Comments on: GigerPunk “Checking Ibis Hotel room for bed bugs on check-in”

By: johnnytruant

johnnytruant — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:19:30 +0000

well done! a triumph all round. You missed an opportunity to do an impromptu Siadwell from Naked Video/Absolutely routine though.
Two thumbs up and 5 gold stars.

By: ThreeOliveMartini

ThreeOliveMartini — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:12:35 +0000

Superb! I feel proud to have been name-checked during the creation of this moment of internet excellence.

Would. Mainly because of the moustache.

Except now I’ve typed that I feel bad for your wife, which is probably compelling evidence of my femaleness.

By: anonymous [1]

anonymous [1] — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:52:51 +0000

Deliberate face.

Intentional moustache.

Butties? That something like a sarnie, or a “sammidge”?

By: Trilby

Trilby — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:21:19 +0000

Would

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:20:16 +0000

What, no checking for objects with faces or anything? Disappointing.

By: GigerPunk

GigerPunk — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:16:03 +0000

Bah, having just posted that, I realise I could only have made myself seem more Alan Partridge-like if I’d brought my own especially big plate down to breakfast each day….
Ah well, there’s always next time I suppose.

By: GigerPunk

GigerPunk — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:06:04 +0000

{adopt gushing and teerful Oscars acceptance speech mode}
Thank you for all the lovely comments (genuinely surprised, was expecting a reception akin to the return of Swillman to UK:R) and I’m glad my ‘tache has brought some happiness to other people’s lives as well as my own, but I just feel that I ought to make a couple of points:

I don’t normally make a bee-line for the bed to check for bed bugs, only I’d seen this video shortly after finding out where I’d been booked into, so didn’t want to take any chances. Regarding the thoroughness of my search, I did check round the edges of the bed more once I was ‘off-air’, but I’d been more concerned with being able to prove they were crawling over the bed as soon as I’d pulled the sheets back, as in the aforementioned video. If I’d been sensible I’d have finished doing a thorough check of the bed first before allowing Captain Distraction to strike, causing me to then wander the room having a look at everything. But then, if I’d been sensible, well…you can probably work that one out yourselves.

I did and I didn’t pay for the room. Work for local government so they paid for the room, but then I pay my council tax to them so it all goes round in circles the way I see it…
Oh and this trip completely blew the accomodation budget by the sounds of things so I’m keeping my fingers crossed I still get the expenses for my meals approved (£100).

I don’t think I’m particularly posh, but I am Welsh, honest. Just not rabidly so.
Normally I sound more Welsh the more tired I am, so given the fact I look absolutely f**ked in that vid I’m surprised I don’t sound like Windsor Davies (not that that would be a bad thing really).

The buffet-style breakfast wasn’t too bad once I’d sussed the best thing to do was just grab as much bacon, sausages and bread as I could get on a plate (or two) to take back to a table and proceed to make bacon and sausage butties, rather than queuing behind all the tourists (who don’t know how to queue) for the nasty scrambled powdered egg, burnt toast, salt beef, yoghurts, etc.
Also, there’s something very nice about eating almost half your own weight in fried breakfast without having to worry about cleaning up afterwards.

And sorry if this is going to shatter anyone’s dreams but I’m not going to be giving “you a call in a bit”, regardless of what I say at the end of the vid – I was originally intending to mail this to the wife but then I saw the price of the room internet access, couldn’t pickup any other wifi in the area and didn’t fancy finding an internet cafe just so I could upload a 30mb video file…

By: marimo

marimo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:04:39 +0000

Poor job of checking for bed bugs there. You should check the dark crevices down the sides and under the bed. The sneaky little bastards like to hide in the day.

Not that I ever get to stay in many hotels. Or check any dark crevices for that matter.

By: Portmanteau Nails

Portmanteau Nails — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:48:00 +0000

Being at work, I didn’t get to hear the manly grunt or the no doubt brilliant commentary. That made the video somewhat bland, until BAM! Moustache! It’s not very well documented, but the moustache would destroy any bed bugs in the room even if the wearer was unconcious, so I wouldn’t worry.
Remarkably, I liked the thing-spotting oddysey too, it made me want to go to a classy hotel and take a peek at the batteries within.

By: Mr Spoon

Mr Spoon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:04:53 +0000

Ugh bedbugs. We got them once. Had to pack every piece of clothing, bedding, soft furnishings up into bags, take them to the laundrette and was them at 60+ degrees, put them in fresh bags once they were cleaned, properly sealed, take them home. Laundrette costs: £130.

The £450 for two exterminator visits laying down different sets of nerve toxins all over our house.

Then a few days of wiping said toxins off everything, and dry cleaning anything that couldn’t be laundered but that had to be treated with the poisons.

Then a year of getting twitchy whenever you think you see something moving at night.

Moral of this story is, always check for bedbugs when you stay at a hotel and keep your bags away from the bed if you don’t want to spend a month of misery getting rid of them.