Just try not to swallow the fly. I've heard if it gets inside you, the only way to get rid of it is to swallow a spider
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That's just straight up not true. Fly paper works just as well as spiders.
Then how do you handle the fly paper? You can swallow a bird to handle the spider. No problem. But I know of no solution for fly paper.
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Bro that cracked me up. Thanks so much
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That depends on what score the judges gives the fly.
Below 5, drink away, he was holding his team back.
5-7, still no big loss, but showing improvement, so if you can remove the fly, he might perform better next time.
8-9, his team will take a big hit if you drink him, you should immadiately rescue him.
10, it is your duty to not only save him, and for the next 17 days you are responsible for acting as his bodyguard
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Lol ... I was born and raised in northern Ontario. I'm indigenous and I've spent a lot of time in the northern wilderness which has lots and lots of swamp land and in the summer hosts billions of biting insects.
My parents were born in the bush so life out there was normal for us.
I remember spending summers out camping in July with clouds of black flies, mosquitoes, deer flies, midges and sand flies.... when we drank a cup of tea by the fire, you first had to skim off the drowning insects before taking a sip.
I think one fly in your wine is OK
Just asking questions, just asking questions ;) Horseflies were the worst! I feel like I lost a part of me when they'd bite
Which is why when you meet many old timer Indigenous person in northern Ontario, they're dressed in long pants and long sleeved clothing in the summer. The only time I wear tshirts or shorts is if there is a strong wind or I'm planning on jumping in the water some time soon. In the evening and especially at night, I'll cover up every inch of exposed skin.
It always amazes me when I have my southern friends visit me, sit around a fire at dusk in tank tops and shorts and complain about the bugs ... then slather on tons of insect repellent and complain about the chemicals they put on.
... all while I skim off the bugs from my drink and take a sip.
slather themsves
I've heard a dryer sheet works for this purpose, can u confirm + deny?
Lots of things work ... including dryer sheets ... but the problem is that you have to apply whatever product or diy trick or whatever you are using on every bit of your skin ... every piece of skin. If you have one spot the size of a penny of untreated skin anywhere on your body, the insects will find it and sting you there. The best way to do all this is to find a vat of insect repellent, swim in it for 10 seconds and come out. And even then, it only works for about half an hour or hour because your skin is constantly changing ... all that has to happen is you sweat a little bit, the repellent washes off and now you have an untreated section that the bugs will find.
It's a never ending battle and the bugs always win. Part of surviving in these conditions is to accept that you will get bitten ... you just minimize the bites and you learn to live with getting bitten.
There is research I've read that more and more people are becoming so accustomed to never wanting to be bitten that they spend their lives in a bubble away from biting insects that it becomes a severe problem when they do get bitten .... even to the point where they develop allergic reactions because they do such a good job avoiding it all.
I grew up in these conditions and I remember being a dumb kid running around the bush and being covered in welts all summer long and never thinking it was unusual.
As a teen, I remember a few summers with my friends where the mosquitos grew so thick and noisy at dusk that you could literally choke on them as they filled your nose and mouth.
Now as an adult, I minimize the number of bites but when I do get bitten (which is still fairly high) I don't really mind it all that much. You build a tolerance to them over time. Like anything uncomfortable and unavoidable in the world you learn to live with them.
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Itβs safe and itβs ok to do so. Whether itβs socially acceptable depends on whether you sing the βShoo Fly! Donβt bother me!β song as a fun little kidβs song or if you do the whole 1860βs minstrel show version.
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I'm not dead, so probably
[I'm not available for comment on account of my ~~small~~ death]
Probably fine... you might want to skip it if the fruit flies all died shortly after drinking it though.
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For what it's worth, here's a study.
Do fruit flies carry any diseases? Fruit flies do not carry infectious agents on the inside of their bodies. They are not disease vectors. However, they can carry bacteria on the outside of their bodies and transmit them by contact with fruits or vegetables, which can cause disease when consumed.
Is it safe to eat food that has been touched by fruit flies? No, it is not safe. If food was touched by fruit flies, there may be bacteria that cause disease. The appropriate strategy is to remove the damaged area of the food or to dispose of it.
Can fruit flies be harmful to humans? Fruit flies are not harmful to humans. They do not bite or sting. They also don't have venom. However, when fruit flies wound ripe fruit or vegetables to lay eggs, bacteria can enter the food, and when humans consume it, they can get a disease.
What happens if you eat a fruit fly? There is no scientific evidence of diseases caused by eating a fruit fly. Also, there is no scientific evidence that eating the fruit fly's eggs can cause disease.
So this just told me that eating fruit flies will give you a disease, followed by a statement that there's no evidence that eating fruit flies will give you a disease
studying with ChatGPT be like
I think it's saying that you can eat the fruit fly, but not food the fruit fly has touched.
It's always worth remembering, though, that bacteria live on some foods more easily than others. I'd be surprised if most bacteria could live long in wine.
Is wine generally alcoholic enough to provide any sort of disinfectant property?
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Just wash your flies before consumption.
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As long as it didn't drink the whole thing.
His eyes were bigger than his thorax
Takes a lot more than that to keep me from my wine.
Depends, if you drink my glass of wine with my fruit fly in it we have issues.
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If the fruit fly lived then the wine is safe to drink. If not, the wine may be poisoned.
I have no idea where they came from, I have no idea where they're going lol
Thats a good question tho. Where the heck do these things come from if you have zero fruit (or laying around etc)? Same thing with maggots when someone dies
Edit: i totaly missed your oblique meaning here lol. Smartass aha
Oh sure! After all, wine not?
Get out!!
Sour grapes
Depends if your vegan or not.
Only if you get the fly to spit out what it drank. Can't let it get away with it!
Right, unacceptable! Wine is not crumbz, harumph π€
Eww, backwash.
As long as you aren't vegan
Lol, this post's never gonna end ;)
I'd chase it with a shot of vodka to disinfect your system for a good measure
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Only if you're a social drinker.
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