Another victorian motorcycling hazard.

THRIPS
BILLIONS OF THE BASTARDS

 

[runs to the kitchen and get the colander and the extra-thick tinfoil]

 

Hmmm. Ok, before we have a thousand dweebs flooding the thread with the
obvious question "WTF is a Thrip???" here's what the government has to say.

http://www.affa.gov.au/content/output.cfm?ObjectID=D2C48F86-BA1A-11A1-A2200060B0A03978

Thanks Smee, I learned something new tonight. Almost as useful as the
Australian Idol winner.

Now troll somewhere else ya lunatic!
--
Cheers
Dave (Mojo67)
FZR600 Brisbane

 

You idiot Dave
there were literally billions of thrips around this arvo
riding through them is a nightmare and they itch like buggery.
they fly around in swarms and after the rains we have had and the humid
weather we have been having in melbourne they have reached plague
proportions.
Try riding through a swarm and get back to me.
Remember to shower first.

 

Hmmmm..... I haven't checked with Zebee but I don't think buggery's
supposed to itch!
Clem

 

WTF is a thrip?

--
Clem
[cynicism is all tool rampart]

 

dincha read wot the gumbyment has to say??
naah, me neither

 

Oh, so they're the buggers that are all over my roses. Little buggers, time
to ride the bike [1] to the shops and get some spray. They've already made a
mess of the climbing rose!

Stuart T

[1] Ob moto reference

 

My Goggomobil had a broken thrips...


P-o-s-t-m-a-n P-a-t

 

Threat cleared, I think me and my mates pretty much caught them all on our
recent GOR ride coming back at dusk/night time.

I've heard heavy rainfalls with less intensity than the sound of the little
bugs hitting something on me or my helmet. Had to stop every 20Ks to clean
visors....

j

 

That was going by Encarta World English Dictionary 2001's definition:

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thrips [thrips] (plural thrips) noun

tiny sucking insect: a tiny sucking insect with four long thin wings fringed
with hairs. It feeds on the sap of plants. Order: Thysanoptera

[Late 18th century. Via Latin, from Greek, ‘woodworm’, of unknown origin.]
---------------------------------------


Obviously I only made note of the "insect" part

j

 

Smee, thrip is both the singular and the plural. In other words, thrips
don't exis't

 

They hang about in plants. "Thrip-toe through the tulips, with me".

Theo

 

"Stuart Thyer" wrote

Roses tend to attract aphids, and the aphids attract ants. White oil
spray is the best cure.

Theo

 

syntax;?
i see a thrip
there are billions of thrip
thrip are restricting my vision
return

 

conehead said....

co> Smee, thrip is both the singular and the plural. In other words, thrips
co> don't exis't

Or that thrips doesn't exist....

 

Pat Heslewood said....

PH> My Goggomobil had a broken thrips...

Yeah, and my hovercraft is full of eels...

 

Urrrgggh; I got a very vivid image of Theo singing falsetto while riding in
sparklie-coloured leathers!
Clem

 

Whatever, there were billions of em.
Though, after reading other people's posts I may spray myself with white
oil and avoid rose gardens