Australian Flys

don't think what flies do... you would be thinking about those little piles of vomit all over you... it is like the people who think about microscopic animals that are all over everything.

The flies are just snapping up tiny delicacies from the sweat on your body (or a little blood if they can get it). I suppose they're also checking you out to see if you're dead enough to lay eggs in.

Your body is home and kitchen to any number of creatures - Howard Hughes would have gone psychotic if he knew. Did you know there are the tiniest mites that live in the follicles of your eyebrows and come out at night to feed on dead skin on your face?

<reflexively scratching eyebrow>

You'll only annoy them! They'll feast on your eye next!!

ahhh!
See what I miss!
I go on holidays and come back to eyebrow animals!

There was/is this great show on ABC in Australia called "The Body Snatchers3 pretty hideous. If you weren't scratching before, you were afterwards.

I only ever saw the ads and they grossed me completely.

So what if you shave your eyebrows off?

I suppose they'd still live in the hole the hair-shaft makes in your skin - you couldn't plug all the pore holes either. Even worse, the sweat from your forehead would trickle down into your eyes! Ouch! What's a bit of dead skin lost to tiny, tiny insects compared to that?

well, it is not like _ I _ was gonna shave my eyebrows off....
and you definitely need eyebrows to keep the sweat outta your eyes in Australia!

Just checking!! Kickycan has been threatening to take a razor to bits of his 'fur' on a regular basis - always on the lookout for copycats!

lol
i reckon i would look like a freak without eyebrows
some might be able to pull it off, but not me!

Doesn't bother some of us.....

Yep - survival of the fittest it is - Oz is a prime example. Look at all the wonderful specimens here!

G'day BC...

I still check inside my shoes for any lurking nasties even in France... just habit I suspect.