Obama kills fly...PETA outraged

[ejk]

I actually put them in glass jars and take them outside. My reasoning is as follows:

I don't mind outdoor spiders.
I hate outdoor flies.

I generally take any unwelcome animal life found in my house outside if I can. My reasoning is, when you squish it, it's gross. And probably stains the walls/floors/carpet/table.

I'm a (semi-) vegetarian, but have no scruples about killing bugs. I just don't.

 

[roger]

I've been known to catch and release, but it's kind of pointless in a big picture way. Driving your car in the summer can kill thousands. I remember growing up in NH, you'd go for a drive in the early evening and by the end of the drive they'd be hundreds of carcasses on the windshield, and you'd have to manually scrape them off, as the windshield wipers were not up to the task.

I'm not saying catch/release is bad, and I do it and feel good about it, but by God let a mosquito land on me and I'm slapping the **** out of it.

 

[Rolfe]

I was brought up to believe that killing spiders in the house was "bad luck". (Not seriously, but we didn't do it anyway.) I thought this was a fairly universal injunction. However, more recently I read that it was a particularly Scottish thing, and it had its origins in the Bruce and the spider story.

Does anyone else come from a culture where killing spiders is bad luck?

Rolfe.

 

[Number Six]

Obama would have caught the shoe.

By the laces.

 

[Grizzly Bear]

By the laces.

In the air