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I remember sitting in Kautokeino bus with an older Sami man. Dozens of mosquitoes just sat on his forehead just waiting for something edible. I was only semi-ed
by timonoko 5y ago
I remember sitting in Kautokeino bus with an older Sami man. Dozens of mosquitoes just sat on his forehead just waiting for something edible. I was only semi-edible with DEET. But an Italian couple was totally. It was incredible to watch, I wish I had a camera. Blood bath and genocide.
- cinbun8 5y agoWe found the gpt-3 everyone
- riffic 5y agoit makes perfect sense to me.
- ask_b123 5y agoI'm not sure why the comment is dead, but I also don't really understand the comment. Could you explain it please?
- thatguy0900 5y agoHe's giving an anecdote. Mosquitos would land on a native man but not bite him. Some mosquitos bit him(timonoko) but he had DEET on so not many did. An Italian couple got very badly bitten and spent the trip trying to slap and genocide all of the mosquitos.
- ask_b123 5y agoHa. That's what I thought but the comment's dead status swayed my outlook and made me search for another meaning :O
- timonoko 5y agoI was trying to point out that Mosquito saliva produces somekind of deterrent and antigen. It takes only few bites and days to adapt with suitable genetic background. But Italians were offended and it turned into flame war.
- riffic 5y agoI vouched your comment. I don't know why stuff needs to be downvoted to oblivion around here. HN voters, stop it and stop being so damn fickle.
- nawgz 5y agoI mostly agree, there is an omission of "edible" after "totally" that makes it read confusingly. However, I find the last sentence - "blood bath and genocide" - to be very out of place, to the point where invoking "genocide" to talk about some mosquitos getting swatted feels quite inappropriate.
- eitland 5y agoThere is a joke about mosquitoes in Northern Norway that goes like this: Two mosquitoes caught a soldier and one asked the other: should we eat him here or bring back home? To which the other mosquito answer: No, lets eat him here lest we want one of the big mosquitoes come and take him. Source: close friend who served next to the Russian border. I was south in Troms and down there they were so small we could easily kill them with a shovel or something ;-)
- messo 5y agoYeah, the mosquitoes in northern Norway can be brutal. I have family in the region and was invited on a fishing trip to one of the large salmon rivers. The air was thick with HUGE mosquitoes and after a while I gave up trying to keep them away. A blood bath indeed.