• Dr. Wesker
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    5524 days ago

    What kind of degenerate sleeps without the head of their bed up against a wall?

        • @[email protected]
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          3824 days ago

          When you get bedbugs and want to prevent them from getting on your bed (after treatment, say) you pull your bed away from the wall, thus limiting the surfaces they can transfer from. If you also put your bedposts in interceptor traps you’re pretty safe from them. They’ll get stuck in the traps and be unable to get out.

          Source: had to deal with the bastards for a year because of a useless landlord and incompetent exterminator. Got really, really good at pest management.

          • @[email protected]
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            324 days ago

            I heard that they can climb to the ceiling and drop down. Not sure how true it is, but helps to enforce how nightmarish they are, like they are some sort of unstoppable entity.

            • @[email protected]
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              424 days ago

              I’ve heard that too, but it seems pretty unlikely and I never experienced it when I had bedbugs. Plus it would have to be a pregnant(?) bedbug to continue to spread the infestation, otherwise the rare one that dropped on the bed would be stuck there and eventually die…

            • @[email protected]
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              224 days ago

              I dunno if they’re quite that smart. If they are, they didn’t do that when I had them.

            • @[email protected]
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              224 days ago

              A headboard touching the ground just invites them in. If the headboard is removable, remove it temporarily.

                • @[email protected]
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                  324 days ago

                  Yes, but some are removable. If you can’t remove it you’re pretty much screwed - good luck getting a headboard inside of an interceptor trap. Just the bedposts, wheels, or whatever the frame has go into the traps. Basically you need to limit the access they have from wherever they’re hiding to your bed.

                  • @Hexarei
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                    123 days ago

                    I think their point was that some head boards don’t go to the floor

    • @[email protected]
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      024 days ago

      Me. I don’t need my bed clapping against the wall alerting my incredibly nosy neighbors to my evening activities.