CrescentBlaze

Yeah im with tales you cant save your house but you can save your skin. Get your flank outta there asap friend

right but Im looking at this from an evolutionary standpoint. Homo Sapiens evolved from less intelligent species that would have required a built in mechanism to keep them away. Some more instinctual or a passed down behavioral conditioning that kept them away. A yeah most bugs are harmless but then we're talking about a group of primates that arouse from ethiopia. I may be very wrong, im no expert, but I was under the impression that insects are a much bigger problem in africa.

yeah If most humans didnt have an aversion to bugs we probably wouldnt have survived as a species for very long. If everyone was all hey look at this little guy omigosh I wanna hug everybug!!! then there would be a lot of deaths by poisonous insects because people wouldnt know what they were doing. So its a good thing that most people arent to keen on them. thats not to say nowadays we shouldnt accept them its just back before electricity and modern science and all that people werent as educated and therefore picking up strange insects was a quick way to get yourself terminally ill

nah thats definitely not it sorry

The shy bros

NEW FRIIEEND! I shall call you BH and you shall be my BH and you shall be my friend

NEW FRIEND NEW FRIEND!! I shall call you shy (#2) and you shall be my shy and you shall be mine

That wasn't Pixar.

really? Huh I could of sworn it was of the top of my head. Maybe Im just associating animation styles. Brave and Tangled have basically the same look to them so thats probly why I thought that.

I'm just happy to see a female main character in a Pixar film for once

arent you forgetting "Tangled" Rosie?

he lurks on your bug thread. He reads it but doesnt post. like the slippery little ninja he is...

EDIT: or apparently I am

YAY NEW FRIEND! I shall call you rainy and you shall be my rainy and you shall be my friend

Quirky?! YOU ARE QUIRKY?! What a coincidence! I'm quirky too! Though... I have been called a "mad scientist" for my quirkiness. I mean just because you experiment on ONE pony, you are suddenly a mad scientist! I mean REALLY! Can you ... Wait... I'm going off on a tangent here...

Also, you'll soon realize as awesome as this community is, it has one very special talent... The innate ability to derail any topic anywhere at any time, and somehow make a debate out of it! It is pretty fun to be perfectly honest! Sorry that we have enacted this rare gift on your introduction topic derp? extiva? er... I'll just go with derp since its easier...

So welcome to Canterlot! I am Star Swirl the Bearded, but most call me "Swirly." I hope you enjoy it here.

listen to this pony! he knows what he's talkin about! just dont get to close. You might end up strapped down forced to listen to a presentation on the fascinating wonders of mold cultures

but no really he's one smart guy

@winter- seriously you were here like a month and a half before I joined.

and winter is right. just because ins called an intro thread doesnt mean its only a strait up intro its part of the process of initiating you to the canterlot cult brotherhood Community we want to get to know you and let you get to know us.

ok but just one more thing and Im done.

It does sound fun! Why didn't you do that for MY introduction >.>

winter you were here before me .

welcome to canterlot Derps

If it makes you feel any better, I also took issue with the media calling the Higgs Boson the "God Particle." I get annoyed at things like that. Silly, I know.

not at all! I had the same reaction. Since when does particle physics have ANYTHING to do with religion? The whole sensationalizing of everything new or scary is why I dont watch the news anymore. Too many things just blown out of proportion. Almost definitely the reason why so many people have that tendency to think everyone is always getting sick from bugs, parasites and vermin. And then of course there is other extreme with the whole "THE BIRD FLU IS COMING YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, THE WORLD IS ENDING PANDEMIC APOCALYPSE! PANDEMIC APOCALYPSE!!!" thing a few years ago and then the more recent rehash with the swine flu. The later really made me want to slap someone "oh no! its already killed FIFTEEN PEOPLE IN THE USA we're all gonna die! when the regular flu kills hundreds of already sick, elderly, or very young people every year. gotta love it.

only two or three times...but I was considering making it a "thing". I come in and give them a nickname with the dory quote I thought it sounded fun...

Swirly is a scientist by trade -- don't confuse his passion for anything else but a friendly willingness to share his knowledge with you! It's very hard to tell tonality by words on an internet forum, and I know Swirly well enough to say he means you all due respect.

yeah kinda figured. Biologist right? I just felt a little accused was all. Sorry if I mistook your tone Swirly, no hard feelings

Oh yeah...dont listen to stoney he's crazy...

...just like the rest of us...

((i kid))

Oh yes Brave and the hobbit (oh my god I work at a movie theatre and Ive been seeing the trailer since january!!! ) Dark knight rises, wreck it ralph and spider man, and then prometheus when I get the chance. Cant say I would bother seeing the Dictator in theatres though I do want to see it. Movie theaters only seem worth it to me when I get something out of seeing it on a huge screen

I always found this unfair... Every organism carries diseases or bacterium that could be potentially harmful to another. Yes, that includes humans. The question is, do you or the creature have the tools to destroy the foreign pathogens. When an insect is "disease carrying" all it means is that it carries a pathogen that is potentially harmful to you. However, humans carried over their diseases from Europe to the "new world" too. Killing the indigenous. In fact, the pathogens carried by most insects, save a few, have done relatively little to harm the humans as a species. The diseases that European travelers brought to the "new world" not only killed, but decimated the indigenous populations. There are two insect borne pathogens that have had such an effect on humans to my knowledge. Malaria, which is spread through mosquitoes, and The Black Plague, which was spread *initially* by fleas. Why did I put initially in asterisks? Well, that is because after they started it, HUMANS did the rest. We spread more disease than any creature on the planet. If you get sick, its likely because you came in contact with an INFECTED PERSON, not an infected organism. There are few exceptions to this, and almost all of them involve bacteria and airborne viruses. Think of the last time you got sick, chances are you were near a PERSON whom was coughing, not some insect that landed on you, or a cockroach that was chilling in your apartment eating scraps of food in your garbage.

Edit: In reference to the water bug. You are more likely to get sick AFTER it has bitten you and breached your skin from the BACTERIA in the water, that now can enter your system. But why blame the bug for that? The same could happen if you step on a sharp rock.

hey woah woah hey woah hey hey woah! I am well aware of all that! Of course everything has bactieria and microorganisms on them some of them beneficial! (reason I dont use hand sanitizer every hour) Either way my phrasing got the point across,you understood what I meant. So did Stoney. I was just curious if there was anything more to worry about something that was giving me the heebee-jeeebees! And yeah if I get sick Im not going to think it was a bug from the forest I went trekking in last week. Thats absurd, as you said there is a much higher chance I touched some disease ridden elevator button and then ate a sandwich without washing my hands, or some sick person sneezed on me. Sorry to set you off like that I really just wanted an answer I have no bias against the buggies swirly.

Umm... should I be worried? Nah. Nice to meet you too. Kinda serves me right for having a ridiculous username. (The secret is that it is maniac spelt wrongly and backwards.) Right. Cane at your service.

Yay! ponies like my nicknames seriously I give EVERYONE nicknames if they dont already have one.

NEW FRIEND! I shall name you sparky and you shall be my sparky and you shall be my friend

Yeah I suppose you could say it has its ups and downs

...see that? thats me in a high mood. Making fun of my own mental disorder and loving it. However I have three tubs of ice cream and every pony episode queued up on my netflix for the crash.

um yes I busted in on a guy taking a dump in a portapotty once. Its amazing how easily you can unlock those things. and yes, again reason I wear a mask and carry a knife at those events. the scary part about that is he's vice president of the organization. O_O

Err...um...thanks, I just kinda wish I knew how to post art here, despite how distracted or discouraged I can get from it sometimes...

OH! OH! you want the gallery section! or the creativity foums!