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what are these tiny white crawly speck things?

52 replies

Cappuccino · 06/09/2008 12:02

they are crawling across my desk they are like teensy white moving things, I see one now and again, looks like a speck of dust but then it moves

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psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 14:40

ooh, you get weevils in flour.

well, I think that is what they are called, unless someone fed me that name and me being gullable believed them (cos I am and do)

lol @ fabio and the teeny tiny ghost insects

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 14:47

Oh maybe they're weevils who've left the flour for a desktop holiday?
They aren't white, they're just coated in flour still.
Maybe they're heading for a dip in beaten egg.
Then a roll around int he breadcrumbs....

Can you fry weevils?

psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 14:55

weevils are grey/brown IIRC. has been a loooooooooooooooong time since I last had flour weevils. ((obviously, not having bought flour for quite some time, it would be hard to have weevils))

Threadwworm · 06/09/2008 15:45

Netnits -- you coughrt them off mumsnet.

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 15:46

Ah, like an internet virus.

Threadwworm · 06/09/2008 15:54

Fabio I really miss Wandering Trolley. Do you know who she is now?

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 06/09/2008 15:57

netnits pmsl! i have seen these before have not a clue they are! perhaps very large dust mite?

ewww! you must have a very dusty house you dust mite are obese!! they will be on jeremy kyle net shouting at each other and blaming you for their dust addiction.

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 16:24

I am several people Threadwwwwworm.
Wanderingtrolley was doing Thursdays and every other Sunday unless it's a leap year or the second half of January, but we had to rejiggle the schedule when Aitch went on maternity leave (she was Monday nights) which has confused things utterly.
It's a bit like the bumsex rota but with less clenching.

Obese dust mites lol
Knock on effect - society gets too fat to dust.
Dust mites take over the world!

Threadwworm · 06/09/2008 16:32

"My name is legion, for we are many."

The danger with that is that Jesus might cast you out into a herd of pigs. I'm sensitive to that problem because some varieties of threadworm inhabit pigs (though I only inhabit chatroom threads). You should be careful. Stay off the religion threads.

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 16:39

What are pigs' teeth like?

I used to be a Scientologist you know.
I'm not sure Jesus casting applies to me.
Especially as a kitten, er, my god is, um, Pan.

Tiny white crawly things sound tasty, now I think about it....nom nom nom, where's my knife and fork and bib?

psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 17:01

hehehe

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 17:05

Here, have this giant plastic collar.

[hopeful]

psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 17:07

only if it is of a colour to go with my freckly skin colouring

OR

I can use it on the demon loud escape artist child currently looking like my DS2 but surely is not as he used to be is an angel.

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 17:10

It's fulti-munctional!
You can use it as
collar
lampshade
satellite dish
funnel
one of them things they use in football at primary schools
fruit bowl
loud hailer
hat

MimsieNet · 06/09/2008 17:19

oh jeez, another creepy crawly for me to fret about...

psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 17:21

wow...............am keen to see it now.

ok then, you have a deal.

FluffyMummy123 · 06/09/2008 17:22

Message withdrawn

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 17:28

Oh bugger.
Perhaps drawing your attention to this thread wasn't one of my best ideas.
That's hangovers antibiotics for you.

lol at unfluence
that's when you try to swing something your way and everyone ignores you leaping up and down saying But no, look here and do it my way! and they carry on as they were before.

psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 17:29

does that mean I miss out on my new accessory now seeing as cod has found you???

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 17:34

No, it's yours.
I don't want it back.
Now I can lick my own bum again, hurrah!

FrannyandZooey · 06/09/2008 17:45

why would she have flour weevils on her desk?

bother
am trying to have break
had to come back to see if mystery was solved

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 17:50

I think I was right the first time.
It's ghosts.

Psst. Franny how are the dses?
Has ds1 fashioned any more genitalia from clay and is ds2 still nicely fat?

psychomum5 · 06/09/2008 17:51

oh god, what have I agreed to...

collar doesn;t come with flea's incuded does it???

((thinks joke will fall flat))

FabioBadAssCat · 06/09/2008 17:55

Dreadful joke how dare you that was awful flee flea fgs etc and that!

There.
Put a flea in yer ear.

PS. How very dare you. I'm parasite-less.

hugeheadofhair · 06/09/2008 17:56

All this talk about creepy crawly's has me itching all over