Cicada vs Vuvuzela

[glenn1]

And a challenger appears!

 

[Chess]

man.... i want to just create a fireball and blow the fucking cicadias to pieces....

its back here in the Peoples Replubic.....

 

[lxskllr]

I wanted to move to Cicadia, but we're at war with Cicadia. We've always been at war with Cicadia, but it looks like a nice place to live.

 

[dank69]

I wanted to move to Cicadia, but we're at war with Cicadia. We've always been at war with Cicadia, but it looks like a nice place to live.

You're thinking of Canada. We're at war with Canada.

 

[lxskllr]

You're thinking of Canada. We're at war with Canada.

Oh, you're right. How stupid of me. We've always been at war with Canada. That's why I'm not in charge. I just don't have the head for facts. We're lucky to have smart people that look after, and care for us. I don't think I could make it on my own.

 

[Linflas]

I like them and the noise doesn't bother me. They only come around once every 17 years and will be gone by the end of June.

 

[IronWing]

Cicadas are great. Who doesn't like cicadas? They are the sound of high Summer in the desert.

 

[Jeff7]

It's a classic Zerg rush...except these Zerg aren't aggressive, and they have no means of causing damage, except perhaps from the weight of their numerous corpses.

And even once the war is fought, as long as a few breeding pairs were able to put down some eggs, they'll still call it a victory.

 

[sdifox]

Cicadas are ok. Vuvuzela would drive me up the wall

 

[phucheneh]

Cicadas, crickets, or any loud bug deserve to burn to death.

A douchebag with a noise-making horn also deserves to burn to death.

So nature's douchebag versus just a douchebag by choice. Latter wins.

 

[DCal430]

Cicadas win by the scare factor alone. Would hate to have to deal with this every few years:

 

[Triumph]

those pictures just made me visibly shudder.

 

[sdifox]

Those are not life size. The biggest is about 7cm. According to wiki.

 

[SKORPI0]

Before eating Cicadas, Pause. D:

Fried cicadas (Getty Images)

"Spice Up Your Spring Soiree With a Timely, Tasty Treat." Scotch on the rocks? Why not Scotch on the cicadas? And so on.
Over the next few weeks, as Brood II cicadas blanket the mid-Atlantic United States by the shovelful, including media/gastronomy hubs like New York City and Washington, D.C.,
expect to hear more and more about eating them. Magazines will at least mention cocktail recipes or run reflections on the sublime delicacy, the "shrimp of the land"
-- if not features about how culturally important eating bugs is in certain corners, or how cultivating the millions of free calories could cure world hunger. Entomophagy in general is fascinating, thriving, and promising.
The notion of eating cicadas in the U.S., though, is more precious. "See that abhorrent little monster there on the ground? Well, sir, I find it marvelous, and I'm going to put it inside of me. I find beauty in all things."
Just another boring, ordinary dinner party? Not anymore, because we'll be serving big screaming bugs. At least it's something to talk about.
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Time-lapse molting cicada (Wikimedia Commons)​

Last week National Geographic pointed out that cicadas are gluten-free and low-carb. Which is true. Six years ago, the same magazine sold them as low-fat, which is also true. They are also soon to be enormously abundant, and eating them will not likely kill you. The same things can be said of wood chips, though, and pebbles. In too much of the world, food is too scarce; but abundance alone does not endorse consumption.

 

[DCal430]

Those are not life size. The biggest is about 7cm. According to wiki.

That refers to average, another wiki article says they grow up to 15cm in length.

The largest species of this diverse order is usually listed as the giant water bug (Lethocerus maximus) of the West Indies and neotropics. This species can attain a length of 11.6 cm (4.6 in), although it is more slender and less heavy than most other insects of this size (principally the huge beetles). Challenging or surpassing this size, the cicada Pomponia imperatoria which can reportedly grow to 15 cm (5.9 in) in length.[558] The cicadas of the genus Tacua can also grow to comparably large sizes. The largest type of aphid is the Giant oak aphid (Stomaphis quercus), which can reach an overall length of 2 cm (0.79 in).[559] The biggest species of leafhopper is Ledromorpha planirostris, which can reach a length of 2.8 cm (1.1 in).[560]

 

[DCal430]

Another species of scary cicada:

 

[randomrogue]

I'd move. Burn your houses down and leave. The Apocalypse is upon you.

 

[Iron Woode]

I like them and the noise doesn't bother me. They only come around once every 17 years and will be gone by the end of June.

what?

we get them every fricken summer. The noise they make drives me nuts.

 

[Ichinisan]

OMG. This thread.

 

[phucheneh]

what?

we get them every fricken summer. The noise they make drives me nuts.

I hear the same shit. 'They're just an eight year brood!' I think everyone makes up their own number. I hear the little fuckers all the time.

Crickets are still WAAAAAAYY worse on a per-bug basis, though. And while they don't fly right into the back of your head and scare the shit out of you, the fact that they will sit in one hiding spot and chirp for eighteen hours straight is worse.

 

[sdifox]

That refers to average, another wiki article says they grow up to 15cm in length.

15cm

I have only seen/heard the average size ones.

We used to catch them. But we didn't have shovels full of them so the scale factor is different. But I imagine if there were thousands of vuvuzela with operetors it would be far more annoying than thousands of cicadas.

 

[brainhulk]

 

[Larnz]

Why oh why did i open this thread while eating