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My fiancee told me that she's been spraying insect spray... Said they're around. I asked if it was the Russian invasion, "no", she said, "they're German".

Well...the species of cockroach common in the US is called "the German cockroach".

However...in Germany the same species is called "the Russian cockroach". So I suppose that you're both right.

Kinda like how in Victorian England they called STDs "the French disease", and in France it was called "the Spanish disease".

And how...if you're rude and leave a party without thanking the host/hostess and announce you're leaving - just leave- its called "taking French leave". But in the French language doing the same thing is labed by a phrase that literally means "to leave like the English".

Hmmmm...

you hear about "cockroaches", but you never hear about "hen roaches". I wonder why?

Hen roaches obviously exist- thats why roachkind proliferates.

In Polish, "prusak" - "Prussian" - is an old-fashioned name for a cockroach.
Not politically correct today, though.

I used to leave fruit out for the roaches that shared one hovel with me. When I came home from work after a night shift there was only the pips and stones left on the kitchen floor.

At the time I was a bit fascinated by them. I think they were English ones as I live in England.

People here sometimes call them water bugs.It’s considered more polite to the person that has an infestation.
Having roaches implies you are not a good house keeper.That is not true, a friend moved into a house that already a good sized roach population and she was a very fastidious person.
Once I bought a loaf of bread at the store and when I got it home there was a very large healthy roach living inside the bag.Thank goodness I saw it before we made sandwiches.

I'm from Louisiana & water-bugs are something different than roaches there. Water-bugs are some kinda beetle like creatures that appear in swimming pools & they bite people. Roaches show up in homes to eat your food. It's common for homes to have roaches even if the homes are pretty new & very clean. I think the Louisiana climate is great for roaches. I've been living in Vermont for the last 9 years & I have never seen any roaches here. My girlfriend saw one when we were visiting my parents & she wasn't even sure what it was because she never sees roaches up here. Her parents house is in a rural area & falling apart & house keeping was majorly lacking & they had mice & rats but no roaches.

I was surprised there are roaches in the desert. I stayed in southern Utah with a friend for a few weeks and he told me about them.I didn’t really believe it till I saw them.It was night and we were sitting outside on a rock wall drinking beer and I noticed something moving towards my beer bottle.It was a formation of roaches!!Ewwwww
Made me think of that X-Files episode with the roaches.

Did you have an infestation like in the movie, Joe's Apartment?

We have a water bug that skates on the water here ,but they don’t bite.When I lived near the Louisiana border there were flying cockroaches.I think some people call them Palmetto bugs.

Yeah

Mine didn't do synchronised swimming though

LOL, the 'Roach Hotel' in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK. What were they thinking?

Though not the best name for marketing the hotel is probably owned by a family named "roach". which is not the rarest name in the English speaking world.

Most of the movies that starred Laurel and Hardy were produced by "Hal Roach Studios".

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I wonder if they have the same slogan about checking in but never checking out.

I was gonna ask if "anyone ever checks out" until I remembered that the American product is called "Roach Motel".