# Mild Pitting of Beck **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 12, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691 "2024-10-12T05:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/721 "2025-09-01T12:22:14Z")
To be fair, even with an electronic swatter, you’re still tilting at windmills. Whether you kill 20 with a trap or 100 with an electronic swatter, it hardly makes a dent in the thousands of them in the building. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/722 "2025-09-01T12:37:12Z")
I fortunately never had that much of them in my house, but sometimes serious infestations. I did the vinegar with dish soap trick, but it wasn’t enough to get rid of them. The key is to find and remove the source, which at one time were some rotting potatoes in my pantry I had forgotten about, and the other time my garbage can for organic waste which wasn’t covered thoroughly. After I got a can with a tight lid, it never happened again. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/723 "2025-09-01T12:45:43Z")
Electric swatters in reality don’t work that great. The housefly is often way quicker than the racket. I could slap down more flies by whipping a dish towel at them. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/724 "2025-09-01T13:28:21Z")
I think that depends on the person. Electronic flyswatter, regular swatter, rolled up newspaper, I’m terrible. I’m lucky if I can hit a single fly in a day whereas I have coworkers that’ll be knocking them out of the air left and right. > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > The key is to find and remove the source In college, the house I moved into for a year had an awful smell and a fly problem. We eventually found the source. In a cabinet we never used was a 5 pound bag of maggots. It used to be potatoes, but it was all maggots at that point. We took the entire shelf out and threw it away. It was gross. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/725 "2025-09-01T14:04:04Z")
You know, there’s a thread about flies already. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/726 "2025-09-01T16:05:12Z")
Rotten potatoes are not just an awful smell. It’s like the smell of rotting corpses. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/727 "2025-09-01T16:24:54Z")
You don’t have to tell me. I grew up around produce. I can walk into work and tell if there’s rotten potatoes in the store. I’ve had a few employees over the years where I’ve had to tell them to just throw out a case of potatoes they’re trying to clean up, there’s no point in you spending a half an hour dry heaving in hopes of getting a few good potatoes out of that box of, obviously, rotten potatoes. Besides, even if they do sort them out, the good ones will still smell awful. Also, I don’t want to listen to you gagging. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/728 "2025-09-01T16:30:50Z")
Yeah, when we left on a month’s vacation back when I was a kid, my mom forgot the bag of potatoes under the kitchen sink. In August. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/729 "2025-09-03T07:01:29Z")
> [@Getting vaccinated abroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-vaccinated-abroad/1022700/2): > > I think its probably as complicated in Japan for a non-resident. I would be afraid of getting sick from the shot while on vacation or a work trip. Another wildly helpful pseudofactual response from the board’s resident international encyclopedia. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/730 "2025-09-03T07:22:19Z")
Go hide your head under your ignoring me pillow. Please ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/731 "2025-09-03T07:27:46Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Please Shouldn’t that be お願いします _Onegaishimasu_ since you know so much about Japan? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/732 "2025-09-03T07:28:38Z")
I fucking googled it. Like any one would. Get over yourself. Fakkuyū ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/733 "2025-09-03T08:15:30Z")
Maybe don’t jump in to respond to a factual question when you have no actual idea what the answer is. If you haven’t tried to get a vaccine in Japan, then don’t answer the question. Once again, you’re the very first response, you don’t know the answer being asked for, but are compelled to act as though you do. Then you ask that people don’t call it out. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/734 "2025-09-03T09:08:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I fucking googled it. Like any one would. Don’t you have a shelf full of ceramic angels that need dusting? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/735 "2025-09-03T09:19:52Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I fucking googled it. Like any one would. Get over yourself. Or, you could just resist that need to be part of every conversation and wait for someone who, you know, actually knows something about the subject. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/736 "2025-09-03T10:25:26Z")
I will admit that I will google something outside my usual knowledge area if I see a thread that hasn’t gotten any replies for a while. However, I try my best to give my confidence levels by citing my sources. I also will use Google inside my areas of knowledge if I think I may know more about the subject and be able to do better searches or better sift through information. Knowledge areas like, say, computer troubleshooting, are so vast that it’s impossible to know it all, and Google can serve as a secondary brain. I would suggest you do either of these, Beck. Don’t jump in just to have a conversation. Don’t be a Cliff Claven. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/737 "2025-09-03T11:41:20Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I also will use Google inside my areas of knowledge if I think I may know more about the subject and be able to do better searches or better sift through information. Knowledge areas like, say, computer troubleshooting, are so vast that it’s impossible to know it all, and Google can serve as a secondary brain. I do this a lot. Different subject matters, but same idea. And sometimes, i believe i know the answer but want a cite. The New AI summaries suck, because they are MUCH harder to extract useful cites from than prior summaries and the older searches. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/738 "2025-09-03T11:48:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Don’t be a Cliff Claven. Cliff Clavin was long winded but most of the time did know the stuff he was yammering about. He wasn’t 100% but he had an accuracy much higher than her, you’re better of warning Cliff not to be a Beck. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/739 "2025-09-03T12:32:43Z")
It is funny how that ignore function doesn’t work well for you. Don’t you have toe nails to pick? Oh, I see, you spend your day following me around a message board, just to ATTACK me. Must take considerable time. I admire your dedication There’s not one thing wrong with my post in that thread; that’s not in FQ. I posted that to bump her thread up, so maybe others would look again. Yeah, you’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691/740 "2025-09-03T12:42:20Z")
Its sad how people egg people on and then claim persecution. Any attention is good attention apparently. You also received a warning in that thread. Dedication=fighting ignorance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mild-pitting-of-beck/1008691.md?page=38)