Bug-A-Salter - just ordered

If only it had an auto-tracker.

I wonder if a laser pointer mounted on top would tip the fly off. It's going to be several days of chaos.

Last time we got something like this it was an air gun and people blew patches off the popcorn ceiling.
 
you aren't serious right? you can't be serious. that is the dumbest thing i've seen all month. it shoots salt? corrosive salt? you want to give it to kids to play with? so they can shoot each other in the eye with salt? yeah, salt all over the house so you'll have to take it outside. to assault the flies in their own habitat not just yours? this is a useless piece of shit and a very bad idea. you'll get tired of running around outside shooting flies after a day or so, then you won't want to get salt all over your house so it will go to a closet and sit there. then it will end up as more plastic piled into a landfill years from now. and to top it off, you're actually going to pay money for it?!

why don't you just keep your house cleaner and install screens on the windows?
 
you aren't serious right? you can't be serious. that is the dumbest thing i've seen all month. it shoots salt? corrosive salt? you want to give it to kids to play with? so they can shoot each other in the eye with salt? yeah, salt all over the house so you'll have to take it outside. to assault the flies in their own habitat not just yours? this is a useless piece of shit and a very bad idea. you'll get tired of running around outside shooting flies after a day or so, then you won't want to get salt all over your house so it will go to a closet and sit there. then it will end up as more plastic piled into a landfill years from now. and to top it off, you're actually going to pay money for it?!

why don't you just keep your house cleaner and install screens on the windows?

*blink* *narrows eyes* I want to treat this like a joke...but...I don't want to be wrong...

I'll ask with a neutral question: Do you have kids of your own?
 
*blink* *narrows eyes* I want to treat this like a joke...but...I don't want to be wrong...

I'll ask with a neutral question: Do you have kids of your own?

it's a HUGE plastic gun that shoots SALT! no joke this is the dumbest idea i've heard all month. do you have carpet? how will you be getting all that salt out of the fibers? you'll have salt everywhere. in your furniture cushions, blankets, beds, rugs, carpets. you'll be walking on grains of salt on hard flooring surfaces, you'll be sweeping salt for ever. and how old are these kids? if they are really young or really stupid i wouldn't be giving them a gun that fires anything at any speed, much less something that is both messy and corrosive. dumb dumb dumb.

keep food products in the fridge, a locked cupboard or a sealed pot for organic compost waste and add screens to your windows. like a normal person!
 
it's a HUGE plastic gun that shoots SALT! no joke this is the dumbest idea i've heard all month. do you have carpet? how will you be getting all that salt out of the fibers? you'll have salt everywhere. in your furniture cushions, blankets, beds, rugs, carpets. you'll be walking on grains of salt on hard flooring surfaces, you'll be sweeping salt for ever. and how old are these kids? if they are really young or really stupid i wouldn't be giving them a gun that fires anything at any speed, much less something that is both messy and corrosive. dumb dumb dumb.

keep food products in the fridge, a locked cupboard or a sealed pot for organic compost waste and add screens to your windows. like a normal person!

Okay, NOW I can treat it like a joke.

If you think the main challenge of life...of parenthood...is a plastic gun that shoots a pinch of salt...just...don't have kids.

And don't buy one, that's fine.
 
Okay, NOW I can treat it like a joke.

If you think the main challenge of life...of parenthood...is a plastic gun that shoots a pinch of salt...just...don't have kids.

And don't buy one, that's fine.

at what point did i say anything even close to that? how do you know if i have children or not? but why on earth would you needlessly complicate your life or the lives of your family members for such a stupid reason? a reason that is so easily preventable in a cheaper way that would not require you to hunt individual flies with a messy product.
 
at what point did i say anything even close to that? how do you know if i have children or not? but why on earth would you needlessly complicate your life or the lives of your family members for such a stupid reason? a reason that is so easily preventable in a cheaper way that would not require you to hunt individual flies with a messy product.

That's why I asked if you had children.

These children are expected to drive cars. They're expected to handle the responsibility of shooting weapons and learning self defense. They possess the weapons of mass destruction called sexual organs and hormones. If I am terrified of a little gun that's essentially a good example of human ingenuity, I'd be ashamed of myself.

If you're not, fine, but seriously. Don't inflict that kind of crap on kids. Life's harsh enough, no need to make sure nobody will experience something cool because the universe is going to collapse if people understand the mechanics of a gun and some salt gets on the La-Z-Boy. We don't even have flies. We have screen doors. It's still damned cool. I still want one. We'll shoot it off if we ever encounter a fly, otherwise the most likely target is going to be a grape on the back porch.

Lighten up.
 
keep food products in the fridge, a locked cupboard or a sealed pot for organic compost waste and add screens to your windows. like a normal person!

*laughs*

Toddler inguinuity

Someone left the window unlocked -- can you believe that?!

Eh, we have a 24 hour staff.
 
Good old fashioned bitch slap kills things dead, too.

Best approach for a fly?

Million eyes, right?

If you cannot trick a fly into death by simply holding the hand still before the decisive thwack? Wow.
 
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