The smell of Ladybirds

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I can't believe I haven't written a proper post here for an age. Its sad but after I've been at work all day the last thing I seem to want to do is write in my LJ. I read all of your posts but admit have got craptacular at leaving comments

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Lol, just a co-incidence. I came on to update anyway (and vent about Mr Fuckwit) but I always read my flist before I do just incase there is something that might need to be addressed in my post (like a spoiler for Lost etc). :)

I hope it's not serious, cause he's grown sideburns since last saw him and I have a sideburn fetish that makes it harder to keep away. TBF to him though, I think he was interested at some point and he did kind of show it but cause I'm so shy (and totally clueless) and didn't pick up on this or reciprocate it so maybe I made it seem like I wasn't interested.... I'm such a non-starter when it comes to dating :P

Thank you! I'm glad you can see what I was getting at. I started to worry that maybe he was seeing something in me that I couldn't recognise in myself. I think he was being completely unreasonable. He told me its womens fault men sleep around because women are argumentative bitchs and men don't want to get hurt. But the problem is, he said, when women sleep around its okay but when it's a man they get called all the names under the sun...

I was gobsmacked. I don't think this guy is even living on the same planet....

Seriously, if they crawl over a jumper or something they leave this really acrid smell. I think it's that yellow 'venom' they ooze....:/

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So, are you going to try and find out if it's serious?

Wow. That guy totally reminds me of a guy I ran into years ago. What a moron. *shacks head*

I didn't know they had a yellow 'venom'.

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I would like to. But I don't really know how to do that without it making it look like I'm making a move on some other girls man.... Although, technically he doesn't know i know so maybe could plead ignorant?

I know. The most worrying thing is that he appears completely normal. There is no outward sign that he is of freakish nature. Maybe they should be branded or something with a big fat F so that he doesn't ensnare some poor unsuspecting girl.

Well, its a yellowy orange gunk...I think it's either to ward of predators or poo. But it has a dodgy smell. Although having just googled it, it seems to be:

As a defence mechanism many ladybird species exude a yellow fluid (called reflex blood) which has an unpleasant acrid smell, and which can stain soft furnishings

I'm glad I've found that and it seems to be a fact not something my brain has made up to make me sound like a fool :P Whenever i mention it people just seem to laugh at me...well, at that and my pear-phobia.

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You'd just have to make casual conversation with him and somehow bring it up. Maybe say, what does your girlfriend think of that? Or something and then go from there.

LOL That's why you have to get them to open their mouths, so you can find out what's behind them!

Interesting. Maybe you have a different species from us.

Erm, pear phobia?

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That's not actually a bad idea. I'll have to try that sometime! I find it odd though cause he was still quite flirty even though he has a girlfriend. Like I saw him day before found out he had a girlfriend and he asked what had been doing and said went to see Tina Turner. He was like 'Really?', and I admitted that I was a complete geek. He then replied that I should have told him and he would have come with and if I do something like that again to let him know. :/

I know :( but I sometimes think it would be easier to tell if they had these 'tendencies' at a glance. That way you don't spend ages getting to know them/getting attached only to find they are crazier than a bag of frogs on crack :(

I think its all of them. Cause we have all these american ones over here at the moment killing out little tiny native ones. They smell too. Maybe I just have a freakish sense of smell...

Yeah, they are so not right. I literally can't bear to be in the same room as someone eating one. They're okay if they are hid in the fruit bowl but my pear-dar still goes mad and makes me want to edge around them.

[katje0711]

Well, maybe she's not a serious girlfriend. Who knows.

I just say you can't judge a book by its cover.

LOL Maybe so.

What caused you to have this fear of pears?

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Fingers crossed, eh?

Very true and very wise!

I can't pin point an exact thing that caused it. But I know I hate the taste. But it's like the sound I really have issues with. Pears look like they should be the same texture as an apple and therefore, crunch but instead they're kinda mushy and go 'phuufttt' when you bite into them. They also have dodgy skin and are a crazy shape....I truly believe they started out as apples but mutated. I guess with that reasoning it kinda makes sense as am a big germophobe and pears with their mutatedness and gross skin look very germy....

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Sure thing!

I always feel so old, when people say I'm wise. lol

Wow. That's interesting. I've never known anyone so freaked by pears. I happen to love them.