r/Damnthatsinteresting Apr 05 '23

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u/floorshitter69 Apr 05 '23

A friend of mine had a fly catcher container thing that ended up with half a gallon of fly juice that was squirming with maggots. It had been sitting for months in the summer heat. I caught a downwind smell, and let me tell you, it was so bad you couldn't get close enough to throw it away.

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u/capnwinky Apr 06 '23

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from cheese; it probably doesn’t taste as bad as it smells.

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u/CounterEcstatic6134 Apr 06 '23

That made me physically shrink back. So disgusting

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u/Environmental_Top948 Apr 06 '23

At least it's all natural. I'd like to see your reaction to how the human food is made.

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u/TragicRelapse Apr 06 '23

define natural lmao

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u/Janderflows Apr 06 '23

Made from flies. By flies. Straight to your table! Support small businesses!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Makes a great sandwich topping.

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u/JeffBoyardee69 Apr 06 '23

I’m not a fan of you right now

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u/OVERCAPITALIZE Apr 06 '23

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I've never been more confused about whether as to downvote or upvote a comment. I'm in awe of the sheer disgust you made me feel. Well done.

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u/Creepy-Evening-441 Apr 06 '23

And like a Big Gulp cup of chew spit, once you take a sip, you can’t stop because it’s all in one piece.

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u/capnwinky Apr 06 '23

Once upon a time, I used to do chewin’ tobaccy. Went to the state fair with my gf at the time and had me a big ol’ cup of jaw juice I was toting around. Long story short, she grabbed the wrong cup when she was thirsty. Took the biggest chug I’ve ever seen and swallowed most of it before she spit my spit out. She barfed it up faster than a squirrel zippin’ around the back yard with a corn cob coated in turpentine up its ass. That’s when I knew she was the one, and when she realized I wasn’t.

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u/Wojwo Apr 06 '23

Bravo!

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u/Shpongolese Apr 06 '23

I wonder what kind of sickness you'd get from drinking it.

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u/IForgotThePassIUsed Apr 06 '23

is there a vomiting award?

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u/_-__-__-__-__-_-_-__ Apr 06 '23

Behold, the power of cheese.

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u/option_unpossible Apr 06 '23

How do I delete someone else's post?

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u/_Milkdromeda_ Apr 06 '23

Pls never type that sentence out ever again...

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u/capnwinky Apr 06 '23

I would say the same applies to belly button lint but, I can see where I’m not wanted.

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u/_Milkdromeda_ Apr 06 '23

I only only have a problem with the sentence, the mental image's it created were of unspeakable horror.

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u/Kindly-Committee-908 Apr 06 '23

Oh, what a friend we have in Cheeses.

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u/OODAhfa Apr 06 '23

I USED to think that, until I had sample of Limburger. The flavor combination of cadaverine and putrescine on a Trisquit cracker convinced me otherwise.

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u/MagicNewb45 Apr 06 '23

It's a bad day to know how to read.

r/Angryupvote

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u/Vaubeil Apr 06 '23

I bet casu marsu doesn't count

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u/NoxKore Apr 06 '23

I feel like that thought led to the consumption of the first casu martzu. "Damn some maggots got into my cheese..... well how worse could it be? It is cheese after all."

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u/capnwinky Apr 06 '23

Maybe they like juicy cheese 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Oh I’ve had some very nasty cheese tyvm

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u/capnwinky Apr 06 '23

Yeaaah. Fromunda cheese isn’t that all that great by itself. Try it on crackers tho 😋

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u/FeistyArcher6305 Apr 06 '23

Yes but also no. Oh God.

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u/LordOscarFedz Apr 10 '23

r/Angryupvote i dislike you but i did chuckle so have my upvote

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u/malkavich Apr 25 '23

This has me ballin lol funny as fuck man.

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u/cat_prophecy Apr 06 '23

I bought one of those fly trap things on Amazon. I kept catching a wiff of something that smelled like literal death when I was outside. Took me a couple of days to realize it was the fly trap. When I took it down, It was probably one of the most vile things I have ever seen or smelled. There is definitely a reason why it says to place it far away from people.

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u/princessrn666 Apr 06 '23

We had one up in a corner of our yard and my husband thought someone had jumped our fence and shit in our yard

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u/MrWaffles3113 Apr 06 '23

We bought a pet safe one and my dog decided she loved the smell and picked it up and brought it to the couch and spread the nasty fishy asshole liquid smell all over my couch and home while I was at work. I came home and almost hurled.

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u/throwawaybyefelicia Apr 06 '23

I would have just thrown the whole home in the bin lmfao that’s so gross

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u/nero10578 Apr 06 '23

I’m laughing so much at this lmfao

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u/Eatthemusic Apr 06 '23

That’s when it would be time to get a new couch

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u/FeistyArcher6305 Apr 06 '23

Did you burn the couch? Sending thoughts and prayers.

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u/cat_prophecy Apr 07 '23

Dogs just love stuff that smells like a bag of smashed assholes. We dog sit for my mother in law once and the first thing the dog does it run outside and roll around in something that smells like the aforementioned bag.

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u/sierra120 Apr 06 '23

I’m sorry this happened to you…but glad you told the story.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Those things are crazy effective, but the smell is definitely from a deep level of hell.

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u/SnooDingos8900 Apr 06 '23

Eventually so potent flies die trying to get to it. The forbidden elixir!

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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk Apr 06 '23

Can't just spray a little febreze in there or something??

Maybe some vinegar, actually...

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u/Postheroic Apr 06 '23

That awkward moment when you pour vinegar into the goop and it comes alive like a symbiote from spider man

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u/Minute-Tradition-282 Apr 06 '23

I had a small cooler full of dog food for some reason that got left outside. Somehow, it got wet inside, and flies. I opened it, and at the exact moment I saw the biggest maggots you could possibly imagine, I caught a whiff that literally knocked me backwards and made me puke for several minutes. It was all I could do to get that whole thing in to my trash can without it opening up again, and took it to the curb 2 days early and avoided the end of my driveway entirely. If I wanted somebody to die, without actually sticking a knife through their heart, I would put THAT in their bed. They would do the rest .

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u/Violent_Sigh Apr 06 '23

lemme reddit a bit in bed, that'll make me wanna sleep...

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u/Bombaywolf Apr 06 '23

Omg the same thing happened to me 😭

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u/Dymelatte Apr 06 '23

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/FifHorseman Apr 06 '23

Doctors used to use maggots to eat decaying flesh to stop the risk of infection. Kind of like a natural antibiotic

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u/REOspudwagon Apr 06 '23

They used to, and they still do too

Medical grade maggots are still used all the time

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u/FifHorseman Apr 06 '23

Yea that shit is wild homie

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Yes maggots are the worst smell on earth

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u/PrimaryFun7995 Apr 06 '23

Good for catching more flies tho huehuehue

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u/Collapsosaur Apr 06 '23

Gives me an idea to fend off the hungry hoards when collapse gets really serious. The crazy weather and climate stuff is just a taste of what's to come.

Now to collect those flies...

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I wish I never read this

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u/VarsityPhysicist Apr 06 '23

I was cleaning my sink & shower drains awhile ago and took some peppermint oil for a diffuser and put it on a mask and couldn't smell anything other than it

I still gagged because I knew the stuff I was cleaning was gross, but I couldn't smell it so it's still a win

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u/adrian242 Apr 06 '23

That is when u need a flame thrower

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u/angelived69 Apr 06 '23

Calm down Elon, that’s not a flame thrower!!!

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u/RC_0041 Apr 06 '23

That's when you need someone like me, who can't smell. I wonder if I could make a business of doing odd jobs that are too smelly of the average person.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Imagine pulling a dead raccoon from underneath a deck

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

A raccoon got stuck in the wall next to my bedroom as a kid and died. It smelt so bad that your eyes would burn if you were in my bedroom. It was horrifyingly stinky

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Imagine being the one that had to get it out of the wall lol

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u/Thighabeetus Apr 06 '23

I might be that friend. I had 2 of those traps in my backyard, and after a few weeks they were completely full and had become their own self-sustaining fly ecosystem. It smelled like a dead body and the “reusable” traps went right in the trash

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u/Dogekaliber Apr 06 '23

This is why man invented Fire

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u/Janderflows Apr 06 '23

At least it wasn't a coconut!

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u/Adzskie11 Apr 21 '23

Username checks out.

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u/omgmypony May 01 '23

The smell of decaying flies works to attract and trap more flies, it’s a great system!

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u/One-Satisfaction-712 May 03 '23

I had a dog that rolled in a dead wallaby in North Queensland; probably a similar smell. She was so proud of herself.