Imagine a vampire movie where the vampire is based on mosquitoes instead of blood bats. After sucking out your blood, you're bleeding out, about to die, and this piece of shit unzips and pisses on you.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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They also spit into the wound they create, as it’s an analgesic (pain reducer). I’d call it rude too but it’s a service both ways.
That’s regurgitation is how they transmit disease. Fuck mosquitoes.
By all accounts, it’s saliva. They have a separate tube for drinking and another for injecting saliva that numbs and also prevents blood clotting. Because of this system, regurgitation is rare.
The saliva also transmits disease, in fact the saliva makes the infection more effective via suppressing the immune system response and has been shown to attract immune cells to the bite site making it easier for some viruses to ‘recruit’ them and spread faster.
Me reading this in the bathroom on Thanksgiving
You have to wonder about how they take pictures like this. Maybe a box full of mosquitos: "stick your arm in here - for science" then "quick! Put your arm here. Don't move. Don't even breathe".
Are you sure on the "don't breathe?" Don't mosquitoes detect gases in breath?
Some people pay for women to pee on them.
Oh, so easy to say. I've literally stood outside busy stores, offering cash-in-hand, and the vast majority of women look at me like I'm just some sort of low-life creep. It sucks.
Vinchucas are worse, they shit on the bite wound and give you chagas disease.
Like Ross never ate a meal on the can.