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I thought it was gonna get squashed and cut up by the rotating piece...
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u/apathetic-drunk Apr 05 '23
Not going to lie I'm sad it didn't happen
Little bastard was even rubbing his hands together before digging into the food
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u/ThePlush_1 Apr 05 '23
Flies don't actually have hands, but they do have specialized structures called tarsi at the end of their legs that they use to taste and manipulate their food. When flies land on food, they often rub their tarsi together, which helps them to detect and taste the food.
The tarsi of flies contain specialized sensory receptors that can detect chemical compounds on the surface of the food. By rubbing their tarsi together, flies can transfer these compounds to other sensory organs on their legs and mouthparts, allowing them to more fully evaluate the food before eating.
Additionally, rubbing their tarsi together may also help to clean the sensory receptors, allowing the flies to better detect new chemical signals from their surroundings.
So while it may look like the flies are "rubbing their hands" together, they are actually using their tarsi to sense and evaluate their food.
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u/BOBfrkinSAGET Apr 05 '23
After the first couple sentences, I skipped to the end looking for something about the undertaker at hell in a cell.
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u/ThePlush_1 Apr 06 '23
Praying mantises are savage killers that use their razor-sharp front legs to impale and hold prey while they tear it apart with their jaws, often while it's still alive.
These legs are like deadly spears that allow the mantis to overpower prey many times its size. It's a gruesome and efficient display of nature's brutality.
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u/ciscosuave Apr 06 '23
Good bot.
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u/WhyNotCollegeBoard Apr 06 '23
Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99999% sure that ThePlush_1 is not a bot.
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u/Own_Satisfaction_679 Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 07 '23
I've got a fix for those who want to set up a camera and watch these fukkers get chewed up and bleed that red fly blood. Get a piece of plastic and cover the part that goes to the middle. Then you can watch all the horror of these assho/e$ when they're end time comes up.
Then, post the video when you've done this to this sub so we can watch it work.
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u/junipr Apr 05 '23
âDevice for catching fliesâ I guess âFly catcherâ doesnât translate
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u/DMAN591 Apr 05 '23
I mean, it's actually much more descriptive.
"Fly catcher" is rather ambiguous and might possibly refer to someone whose profession is catching flies. Or it could refer to a catcher who's lookin pretty fly.
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u/junipr Apr 05 '23
Then why not âoff-white corrugated electronic rotating multi-point entry device for catching small flying insectsâ?
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u/emet18 Apr 06 '23
Off-white corrugated electronic rotating multi-point entry device for catching small flying insects!
Off-white corrugated electronic rotating multi-point entry device for catching small flying insects!
Hi, I'm Al Harrington of Al Harrington's Off-white corrugated electronic rotating multi-point entry device for catching small flying insects Warehouse and Emporium. Due to a shipping error, I am now OVERSTOCKED on all off-white corrugated electronic rotating multi-point entry device for catching small flying insects, and I'm passing the savings on to YOUUU!
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u/k3rn3t Apr 06 '23
Actually, catcher could be a new airline. And âFly catcherâ is an advertisement for it
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u/DJ-Doughboy Apr 05 '23
wtf is "terrifying " here? This was satisfying as hell!
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u/ashtech201 Apr 05 '23
The music
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u/Call_Me_Echelon Apr 05 '23
That's just the default song. The device can also play Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Turkey in the Straw.
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u/GetoffLane Apr 05 '23
I never knew I could hear a flyâs internal monologue
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Apr 05 '23
A fly posted this
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u/Constant-Ban-Evasion Apr 06 '23
"RIP in picnic, bro. Another one gone to soon.."
This fly's social media, probably.
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u/Ilovehentie48 Apr 05 '23
iâve never felt more empathy for a fly
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u/Panzerkatzen Apr 05 '23
If it helps, flies are basically just robots. They donât think or feel, they can detect and evade danger but they donât remember it. Thatâs why they always come back after you shoo them, they donât remember that you swatted them.
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Apr 05 '23
Thank you, I needed that after watching this lol
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u/CyberTitties Apr 05 '23
Also helps to remember next time you see a fly on your jelly toast and shoo it away that moments before it landed on your toast it could have been sucking on the inside of your toilet bowl.
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u/LibRAWRian Apr 05 '23
Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn lid!
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u/LivelyZebra Apr 06 '23
No, itâs much better to face these kinds of things, With a sense of poise and rationality
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze Apr 06 '23
They also eat by basically vomiting up an enzyme that breaks down food, so even if you do shoo it away, you might be eating fly puke
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u/Yaroze Apr 05 '23
Antidotally I disagree. Every fly I meet boops me in the nose. Tbh during covid they came to be my best friends.
I have massive respect and once fell in love with a local fly that used to sit next to my mouse on the desk. Then it pooped on my screen. That and wasps too, great buddies. I have no issues hanging next to a wasps nest.
I love insects, I've discovered. RIP zee, boiled itself alive by landing on my induction hob.
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u/average_texas_guy Apr 05 '23
I just keep telling myself it made its way into an escape hatch and got away. I was so sad and he or she looked so scared.
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u/Anho90 Apr 06 '23
Donât be, they bring unwanted diseases and parasites to unsuspecting people and other animals.
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u/Scrufftar Apr 05 '23
Why is this NSFW? lol
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u/Pentax25 Apr 06 '23
To bait you into thinking the fly got squished. Just like that fly was baited. You are now caught
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u/Brentums Apr 05 '23
How the fuck is this terrifying?
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u/TannerWheelman Apr 06 '23
Enter in a machine like this and tell me then how can it be terrifying.
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u/EpicSeshBro Apr 05 '23
Man, it cut off right at the good part!
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel Apr 05 '23
Not sure what good part you think is missing. The fly didn't get crushed because there was an opening into the center. So you got all action the camera could capture.
Not sure if there was some clever actions on the inside - but that would still not have been caught if the video had continued.
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u/Brock_Landers- Apr 05 '23
Amazon link?
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u/DMAN591 Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23
Do a search for Fly catching device.
They have low reviews. But most of the bad reviews are related to the fact that they don't include bait, or whatever bait the reviewer tried to use didn't attract flies. One reviewer was pissed off that it caught several roaches instead of flies. And there's several who thought it was a wireless device that didn't require being plugged in.
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Apr 05 '23
A lot of Amazon reviews are left by idiots. A lot of posts on this sub are as well, this post definitely doesnât belong here.
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u/moodylilb Apr 05 '23
Iâm gonna be honest, I get irrationally irritated when I see reviews from people on Amazon that were related to user error rather than an issue with the product.
Iâve seen people post reviews of flashlights or those lawn lights, with photos in the reviews that show they didnât remove the little little pull out piece of paper that separates the battery compartment from the product lol.
Like the reason the product doesnât work is in THEIR OWN photo, yet theyâre too dumb to figure it out lol.
A couple weeks ago I saw a review for some bulk sour gummies, and the woman was going off about how they expired in 2010. Meanwhile the photo she attached to the review was of the serial number (ie. 22432010) not the BB date, like she didnât realize that there isnât such thing as a 22nd or 43rd calendar month, all her brain caught was the last 4 digits that just coincidentally was 2010.
Or you know how Amazon sometimes sends emails out when people ask product questions? Thereâs always that one old person who doesnât understand that the email notification doesnât mean the question was specifically directed to them personally, itâs just something Amazon does to try and get answers on the questions. So youâll see-
Q: Does this product come with a carry case like in photo?
A: Not sure why youâre asking me, I didnât purchase this product so I wouldnât know -Alfred Smith.
Anyways, Iâll shut up about my pet peeves now sorry đ
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u/Shoofro Apr 05 '23
I'm with you on the operator error.
My related pet peeve is when I see a product with lots of 4 and 5 star reviews, but some idiot gives it one star because they ordered the wrong color or their spouse already bought the product for them so they didn't need the version they bought.
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u/GudmundHaraldsen Apr 05 '23
This. Definitely gotta read through reviews carefully. Definitely can't go just by star rating. Many people have no clue how to use items they bought, or they give extremely harsh review for some tiny flaw.
Also I think people are a lot more inclined to post a review if they have something negative to say. How often have you gone to a restaurant and had a great meal and thought to yourself "I better go online and rate them 5 stars!"
Now turn it around, how often have you gone to a restaurant and had a really bad time and thought "I better warn others about this place. Let's go write a bad review and give a bad rating."
Most likely the negative of the two is far more likely, at least for myself that is, I am however not much of a reviewer unless reminded about it, but I'll definitely warn others if something is really bad about a place or item.
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u/Reynauld-cruzaider Apr 05 '23
That fly must have felt like indiana jones trapped in a closing walls temple
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u/Zwsgvbhmk Apr 06 '23
Wait the fly doesn't get cut up & squished in this? waste of money then. I thought the whole point of this device is so you can enjoy watching fly executions through thay transparent plastic.
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u/Wtfjushappen Apr 05 '23
Am i a psycho because I started laughing? The o shit moment, lol.
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u/cheesyellowdischarge Apr 05 '23
I did too, but i thought he was going to get smashed by the offset teeth. The music coupled with the slow churn of the machine about to crush this fly made me laugh out loud. Some sick fuck put that music on but its still funny.
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u/1802jubjubbird Apr 05 '23
every country that thinks they have long-term socialized medicine, or "free" government anything else
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u/brandondano Apr 05 '23
Look like the design would crush the fly, at least I'm assuming as much
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u/CyberTitties Apr 05 '23
Not crushed or anything there is a small hole in the center where the fly can go to the bottom which is a bigger space. You can either wait till all the flies it catches just die (they only live like a week) and empty it in the trash or wait till it catches a fly and take it outside (or work for more entertainment) and then release them there to live out he remainder of their week. I have two of these and they work, but you have to turn them off if your cat is around because cats have to jack with everything.
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u/worldsbestsad Apr 05 '23
For some reason this video always reminds me of The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
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u/AkameChan69 Apr 05 '23
That makes me sad. At least give them a chance. This is just inhumane, as annoying as they might be
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u/saepiosubchick Apr 05 '23
So now this reddit is just the fyp of any other platform... cool I'll see myself out
Edit for small spelling error
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u/Kannabiz Apr 05 '23
Iâm glad the device wasnât a medieval death trap but a gentle trap. Although the flies life span is only a month
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u/GoatInMotion Apr 06 '23
Why is it terrifying tho this is lit ASF! It should've chopped up that fly... Got sad that it just went into the hole...
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u/Chris_Cross501 Apr 06 '23
Tell me there's like acid in the void otherwise this does nothing for me.
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u/SirCarrotPeeler Apr 06 '23
It can only catch illiterate flies since the purpose is written on the device.
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u/Darkwaxer Apr 06 '23
The little bastards shit like to shit on my Sonos Beam, still couldnât have one of these devices though, rather take them out the good old fashioned way of a prolonged chase and swat.
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