Unless they're Scottish in which case they use just one and it's washed after each use and shared until it needs patching, then patched and shared some more...until it's replaced five years later...something about Scottish frugality...too bad I only inherited part of that trait, want to be cheap on all the wrong things and spend money on things I shouldn't...lol

Now, talking about recycling - has anybody ever told you about the waste seperation system in Germany? You know, paper waste goes to the paper basket, organic waste goes to the organic waste bin, plastics, rubber etc. go to the residual waste bin.

So, when Germans recycle rubbers, of course, there is the ethical question of where to put the organic substance - all for the sake of mother nature...

Tad wrote:

Yes, but British rubber-users use twice as many.

I know I'll regret this but that is a tongue twister.

It's a fringe thing, and on that subject I really don't undertand why you call them bangs?

I read the last two sentences as:

It may all be flies! Flies!

I need help.

*hangs up fly paper strips*

I even prefer the electrical swatters. They make it possible to snatch them out of the air. (Cause mosquitoes rarely have the courtesy to sit still for long enough to be swatted.)

yalahii.

We keep our house closed enough that mosquitoes are not that much of a problem. It is only rarely that I have to hunt them.

yalahii.

As a kid, we used to catch flies with our hands and then throw them in a bowl of hot soapy water to kill 'em. Then we'd leave 'em for my mom to clean. It's a lot funner to kill flies au natural followed up by my mom yelling at us for being gross. :)

Good times, good times...

On a semi-unrelated note, I discovered once that you can drown a fly and then even if you wait a while, you pour salt on him and he'll come back to life. One day when I was exceptionally bored, I drowned and resurrected the same fly 3 times in one hour. Try it! It really works!

(See what kind of neato mosquito things you can learn here in the Smarch?)

xavia wrote:

I prefer the fly swatter. It just feels more... satisfying.

I'm very fond of the rolled-up-hand-towel method.  I got very good at snapping flies off overhead things I couldn't reach when I worked in a deli.

my mother puts them into a bucket of salt water. I just hack them in half with my hoe. Appalling enough.

Em wrote:

If you pull the legs off of a grandaddy long-legs, they grow back. *sag nod*

So do the strings of Russel Crowe's guitar, unfortunately.

-X

hahahaha! the mention of walks made me laugh aloud.
It's such a silly joke, really.
*still laughing*

Well... I do find the occasional temporary walk in my living room, but they don't stay for long.... Bobby usually lets them suffer for onl a short while.... letting them walk around....and then eating them...

He actually goes quite crazy with flies etc.... cannot sit still when there's a flying/walking creature in the house!