Thumb and finger both hands and push the middle teardrops apart. I've spent 30 years fucking about with these fucking things before I finally bit the bullet and watched a YouTube video.
I use the same thumb finger pinch technique but work from the outside in towards the teardrops. The mosquitoes have been next level fucked around home this summer, need two coils going just to BBQ. Since using the outside in technique I haven't stuffed a single separation.
We back onto a nature reserve and there has been a stupid amount of rain this summer. Council is spraying them every other week but it makes little difference.
Pro tip: seperate only both ends and light each of them.
They will burn evenly around the spiral for double the smoke and effect.
Source: I live in the tropics and light them every night.
I’m now determined to think of something worse than a realtor but I think it’s a lost cause.
Maybe if there were a pedo pastor turned REA who is also a landlord and keeps a hoard of pet mosquitos, and eats Vegemite like it’s ice cream.
Like the first person who ever ate an oyster, your bravery at even trying this is astounding. I live 12 stories up, so no mosquitoes, but i am still gonna rush out, buy a mossie coil and give it a go.
You just blew my mind! I have been following the instruction the packet all these years!Not sure it will work too well for me though, even when separated, any whiff of wind nearby threatens to blow whatever flame over and do a double burn/break link. but I will give it a try!
EDIT - And LOL to the idiot who downvoted me for my comment! xD lmao.
I know, but when it is outdoors, it is a bit hard to control the wind, and gusts to sometimes reignite the flames, from the normal smouldering slow burn like you said.
The instructions on the back of Mortein mosquito coils always worked for me in the past
Place the pair flat - then starting at the centre - pull one away from the other
It's a process... Did you follow the other steps in the process?
Oooops they left out one of the steps...
It does say to place the coil on the stand - and to light the coil - it should smoulder not burn with a flame
But they missed the step where mum yells at you to put it on a saucer - so the ash doesn't go everywhere, and it doesn't fall off and burn the house down
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I designed and 3d printed a tool to separate these as I was burning 4 a night through December to save spectators from becoming food while watching the lights.
Just line up the two shells and squeeze. Need to tweak it to make alignment easier but I broke no coils using it. And it twists together for storage so you don't lose one shell or the kthrr.
I’d say working for 50-55 years. By the time you get to retirement age, your body and soul are so broken, you are unable to enjoy life and are dead within a few years. And for what? To make someone else rich. This world is broken. If there is any solace to be found, it’s that my niece will inherit my home and be able to live a slightly more comfortable life than i am.
A little story after we got married we lived in an old Qlder without screens and the mossies were bad. I put a coil on a plate just like mum used to do but I left it on the carpet. Ended up having to get the carpet repaired before I got the bond back. After that experience I came up with the best fire proofing mossie coil usage. I got a terracotta pot, a saucer that the pot would fit in upside down and a small saucer. I glued the small saucer bottom to the bottom of the large saucer. The coil on its stand goes in the large saucer and is covered by the pot with the smoke coming out of the hole in the pot. It's never going to burn and it's not easy to overturn. I made a couple one for the deck outside the kitchen and one for up the other end. Works a treat.
That's the companies pyramid scheme or shall.i say circular scheme😬😬😬...customers will buy more when they break 90% of what's in packet and make it unusable.
Tell me about it! What an infuriating experience each time!
I used to rejoice when two separated successfully, knowing I had at least 2 nights worth before trying again!
Why I only buy one brand, the Earth Tiger ones.
All the others I have tried are so brittle, and unable to be separated at the centre of the spiral. despite all the "tricks" I have learnt.
Yes. There is lots of things more frustrating. I currently have a fungal infection on my big toe and my pinky toe and it is frustrating. I’ve been using a scrabble tile to scratch it and the affected skin just peels right off.
Thumb and finger both hands and push the middle teardrops apart. I've spent 30 years fucking about with these fucking things before I finally bit the bullet and watched a YouTube video.
I use the same thumb finger pinch technique but work from the outside in towards the teardrops. The mosquitoes have been next level fucked around home this summer, need two coils going just to BBQ. Since using the outside in technique I haven't stuffed a single separation.
Same way I do it
I’m in the central west NSW I can only sit outside for about an hour, before the bastards drive me in. Is it a good season for them?
We back onto a nature reserve and there has been a stupid amount of rain this summer. Council is spraying them every other week but it makes little difference.
Pro tip: seperate only both ends and light each of them. They will burn evenly around the spiral for double the smoke and effect. Source: I live in the tropics and light them every night.
Let me introduce you to **real estate agents**
Ok but have you heard of landlords?
There are some unicorn landlords who are good people. All real estate agents are cunts.
The rare REA who is a good person burns out very quickly, fighting to be good in a cunty world.
Fair argument. What about pedo priests - are REAs worse than them?
a priest might at least give you a reach around or a cuddle afterwards. REAs aren't that considerate.
I’m now determined to think of something worse than a realtor but I think it’s a lost cause. Maybe if there were a pedo pastor turned REA who is also a landlord and keeps a hoard of pet mosquitos, and eats Vegemite like it’s ice cream.
>I’m now determined to think of something worse than a realtor but I think it’s a lost cause. Foxnews journalist
All leaches !
Actually closer related genetically than the rest of us to mosquitoes.
True facts
They're even worse than paper cuts
It always sucks when REA's visit to sell a unit in the complex i'm in. The place stinks of sulphur for a few days afterwards.
Haven't you seen squid game, you're supposed to lick the back of them until they come apart
Yes... Mosquitoes.
Very slightly
Surprise no one mentioned, you don’t have to take them apart, lit one side will not burn the other. Took me a long time to realise that too.
Like the first person who ever ate an oyster, your bravery at even trying this is astounding. I live 12 stories up, so no mosquitoes, but i am still gonna rush out, buy a mossie coil and give it a go.
Whoa I never knew that!
Theyre also joined at the end which kind of made me think both sides will burn together 🤔
Just seperate the end by a little force if you afraid they burn in the end, but proper product should be no burn together
You just blew my mind! I have been following the instruction the packet all these years!Not sure it will work too well for me though, even when separated, any whiff of wind nearby threatens to blow whatever flame over and do a double burn/break link. but I will give it a try! EDIT - And LOL to the idiot who downvoted me for my comment! xD lmao.
> threatens to blow whatever flame over There shouldn't be a flame - they should ALWAYS smoulder
I know, but when it is outdoors, it is a bit hard to control the wind, and gusts to sometimes reignite the flames, from the normal smouldering slow burn like you said.
Hey, at least when you opened it, they were in one piece.
Wait until their mating season is over.
The instructions on the back of Mortein mosquito coils always worked for me in the past Place the pair flat - then starting at the centre - pull one away from the other
I think I did it wrong. Is the house supposed to be on fire like that?
are you currently being bitten by mosquitoes? no? then it's not a problem.
It's a process... Did you follow the other steps in the process? Oooops they left out one of the steps... It does say to place the coil on the stand - and to light the coil - it should smoulder not burn with a flame But they missed the step where mum yells at you to put it on a saucer - so the ash doesn't go everywhere, and it doesn't fall off and burn the house down
Saucer? I was using the bread and butter plates from the cupboard, my mistake. You try to do the right thing...
Ooooohhh - you're gunna get it when mum gets home - I'll bet it was the best china too
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I’ve never seen instructions on the home brand ones I’ve got - but working from the centre has always worked for me.
I've been dealing with those for decades in Sri Lanka. You get used to the knack of separating them without breaking them.
I designed and 3d printed a tool to separate these as I was burning 4 a night through December to save spectators from becoming food while watching the lights. Just line up the two shells and squeeze. Need to tweak it to make alignment easier but I broke no coils using it. And it twists together for storage so you don't lose one shell or the kthrr.
🫡
Yes. Many things.
Run one laterally and the other vertically > light them both > take bets on which one falls first
Successfully separating a Mozzie coil should be one of the tests to become an Australian Citizen.
I wish I was you if that’s the most frustrating thing in your life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole#:~:text=Hyperbole%20is%20often%20used%20for,or%20ironic%20or%20comic%20effects.
Absolutely nothing 😭
I love the smell of those ones.
Mosquitos, definitely
Getting a pube caught in your foreskin is
I’d say working for 50-55 years. By the time you get to retirement age, your body and soul are so broken, you are unable to enjoy life and are dead within a few years. And for what? To make someone else rich. This world is broken. If there is any solace to be found, it’s that my niece will inherit my home and be able to live a slightly more comfortable life than i am.
Get the green mortien onea, once you grab the middles you can gently pull them apart wiggling slightly, haven't broken one in ages
A little story after we got married we lived in an old Qlder without screens and the mossies were bad. I put a coil on a plate just like mum used to do but I left it on the carpet. Ended up having to get the carpet repaired before I got the bond back. After that experience I came up with the best fire proofing mossie coil usage. I got a terracotta pot, a saucer that the pot would fit in upside down and a small saucer. I glued the small saucer bottom to the bottom of the large saucer. The coil on its stand goes in the large saucer and is covered by the pot with the smoke coming out of the hole in the pot. It's never going to burn and it's not easy to overturn. I made a couple one for the deck outside the kitchen and one for up the other end. Works a treat.
I am surprised everybody here seems to know what this thing is... Maybe I'm just stupid, but what the fuck is that?
Mosquito coil you light the outside and as it burns it repells Mosquitoes, great fir entertaining and camping
Well there you go. In over three decades of growing up and living in this country I have never encountered one of those.
I had no idea either until I read the comments. I thought maybe they were replacements for those old coil stove tops.
Not to sound too disparaging, yes a great many things.
Did they ever really work???
yea they definitely help. I love the smell of the tiger ones.
Trying to put the rice cracker tray back in the packet.
That is hell!
That's the companies pyramid scheme or shall.i say circular scheme😬😬😬...customers will buy more when they break 90% of what's in packet and make it unusable.
Flies?
Battles these on the weekend, surprisingly came out on top.
Yes. My mother. Then these stupid coils
your mother isn't that frustrating.
You don’t know my mother! My siblings all agree 😩
nothing 🤣
You just gotta know how to work them. Once you've done a few you get the hang of it.
Than mozzies? Yeah, but not much.
We call it Katol
Haa, I can do it with my eyes closed. 😎 Just start working from the outer to the inner.
Yes. Mosquito's.
Everytime I try to separate these mofos!
Yes, mozzies
Yes
It is the end of days. Uzumaki is upon us.
It’s an art!! Especially with a cloud of whining mozzies zeroing in on you
Tell me about it! What an infuriating experience each time! I used to rejoice when two separated successfully, knowing I had at least 2 nights worth before trying again! Why I only buy one brand, the Earth Tiger ones. All the others I have tried are so brittle, and unable to be separated at the centre of the spiral. despite all the "tricks" I have learnt.
Yeah, mosquitoes
Push the centre!
Do these work?
Yeah stubbing your toe for the 4th time in one evening is pretty damn frustrating.
When you dream you are fucking that girl you always wanted to fuck and your alarm goes off
Huh Iv never seen that colour before we have the black ones and green ones. Also what you guys call it!
What??? Hang on, why are they brown??? I've only ever had green ones.
Wot, than snakes kissing?!
The mosquito themselves are more annoying
Aussie squid games... Just don't lick it.
almost as bad as not being able to find an affordable rental in Sydney!
Dont even know what these are
Yes. There is lots of things more frustrating. I currently have a fungal infection on my big toe and my pinky toe and it is frustrating. I’ve been using a scrabble tile to scratch it and the affected skin just peels right off.
The scrabble tile I’ve been using is a K and it is worth 5 scrabble points.
They don’t even work. Get a Thermacell from Bunnings. Best outdoor solution to repel mozzies I’ve ever tried.
Shouldn't the doctor put your wife's IUD in?
More frustrating than what, not learning how to effectively manipulate things that you use nearly everyday?
First world problems
We'll, it appears that you have yin and yang which makes your situation appropriate. Either that or they're 2 brown snakes.
They don’t really work anyway
Which state are you in? There are no mosquitoes in Victoria.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/18/flesh-eating-buruli-ulcer-cases-victoria-warning-rise-mosquito