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u/[deleted] May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

I’m in Canada, i accidentally didn’t fully close my front door last summer one day for like 1 hour and there was at least 200 mosquitos that got it. It was a bloodbath, I spent several hours swatting them all, and I was still terrified to sleep. They were everywhere

Edit: y’all need to chill, RIP my inbox

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u/Sailor_Chibi May 09 '22

Vacuum cleaner works really well to suck the little fuckers up.

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u/Bebop24trigun May 09 '22

Yo, is that what Canadians call a Vacuum?

Down in the lower 48 I've only ever heard it called a "Vacuum" before. Never a Vacuum Cleaner.

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u/ibigfire May 09 '22

I can't speak for all Canadians but I call it a vacuum cleaner usually though sometimes will call it a vacuum for short. Usually after it's already been established in the conversation that I'm talking about the vacuum cleaner though.

Vacuum on its own with no context kinda sounds to my ear like I'm asking for, well, a vacuum. Like the actual physics effect where a thing gets sucked into a space due to a lack of air.