Nothing better to do? Flyspray is a quicker method than chasing them around.

We got some of those "cluster buster" window traps. They work a treat. Eventually they fly in, and then cant get out of the dust stuff inside.

You could say that. Or sweet, sweet revenge. (For having pissed me off with its bzzz bzzz sound).

Yeah well, didn't have it with me..

But this is not that bad.. in the summer, I get at least 10 flies in my room.

We had loads of flies (probably migrated inside from the cattle....lovely!) and I bought that fly spray but then started wondering just how healthy it was so went down to cruddy little Giant Tiger and picked up 2 fly swaps for about 99c each and they worked the best .......... and gave me fun in doing it too! Am I cruel? I hate flies, dirty poo-eating, disease-spreading creatures.

Welcome to Ontario - the fly infested province! :scared: Where entertainment costs only ¢99

If its a big problem, these may be worth the $20.

http://www.clusterbuster.com/

I do like the amateurish video!

Nothing beats the little electric zapper ones that buzz the flies between the arms

Didn't you just love it!!! At one point I thought it was a cat which was going to metamorphose to a panda!

Some of these devices are pretty cool....I like the zapper too, does it come with sound effects?

Aha!! Now THAT looks VERY cool!! :scared:

When I worked as a coach driver once the windshield was covered with so may flies that I had to wash it before I was halfway to Spain. Visibility through the windshield was reduced to less than 50 %.

With every fly that gets killed I think: 1 down, 468,534,279,016,521 to go!

I am glad that they don't teach them in fly-school how to avoid trucks and coaches. Or were these just the ones that weren't paying attention during those lessons?

Fly school?..........is this how you're getting rid of your bent-up frustrations these days?

No. That's how I'm trying to get rid of the flies. Getting my truck into a collision with a fly.

Earlier in this thread, Wizzard complained about the word "Fall" and wanted to use the "real" name "Autumn". With the help of others, I discovered that the word Fall has been used since the 1500s.

November 28

AUTUMN: The third season of the year gets its name from the Latin word autumnus, but no one knows where the Latin may have originated. "Fall", the English alternative to "autumn", was used beginning in the 1500s and developed from direct observation of nature at that time of year -- that's when leaves fall from the trees. Although now obsolete, earlier English speakers also once used a third term, "harvest", to label this season for obvious reasons, but usage drifted away in favor of an agricultural application.

So, I think that the word has been used long enough so that it is considered a real word too!!

The quote came from a University of Calgary word origin page.

[QUOTE=lizwil98]Earlier in this thread, Wizzard complained about the word "Fall" and wanted to use the "real" name "Autumn". With the help of others, I discovered that the word Fall has been used since the 1500s. QUOTE]

Bill Bryson would back you up on that, in his "Made in America", if memory serves.

I (Canuck) get told of by KeithS (Brit) all the time for using words and phrases which aren't "proper English". It invariably turns out they are older than dirt and DID originate in England.

It is said that there are coastal communities in Newfoundland where a truer form of Shakespeare's English is spoken than any English spoken in the UK. And anyone who argues can kiss my cod!

What do you do for a living? Fishmonger?