty sure if the planet gets nuked, the only things left will be Keith Richards 🎸, Nokia 3310s 📱 and your flatmate from the kitchen floor

You nailed it. Maybe bum guns will make it too. Prolly shouldn't have mentioned Keith Richard's though. Any minute now GG might appear and post 20 more Stones videos we don't need. 🤣

43 minutes ago, Alpha84 said:

I rarely ever see roaches in my gaff, but I just encountered a massive unit scurrying across the floor in my flat. I gave it an absolutely savage whack with an empty 1 litre tetra pack drink bottle that was sitting on the counter. Just grabbed the closest thing within reach because I did not want to give the little charmer time to pull a Houdini and vanish into another dimension. Proper full blooded hit. Guts splattered across the floor and all over the side of the container. Absolute homicide looking scene from a single blow. I thought there was no possible way that thing was surviving it.

So I sauntered off (thinking it had already checked out) to grab some paper towel to pick it up and send it on its final voyage down the bog.

But when I turned back around, the little ba*tard was actually starting to scurry away again, and at a surprisingly decent clip as well. Honestly, the determination was almost admirable. But I nabbed him quickly and wrangled him over to the bowl in a Bangkok minute. I was even more shocked to see the filthy little mutant trying to climb back out after I dropped him in the porcelain void. He was truly giving it a 12 round effort, no match for the big flush though.

I honestly do not understand it. How was that nasty little oozing sack of guts still operational when half its internal organs appeared to be outside its body? At this point I am convinced roaches are basically tiny armoured apocalypse survival creatures. No doubt they will make it through and thrive in the dystopia following a thermonuclear annihilation of the planet while the rest of us are reduced to radioactive slime.

The coach roach said as he departed " good bye cruel world "

The scientific answer from AI:

1. The Discentralized Brain

Unlike humans, who house the entire command center in the skull, a cockroach's nervous system is decentralized. They have clusters of nerve tissue called ganglia distributed throughout each segment of their body.

These mini-brains can control local functions independently. Even if the main head or central system takes a devastating hit, the legs can still receive signals to run. They can literally live for weeks without a head, eventually dying only of dehydration because they no longer have a mouth to drink water.

2. High-Pressure Hydraulics

Cockroaches do not have a closed circulatory system with a high-pressure heart pumping blood through veins. Instead, they have an open system where their "blood" (hemolymph) just sloshes around inside their body cavity, bathing their organs.

Because their blood pressure is relatively low, blowing a hole in their side or rupturing their abdomen does not cause them to rapidly bleed out the way a mammal would. The open wound looks horrific, but it is not an immediate, catastrophic system failure.

3. Breathing Through Their Sides

If you crush a mammal's chest or stomach, you compromise their ability to breathe. Cockroaches breathe through spiracles, which are tiny valves located along the sides of their bodies. As long as some of those lateral valves remain open and clear, they can keep absorbing oxygen and fueling their muscles, completely independent of whatever chaos is happening to their main internal organs.

4. Shock Absorption and Flexibility

Their exoskeleton is made of chitin, built in overlapping plates. When you hit them with something relatively blunt like a cardboard carton, those plates can slide over one another to deflect and absorb a massive amount of the kinetic energy. You definitely broke the seal and caused critical structural damage, but the armor likely absorbed just enough force to keep the core machinery intact for one final sprint.

The Post-Apocalyptic Rumor

As for the thermonuclear annihilation? You are partially right. They can survive about ten times the amount of radiation that would kill a human because their cells divide much slower, making them less susceptible to radiation damage. However, they would not survive the literal heat of the blast.

4 minutes ago, Rams86 said:

The coach roach said as he departed " good bye cruel world "

I'm leaving you today

Goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye all you people

There's nothing you can say

To make me change my mind

Goodbye

Nearly got taken out by a roach once—true story 😅

Saw it on the living room wall at about head height, just chilling like it owned the place 🪳 I grabbed the spray, went in slow and tactical, thinking I had the upper hand… full confidence, zero fear 😎

Got within range, ready to unleash justice—and the little menace launched itself straight into my face like it had been waiting for the perfect moment 😳 Proper kamikaze stuff 💥

Next thing I know I’m going backwards, off balance, and my head narrowly misses the coffee table on the way down 🪑😬

As much as I hate these critters, I prefer NOT to squash them. Or spray them.
Instead, I sprinkle Boric Acid powder on them and let them run back to their nest to be eaten by their roommates, who will ALL die afterward.
Boric Acid powder is available at most pharmacies and is the single best home defense against roaches. Boric Acid cleared the roaches out of NYC's Harlem tenements! Not good for pets to eat, so place carefully, but safe for human contact.
Two ways to use the stuff;

1. Put the powder into a plastic ketchup squirter, and squirt some behind the cabinets, under the sink, under the fridge, under the washing machine, any area that gets damp, or dark! The roaches will walk through the powder, which kills them after an hour or two, hopefully giving them time to get back to their nest to be eaten themselves.

2. The Japanese method is to make little 'cookies' with the Boric Acid, and if you buy it in a Japanese pharmacy, they will give you a printed recipe sheet. Basically, it's just grated onion, potato, and a little flour, plus the Boric Acid, shaped into cookies, baked at a low temp just to harden them, then placed behind, under, and around areas that roaches might like to travel!
You will never see another roach!

Edited May 18May 18 by FolkGuitar

The OP is obviously has a "dirty" apartment, doesn't wash the dishes etc that's why he has cockroaches

Surely if your too lazy hire a maid or cleaning company to come around

2 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

The OP is obviously has a "dirty" apartment, doesn't wash the dishes etc that's why he has cockroaches

Surely if your too lazy hire a maid or cleaning company to come around

Ah yes, the classic internet diagnosis—inspect the kitchen from 3,000km away and declare it a sanitation crime scene. Incredible work, Dr Google 🧑‍⚕️🪳

Pretty sure roaches don’t require a personality assessment before they apply for tenancy… they just show up, uninvited, like your comments.

Edited May 18May 18 by Nemises

In china they bread em for making roach toothpaste and other products

The presence of cockroaches outdoors is partially due to the higher-humidity weather we are now experiencing.

This is the season of the cockroach, and the beginning of the Raining Season.

They will leave soon.

4 hours ago, Nemises said:

Ah yes, the classic internet diagnosis—inspect the kitchen from 3,000km away and declare it a sanitation crime scene. Incredible work, Dr Google 🧑‍⚕️🪳

Pretty sure roaches don’t require a personality assessment before they apply for tenancy… they just show up, uninvited, like your comments.

Please forgive me but heaven above...

Oh you must get to know the personality of the OP darl

Sits in his 18 sqm Flybird condo room on this forum all day eating doritos like some others on here !

Dirty dishes piling up in the sink , addicted to that bloody computer

Someday in the not-too-distant future, it is WE who will become the "roaches", and...

It will be SAMMY-BOY's AI who will hunt us down, as we scurry around, and then wack us.

OpenAI's Mafia AI will soon take us out.

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

The OP is obviously has a "dirty" apartment, doesn't wash the dishes etc that's why he has cockroaches

Surely if your too lazy hire a maid or cleaning company to come around

If that is not a cry for me to hire you as my maid, then I do not know what is.

Well, you have got the job, and I am highly confident your elite level floor mopping skills will sort them all out, even though they have managed to survive for around 300 million years.

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

Please forgive me but heaven above...

Oh you must get to know the personality of the OP darl

Sits in his 18 sqm Flybird condo room on this forum all day eating doritos like some others on here !

Dirty dishes piling up in the sink , addicted to that bloody computer

I'm actually slumming it over at the Nirun now duh-ling, just one floor above your little gaff here. Anytime you and your ladyboy partner are ready to come over and clean the place up just let me know. I'll whack on a Chang singlet and head out for a rub and a tug so you can perform your maid magic in peace.

Edited May 18May 18 by Alpha84

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

Please forgive me but heaven above...

Oh you must get to know the personality of the OP darl

Sits in his 18 sqm Flybird condo room on this forum all day eating doritos like some others on here !

Dirty dishes piling up in the sink , addicted to that bloody computer

Georgeenta, you are once again missing a very important research opportunity here.

This is exactly the kind of controlled field data that can be captured properly.

• Apartment size correlation with cockroach incidence

• Snack type analysis, Doritos as a key variable

• Sink load vs insect emergence rates

• Pornhub activity duration vs domestic cleanliness decline index

You can build a full statistical dataset here.

Even a simple observation log will be very useful.

• Time spent on computer

• Dish accumulation rate

• Insect encounter frequency

• Ladyboy arrival and departure rates

• Condensation levels in Flybird vs Nirun units

Instead of engaging emotionally, this is the perfect moment for structured data collection.

Missed opportunity, I’m afraid.

Worth reconsidering the potential.

This is high grade level fieldwork.

Opportunities like this do not come along every day.

Hard to understand why you would let it pass.

High vis vest ready, clipboard in hand, and you are still hesitating.

I would get started immediately.

No doubt governments will be lining up to pay millions for this data once compiled.

Edited May 18May 18 by BilllyGOAT

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Please forgive me but heaven above...

Oh you must get to know the personality of the OP darl

Sits in his 18 sqm Flybird condo room on this forum all day eating doritos like some others on here !

Dirty dishes piling up in the sink , addicted to that bloody computer

I prefer cheetos...much more cheesy.

8 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

As much as I hate these critters, I prefer NOT to squash them. Or spray them.
Instead, I sprinkle Boric Acid powder on them and let them run back to their nest to be eaten by their roommates, who will ALL die afterward.
Boric Acid powder is available at most pharmacies and is the single best home defense against roaches. Boric Acid cleared the roaches out of NYC's Harlem tenements! Not good for pets to eat, so place carefully, but safe for human contact.
Two ways to use the stuff;

1. Put the powder into a plastic ketchup squirter, and squirt some behind the cabinets, under the sink, under the fridge, under the washing machine, any area that gets damp, or dark! The roaches will walk through the powder, which kills them after an hour or two, hopefully giving them time to get back to their nest to be eaten themselves.

2. The Japanese method is to make little 'cookies' with the Boric Acid, and if you buy it in a Japanese pharmacy, they will give you a printed recipe sheet. Basically, it's just grated onion, potato, and a little flour, plus the Boric Acid, shaped into cookies, baked at a low temp just to harden them, then placed behind, under, and around areas that roaches might like to travel!
You will never see another roach!

I’ve had really good luck with an ant gel bait that comes in a syringe-style tube. It’s a clear gel, and it works incredibly well. I just inject a little into the cracks between the kitchen counter and the wall, and the ants are usually gone within a day. No smell or fumes.

I used to spend time trying to track down the nest whenever ants started appearing, but now I don’t even bother. The ants find the gel wherever you place it, carry it back to the nest, and it wipes out the colony. I’ll also put a small amount on a spoon inside a kitchen cabinet, and that works too.

The key is I noticed it seems to help keep roaches at bay too. I am actually not in my place right now where the roach incident occurred this morning. Thankfully I never get ones that big in my own place. This one was so big it looked like it just might have wandered in off the street.

Anyway, the gel is definitely better than spraying or spreading harsh chemicals around the kitchen that can end up airborne. Just search on Lazada or Shoppe for "Ant Bait" and you will see it. Lots of those gel options.

Edited May 18May 18 by Alpha84

16 minutes ago, blaze master said:

I prefer cheetos...much more cheesy.

I am generally not a crisps eater, though those Cheetos in the swimsuit do look inviting. I have tried Doritos in Thailand. Not sure they taste right, but they are 3X the price of any local crisps, despite being manufactured locally I believe. I used to like some of the local corn based ones, or the ones with a bit of paprika, but I stopped eating them all ages ago.

8 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

The OP is obviously has a "dirty" apartment, doesn't wash the dishes etc that's why he has cockroaches

Surely if your too lazy hire a maid or cleaning company to come around

Are you taking notes?

1 hour ago, Alpha84 said:

I am generally not a crisps eater, though those Cheetos in the swimsuit do look inviting. I have tried Doritos in Thailand. Not sure they taste right, but they are 3X the price of any local crisps, despite being manufactured locally I believe. I used to like some of the local corn based ones, or the ones with a bit of paprika, but I stopped eating them all ages ago.

3x the price just because of the outdated imported game has grown quite old.

Many thai products in canada are not 3x because ....imported.

5 minutes ago, blaze master said:

3x the price just because of the outdated imported game has grown quite old.

Many thai products in canada are not 3x because ....imported.

But according to Google (below) they aren't even an import. Neither are Lays, but I think Lays are at least sold at local prices. Not sure why they try and fleece people on Doritos though. Something like 70 Baht for a small bag I think. Thank goodness my obsessions are for other things and not crisps.

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Doritos sold in Thailand are generally made locally in Thailand, not imported from the United States.

PepsiCo produces Doritos through its regional manufacturing network, and Thailand is one of the countries where it operates snack production facilities. In fact, PepsiCo runs local snack manufacturing in Thailand that produces brands like Doritos, Lay’s, and Cheetos for the Thai market.

1 hour ago, nick supreme said:

Are you taking notes?

He takes notes, mops, washes dishes that have been piling up for weeks, cleans Dorito crumbs out of you bed. In fact, he'll do just about anything as long as you call him "duh-ling".

3 minutes ago, Alpha84 said:

But according to Google (below) they aren't even an import. Neither are Lays, but I think Lays are at least sold at local prices. Not sure why they try and fleece people on Doritos though. Something like 70 Baht for a small bag I think. Thank goodness my obsessions are for other things and not crisps.

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Doritos sold in Thailand are generally made locally in Thailand, not imported from the United States.

PepsiCo produces Doritos through its regional manufacturing network, and Thailand is one of the countries where it operates snack production facilities. In fact, PepsiCo runs local snack manufacturing in Thailand that produces brands like Doritos, Lay’s, and Cheetos for the Thai market.

Its just thailand being....thailand ?

Edited May 18May 18 by blaze master

56 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Its just thailand being....thailand ?

Could be. It could also just be typical supply and demand at play. It's also possible at one time Doritos were imported, and when they started manufacturing locally, they just kept the price the same to test what would happen. And perhaps the demand didn't drop, so Pepsi saw no reason to drop their prices. Gotta love capitalism at its finest.

Wasn't there also a recent row in the states where they raised Doritos prices too high and Pepsi were forced to drop prices back down because sales were falling hard? $7 a bag I think?

It's amazing to think that something as awful as an extremely unhealthy fast food product like that with zero nutritional value could become such a high valued commodity amongst its subscribers.

4 minutes ago, Alpha84 said:

Could be. It could also just be typical supply and demand at play. It's also possible at one time Doritos were imported, and when they started manufacturing locally, they just kept the price the same to test what would happen. And perhaps the demand didn't drop, so Pepsi saw no reason to drop their prices. Gotta love capitalism at its finest.

Wasn't there also a recent row in the states where they raised Doritos prices too high and Pepsi were forced to drop prices back down because sales were falling hard? $7 a bag I think?

It's amazing to think that something as awful as an extremely unhealthy fast food product like that with zero nutritional value could become such a high valued commodity amongst its subscribers.

When I was last in thailand villa had some doritos that were mu h higher priced and marked as imported.

Maybe those ones were still being brought over.

Im not a big fan of Pepsi at all. Overall.

You might be right. I only remember picking up a bag once in Tops and looking on the back and seeing that they were made in Thailand. I also think Doritos was another one of those Pepsi acquisitions. Originally wasn't it a Nabisco product? Dunno. It could be wrong. I'm not really so up-to-date on my American junk food history.

Alpha there have been instances when the rope

broke or the gun failed and the condened man is

usually pardoned.

You are a hard ass !