# If a fly married a mouse, which do you consider to be the most disgusting choice? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907 "2022-05-22T23:35:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/1 "2022-05-22T23:35:38Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/1))_ Who got the shorter end of the stick there, the fly for marrying the mouse or the mouse for marrying the fly? I’d just say “Which is more disgusting to you a fly or a mouse?” to make it simpler but I think you really need to get into the headspace of “Which would I rather not marry?” ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/2 "2022-05-22T23:38:34Z")
Well, I try not to fantasize about either one of them. But if I were entirely broke in my spank bank, the insect has to go! At least mammals are warm and fuzzy. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/3 "2022-05-22T23:39:52Z")
Flies eat shit and produce maggots, this isn’t even a contest. Mice are mostly an annoyance. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/4 "2022-05-22T23:43:04Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Flies eat shit and produce maggots, this isn’t even a contest. Mice are mostly an annoyance.  Yeah, you’ve never seen a mouse in a unitard. Mmmm… Minnie. Do it to me, baby. Yeah, right there. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/5 "2022-05-22T23:43:48Z")
Umm. Eww. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/6 "2022-05-22T23:44:12Z")
Sorry. Thought it would be fun. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/7 "2022-05-22T23:44:55Z")
That’s what _she_ said! ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/8 "2022-05-22T23:46:12Z")
I kept mice as pets. I still think they’re cute. Flies, though, ugh. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/9 "2022-05-22T23:46:26Z")
Nobody is going to pick an insect over a mammal. We mammals have to stick together! ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/10 "2022-05-22T23:46:26Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > That’s what _she_ said! I’ve never heard her say that. No, what she said was Oh, my god! Pleasure my mammary instincts! ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/11 "2022-05-22T23:47:26Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > Nobody is going to pick an insect over a mammal. We mammals have to stick together!  Goddamn right we do! Fuck the houseflies. Or rather, don’t fuck the houseflies! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/12 "2022-05-22T23:52:37Z")
The preacher who performed the service. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/13 "2022-05-22T23:59:51Z")
Mice are cute. Yes, they can be an annoyance when they get into stuff. But in their own space, they are cute. Flies… Are flies. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/14 "2022-05-23T00:42:57Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Who got the shorter end of the stick there, the fly for marrying the mouse or the mouse for marrying the fly? I’m going to buck the trend, and answer the question as the FLY got the shorter end of the stick. Going by the (silly) premise of the thread, the mouse is a horrible entity, taking advantage of it’s much more advanced neurological development to bait a fly into a lifelong (for the fly at least) relationship that it has absolutely no possibility of understanding. Not that the mouse is any great shakes in that department, but certainly more than the fly! It’s an abuse of power in the relationship! Answering the question of the last sentence of the OP though, yeah, I’d marry a mouse before a fly hands down. Even in the multifaceted world (see what I did there? 😝 ) of anthropomorphic insects, they’d lose to a similarly anthropomorphic mouse. I must apologize for my mammal based bigotry though. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/15 "2022-05-23T00:50:35Z")
There was never a horror movie called “The Mouse”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/16 "2022-05-23T00:59:29Z")
The mention of anthropomorphic animals made my brain jump straight to Zipper vs. Gadget. I’d definitely go with Gadget. But Zipper is a bro, and tones down a lot of the ickier parts of an actual fly. And he lives a lot longer. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/17 "2022-05-23T01:48:26Z")
It would not please me to respond to the wedding invitation, so I wouldn’t, and I would happily passive-aggressively ignore it. If you were to hold a gun to my head until I came up with something positive to say about the union, it would be “At least they won’t be living in sin, as so many of their fellow rodents and insects do.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/18 "2022-05-23T01:49:55Z")
Insects are always more disgusting than mammals. I’ve seen some cute mice. Never seen a cute fly. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/19 "2022-05-23T09:30:19Z")
At least the misbegotten couple won’t be having any offspring. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/20 "2022-05-23T10:03:57Z")
Well, IDK, flies hang out on walls and they hear things that people desperately want to know. So I kinda feel like that should be part of the calculous. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907.md?page=2)