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Sexually Rejected Flies Turn To Booze
sciencehabit writes "Offer a male fruit fly a choice between food soaked in alcohol and its nonalcoholic equivalent, and his decision will depend on whether he's mated recently or been rejected by a female. Flies that have been given the cold shoulder are more likely to go for the booze, researchers have found. It's the first discovery, in fruit flies, of a social interaction that influences future behavior."
I guess if I were a sexually-deprived fly I would be drinking too... just like I do as a sexually-deprived basement dweller
This is a UDP joke, I don't care if you get it or not...
It's just to make the un-attractive fruit flies around look better.
Probably like most /. readers, he needs the alcohol to get up the nerve to approach the female fly.
... fruit flies like a bottle of booze.
Just saying.
Must be a Gnome3/Gnome Shell problem ;-)
...they turn to Slashdot.
What about hooker flies? Another study, I suppose.
Nerdy fly fetishes of the world, your time is now! The fly on fly doggy style action shot is just...
::notices the wife unit enter the room::
Uh... oh... hi honey! Oh no, I only read ScienceMag for the articles... !
...do the flies give up and turn to World of Warcraft?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
It must suck to be sexually rejected AND lack hands.
Another scientific reason for women to say we arw the lowest form of life and reject us. Pepe Lopez, here I come.
Silence is a state of mime.
Have gnu, will travel.
I read it as "Sexually Rejected Files Turn To Booze". I was completely confounded for a moment until I expanded the summary, and saw the words "male fruit fly", which I read correctly.
Bizarre.... I don't typically have dyslexic moments.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Of course I'm talking about "bar flies".
That's a fact everybody already knew
I mean, who wants to hit the sack with a drunk?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
I type this. Dim. If *BSD is SLING you can for Trolls' Are almost
...because I would have produced the same test result.
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
How'd they make bottles small enough for the flies to hold on to?
This is only because the flies don't know how to give the alcohol soaked food to the female flies first.
people starve, people die, yet we study the drinking habits of fruit-fly, OFFS!
There was an unknown error in the submission.
COLLECT ANY SPILLpED of all legitimate
There are over 75,000 alcohol related deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Is that enough to warrant some research?
Maybe a significant number of those deaths were actually sexual-rejection-related deaths after all. Mothers Against Sexual Rejection, anyone?
Set your phasers on "funky"!
... a wingman joke in here somehwere.....
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.--Mark Twain
Fruit flies like a bananna?
No brain, no pain.
your tax dollars at work people, wonder how much grant money that cost us
...when I was Lord of Flies
Oh, the beautiful gloss of greality!
You became a bad example for fruit flies!
The the surprise is that flies are so similar to humans, not that the phenomena happened .
Such a Freudian slip of the mind shows a diseased mind that is best examined... from 2 km through a sniper scope... I should know... I read it that way too.
You know you are a nerd when your brain tries to relate any sentence with the word sex in it, to computers.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
...described as the "Slashdot Effect".
Wait, so Fruit Flies are Liking Jack Daniels on Flybook?! No wonder Zynga is doing well with Flyville.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
...the equally important discovery that after successfully mating, both flies lie on their backs and smoke cigarettes?
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
Its far from politically correct to say these things, but for decades study after study has consistently shown women are the root cause of many of society's woes. Everything from cheating to sexual divients, and even rapests and serial killers frequently share a common factor - hateful rejection by women throughout their teenage years. The fact is, a lot of women simple don't reject, they scornfully spur wouldbe suitors.
Later, many women use sex as a weapon. This is directly equatable to conditional love. Thusly, women who use sex as a weapon in a relationship are actually begging their mate to cheat on them. After all, who doesn't want to feel love and who isn't going to attempt find some. Even though its not technically love, its the closest they will ever find so long as they remain in a relationship with such a horribly broken partner. This is why in most relationships where men cheat, women are literally the cause of said cheating.
I could go on and on - and yes, even for men, excessive drinking is frequently a sign of an unhealthy relationship whereby the women is the root cause.
As I said, none of this is P.C., but that's the facts. The simple truth is, women are literally are large part of many of the worst social problems society has to deal with. And culturally, American women tend to rank up there on the top of problems. Which is also why many other cultures don't experience the same cultural problems America does.
The fact that fruitflies suffer at least one of the same social issues as a result of interaction with females is facinating to say the least.
Just what Jr. needs, another daddy fruit fly on the sauce.
Now I know why fruit flies are all over the place when they fly - and also why they are so easy to kill.
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