Friday, October 12, 2007

Hhhhmmmmm

I wonder if flies feel fear? Or any insect for that matter..when they are about to be squashed, do they have that jolt of cold fear? Or is it simply instinct to move out of the way of oncoming flyswatters? And how do they know when a flyswatter is around that it's time to get the hell out of there? I know it happens to me, when I get the flyswatter out, they usually just diappear. I am at work right now and there are seemingly hundreds of flies swarming around in here. It's absolutely revolting, if you think about where and what they have been- maggots. they are crawling all over my coffee cup and on the piece of apple cake I can no longer think about eating. YUYUUYYYUUUckkckckck!!1

5 comments:

Nikoda said...

I know this was more of a rhetorical type question, but curiosity bade me to look it up and I found it interesting. I figured you would find it interesting as well. I'm lazy, so I'll just post links for the copying and pasting of such.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Entomology-Study-Bugs-665/insects-feel-pain.htm
http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/2/parlbus/commbus/senate/Com-e/lega-e/witn-e/shelly-e.htm

Nikoda said...

Dammit. It cut off the links! *laughs* Here's the ends (hopefully).

Entomology-Study-Bugs-665/insects-feel-pain.htm
senate/Com-e/lega-e/witn-e/shelly-e.htm

glazeddonuts said...

And these are the types of questions that lead to some good creative writing. This is like the moment of inspiration-- some odd question or thought ~R

Anonymous said...

Yea I know what you mean, they seemed to disappear when you get the fly swatter out, like they know your going to kill them. Maybe it's because they've seen their friends die from the fly swatter, so they just know. LOL, I don't really know its just a funny guess. But it makes you wonder! It is really gross to think of where they have been. And to think that they take a crap every time they land!EWWWW GROSS

DaniBoots said...

thats good, i like it because of the line where you say flies are crawling all over my coffee, and now i can't eat it. i can't stand it when flies land on my food.