Flies: Classic Or Dud

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Tom appears to have a bit of a fly problem in his Ice Age BAtchelor pad. I slept over last night and was awoken by a good twenty-something bluebottles flying round his bedroon. Tom swears this is due to some inclement hot weather and a rogue fly laying eggs a month ago. But we hygene watchers know better - don't we?

Are flies any cop? WHat could the route of Tom's infestation be.

― Pete, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is merely circumstantial evidence to link the fruit on top of my fridge with the fiy infestation. It could be any number of reasons.

― Tom, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has The Beard been investigated?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can fly in any direction (ie upside-down, backwards, sideways) = classic

eat poo then stand on butter = dud

bluebottles utterly rejekt and disdane yr weedy fruit incidentally

― mark s, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Flies are creatures that are more than welcome to exist in this, our wonderful world. Just so long as they leave me alone, the annoying bastards.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

once had around 500 biting flies on me after swimming in a lake that had sewage in it. i get chills when i see them crawling on me. and did you know they shit every 2 seconds? argh!

― kevin enas, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm, that is quite often. That's about twice as often as humans when you compare that over a lifetime. fascinating.

― Samantha, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when you compare that over a lifetime

I wish you hadn't added that.

― Nick, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Greenfield clan decamped to Jersey a few summers ago to a nice self-catering apartment that backed on to a nice field. What wasn't nice is the morning after we arrived we all awoke to find ourselves over-run with flies who lived in the field and had decided to pay us nice people a visit. Eew eew eew!

― DG, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once had a jar of flies. It was a small jar, the kind you get small servings of jam or marmalade in from National Trust gift shops. Some of the flies were alive (to begin with), the rest were collected from window-sills in a house on the same day.

It kinda jingled when you shook it. It was a damn fine jar of flies, if I might say so myself.

I'm almost inclined to do another one, so...Classic. Utterly Classic, but only when in jars.

― ogden, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really, really hope this isn't an Alice In Chains reference.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom could clean that fruit off the top of his fridge, then mebbe there wouldn't be a fly problem in the apartment.

(They don't call me the Master of the Obvious for nothing!)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't flies look at everything much slower than humans? I think it's as if the newspaper you swipe at them comes at them in slow motion, like the bullets approching Keanu in 'The Matrix'. Classic, bitch!

Damn that Sperel.

― Will McKenzie, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never got an infestation of flies in my apartment, but I did get bats. Even though that was pretty scary, I'd still prefer the bats; flies are more disgusting and putrid than all of the RATM albums combined.

― Nicole, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Public service announcement:

Gentlemen! Please ensure your flies are done up AT ALL TIMES when you are in public. And do not emerge from the pub toilets still fastening them. Thank you.

― Emma, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Gross I just turned around and there were hundreds of them on the window, out of nowhere ick!!!! I grabbed a can of flying insect killer and sprayed and they fell to the ground and then I swept them up GOODBYE Mr. Fly

― Joyce, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d659/d659409rm33.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I am the fly in the ointment. I'll shake you down, just say please...

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Well the overlords thought it'd be a good deed to mix the black with the white/but if you a fly in the buttermilk they chase ya all through the night"

― no I don't listen to Fishbone ever honest! (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

The first fly of the season is buzzing around in my room. Bah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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