Disturbing facts...

Emp_Fab

After watching a TV programme last night and also observing bluebottles, I have these two gems of truth to wow you with.

Firstly, more often than not, flies buzzing around your house are not looking for food to eat - they are looking for somewhere to lay their eggs.  If you’ve ever left the dog/cat food bowl out and spotted tiny grains of rice, neatly in a row.....  fly eggs.

Secondly, and more amazingly....  there is a reasonable chance that you have had horses flying over you, six miles up in the sky, travelling at 450mph.  Horses fly by air cargo.  

A horse.....   speeding across the sky above your head....

  

Bygone_Tones

There have been much bigger animals than horses on aeroplanes. How do you think they transport killer whales between marine parks?

Sporky

Piers Morgan's first job was as a proctologist's assistant. This explains why, over thirty years later, he still sniffs his fingers a lot. 

MagicPigDetective

@Emp_Fab  Llanelli is not far if you want to study a bluebottle plague. I’ve got more mosquito type ones in my house at the moment. And midges galore in the garden. 

vale

"If you’ve ever left the dog/cat food bowl out and spotted tiny grains of rice, neatly in a row....."

Nouvelle Sushi.

"Horses fly by air cargo."

I knew because i had to watch 'International Velvet' (sequel to 'National Velvet', Liz Taylor's debut) literally a billion times when i was babysitting my little sisters. It was one of their favourite films.
It's about a girl who wants to join the British Olympic Equestrian Team & has a scene in which a horse is not happy about flying to the games. A horse kicking-off in a plane is a serious thing.

But a fun fact in return...

One of my little sisters subsequently ended up a groom on the Italian Olympic Equestrian Team.

Grunfeld

Fly Tip

After a good while swatting empty air I finally googled how to swat a fly.

Oh yes.

Works with the electric bat of death too.  Apply a little tension, power up, release.... ZAP! 

starwarsnosebleed

Bygone_Tones said:

 How do you think they transport killer whales between marine parks?

Uber Orca

VimFuego

I've seen a horse fly
I've seen a dragon fly
I've even seen a house fly

but I ain't ever seen a killer whale fly.

Emp_Fab

Killer whales.... in the SKY?!!

VimFuego

next it'll be snakes on a plane

or sharks in a tornado

the world ain't what it seems, is it gunny.

Bygone_Tones

Emp_Fab

https://youtu.be/_v2exWrsGOc

Funkfingers

Grunfeld said:

Fly Tip

See a doctor!

quarky

vale said:

"If you’ve ever left the dog/cat food bowl out and spotted tiny grains of rice, neatly in a row....."

Nouvelle Sushi.

My stomach just turned.

Reverend

Bygone_Tones said:

There have been much bigger animals than horses on aeroplanes. How do you think they transport killer whales between marine parks?

Really big catapults?

Hootsmon

Bygone_Tones said:

There have been much bigger animals than horses on aeroplanes. How do you think they transport killer whales between marine parks?

Here's one

scrumhalf

Emp_Fab said:

A horse.....   speeding across the sky above your head....

Possibly not on Ryanair, how could they check in online? They'd never be able to pay the fee for printing the boarding card.

rsvmark

Disturbing? Pah! Some people put brown sauce on a bacon sarnie. Feckin odd!

meltedbuzzbox

Funkfingers said:

Grunfeld said:

Fly Tip

See a doctor!

tell the council?

Sambostar

axisus

We have an electric fly swatter thing. Daughter zapped a fly and it died. Whilst it was lying on the floor she, for unknown reasons zapped it again and its little heart started back up again. It buzzed frantically then flipped upright and stood there dazed. The critter had been given a second chance at life.

I hit it with a newspaper.