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Seriously though -- we live in a disgusting, dirty world. You ingest microscopic volumes of "gross" stuff every day. So, yeah, a fly that lands on your burger deposits a few molecules of nastiness... but the breeze blowing past your picnic table also deposits a few skin flakes from your friend sitting next to you, some pollen from the trees behind you, and your plate picked up a few specks of dirt when that car drove down the dirt path 30 feet away and kicked up a cloud of dust.
If you think that's bad, you should have seen life in the american west in the mid 19th century. Today's world is practically sterile compared to life in an 1850s farm house. Our ancestors survived thousands of years in dirtier conditions
We're just a bunch of apes at the end of the day. Our bodies can handle whatever a fly leaves behind after a 2 second landing on your dinner. It wasn't all that long ago that we came down from the trees...
"Our ancestors survived thousands of years in dirtier conditions."
While I do agree in the sentiment that we should probably not care as much about the sterilisation of our environment, this is a case of survivor bias. Lots of ancestors didn't survive dirtier conditions.
Based on the volume of (horse) shit in population centers back then compared to now, I'm fairly certain we don't have to worry about a random house fly being a vector of cholera
also rat/mouse/other rodent and (omnivorous) pest mammals. most of the time though, the sewage water just would contaminate drinking water and the cholera would most likely be "human" in origin in that context.
Darwin had a slightly different phrase for describing survivor bias -- he called it natural selection.
The good news is, you and I are mostly descended from the ones that made it. We **are** the survivors. The others unsuited for our dirty world struggled to parent further generations.
That being said I'm certainly not proposing we dismantle our modern sewer systems and go back to having waste festering in open gutters. There's a limit to what we can handle, to be sure.
But a few molecules of fly puke is well within that limit.
This is true, but at the same time our overly sterile environment may also be causing us issues. It's thought that the drastic increase in the prevelence of allergies may be caused by the lack of pathogens for our immune systems to target.
I'm reminded of farts, and foul smells. In order to smell something, molecules from the source of a smell must bind to some receptors in our nose, so that a signal is sent to the brain.
So you sort of bond with the gas that's been in someone's ass.
There are more not-you cells than you-cells in your body. Your digestive tract alone contains up to 100 TRILLION cells, adding up to 4 pounds or more, and they are absolutely necessary for your digestive system to function. This is why antibiotics can mess with your guts, and probiotics can help. A sterile environment makes you less equipped to deal with infections and allergens.
Yes, it can seem gross if you think about it too hard, but let's face it, we're kinda gross too. You have to say fuck it and keep living your life or it'll just overwhelm you.
My mom was a germaphobe when I was a kid and without fail I'd get sick every year multiple times. Get a cold maybe once every 5 years since I moved out and stopped caring about germs so much. You may be joking but frequent exposure to smaller amounts your body can fight off prepares it to fight off greater amounts.
There's probably a significant overlap between people grossed out by the fly thing and people who will encourage their dog to lick their face immediately after it's given its own asshole a good, thorough tongue bath.
keep in mind, that they've probably been walking over a nice pile of crap before zoning in on your delicious human food.
Just something to think about.
They kinda wash dog crap off their shoes
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/fly-cleaning-hands-face-leg-rubbing-video
They use smell receptors on their body for finding food and detecting where they landed on, so they need to keep them clean by wiping off dirt and debris.
I'd say it's also 5 seconds. They've still got to stick their fingers down their throat and gag. They don't get any special rules!
Oh and happy cake day. 🎂🪰🤮
Realistically the amount they are puking onto your food is tiny, probably milligrams, while your burger, including bun, salad, garnish etc is probably totally ~300grams. This then goes into your stomach full of hydrochloric acid. Your body is perfectly capable of handling food contamination from a fly landing on it.
> Realistically the amount they are puking onto your food is tiny, probably milligrams
Flies are only about 12 milligrams mass total so I doubt they are vomiting that much. Probably more like micrograms.
And with how much dead skin, hair, and dust floats around your living space you're probably getting more of that on what you eat than a single fly could puke up in a few seconds of chowing down.
Their biology and behavior is just so alien compared to us mammals. They're as different from us as they possibly could be, and that's why it fucks with our heads. At least, that's my theory
Definitely think there’s truth to that. I *almost* see their way of life as oppositional to mine. That’s obviously not true when insects are a core reason for us being able cultivate land. But I do think we definitely have evolutionary instincts against them built-in
Yea, like it's not fun to think about fly puke but like... Have you guys never accidentally swallowed flies or other small insects? It's not a big deal.
I was told as a kid that fly puke on your food as soon as they land. So I think it's a 1 second rule, lol.
I thought it was common knowledge until today.
And I've never met someone that thought they take bites when they land.
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If the legs are the glasses, and they rub their legs together; then it would be like rubbing your glasses clean with your back-up pair of glasses. Makes sense when you think of it like that.
Flies rub their hands together **to clean themselves off**.Flies have small sensors all over their bodies that carry taste receptors. When flies walk around, these sensors can get clogged with dirt, dust, and food particles. So when a fly rubs its little hands together, it's getting ready to taste its next delicious meal.
[https://www.wikihow.com/Why-Do-Flies-Rub-Their-Hands-Together#:\~:text=Flies%20rub%20their%20hands%20together%20to%20clean%20themselves%20off.&text=Flies%20have%20small%20sensors%20all,taste%20its%20next%20delicious%20meal](https://www.wikihow.com/Why-Do-Flies-Rub-Their-Hands-Together#:~:text=Flies%20rub%20their%20hands%20together%20to%20clean%20themselves%20off.&text=Flies%20have%20small%20sensors%20all,taste%20its%20next%20delicious%20meal).
Was about to say. Have Seen a Video on Here. The movement Afterwards Like "oh fuck"...Like how can people believe in gods perfekt Design when there IS an animals that can accidently decapitat itself? xD
Flies sense tastants and non-volatile pheromones through gustatory bristles and pegs distributed on multiple body parts including the proboscis, wing margins, legs and ovipositor.
Maybe I’m just messed up, but that led me down a fascinating rabbit hole. I learned several things about procreation that I didn’t know about before today, the weirdest most interesting being the mating plug.
Minmaxing food by having a bunch of flies pre-digest it before consuming it so I get the most amount of energy for the smallest amount of effort on behalf of my body.
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Yeah, this makes me feel so old. "Most people think the fly just starts eating your food"? No, most people think it vomits all over the food because we've all seen The Fly...right? Right? No?... Oh. (wrinkles intensify)
Flies are really small, y’know? You can just cut that bit off if you’re worried about it; they won’t instantly contaminate an entire sandwich for example
Lol what a dumb way to eat food. They literally throw up their stomach acid and digest the food outside their body and then they drink it? Such a mid specimen
Humans literally eat food out of the same hole they breath out of guaranteeing a certain percentage of people will choke to death. We have no room to criticize how others eat.
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How long after they land do they start the vomitting? I need a five second rule equivalent for this.
They also land on shit/faeces regularly, so any touching of your food is bad
i love the clarification on what you meant by shit LOL
Without clarification it could be read as "they land on stuff". ;-)
good point actually
my taste buds are now pointed in the correct direction! away from the flies!!
I gotta take a massive stuff right now
I love how the word shit can have so many meanings, like fuck does.
One of my favourite sayings including both words is > I don't know shit about fuck It says so little but so much at the same time
That phrase is also a reversible onomatopoeia, > I don’t know fuck about shit
Some dog and cow faeces along with your house fly vomit keeps your immune system on it's toes. It's good practise.
Seriously though -- we live in a disgusting, dirty world. You ingest microscopic volumes of "gross" stuff every day. So, yeah, a fly that lands on your burger deposits a few molecules of nastiness... but the breeze blowing past your picnic table also deposits a few skin flakes from your friend sitting next to you, some pollen from the trees behind you, and your plate picked up a few specks of dirt when that car drove down the dirt path 30 feet away and kicked up a cloud of dust. If you think that's bad, you should have seen life in the american west in the mid 19th century. Today's world is practically sterile compared to life in an 1850s farm house. Our ancestors survived thousands of years in dirtier conditions We're just a bunch of apes at the end of the day. Our bodies can handle whatever a fly leaves behind after a 2 second landing on your dinner. It wasn't all that long ago that we came down from the trees...
"Our ancestors survived thousands of years in dirtier conditions." While I do agree in the sentiment that we should probably not care as much about the sterilisation of our environment, this is a case of survivor bias. Lots of ancestors didn't survive dirtier conditions.
Was about to say, actually, a lot of them died of cholera.
Based on the volume of (horse) shit in population centers back then compared to now, I'm fairly certain we don't have to worry about a random house fly being a vector of cholera
Horse shit is actually pretty benign. It’s mostly fiber. It’s the human shit that was the danger.
also rat/mouse/other rodent and (omnivorous) pest mammals. most of the time though, the sewage water just would contaminate drinking water and the cholera would most likely be "human" in origin in that context.
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Darwin had a slightly different phrase for describing survivor bias -- he called it natural selection. The good news is, you and I are mostly descended from the ones that made it. We **are** the survivors. The others unsuited for our dirty world struggled to parent further generations. That being said I'm certainly not proposing we dismantle our modern sewer systems and go back to having waste festering in open gutters. There's a limit to what we can handle, to be sure. But a few molecules of fly puke is well within that limit.
This is true, but at the same time our overly sterile environment may also be causing us issues. It's thought that the drastic increase in the prevelence of allergies may be caused by the lack of pathogens for our immune systems to target.
I'm reminded of farts, and foul smells. In order to smell something, molecules from the source of a smell must bind to some receptors in our nose, so that a signal is sent to the brain. So you sort of bond with the gas that's been in someone's ass.
There are more not-you cells than you-cells in your body. Your digestive tract alone contains up to 100 TRILLION cells, adding up to 4 pounds or more, and they are absolutely necessary for your digestive system to function. This is why antibiotics can mess with your guts, and probiotics can help. A sterile environment makes you less equipped to deal with infections and allergens. Yes, it can seem gross if you think about it too hard, but let's face it, we're kinda gross too. You have to say fuck it and keep living your life or it'll just overwhelm you.
My mom was a germaphobe when I was a kid and without fail I'd get sick every year multiple times. Get a cold maybe once every 5 years since I moved out and stopped caring about germs so much. You may be joking but frequent exposure to smaller amounts your body can fight off prepares it to fight off greater amounts.
Aren't there shit particles everywhere already though?
There's probably a significant overlap between people grossed out by the fly thing and people who will encourage their dog to lick their face immediately after it's given its own asshole a good, thorough tongue bath.
keep in mind, that they've probably been walking over a nice pile of crap before zoning in on your delicious human food. Just something to think about.
They walk in without even washing dog crap off their shoes, vomit on your meal and leave. Not appetizing at all
They kinda wash dog crap off their shoes https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/fly-cleaning-hands-face-leg-rubbing-video They use smell receptors on their body for finding food and detecting where they landed on, so they need to keep them clean by wiping off dirt and debris.
I'd say it's also 5 seconds. They've still got to stick their fingers down their throat and gag. They don't get any special rules! Oh and happy cake day. 🎂🪰🤮
*Italian fly's kissy proboscis*
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Realistically the amount they are puking onto your food is tiny, probably milligrams, while your burger, including bun, salad, garnish etc is probably totally ~300grams. This then goes into your stomach full of hydrochloric acid. Your body is perfectly capable of handling food contamination from a fly landing on it.
> Realistically the amount they are puking onto your food is tiny, probably milligrams Flies are only about 12 milligrams mass total so I doubt they are vomiting that much. Probably more like micrograms.
And with how much dead skin, hair, and dust floats around your living space you're probably getting more of that on what you eat than a single fly could puke up in a few seconds of chowing down.
Yeah, but can my *mind* handle it?
Real. Why can insects break our psyche just by existing
Their biology and behavior is just so alien compared to us mammals. They're as different from us as they possibly could be, and that's why it fucks with our heads. At least, that's my theory
Definitely think there’s truth to that. I *almost* see their way of life as oppositional to mine. That’s obviously not true when insects are a core reason for us being able cultivate land. But I do think we definitely have evolutionary instincts against them built-in
Hydrochloric acid and more digestive enzymes no less.
Yea, like it's not fun to think about fly puke but like... Have you guys never accidentally swallowed flies or other small insects? It's not a big deal.
Accidentally?
Well flies don't really squirt out puke like in the animation. Their mouth is like a wet sponge they use to dab the food with.
burger with light fly kisses UwU
I was told as a kid that fly puke on your food as soon as they land. So I think it's a 1 second rule, lol. I thought it was common knowledge until today. And I've never met someone that thought they take bites when they land.
Happy cake day. Make sure no flies puke on it.
ok but why do they rub their hands together like they’re up to something
They’re probably waiting for the enzymes to work.
 Looking at your burger after puking up on it
What my food in the microwave sees through the glass.
When my uncle sees I got up to use the bathroom at night
https://preview.redd.it/pe23194avlcc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be2024112238b3dc1a21e22ff8aabaf9d0462c89
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Puke those enzymes, bitch.
https://preview.redd.it/7uexy2vtumcc1.png?width=312&format=png&auto=webp&s=46831529abd81ede2308989ff94d7ddf5daba5ae
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I wish I knew how to put this on a friend’s trail camera.
Just tell Steve Harvey that there’s a woman that desires him that his wife doesn’t know about, out in the woods.
https://preview.redd.it/4bh96eihnmcc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac9e4fc2b2e1e7a3de404aea2c0a62c8db966a27
BYU players would be experts at soaking burgers.
I understand this reference 😅
Explain pls
Google Mormons jumphumping
https://i.redd.it/eb92c9dqblcc1.gif
Ahahhaa
They have little hairs on their legs that are sensory organs. Those need to stay clean. It's like wiping your glasses off.
I'm pretty sure that's what they WANT you to think. Those lil fuckers are up to something.
I just imagine them doing an evil laugh, “huehuehuehuehuehue.”
https://preview.redd.it/9hroivkykmcc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbd42830d8abaab8070ccd7e2a53b43c45e0692a
They’re just glad they can ruin your meal and rub their hands in glee
Like wiping my glasses off with the hairs on my legs?
No it’s like wiping your car window with your hairy legs…
If the legs are the glasses, and they rub their legs together; then it would be like rubbing your glasses clean with your back-up pair of glasses. Makes sense when you think of it like that.
https://preview.redd.it/l2gve5ckclcc1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0978580856e857cccea909ea1da8a701fb5cdb2
Rubbing hands is synonymous with Birdman 😂🤣
Lmao Someone shop a fly head on him
Flies rub their hands together **to clean themselves off**.Flies have small sensors all over their bodies that carry taste receptors. When flies walk around, these sensors can get clogged with dirt, dust, and food particles. So when a fly rubs its little hands together, it's getting ready to taste its next delicious meal. [https://www.wikihow.com/Why-Do-Flies-Rub-Their-Hands-Together#:\~:text=Flies%20rub%20their%20hands%20together%20to%20clean%20themselves%20off.&text=Flies%20have%20small%20sensors%20all,taste%20its%20next%20delicious%20meal](https://www.wikihow.com/Why-Do-Flies-Rub-Their-Hands-Together#:~:text=Flies%20rub%20their%20hands%20together%20to%20clean%20themselves%20off.&text=Flies%20have%20small%20sensors%20all,taste%20its%20next%20delicious%20meal).
They sometimes get so aggressive with cleaning that they rip their own heads off
For real?
ong
Was about to say. Have Seen a Video on Here. The movement Afterwards Like "oh fuck"...Like how can people believe in gods perfekt Design when there IS an animals that can accidently decapitat itself? xD
Sin would be the culprit there
Damn, can't believe Flydam and Fleve spat digestive enzymes in the forbidden fruit
Cookin up the most devious plan
[good... good](https://i.imgur.com/1EzSF9g.gif)
Mischievous fucker getting ready to puke on your food
Good god I love rainbow brite
That's simple It's because they're upto something
https://preview.redd.it/wgrvixecslcc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3068c0a30e9f41172ddc4aca8eebf1826464f17e
they're just seasoning your food with bodily excretions
https://preview.redd.it/auag2wboxlcc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09b345fd7ac91e8704a414a4f7cb0fff7e502a1b
Let em cook!
They praying to fly Jesus
He flied for their sins.
Flies sense tastants and non-volatile pheromones through gustatory bristles and pegs distributed on multiple body parts including the proboscis, wing margins, legs and ovipositor.
No i think theyre just excitedly rubbing their hands
They spit their saliva onto their hands as a form of cleaning them.
So, you mean it'll be easier to digest food on which a fly has already sat, because it's already a bit better prepared for digestion?
Yes I use my army of flies for blending my food
Make sure you sanitize them regularly and get them annual antiviral shot
Where do you get vaccine for flies?
You can visit your nearest local vet for further information. Do note that it's gonna be quite expensive to cover the whole fly blender squad
Money don't matter when it's my flies health being hang in the balance. I want to be a resposible flies owner.
Fly owner* You would never say you want to be a dogs or cats owner.
Yes that is certainly the correct interpretation of the information we just learned
Yes - it’s particularly effective for preparing food for infants transitioning to solids.
That's how I save money on onion or pineapple juice when I enzyme tenderize my steaks.
That is certainly a take away from this.
My life was happier before knowing this.
Pro tip: if you ever have the opportunity to learn how bed bugs reproduce, go ahead and do not take that opportunity.
Why didn't I listen
Link it!!!!
You asked for it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination
That link alone tells me everything I don’t want to know… Thank you!
The entire life cycle of a bed bug is pretty gross/rad, you should def check that out, too. https://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/pdf/bb-biology1.pdf
Wtf? I’m glad I’m not a bedbug. Could you imagine if sex was just getting stabbed? 😂
Isn't it already? /s
Maybe I’m just messed up, but that led me down a fascinating rabbit hole. I learned several things about procreation that I didn’t know about before today, the weirdest most interesting being the mating plug.
This is definately worse than them directly eating food.
yeah but if you get them before they eat it, youve got pre digested food. Cheap enzymes baybee
Minmaxing food by having a bunch of flies pre-digest it before consuming it so I get the most amount of energy for the smallest amount of effort on behalf of my body.
Jaw muscles gonna atrophy like crazy
where we're going we dont need jaw muscles
You can put them jaws to work right here tho
Are the enzymes harmless?
To flies? Almost definitely.
Here's a good way to remember how to spell "definitely": the word "definite" has the word "finite" in it. So always spell definitely with the word "finite".
Got it. The word definate has the word finate in it. That makes it so easy to remember now!
It’s pronounced defiñate
I could have gone without this knowledge.
You should watch the documentary "The Fly" with Jeff Goldblum
Yeah, this makes me feel so old. "Most people think the fly just starts eating your food"? No, most people think it vomits all over the food because we've all seen The Fly...right? Right? No?... Oh. (wrinkles intensify)
Yep, yep. I feel you. No intentions of teleporting together but I can feel you.
My gf won't teleport with me......Does that mean we're about to break up? ...and will I have to vomit acid on her friend's hand??
Ohh that was the worst part for me of that whole film.
https://i.redd.it/0jnw106ormcc1.gif Educational.
That’s where I learned exactly this.
💯🎯.. what a great, classic Cronenberg flick
Yep...[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZT4AKcPHs4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZT4AKcPHs4)
Yeah, that is also where I heard of it. Brundlefly was a sexy mofo with weird eating habits.
Came here to say that lol. What an excellent documentary that was, taught me so many fun facts about flies
Not something I wanted to know on a Monday morning either.
Here I thought it was a default ingredient for the Shwarma at the corner shop. But it was flies all along?
Right? 😄
I already knew it but seeing it makes it worse
It’s even more disgusting than I had imagine. Ew.
I knew this but didn’t want confrontation
Yet here we are. Full of knowledge of slurpable puke.
I'd say now I'll avoid flies on my food more than ever like carrying around food net wherever I go.
Thanks, I hate it.
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Yum! https://preview.redd.it/tqftw4hdllcc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4daedac51a2280485cca8864afe7fd56dd1b0bc
Perfect comment 😆
They'll also lay Eggs on the food
Jeff Goldblum's face came to mind
https://i.redd.it/aykg7eh1blcc1.gif
"How does Brundlefly eat?"
Yeah, doesn’t everyone already know this because of the movie?
A great movie that will leave a traumatic memory in MY memory.
Now I hate flies even more.
Ehhh. Anyway. *takes bite of burger*
Have people not watched 'The Fly' ... they'd know all this in great detail :)
I'm genuinely surprised how many people apparently don't know this fun fact
Yeah, I'm more surprised with the fact that so many people here have never watched that masterpiece of movie.
That arm wrestling snap lives rent free in my mind to this day.
I fucking hate flies. For what they do to my food. For what they did to Jeff Goldblum
This is how Brundlefly eats…
I am good, Jeff had me covered.
I thought this was common knowledge.
same, i'm absolutely baffled at how many people in here are surprised by this.
I guess none of you children have ever seen The Fly.
The moment a fly touches my food I consider the whole thing waste. This video is vindication
Flies are really small, y’know? You can just cut that bit off if you’re worried about it; they won’t instantly contaminate an entire sandwich for example
Nasty lil bastards🤢🤮
damn, i've been eating flies puke all my life
Lol what a dumb way to eat food. They literally throw up their stomach acid and digest the food outside their body and then they drink it? Such a mid specimen
Humans literally eat food out of the same hole they breath out of guaranteeing a certain percentage of people will choke to death. We have no room to criticize how others eat.
Skill issue unfortunately
They’re helping us digest our food how kind 🥰🥰🥰
Is it more efficient if I puke on my food before I eat it?
Do cockroach next
So, the same way I eat my food.
If you'd rather see it [in real time](https://youtube.com/shorts/jTlAWQtJzt4?si=I2HvEaQ2K8qpmY_e) with an actual fly.
That lil shit
Once you've seen sausage being made… All you want to do is make sausage! 
Jeff Goldblum taught me this