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You answer back and keep referring to them as Kevin (if his name isn't Kevin) and just make up a bunch of stuff telling him that his family want him to come home, his wife and three children haven't seen him in three years since the day they took him to the asylum for accidently killing his brother in that chainsaw accident.

That was about black flies

Mosquitos have a small sting and half the time their anesthetic works and you don't notice they're there until they're full. And they often only work in the evenings, less at night and a lot less during the day.

Black flies are a flying platform for a jagged needle and jaws to tear open your skin. They don't bite they tear open a hole to insert their needle. They fly during a hot summer afternoon and in the right temperature they'll swarm, drive you insane, make you run like a maniac and eat you as you slowly flail on the ground until you stop moving.

Mosquitos will leave a little pin prick wound, black flies will leave a big welt the size of a loonie and just as hard and if you get caught outside surrounded by these demon insects, the welts will actually merge and harden your skin ..... and they will keep landing to tear open more.

"And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' my bones

In North Ontar-eye-o-eye-o, In North Ontar-eye-o"

I would rather die from mosquitos than be tortured to death by black flies

Cat: ..... are you giving me food?

Hamster: .... am I being offered as food?

Imagine the endless headlines and stupidity if Biden had accepted this 'gift'

Don't worry about it ..... they'll be manufacturing millions of drones to do all the killing anyway

I've always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.

The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified

The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it

The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can't be caught.

Crossing the realms of Star Trek and Lord of the Rings ..... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!

Fascism marched in with violence and force the first time ..... we're sleep walking into it this time.

Shirt! .... if you happen to stretch your jeans too tightly over your butt, they're biting you through there too.

Never read the book but I do know what being swarmed by mosquitoes means. I have relatives who live further north and I've been there when I was younger. My worst experience was being out in the woods in deep wilderness in July in the mushkeg. No wind, no weather, just completely still air, hot, humid at dusk when the temperature was just right. We made a fire to smoke our tent but it only made it manageable to survive. Outside, I went to do some repairs to a tent and I had to wear gloves, covered head to toe and a heavy hooded jacket to cover my face. The only thing exposed was about a baseball sized hole in front of me ..... the mosquitoes swarmed the opening and nearly choked me. I was only outside for about two minutes to get things done then had to run back inside. An exposed person in those conditions would have probably gone insane.

But those nights are rare, most of the time, there is a bit of a breeze and mosquitoes are transient. Even on hot humid nights for whatever reason, you get a reprieve and the bugs aren't so bad. Most of the time, there is enough of a breeze to manage things and you can use campfire smoke to control the bugs.

It's a completely harsh environment and sometimes I can't believe humans lived there for thousands of years. And it's where my family is from. The same locations I'm talking about freeze over in the winter to minus 40 degree temperatures in February. You can die by mosquito bites in the summer .... and frost bite in the winter.

This historic period is completely embarrassing .... and I'm up in Canada!

When we read about historic politicians and the things they said 100 years ago, the US had Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. There are political debates about the good and bad things they did but all of them had sensible and meaningful quotes about society, philosophy and government .... they were educated in rhetoric and everything they said and wrote came from a base of a lot of education and understanding.

The US in the 2020s has an 80 year old man who could barely manage the country and a clown that never makes any sense.

They will laugh at all of us in a hundred years for the stupidity we all put up with in our world leadership.

Canary in the coalmine got his revenge