"Spare a single fly's life, you save the world entire" - A fly-in-the-ointment poll

[Malacandra]

@Shoeless

Are we talking a housefly, or something tiny like a gnat? If it was a housefly I wouldn’t drink it but if it was a teeny tiny bug I wouldn’t give it a second thought.

The poll reminds me of a joke I heard one time. An Englishman, and Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar, they all three sit down and order a pint. A fly lands in the Englishman’s beer and he looks at it disgustedly and pushes it away. A fly lands in the Irishman’s beer, he plucks the fly out and flicks it away, then shrugs and continues drinking. A fly lands in the Scotsman’s beer, he plucks the fly out, then holds it over his glass yelling “Spit it out! Spit it out ya bastard!”

Or the Englishman in a French restaurant who considerately warns the diner at the table who is about to eat his soup: <<Pardon, m’sieur, mais il y a un mouche en votre potage>>, and the Frenchman fishes out the soup and says <<Merci, m’sieur! Mais, ce n’est pas <un mouche>, c’est <une mouche> >>. To which the awestruck Englishman can only stammer “Bloody hell, you’ve got good eyesight!”.

[monstro]

I would take the fly out. And just to make my brain shuddup about it, I’d pour out a couple of mililiters–the portion that the fly ruined, of course.

[Bruce_Wayne]

Depends on the bug and my general perception of them. If it’s a fly that’s just been hanging out on a steamy pile of dog poo I throw it all out. I’ll give an ant or bee the scoop out an invoke the 5 second rule.

[nani]

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said “If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease.” (Sahih al-Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 54, Number 537)