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There's a fly in my apartment, what should I do?

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    #32
    loloray
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭loloray


    Abigayle wrote: »
    Never a damn fly around when you need one.
    Abigayle. You sound evil. Would you like to visit me this evening?
    On the menu is some nice French wine, Indian vegetarian homemade food and homemade chocolate ice-cream.


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    #33
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    loloray wrote: »
    On the menu is some nice French wine, Indian vegetarian homemade food and homemade chocolate ice-cream.
    Be careful with the international fare, flies are renowned xenophobics


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    #34
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    There's a fly in my apartment, what should I do?
    "Gonna fix that fly, that's what I'm gonna do.. gonna fix that fly"



    No one will understand that will they?


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    #35
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    loloray wrote: »
    Ok so my flatmate is away at the moment. When he left, a fly moved in. At first I didn't mind him, he liked landing on me and I found it interesting that I could feel him walk on me even through my clothes. He was good, unobtrusive company.

    However this is the third day now. I am wearing less clothes and the fly keeps on landing me. He is getting worse and worse and more familiar. He walks on my back and makes buzzy noises more often. He lands on me more than any other thing in this room. He tickles me now in a really frustrating way.

    What do I do? I never (deliberately) killed a fly before, and I don't want to kill a living thing - but this guy is driving me men-tal! :confused:

    I used to pride myself on the 'there's no flies on me!' joke. But I can't say that now.

    Any advice is welcome. I have tried showering.
    like that old joke. Guy ushers a waiter and says there a fly in my wine. Waiter replies "Quiet sir, or everyone will want one"


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    #36
    Hagar
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    No pets allowed, GTFO.


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    #37
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    If you can't reason with him, do what pebbles said and Obama his ass.


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    #38
    Abi
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    loloray wrote: »
    Abigayle. You sound evil. Would you like to visit me this evening?
    On the menu is some nice French wine, Indian vegetarian homemade food and homemade chocolate ice-cream.
    Thanks for the invite, 'fraid I'm gonna have to let you down though. Let me know when you liver, fava beans, and a nice chianti on the go, then I'm all yours :)


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    #39
    Novella
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    Poor lil guy, he's only trying to keep you company. :(


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    #40
    Biggins
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    Give UB40 a ring and ask them what did they do when they last found vermin in their kitchen!
    Just don't make a song and dance about it though!


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    #41
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    loloray wrote: »
    Ok so my flatmate is away at the moment. When he left, a fly moved in. At first I didn't mind him, he liked landing on me and I found it interesting that I could feel him walk on me even through my clothes. He was good, unobtrusive company.

    However this is the third day now. I am wearing less clothes and the fly keeps on landing me. He is getting worse and worse and more familiar. He walks on my back and makes buzzy noises more often. He lands on me more than any other thing in this room. He tickles me now in a really frustrating way.

    What do I do? I never (deliberately) killed a fly before, and I don't want to kill a living thing - but this guy is driving me men-tal! :confused:

    I used to pride myself on the 'there's no flies on me!' joke. But I can't say that now.

    Any advice is welcome. I have tried showering.
    Bet your sorry you asked!


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    #42
    dsmythy
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    At least you don't have a rat in your kitchen.


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    #43
    Ivona Tinkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Ivona Tinkle


    Shoe fly dont bother me
    Shoe fly dont bother me
    shoe fly dont bother me
    I dont want your company :o


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    #44
    PeakOutput
    Registered Users Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    loloray wrote: »
    Ok so my flatmate is away at the moment. When he left, a fly moved in. At first I didn't mind him, he liked landing on me and I found it interesting that I could feel him walk on me even through my clothes. He was good, unobtrusive company.

    However this is the third day now. I am wearing less clothes and the fly keeps on landing me. He is getting worse and worse and more familiar. He walks on my back and makes buzzy noises more often. He lands on me more than any other thing in this room. He tickles me now in a really frustrating way.

    What do I do? I never (deliberately) killed a fly before, and I don't want to kill a living thing - but this guy is driving me men-tal! :confused:

    I used to pride myself on the 'there's no flies on me!' joke. But I can't say that now.

    Any advice is welcome. I have tried showering.

    toughen up buttercup and grab a cup and catch him and put him outside

    alternatively squash him its not like it has a soul or anything ;)


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    #45
    sounds-right
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭sounds-right


    this is a battle of wits
    Maybe he's on his little pc as we speak discussing on a little fly version of boards how to get rid of you without killing you....... the waiting game begins


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    #46
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Miley Cirus song '' fly on the wall '' will be in my head all evening ,,,you do know this OP ......


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    #47
    Banter Joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭Banter Joe


    loloray wrote: »
    Ok so my flatmate is away at the moment. When he left, a fly moved in. At first I didn't mind him, he liked landing on me and I found it interesting that I could feel him walk on me even through my clothes. He was good, unobtrusive company.

    However this is the third day now. I am wearing less clothes and the fly keeps on landing me. He is getting worse and worse and more familiar. He walks on my back and makes buzzy noises more often. He lands on me more than any other thing in this room. He tickles me now in a really frustrating way.

    What do I do? I never (deliberately) killed a fly before, and I don't want to kill a living thing - but this guy is driving me men-tal! :confused:

    I used to pride myself on the 'there's no flies on me!' joke. But I can't say that now.

    Any advice is welcome. I have tried showering.

    Flys generally only live from one to three days.

    Give it a few hours.


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    #48
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Banter Joe wrote: »
    Flys generally only live from one to three days.

    Give it a few hours.

    Wiki wrote:
    The housefly (also house fly, house-fly or common housefly), Musca domestica, is the most common of all flies flying in homes, and indeed one of the most widely distributed insects; it is often considered a pest that can carry serious diseases.

    In colder climates, houseflies survive only with humans. They have a tendency to aggregate and are difficult to dispel. They are capable of carrying over 100 pathogens, such as typhoid, cholera, Salmonella, bacillary dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, ophthalmia, and parasitic worms. The flies in poorer and lower-hygienic areas usually carry more pathogens. Some strains have become immune to most common insecticides.

    House flies feed on liquid or semi-liquid substances beside solid material which has been softened by saliva or vomit. Because of their high intake of food, they deposit feces constantly, one of the factors that makes the insect a dangerous carrier of pathogens. Although they are domestic flies, usually confined to the human habitations, they can fly for several miles from the breeding place. They are active only in daytime and rest at night e.g. at the corners of rooms, ceiling hangings, etc.

    Housefly as a vector of disease

    Mechanical transmission of organisms on its hairs, mouthparts, vomitus and feces:
    parasitic diseases: Cysts of protozoa e.g. Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia and eggs of helminths e.g.:Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuros trichura, Haemenolypes nana, Enterobius vermicularis.
    bacterial diseases: Typhoid, cholera, dysentery, pyogenic cocci...etc. House flies have been demonstrated to be vectors of Campylobacter and E. coli O157:H7 using PCR [6]. House flies can be monitored for bacterial pathogens using filter paper spot cards and PCR [7]
    Viruses: Enteroviruses: Poliomyelitis, infective hepatitis (A & E)..etc

    Torture ftw.


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    #49
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    In order for A Fly to digest the food it's just landed on, it has to crap on it to soften it up , hence all that mooonwalking all over the food .....


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    #50
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Latchy wrote: »
    In order for A Fly to digest the food it's just landed on, it has to crap on it to soften it up , hence all that mooonwalking all over the food .....
    Way to kill a funny thread. get the message!


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    #51
    Bob Z
    Registered Users Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    Just ignore him. I know this will be hard for you for to do but eventuall he'll get the message


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    #52
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    loloray wrote: »
    Ok so my flatmate is away at the moment. When he left, a fly moved in. At first I didn't mind him, he liked landing on me and I found it interesting that I could feel him walk on me even through my clothes. He was good, unobtrusive company.

    However this is the third day now. I am wearing less clothes and the fly keeps on landing me. He is getting worse and worse and more familiar. He walks on my back and makes buzzy noises more often. He lands on me more than any other thing in this room. He tickles me now in a really frustrating way.

    What do I do? I never (deliberately) killed a fly before, and I don't want to kill a living thing - but this guy is driving me men-tal! :confused:

    I used to pride myself on the 'there's no flies on me!' joke. But I can't say that now.

    Any advice is welcome. I have tried showering.

    Maybe it is trying to tell you - SET ME FREEEEEEEEEEE

    I think you really want it to stay, admit it;)


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    #53
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    bayviewclose wrote: »
    Way to kill a funny thread. get the message!
    You for real ? ...You never seen a fly moonwalking across a piece of bread ?


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    #54
    Dinter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    Get chair, stand up on, take bulb out of light, wet thumb, wait, feel fly on back, jam thumb into light socket, watch fly fall smoking to the ground complete with satisfying crackle.


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    #55
    InkSlinger67
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    brummytom wrote: »
    "Gonna fix that fly, that's what I'm gonna do.. gonna fix that fly"



    No one will understand that will they?

    That would be a reference to "Rat in me Kictchen" by UB40, no?

    If it is: Great minds etc. etc.!

    If not: bite me! :pac:8


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    #56
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Or swallow it!
    I heard about this old lady who swallowed a fly.

    You'll have to swallow a spider and maybe a bird; but stop there.


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    #57
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Latchy wrote: »
    You for real ? ...You never seen a fly moonwalking across a piece of bread ?
    was that supposed to funny?


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    #58
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    InkSlinger67 wrote: »
    That would be a reference to "Rat in me Kictchen" by UB40, no?

    If it is: Great minds etc. etc.!

    If not: bite me! :pac:8

    It is :P

    My dad's mate taught Ali Campbell; told him he'd never make it :pac:


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    #59
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    bayviewclose wrote: »
    was that supposed to funny?
    For you ? Obiously not

    er...get the message !


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    #60
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    brummytom wrote: »
    Or swallow it!
    I heard about this old lady who swallowed a fly.

    Her eyesight was prolly none too sharp. Poor old dear.


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    #61
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    [obscure_reference] shoot her, shoot her! [/obscure_reference]


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