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Paris could try being less filthy. New York has the same problem. After getting bed bugs from the Sofitel, the remediating of which involved plastic bagging literally everything and nuking the place with insect killer, I refuse to stay in Manhattan anymore. I stay in Westchester or sometimes Jersey.
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“In case English is not your first language” is the problematic part.
That's stating the intended audience, otherwise you might come across as condescending or rude, since it's really obvious to any native speaker.
For what it's worth, when I first read the comment under discussion, I thought it was a humorous jab at the fact that software dev salaries tend to be quite high. That's about it.
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No need for chemicals, like other said, use steam, and also use diatomaceous earth (1) to kill them naturally. (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
And from my reading and experience, diatomaceous earth is completely effective, unlike many chemicals.
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That's stating the intended audience, otherwise you might come across as condescending or rude, since it's really obvious to any native speaker.
I'm a native speaker, and it's far from obvious to me. Whether it is "hostile/divisive" depends upon tone, something which is utterly lacking through this medium. For what it's worth, when I first read the comment under discussion, I thought it was a humorous jab at the fact that software dev salaries tend to be quite high. That's about it.
That particular construction unambiguously has the speaker referring to 'the other' and although that can be innocuous, it's very often used by people being divisive or offensive. So any use of it at all can end up making people question the intentions of the speaker.
Paris could try being less filthy. New York has the same problem. After getting bed bugs from the Sofitel, the remediating of which involved plastic bagging literally everything and nuking the place with insect killer, I refuse to stay in Manhattan anymore. I stay in Westchester or sometimes Jersey.
Funny, for years (apart from pandemic years) we've been going to Manhattan once or twice a year for museums and shows; we've never had problems with bedbugs or "filth."
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I always let the spiders in the house alone. I know they kill mosquitoes and the like. But nonetheless around last september we had bedbugs in our main bedroom (France, but not Paris : rural south east of France). I couldn't find any but they were obviously sucking our blood at night: these weren't mosquitoes bites. Thankfully that bedroom is "zen": one huge bed and that's it. So we bought all the chemicals needed to…
> “So we bought all the chemicals needed to kill the bedbugs (yup, sorry for the planet about these chemicals but you cannot live with bedbugs).” No need to use chemicals. Get a mattress bag (made special for bed bugs) and buy a hand steamer. Learn where they like to hide, and blast em with steam.
As I mentioned here before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35699400), I prefer my "killing field" method, "The bugs infest your bed, reproduce, and spread out. To get rid of them you do the reverse—kill them on the bed with steam. Wait a day or two for the commuters to repopulate the bedding, repeat."
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Funny, for years (apart from pandemic years) we've been going to Manhattan once or twice a year for museums and shows; we've never had problems with bedbugs or "filth."
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>> It is a scourge in the UK as well Do you mean in AirBnB’s or generally? Fwiw I don’t know or know of anyone in the UK that has ever dealt with bedbugs. They’re a thing I’ve only heard about in TV shows set in NYC.
I live in London and had bedbugs in my apartment 2 years ago. I knew what to watch for (colinear musquito bites), so got rid of them at the first sign. No idea where they came from, though. But the building is old and they might have crawled from a neighbour's bedroom.
a) ivermectin and
b) permethrin, which I added to laundry and sprayed on clothing and bedclothing.
Permethrin could harm pets so I keep them away from any application until clothing is dry.
Ivermectin kills most bedbugs, fleas et al and stops the young from molting, but they have to bite you first usually. Nonetheless, there's something satisfying about being the bait and knowing that each bite means another bug dies.