Suicidal flies with eyeball fetishes

sturmey
sturmey Posts: 964
edited July 2009 in The bottom bracket
The surface area presented by a pair of eye-balls is ridiculously small yet these little bar-stewards seem to be able to home in on them with alarming ease even when they are approaching from the side-which is weird and damned annoying.

Do they have some in-built homing device that finds small watery objects in the same way a mozzy finds your skin when it's time for his dinner?

I am loathe to wear glasses as they make me hotter.

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  • Snudge
    Snudge Posts: 40
    They are a pain and seem determined to go for the eyes but their apparent movement is, of course, relative. I find (normal) glasses don't always prevent their watery deaths either.
  • majormantra
    majormantra Posts: 2,094
    sturmey wrote:
    I am loathe to wear glasses as they make me hotter.

    I am loathe not to wear glasses because of flies, tiny stones, rain and other nasties that can hit you in the eyes at speed. I think the slight inconvenience is well worth the insurance against blindness. :)

    Matthew
  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    I am loathe to wear glasses as they make me heavier.
    Making a cup of coffee is like making love to a beautiful woman. It's got to be hot. You've got to take your time. You've got to stir... gently and firmly. You've got to grind your beans until they squeak.
    And then you put in the milk.
  • DomPro
    DomPro Posts: 321
    Compromise with a monacle, the hazard has been halved and brings some sophistication to your get-up.
    Shazam !!
  • Gav888
    Gav888 Posts: 946
    LOL at the title.... quality :lol::lol::lol:
    Cycling never gets any easier, you just go faster - Greg LeMond
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    sturmey wrote:
    The surface area presented by a pair of eye-balls is ridiculously small yet these little bar-stewards seem to be able to home in on them with alarming ease even when they are approaching from the side-which is weird and damned annoying.

    Do they have some in-built homing device that finds small watery objects in the same way a mozzy finds your skin when it's time for his dinner?

    I am loathe to wear glasses as they make me hotter.

    Are you for real? You're not a real cyclist until you can take a direct hit in each eye without blinking. Cycle faster to avoid the mozzies.
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • chuckcork
    chuckcork Posts: 1,471
    I wear glasses as a result of being shortsighted, and find that the little blighters have a habit of settling on the lenses and just fluttering around, I usually have to stop and remove them as they refuse to leave. Blowing them off doesn't work and flicking them off usually results in a smeared bug....

    Damned annoying.
    'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze....

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