• Bleeping Lobster
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    341 year ago

    Once, I discovered the perfect flyswat. It just so happened that after a long battle to get a fly to leave peacefully, the closest thing to hand was an empty plastic clothes basket. You know the kind, with lots of holes through all the sides.

    In frustration I grabbed the basket and swatted the fly. It made an amazing “swoosh” sound, like swinging a pipe in Streets of Rage. I can only imagine the blind panic as the fly executed its usual escape manoeuvre, only to find that the object it attempted to dodge was less of a rolled-up newspaper, and instead the swat equivalent of a star destroyer.

    Finally, a strike back for team human…

    • @CeruleanRuin
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      91 year ago

      I do the Gandalf move with moths, and every time it makes me feel like a wizard. But not one of the ungrateful bastards has ever sent an Eagle to rescue me.

  • strawberry
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    151 year ago

    you could remove half the walls on your house and that fly still wouldn’t find its way out

  • ormr
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    61 year ago

    Lol thats literally what I say to the flies. But my death/hit ratio is probably 0.3.

    • When they fly away they first fly up and backwards. So if you come at them from this angle you’ll hit them a lot more often.

      Source: something rotted in my bin.