THESE THINGS. FUCK. EVERYTHING. ABOUT. THESE. THINGS

Agesilas · 1 year

A teacher at my school did an experiment with sugar inside of test tubes but didn't clean them out and just shoved them back into the science room. Fast Forward to when I needed test tubes, I opened the cupboard to get them and each one was filled with the corpse of one of these guys. They got in, ate the sugar and then couldn't back out.

zegolf · 1 year

House Centipede

Nothing creepier than seeing one of these run across your floor when you're just sitting there.

rejectedstone · 1 year

When I was very young my father told me they climb on your face when you are sleeping to mate with your eyebrows... Heaps of childhood trauma...

Luckycheater · 1 year

I used to work in a basement office..these fucking things would randomly drop from the ceiling onto our desks....drop from the ceiling....why? why do these things have any need to climb to the ceiling and let go over my desk? There is no evolutionary or biological need for them to do so.....this leads me to one conclusion: they do it for the pleasure of freaking us out. Fuck. Everything. About. These.

bigdaddyhame · 1 year

When I lived in a basement apartment years ago my roommate and I used to catch these things as well as the local spiders and set them off against eachother in a big jar we called the "Circus Minimus" - the spiders were pretty good at winning - we had one badass that beat three of those fuckers before it succumbed to (presumably) exhaustion.

se7eneyes · 1 year

My cat attacks them and breaks off all of their legs and watches it die.

My cat is a sick fuck

ANonMouse42 · 1 year

i have those. this photo is actually kinda cute. these things are fast as fuck and EAT SPIDERS.

mpchwm · 1 year

My cats recently chased one down and beat it to death. In my fucking shoe. The body doesn't look nearly as creepy without the legs but the legs are a bitch to clean out of a shoe.

was_that_a_haiku · 1 year

If you have these, you will not have cockroaches. They are mortal enemies.

SnDin9 · 1 year

Anyone else just get itchy everywhere?

2thuggedout · 1 year

I judge insect by their speed and the manner in which they carry themselves. Spiders and ants are good people. These things and cockroaches are shady, they're not to be trusted.

geraldfjord · 1 year

A few weeks ago I woke up for no reason at about 4 am. As I tried to get back to sleep, I reached for my phone to check reddit, Facebook, you know, the usual. I felt something near my elbow, though.

I looked down, using the dull blue glow of my phone to see what, if anything, had caused this disturbance. What I saw was the back end of one fucks as it continued up the sleeve of my t-shirt.

I reacted as any man would, by jumping out of bed and getting completely nude in under five seconds. I have since described the maneuver as "La Cucaracha-ing My Clothes Off."

I never found the asshole, either. Nor did I sleep in that bed for a week.

another_guy_montag · 1 year

They are good for your household actually.

ipathsk8er667 · 1 year

One of these walked across my room the other day. My whole house shook.

pelanderfunk · 1 year

They're not that bad -- my brother and I used to catch them and hold them up to our noses to pretend they were mustaches. They tickle like hell, though...

NonPermissive · 1 year

I am not fucking anything about these things.

msblaster · 1 year

I call them speedy bugs, cause they are fast. I've only ever had them when I lived in a basement apartment in Toronto. Since moving to the country, I have yet to see one. Gross.

Oh... and yadda yadda kill it with fire.

devilsadvocated · 1 year

Think of them as the Vampires, and the spiders as the Lycans. It's like that only with less Kate Beckinsale.

DawnDroid · 1 year

Once I tried to cut one in half and its back poky ass reaches all the way up ,extended and stabbed my hand, I was 8, never did it again.

spotj · 1 year

I just moved into a really old house and these shits are everywhere. I have been able to significantly reduce their population because I take every chance I get TO MURDER THEM. Pledge, Raid, shoes, box of dryer sheets, a drum stick, Bounty (the quicker picker upper). These are the devices of man unhinged by torment from peeds. A bunch of spiders could throw an arachnid party on my face and I wouldn't care. But these. Mother. Fuckin. PEEEEEEEEDS!!!1

TheyveGone2Plaid · 1 year

Went to shower this morning and one of these fell out of my shower curtain and onto my arm. Needless to say I shrieked like a little girl. Even if someone raped and murdered my entire family right in front of me, I still would not hate them as much as I hate these things.

hlbrdy · 1 year

A house screamapillar.

Zoshchenko · 1 year

They tickle when you swallow them.

hyperion247 · 1 year

See these in my bathroom all the time...the best is when they fall into the tub and try desperately to escape while I slowly turn the water on from the shower and watch it inch closer to their squirming soon-to-be corpse.

LoonieBun · 1 year

It moves it's legs by adding or subtracting fluid from and into them.

_karnage · 1 year

I hate them. I hate them so much. I hate them in my shower. i hate them in my toilet. I hate them in my bed. I hate them.

YukonWildAss · 1 year

I opened my closet and one of these darted out at the speed of light heading straight for my bed. My hand shot out like a cobra strike and smashed it before it could get under it. The idea of this 2 inch long monster hiding under my bed had shot through my body like a lightning bolt, filling me with the fear and determination I needed to move faster than I had ever moved before.

beautiful_disaster11 · 1 year

I'll take spiders over these things. Kill THEM with fire! *shudder

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slateythree · 1 year

Meet Betty. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1102230/betty.png

Bye Betty! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1102230/bye_betty.jpg

Lyeta · 1 year

We called them "eastie beasties" in college. You could always tell if someone had them in their room because you'd hear screaming, loud noises, the door slamming as they went to get a broom/large object and them more stamping.

I always got them in the vacuum. Then would have to figure out what to do with the vacuum until they died. I tended to put it down the hall for a few days.

I have been known to relocate my sleeping quarters in order to not sleep in a room where an eastie beastie has been sighted.

mrsmith099 · 1 year

These things are bastards. One was in my suitcase when I was packing. Which I didn't realise until I looked up to have him greeting me right in the face. Fuck these things. ಠ_ಠ

mfajans · 1 year

one was chilling on my towel one morning, and crawled all over me as I got out of the shower and toweled off... i now inspect it every single day before i get in the shower

SleeperCreeper · 1 year

scutigeridae

Honestly_ · 1 year

When I have a kid I think I'll tell him alternate names for various insects.

"Dad, what's that bug in the picture?"

"A soul-ripper."

noodle_cat · 1 year

My turtle eats these guys like spaghetti!

JesterOfBuckingham · 1 year

My friend's girlfriend gave him one of these as a house-warming gift, to put in the basement and kill spiders. We thought that was disgusting but possibly helpful, so he's currently interning in the shed.

CodeandOptics · 1 year

Rather have him than a brown recluse.

Qonold · 1 year

They live anywhere from three to seven years

Shit.

Breeder18 · 1 year

Fun fact, if you pour bleach down your drains you will have less of these house centipedes. They love moisture and typically come up through the drains, nobody likes crawling through bleach, so try it out!

Also, they eat lots of other insects. I suppose they are a boon, but I still can't get over their appearance and near-light-speed running.

*spelling

GiantRolo · 1 year

I was rudely awakened in bed by one of these CRAWLING OVER MY SHOULDER! Ugh.

Happily, my reflexes in my sleep are as killer as my reflexes while awake, and I squished it good. ;)

HueyLewisAndTheNewz · 1 year

i would rather eat my toenails than hold one of these in my hand

moustachemustache · 1 year

From the Wikipedia article on house centipedes:

"It may often be seen darting across floors with very great speed, occasionally stopping suddenly and remaining absolutely motionless, presently to resume its rapid movements, often darting directly at inmates of the house, particularly women, evidently with a desire to conceal itself beneath their dresses, and thus creating much consternation."

awheck01 · 1 year

more legs = more creepy

mustachewax · 1 year

HOLY FUCK. they look even creepier up close.. I hate when they chill on the ceilings.. hanging upside down. ick D: These and stinkbugs I hate.. Spiders not so much.

danr3l · 1 year

This is the one bug that I refuse to kill by myself -- too scared.

mod83 · 1 year

An arachnophobic's worst nightmare: SPIDER TRAIN.

themostlegit · 1 year

Theists, these things exist. All your arguments for a god existing are invalid.

dljens · 1 year

i'm paranoid that they live in the crack in my wall right next to my head where i sleep

parliamentlites · 1 year

my worst nightmare.

denkyuu · 1 year

They're basically harmless, right? The freak me out still, 'cause when I first see it, I mistake it for something deadly.

ifv6 · 1 year

my girl has an intense phobia of these things... I mean, I hate them, but she FREAKS OUT. If you get her talking about them, she'll start describing the sounds the big ones make and what-not. But she lives in a pretty old apartment, so... bugs will be there.

Echldz441 · 1 year

I HATE these!

millennia20 · 1 year

I love those things.

Tuhulu · 1 year

Aww comon evolution. This is ridiculous, do they really need all those legs making them look like a living nightmare?

moonbooly · 1 year

I hate their bites! I read somewhere that their jaws aren't strong enough to break human skin, and yet they keep biting me while I'm asleep and leaving these dumb red weltish spot things that don't go away for ages! They're stupid and I hate them and they're stupid. Luckily they're only really around during spring/summer because thats their mating period. I can just hear these assholes mating in my walls.

markitecture · 1 year

Where do these things live so I know to never visit?

superaverage · 1 year

They blend into the color of the carpet where I work. It's like Predator.

alfx · 1 year

These absolutely do hurt when they bite. They are not harmless.

jeff_ewing · 1 year

I used to feel this way also, but it turns out the creepy house centipede is a beneficial predator that keeps the insect population of your house down. I've made my peace with them. Still, it's no fun to have one run over your foot in the bathroom!

profwacko · 1 year

Remember that one scene in the Matrix? With the bellybutton bug thing? Yeah.

veggicide · 1 year

I put down two sided tape once to fuck with an invading ant army. The next day I checked the tape and one of these things got stuck on it. It was crazy looking - it managed to crawl several inches across the tape losing its legs as it progressed. Finally with only a few legs left it was stuck. It was pretty disturbing.

BaronZee · 1 year

This fellow eluded me for 2 months. Always hanging around in the corner of my wall behind my desk. It would pop up every once in a while and whenever I tried to catch it, it would simply fall down behind my desk into a crack behind the radiator. After 2 months of playing cat and mouse. You were a worthy match.

fermentedbrainwave · 1 year

I think they're beautiful in their own way. And usually all the creatures in nature have a purpose - they all fit nicely into the whole system. Centipedes check excessive growth of mites/bugs/spiders. And are awesome survivors.

And by the way, forget eating spiders - the Giant Centipede even feeds on mice and birds, sometimes mid-flight!

PLiPH · 1 year

I love living in Ireland. No fuckers like these to deal with.

brownster · 1 year

I would turn off the lights in my room, to play some pc games back in high school. My parents had a bi-level house on a hill. So downstairs was like a half basement with one room, my room.

Anyways, when i turned the light back on one of these was on the wall right next to me. I almost had a heart attack.

These things live near wood and dirt, which I was surrounded by. So holy fuck. Next day I went and sprayed my room with really strong bug spray of some sort. Did not see these things after that, not in my room anyways. Still scared though. House centipedes are worse than spiders.

wintercast · 1 year

These things and cave crickets freak me out. I can deal with a spider, but these milllion legged lightning fast things are not cool. 2 encounters. 1: Sitting in class, i look up and notice one on the wall, of course at that moment, it drops off the wall and onto me. I jump up like a girl (wait i am one) and fling it off. It runs around the room, everyone sitting in its path jumps out of their desk, like a wave. Then it is gone. About 20 minutes later, that sucker makes another mad dash across the room, again causing another wave of students to jump up out of their desks. 2. I was at my parents house, looking through a box of model horses i had as a kid. As i get the horses out one of these things pops out of the box. It is dead, but freaked me OUT. So even in death, they still give me the heeby jeebies.

[deleted] · 1 year

I would rate the House Centipede within my top 3 greatest fears in life. Right above claymation but below contracting tetanus. I've read horror stories wherein they crawl into your nose at night. You wake up and sneeze them out. Now you have creepy centipede parts/legs all over your face. There, enjoy that nightmare for the rest of your life.

SimpleRy · 1 year

If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with a snake, a spider, and a this thing, I would shoot this thing twice.

afrotronics · 1 year

I once spayed one of these guys with bug spray. It didn't seem like the spray was doing much except for slowing it down. It eventually stopped moving due to the fact it detached its legs from its body. I picked it up with a paper towel and threw it in the trash. I should have flushed it down the toilet because 1 week later I noticed a dark oily spot on my roll of paper towel. I tap the roll with my finger and from between the sheets of the roll comes running out that house centipede that I thought I had killed...it still had bug spray residue on it and grew back its legs.

CatParty_Wow · 1 year

In my house we have a centipede problem. We have a very damp basement and they love it. One morning my girlfriend was drinking from her mug of water and she felt something funny in her mouth. She spit it out back into the cup and yep...you guessed it. She had drank a small centipede. I about shit my pants, but she just pulled it out and finished her glass of water.

oncotech · 1 year

I was going to post something similar today. There are too many posts of spiders and no mention of these guys and I thought that was weird. My family and I call them Thousand Leggers and that name fits perfectly.

One time one of these things hitched a ride on my laundry bag from the laundry room and as I dumped the bag over I saw it fall onto the bed and run. I screamed bloody murder and ran out. I put on my bug killing gear and got the vacuum cleaner. I was able to find that fucker and suck him up.He wasn't dead yet and I could see him running around the clear canister. I just took the canister and threw it outside in the lawn overnight.

P.S Is anyone else extremely itchy after reading these posts?

Wonka_Vision · 1 year

I hate them so much! I looked up one night and there was a giant one stuck to my wall. I smacked it with a broom and it fell behind my candy cabinet (I have a candy cabinet). When I looked for him he was gone. Where did he end up? :( In my candy cabinet?

Mermania27 · 1 year

I fucking HATE these things...they are CREEPY!

ocarina_21 · 1 year

Centipedes are super beneficial, but when we would talk about them on the tour of the recent exhibit we had at the museum about arthropods that live in human houses, we would torment people with this one. You could see the teachers and mothers cringing and so we'd say "Centipedes are highly beneficial, as they eat harmful pests around the house. They are scared of you, and they won't hurt you. If you see one running toward you, it is probably just trying to hide in your pant leg." Causing mothers to cringe was half the fun of that exhibit. If the centipede didn't work I'd tell them about follicle mites.

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