[Closed] I've never seen a cockroach.

Only seen them outside of the UK myself, it wasn't the most memorable of experiences though, didn't even Instagram it

I’ve met plenty.

I haven't seen one in the UK either - only Hong Kong.

Would you like me send you live ones in a jiffy bag?

Get loads in the house, always dead or dying so I suppose someone in the block is poisoning them. I quite like them, can't understand the fuss. Though I saw one flying in the grocer's, didn't know they could do that.

I went to Crete on holiday years ago and in the apartment there was a cricket bat with ‘cockroach killer’ written on it. Not long after we were invaded by them so put cockroach killing powder down. They didn’t die. The cricket bat was more successful...

I've been to quite a lot of places and in the back corridors and loading bays of a great many hotels all over the world but have only seen them twice in a UK hotel that I won't name. And only one mouse, in the ballroom of the Savoy Hotel

saw plenty in Morocco..

Your not missing anything.

I've only ever seen them in the Middle East. Along with scorpions.

Used to live in Houston. Seen enough cockroaches to last a lifetime. They would eat through plastic packages to get at the contents. There’s a reason Americans have big fridges!!

They love a nuclear holocaust you know.

I was staying in a cabana on the beach in Mexico - one about three inches long crawled out of the drain when I turned the tap on.

Broke my rules about not stepping on them* that day!

*Apparently, if it’s female and has eggs within, you end up spreading the eggs around.

LOL

I thought to myself “I’ve not seen any since I was in Cauterets”

Maybe it’s a Pyrenees thing

I have only seen one which was in the toilets of an Indian restaurant in Dulwich. When I took it to the manager he tried to claim it was something else.

Used to get them everywhere when we were living in Greece. The biggest I saw were in a terrible hot springs shack in California - massive!

JP

Hadn't seen any until I rented a flat in Hackney.

Only in hospital basements !

As a junior Soldier at an army apprentice college in the early 1980s we used to have to patrol the camp in pairs at night when on guard duty. Armed with a "pick helve" and a right angled torch 😀. One night me and the lad I was on stag with found the back door to the cookhouse was unlocked, so went inside to have a look. I switched the main lights on and for a second or two the normally gleaming stainless steel serving counters and food prep areas were a seething mass of scurrying black bodies. Cockroaches sah,fahsaands of 'em 🤢. Within a second or two of turning on the lights they'd all disappeared. It was a long time before I ate in there after that.

The old Dumbarton swimming baths. The brock baths as they were known. Primary 5 swimming lesson. Finished up, back to the changing room, ****ing enormous browny tan cockroach just sitting there like he owned the place.
Was quite happy when they levelled the place.

Only ever seen them on holiday in the med. Remember looking off a balcony at night and seeing a seething mass of them on the ground below. They make a right mess when you squish them. I'd be happy to never see one again.

They are on the news every day..

@blokeuptheroad - I had exactly the same walking into the toilet used by the kitchen staff at college.

Light on, hundreds of black things scuttling across the floor towards the walls. Bleugh.

@Cloudnine- predictable response but I have to agree with you.

They are actually quite a rare site in the UK outside of substandard restaurant and take-away kitchens and some housing. Saw one doing backstroke at Victoria Baths.

Early June in southern Spain was where I've seen the most I've ever seen in my life. I'm not exaggerating when I say they completely covered the road and pavements at night, there was scarcely an inch of clear ground! You just had to plough through them and not look down when walking around at night. Was funny watching children (and adults) dancing around trying to avoid them! By morning not one to be seen and I never saw any inside the buildings.

Early June in southern Spain was where I’ve seen the most I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m not exaggerating when I say they completely covered the road and pavements at night,

Ah now I remember all over the food court in Alicante airport!!

I didn't even know they were a thing in the UK.

Oh yes and rodents in commercial kitchens. You'd never eat out again if you knew how common.

In Australia I used to cycle home at night on the path so that I could squash cockroaches.
As satisfying as popping bubble wrap.

johndoh

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I went to Crete on holiday years ago and in the apartment there was a cricket bat with ‘cockroach killer’ written on it. Not long after we were invaded by them so put cockroach killing powder down. They didn’t die. The cricket bat was more successful…

Should have ground the bat into powder

I've seen a cockroach fly across the room towards me. As if they weren't unpleasant enough already.

You see them a lot in Africa. I was once in a meeting with a customer in Kigali and felt something on my foot, looked down and there was a roach the size of a bar of soap walking across my shoe. I squealed and kicked it, which made my customer laugh a lot.

Another time in Lagos, the hotel gave me a nice plate of chocolates covered in cling-film. When I picked it up to inspect it, one of the chocolates scurried around under the film - it was a dark brown roach the same size and shape as a chocolate. Probably a cockroach cluster actually.

In the naffest African hotels you learn to wait a few seconds before entering the bathroom because as soon as you turn on the light and open the door you can hear the clicking of hundreds of small feet as all the roaches scatter for cover. Disgusting things, I hate them.

I've never seen Star Wars

In a bangkok hotel restaurant I saw a massive one in this tourist girls lovely long hair as she was eating. I didnt want to break it to her...
And a european guy in the party zone wanted to impress a local girl, he grabbed a big roach off the street and eat it.

They like living in human ears so perhaps they are all there, behind your eyes like...

We get probably one a week wander across the living room floor (Australia) - about the size of your thumb. The big buggers are solitary - they just wander in looking for food. It's the little brown ****ers that you've got to watch for, as they're the ones breeding underneath your dishwasher.

Although - we had a huntsman spider in the house last week: I feel sorry for the cockroaches.

I don't understand the whole "indestructible" reputation. Most are dispatched with a flip-flop, and few survive a Dyson V10

it’s the little brown **** that you’ve got to watch for

We get these (German) a lot in summer, although mostly dead as the wife likes to leave some very effective Korean poison lying around in the recesses of our apartment.
Often see the big black ones about and once found one next to our TV, it was a shock to me to realize they actually fly as it took off as I was about to swot it.
Used to see both in numbers in the cheap restaurants in the back-end of Kowloon where I used to work, even remember being with a mate when he found one in his bowl of noodles, never ate there again.
They cant survive microwaving or the nuclear apocalypse.

When I lived in Florida they would occupy the void underneath the house. Come in at night when the temps dropped and cover the walls with 000’s of the buggers.

Nightmare.

When I was little, I said to my mother “why do the walls move at night”? And she knew what I meant, the walls and ceilings would be covered with them. Odd that they never came onto the beds though.

We’d get pest control in every week, but they’d just flame throw everything and the buggers would hunker down then come alive when the pest control had left.

Never seen one in the UK, nor Locusts (which again was another occurring phenomenon)

Went on holiday to Barcelona and the main square at the top of Las Rambles is heaving with them at night time. Hard to avoid walking on them.

Used to work for a print/publishing company that moved into a space in an old laundry. It wasn’t unusual early in the morning, or late in the afternoon, especially when it was a bit dark to see movement out of the corner of your eye as several roaches went scuttling across the floor.

Urghhhh. Shudders. Yuk.

Oil tankers..... evening's entertainment.....flick cabin lights on with one hand whilst holding rolled up paper in the other.

Bombay Tigers

Now known as Mumbai, these were big f..ckers, 3 inches long and an inch wide. Crunchy when you walked along the dockside

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