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[–] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well let's get specific; what sort of person would you pick over 1000 roaches, and vice versa?

If the guy was a chill roommate, probably preferable to cockroaches. Creepy or violent would probably push things towards the mostly harmless insects.

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[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roaches don't have squatters rights.

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

A person, she/he will be staying there nice and tight 🪢

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The person. It doesn't even say of it's alive or dead, if it's someone you know or not, if it's someone who also lives in the house or not.

A thousand cockroaches is a lot

[–] Rootiest@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Fine, you get a corpse full of 1000 cockroaches 🪳

Congrats!

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Person seems solvable

[–] Behaviorbabe@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun one. I grew up in trailers and we had roaches. Id wake up with them crawling all over. Turn on a light and up the walls they go. Now I’m a behavior therapist and I’d take the person who obviously means me no harm over skittering ass bugs. There’s nothing that says they have to stay either or that they can’t be helped :)

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My attic is over the detached garage, so I’d choose person hands down.

I probably wouldn’t know for a really long time, because I don’t use that space (the ladder up there is duct-taped where it cracked at some point, and since I don’t use it, I’m not about to replace it) it stays decently warm up there so less concern about finding a frozen corpse, and if someone did croak in the garage, the smell wouldn’t permanently be in the house.

But roaches would find their way into the house.

[–] CapnMoisesBKind@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean. With roaches you could always hire an exterminator. Not so with a person.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess you could call the cops, they really like killing people.

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[–] Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After the summer we have been having if I found a person I my attic they would not be found living.

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[–] vegaQuake@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

100% would do the person

you can befriend them easier than roaches

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I legit used to farm cockroaches in bins in my garage to sell online to reptile owners. I'll take the cockroaches.

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[–] prenupbutter@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Am I the only one here who can't work out what the second person is saying in that reply? Having a "has anyone really been far even as decided..." moment.

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[–] spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A person can't hide in my shirts to crawl on me when I put them on

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