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Occulis
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Moral Relativity Central
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 Posted: 08/09/04 - 18:14 Post subject: Thoughts on squashing flies
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 I'm at the laundromat again. It's sort of a ritual I do. Sounds crazy, I guess, but every time I have a hamper full of dirty clothes I come down here and wash them. I've seen some of your homes. I know this sounds crazy to you.
Below me, on the clean, tiled floor a thumb-sized fly crawls around. It is injured and, I think, old. It's pretty huge, black and oily looking. Are flies oily? I thought they were somewhat hairy and definitely creepy. But... oily?
This one is disgusting. What makes it noteworthy is the affect it's having on me. It was on its back a minute ago, thrashing its black dental floss legs around. Somehow, it managed to flip over and now it is catching its breath in the path of humans.
There is only one other person here besides me, and she looks a little skiddish. She would probably step around the fly, rather than on it. Normal, pencil eraser-sized flies are easy to kill. Who cares? They squish into a puss-colored stain, easily wiped up with a paper towel.
But this guy? His guts would cover a large dinner plate. I imagine it would be like stepping on a packet of ketchup, except instead of the tomato paste enhanced by <a href="http://www.voigtglobal.com/colors.htm">FD&C Red #5</a>, it would be a dingy yellow, green and black splatter of gore.
Maybe that's what makes them so disgusting: no red blood, no skin we can relate to. That, or the fact that they're gross as hell to look at. Big 'ole vacant eyes, bacteria and shit covering their feet and mouth, and the unforgettable buzz of their wings adds up to a very disturbing little package.
So why not just squash it?
It's been 5 minutes and the thing is still standing where I last saw it. Maybe it wants to be squashed. But I have hope. I hope, as much as I hate flies, it will recover and go back to its sick little fly family. I hope the 3 (oops - 2 - I just killed one) buzzing around me are thrilled to have him back in their... nest?
Wow, I really don't know much about flies. Let's see. They lay eggs in rot. The eggs hatch, eat turds, spread disease, and repeat. Do they have nests?
No, but isn't that a sick thought? Imagine thousands of flies working together to build a paper meche home, like wasps do.
I guess it would be an act of mercy to kill it. It hasn't moved in ten minutes, now. I think I'll just do to this fly what the orderlies and cooks do to your senile grandparents in private nursing homes: gently step around the offending creature, ignore it as best as possible, and let it crawl off some where to die in its own sanitized, private corner.
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Silvermouse
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 11015
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Posted: 08/09/04 - 19:30 Post subject:
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Maybe that's why I hate spiders but snakes are ok. At least animals and reptiles have "normal" faces.
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Celestra
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 08/10/04 - 03:00 Post subject:
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Flies are disgusting.
These crawl around in my bedroom sometimes =(
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atarom
Dalai Lama of RealPoor
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: 375th st. Y
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Posted: 08/10/04 - 03:15 Post subject:
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that's your favorite naked girl isnt it
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Tamrissa
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 29 Nov 2002
Posts: 7100
Location: at my computer
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Posted: 08/10/04 - 14:27 Post subject:
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ong cel! silverfish!!
i hate those little fekkers they have a home in my bathroom behind the toilet and under the vanity cabnet 
i cant get them cause theres a tiny tiny space between the wood and the ceramic tiles that seems only they can fit threw!
i hate bugs, all bugs, they belong outside not in my home!! i squish em if i see em. cept silly spiders who somehow manage to creep in once in a while. i take those outside and let em go.
btw, not sure if this was just my father fekking with my head or something, but when he was an exterminator he said they purposely released silverfish in high risk buildings.
by that i mean they call in exterminators spray for roaches ect and release a little box of these little silverfish fekkers into the building ON PURPOSE!! 
apparently they live in walls and such and eat dust an thus any roach eggs, ect ect...
its a roach prevention system. or so i was told but then again ... the sorce isnt totally reliable. /shrug
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Occulis
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 13293
Location: Moral Relativity Central
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Posted: 08/10/04 - 14:31 Post subject:
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He was probably right. Would you rather have 2 spiders or 250 flies? 
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Tamrissa
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Posted: 08/10/04 - 14:33 Post subject:
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i dont mind spiders at all i used to have a pet one, but thats another story for another time 
flys i hate, disgusting little creepy things. i squish em if they manage to get in but thats rare unless the kids are running in and out times twenty and leaving the screen door open.
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Celestra
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Posted: 08/10/04 - 17:07 Post subject:
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Silverfish are disgusting. They creep me out coz they're icky and fast.
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Vengar_OO
Sir Postalot
Joined: 30 Nov 2002
Posts: 1029
Location: Mayport, FL
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Posted: 08/11/04 - 03:58 Post subject: -==-
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All bugs are disgusting. I've never seen silverfish but they look creepy.
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