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The 'trampoline wars' FG Off Topic Thread

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  • #3092
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,453 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Is it just me or does anyone else have a plague of flies in their house if they leave the window or doors open? It’s driving me insane!

    What’s the purpose of flies and bluebottles anyway?

    They help break down organic matter :D

    We have the same problem. Keep getting these weird fly's that move around like they've suffered a head trauma.


  • #3093
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    I've resorted to this, because I can't deal with the bzzzzzzz noise.

    My coke bottle traps outside are pretty minging this year too, full!


  • #3094
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    We normally put a net up on the door but the dogs keep walking through and pulling it down, so now is a fly swat or doors and windows shut.

    There's also an abundance of little black flies when I'm out walking - Like a cloud of them follows you around (I'm clean, I swear:o) The other day I got out of the car after travelling about ten miles and there was another little swarm of them to follow me...:pac: I'm not quite sure whether I brought them with me though :D


  • #3095
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Clarabel wrote: »
    I've resorted to this, because I can't deal with the bzzzzzzz noise.

    My coke bottle traps outside are pretty minging this year too, full!

    As yukky as those things are, I might just go up and get one


  • #3096
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,734 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've never tried it but I've heard a mixture of vanilla extract and water is a good home made fly repellent


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  • #3097
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,921 ✭✭✭tusk


    I live right beside a river, the midges are out in force :(


  • #3098
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    As yukky as those things are, I might just go up and get one

    They are yucky. But flies are yuckier.

    Vanilla extra you say. I shall try this and report back


  • #3099
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    fixxxer wrote: »
    They help break down organic matter :D

    We have the same problem. Keep getting these weird fly's that move around like they've suffered a head trauma.

    Apple cider vinegar with a jar that has a funnel on top. They go in for the cider, and stay for the funnel.


  • #3100
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,115 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Any home made remedies for getting midgies out of the back garden folks? My five year old is particularly tasty and is destroyed from head to foot in bites since yesterday.

    I'm thinking I may have to burn down the house and garden, it's the only logical solution I've come to so far.

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #3101
    Choc Chip
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    Necro wrote: »
    Any home made remedies for getting midgies out of the back garden folks? My five year old is particularly tasty and is destroyed from head to foot in bites since yesterday.

    I'm thinking I may have to burn down the house and garden, it's the only logical solution I've come to so far.

    Have you tried citronella candles?

    I'm low on flies this year but I've had to remove 2 ticks in 3 days. I'd ALMOST take the ticks over the flies.


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  • #3102
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,115 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    Have you tried citronella candles?

    I'm low on flies this year but I've had to remove 2 ticks in 3 days. I'd ALMOST take the ticks over the flies.

    To burn down the house? :D Good suggestion, will look like an accident then :pac:

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #3103
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Cintronella is great for wasps and mossies. Not sure about midges but worth a shot!


  • #3104
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    Have you tried citronella candles?

    I'm low on flies this year but I've had to remove 2 ticks in 3 days. I'd ALMOST take the ticks over the flies.

    Ticks? In Ireland?


  • #3105
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Clarabel wrote: »
    Ticks? In Ireland?

    They're the Dubs who didn't do well in school. :)


  • #3106
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    quickbeam wrote: »
    They're the Dubs who didn't do well in school. :)
    MOD

    BANNED.












    :pac:


  • #3107
    Choc Chip
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    Clarabel wrote: »
    Ticks? In Ireland?

    Yeah - I'm used to them because there's loads of them where I'm originally from, but haven't seen a single one here in 4 years. Then 2 in 3 days. Ick.


  • #3108
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That reminds me. I must start taking antihistamine before those horrible horsefly find me.


  • #3109
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,458 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    Yeah - I'm used to them because there's loads of them where I'm originally from, but haven't seen a single one here in 4 years. Then 2 in 3 days. Ick.

    Ticks?...in the cookie factory?


  • #3110
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,921 ✭✭✭tusk


    Love the new name haha


  • #3111
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,921 ✭✭✭tusk


    To confuse matters. Heres Floyd mocking me after I had to clean up his diarrhea

    485365.jpeg


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  • #3112
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    Yeah - I'm used to them because there's loads of them where I'm originally from, but haven't seen a single one here in 4 years. Then 2 in 3 days. Ick.

    Not in Dublin surely.


  • #3113
    Choc Chip
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    Clarabel wrote: »
    Not in Dublin surely.

    I'm not originally from dublin, nor living there right now (I feel like I'm setting some sort of riddle).


  • #3114
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,921 ✭✭✭tusk


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    I'm not originally from dublin, nor living there right now (I feel like I'm setting some sort of riddle).

    Memphis.

    Did I win?


  • #3115
    Clarabel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    I'm not originally from dublin, nor living there right now (I feel like I'm setting some sort of riddle).

    That's okay, I'm okay with spiders , I like them in fact but I am not okay with other crawlies and especially not ticks.

    I thought I was going to have to leave Dublin forever. There was real panic


  • #3116
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Clarabel wrote:
    That's okay, I'm okay with spiders , I like them in fact but I am not okay with other crawlies and especially not ticks.

    You can find them in long grass, head to Phoenix Park, bound to be there.


  • #3117
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Clarabel wrote: »
    That's okay, I'm okay with spiders , I like them in fact but I am not okay with other crawlies and especially not ticks.

    I thought I was going to have to leave Dublin forever. There was real panic

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  • #3118
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Since I've started hanging round forum games recently (and im really enjoying myself here!) , I keep seeing SHEEP threads and I get all excited only to realise it's a thread about actual sheep on the farming or sheep forum. Oh the disappointment :D


  • #3119
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Deleted User wrote:
    Since I've started hanging round forum games recently (and im really enjoying myself here!) , I keep seeing SHEEP threads and I get all excited only to realise it's a thread about actual sheep on the farming or sheep forum. Oh the disappointment

    Create a SHEEP about sheep, problem solved.


  • #3120
    Choc Chip
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Create a SHEEP about sheep, problem solved.

    I reckon i'd do better with that than the harry potter one. :(


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  • #3121
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    \o/

    New Rick and Morty is coming out this November.

    \o/


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