Alex321
Guru
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- South Wales
Because it is more than ordinary.
"Extra" can mean "more of", but it can also mean "more than".
Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem
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Because it is more than ordinary.
"Extra" can mean "more of", but it can also mean "more than".
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
For what it’s worth I believe both teachers and nurses are being put upon to the point the job not being worth making yourself Ill over, as for teaching an insider tells me that every weekend is spent marking & prepping classes, holidays are spent doing the same, the working day isn’t 8:30 to 15:30 then go home, many can still be on site after 18:00 and have got in at 07:30, then just when they feel things can’t get any worse OFSTED turn up, they have parents evening dealing with obnoxious parents, who believe their little darlings can do no wrong, and then are expected to take on extra duties for a pittance, be a teacher, no thanks
cougie uk
Guru
I'd not do either of their jobs for a big clock. Hats off to them.
winjim
Smash the cistern
OP
OP
Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
Are fruit flies unhygienic?🤔 I ask because I have a fruit fly 'community'
in my kitchen. I keep old banana skins which go brown and moldy, then I chop and feed them to my palm trees after I've soaked them in water for a few days. I also pour the water on the plants by the way. The small reddish brown flies are on my units and stuff. I'm supposing they aren't carrying disease like common houseflies or bluebottles because they've only landed on banana skins, not dog shoot, dead rotting birds rats etc and other such vile things.
in my kitchen. I keep old banana skins which go brown and moldy, then I chop and feed them to my palm trees after I've soaked them in water for a few days. I also pour the water on the plants by the way. The small reddish brown flies are on my units and stuff. I'm supposing they aren't carrying disease like common houseflies or bluebottles because they've only landed on banana skins, not dog shoot, dead rotting birds rats etc and other such vile things.
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classic33
Leg End Member
An answer from the professionalsAre fruit flies unhygienic?🤔 I ask because I have a fruit fly 'community'
https://www.rentokil.co.uk/blog/fruit-flies-at-your-bar-why-you-need-to-get-rid-them-and-how/
OP
OP
Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
It looks like they're more annoying than unhygienic. If you're running a food and drink business it's a problem, but not one for me as I don't mind them.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I think you ned to read it a bit more thoroughly.
Unhygienic because they will frequent rubbish bins for the sweet stuff, but will also come into contact with less savoury material. Plus laying eggs in your fruit or any open bottles, and if you then drink or at the larvae (small enough you won't notice), you could get moderately unwell.
OP
OP
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
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- The hills of Accrington
I could also walk out my flat and get run over by a bus, as they say.
I have a waste bin in my kitchen, but I haven't seen one around it. Nope, they are just after those bananas.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Forget fruit flies. Drain flies are far worse. Their larvae are a sight to behold as they wriggle in your blocked lavatory like tiny leaches.
mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
/engage anorak mode
because the "extra" means "outside", so "extraordinary" is "outside ordinary"
/disengage anorak mode
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Why do spiders like my bike?
They don't. They like where you *keep* your bike and that it has a nice shape for webs. Spiders will position their webs where they think they are going to be able to catch their food. For example on our back door we have a small window which often has a light shining through it from inside. I will invariably (if I forget) get a faceful of web when I open the back door to put the recycling out, as the local spiders know that flying insects are going to try and bat up against that window, so a web or two gets built across the doorway, and more webs down the passageway to that light.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Extraneous
