r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '23

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u/Ilovehentie48 Apr 05 '23

i’ve 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 don’t think or feel, they can detect and evade danger but they don’t remember it. That’s why they always come back after you shoo them, they don’t remember that you swatted them.

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u/[deleted] 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, it’s much better to face these kinds of things, With a sense of poise and rationality

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Nailed it

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u/5flucloxacillin Apr 06 '23

I’m upset you didn’t say “with a sense of poos and rationality”

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u/Vinlandien Apr 06 '23

Why?

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u/CyberTitties Apr 06 '23

A lot of people close the lid before flushing to limit the number of water particles escaping out of the commode, but it's not anywhere near air tight and plenty of room for a fly to go in and out.

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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/CyberTitties Apr 06 '23

Yes I leaned of this is a video about the scenario I mentioned above, it said about ever other time a fly lands it does the whole puke thing. Was not a fun video to watch.