BOF wrote:lev wrote:devil wrote:As for cockroaches, pour a little white spirit down the kitchen sink every night last thing.
Wait till you get a 3 m long black whip snake coming up out of your toilet.
+5!
Devil do some people not familiar with cicadas sometimes mistake them for cockroaches?
whats the significance of white spirit? will bleach not be as effective??
Bleach is a very dilute sodium hypochlorite solution that mixes with water and decomposes fairly rapidly on contact with organic material, releasing a small quantity of chlorine and atomic oxygen (not molecular). These are both powerful bactericides. The chances are that the stuff will have completely decomposed with all the organic gunge in a waste pipe long before the beasties make their nocturnal perambulation, so would be useless as a preventative measure, no matter how clean your waste pipe became. Adding a film of white spirit that floats on top of the water in your U-pipe will stop them, because they simply hate the stuff as it penetrates their exoskeleton and gives them a bad tummy-ache, without killing them. They therefore won't get their feet wet with the stuff.