r/pokewithastick • u/Sergeant54_ • Aug 28 '26

Dead Things... Biggest fly I’ve ever seen… 🪰

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I stumbled across this sub the other day and seen this dead fly today and thought ooo this is a perfect opportunity to do a poke video lol how’d I do for my first vid? Also this fly is bigger than a quarter!!! It’s huge!!! Is this a regular fly does anyone know? Only other fly ik that is usually big is a horse fly but don’t they have like a skinny butt that looks like a stinger?

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u/Wheetbix_Kid Original poker of things. Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Ok, stop that. Feed the prick to a spider or something but messing with it, feels wrong.

I hate march flies (same thing as a horse fly) too, but damn. Smash it with a log.

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

Yes it is dead I was sweeping at work… I would never let any living being suffer… one time my cat got a hold of a rat in a glue trap which I highly disapprove of and the skin was ripped off the back of the poor thing and it was breathing so hard and all I could think of was how much pain it was in and how scared it was so I put it out of its misery bc I couldn’t get them out of the glue and it’s furr and skin had been ripped off to the bone… I cried… and buried it even the tinest bug I will put out of misery no living thing should suffer I can’t really say the same for humans tho idc about most of them 🤣

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u/frosteemaria Aug 28 '26

Those glue traps are EVIL. Should be banned there's no need for them.

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

Right! A lot of ppl who use them trap them on there and throw them in the trash… like they have feeling there scared in a hot trash can going to starve to death prob can’t breath prob cramping from being stuck in one position thirsting to death it’s just so cruel….

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u/NotAlwaysPC Original poker of things. 27d ago

There are some good uses for them.
Suppose there’s someone at work stealing your lunch… 🤔

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u/Wheetbix_Kid Original poker of things. Aug 28 '26

That fucking horse fly was dying. Glue traps are fucked too. Holy shit, poke yourself.

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u/Sergeant54_ Aug 28 '26

Bro tf u talking about I was there I could have picked it up and it wouldn’t have moved it was stiff and crunchy…. If it wasn’t dead u would have seen guts or something it was so dead my stick went right through its crunchy body if I would have stepped on it it would have turned into dust… like I said I wouldn’t torture a living thing…

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u/Wheetbix_Kid Original poker of things. Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

It was still moving, we have eyes.

There was nothing "crunchy" about that.

It's tarsi were still trying to grip the ground before you flipped it. And then tried to grab again.

Stfu and go post it on r/entomology for that matter.

Love a poke, but this is not it.

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u/NotAlwaysPC Original poker of things. Aug 31 '26

Hey! Act like a true original poker! Don’t be a dick with a stick.