Randy flies reveal how booze affect inhibitions

[Larrytoucan]

Now............ how is human sexual behavior hard to study?--------that is a good question. and we study others and not know ourselves?

[Oneaphelion]

Is this where tax dollars are going towards?

As if people wern't transparent enough......let's see: why do people like going to bars? Hmmm not sure about that one, lets instead study flies to figure that one out.

[Shirley20Kwan]

@Oneaphelion It's just one of the paradigms that allow scientists to study the relationship between neurons and behaviour. We use fruitflies because we can made transgenic animals to dissect the contributions and interactions of different brain areas and neurons.

Apart from this beer goggle effect, the questions they're trying to address here (I think) include: how animals recognise member of the same/opposite sex, what neuron circuit is involves, etc.

[phili772000]

Wow A fruir Fly Conga line!!! Jeeezzzz

[acute90994]

"Generally hard to study" uh, no it isn't. Just go to any bar.

[Pilanus]

this just proves that if a gay guy wants to get with a straight guy, all he needs to do is give him some booze :p

most people already knew that, but sciene now provides proof :p

[mikew1133]

lol

[TechnikaSound]

LOL gay horny flies

[jasdecoy]

LOL

[ollowert]

Similar to prison environment??

[effinyeah]

lol human males aren't so different - males can also be seen in bars making courtship lines to attract females ;)

[sonofcold]

well put sum girls in the pit wat morons .... ide bang a guy too if i was drunk for 6 days in the same room with like 30 guys who wudent ?!?!

[somedude07]

hahhaa good point.

[kpride220]

hahaha! alcohol makes flies gay

[pohaha]

LOL! I thought Randy Flies was someone's name, duh! LOL!

[RexNunc]

Alcohol: Helping ugly people have sex since 1843!!

[nerdelicious5]

LOL!

[vaecrius]

Were there any female flies in there? I also wonder how the control group (same m/f ratio, same #, same size jar, no alcohol) did - if this was an all-male population, the behaviour could just be the flies getting jailhouse desperate.

[vaecrius]

That is, jailhouse desperate as opposed to genuinely ceasing to notice or care that they were trying to pick up other males.

Also, disregard the first question -_-

[percussionprincess]

I totally think you could be right. Lol.

[demonboi69]

Ok so your saying that alcohol is the reason for humans being gay? get real you stupid people! you can't assume something like tht. tht is like saying drinking water makes you straight! you people just need to learn to live with it and get the fuck over it or never leave your house again you duchbags!

[percussionprincess]

My gosh. Calm down.

[elisean182]

Is really not like that. what theyre trying to say is that a substance in ethanol reduces the inhibitions in certain species boosting the libido and making them hypersexual such case as humans. You really cant be that black and white about saying alcohol makes people gay or water makes them straight!! thats just simply ignorant hatred. and just to make sure, im not a homophobic my brother is gay and i love him and accept him for who he is.

[angelfire55]

wow...

this is gay

[Shiss36]

That is why they call it Liquid Horny

[Feefler]

Alcohol can make a human gay, or my friends are just newbies at drinking. All my friends and some other people that I know start to act a little "fruity" when they get really drunk, I just get really hungry, not for cock though klol

[Pacober1]

no, it makes them horny, the flies where gay because they could not find a female.

[ErikErikSonD]

We are not Fruit Flies.Here a hint..test humans...

[MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

But if this is true for humans too i wouldn't wanna be around to tape the results....

[percussionprincess]

NO KIDDING. Lol. Ew.

[MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

lol

[boojwahz]

so alcohol made the flies gay?

[halo2mnky]

So... beer... gay? Everything I know and love is dead!!!

And now this!!!

[MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

lol

[o7jimmy]

Cool video.

[sensitiv2007]

I think the female frootflys r also exposed to the alcohol.... or theyd hav flown off coz of the bad breath!!

(Im assuming frootflies fly..)

[Jmcenanly]

It is hard enough to distinguish between male and female fuit flies. With impaired vision, it is probably een harder for the flies.

[Icicle0424]

FLY CONGA!!!

da-da da-da da buzz!

[lasercat10cc]

Let's face it that's what men do, have a drink, go out on the town hoping to pull a girl. That's what the flys are doing! LOL

[Birdtrooper]

Beer goggles ? ...Or I guess alcohol just turns flies gay

[takineko]

........LAWL! I don't even have to read the other comments I know where this is going...

[superdau]

Although there are some people that come close, I would claim that a human brain doesn't work like the few neurons of a fruit fly. And that alcohol changes behaviour is nothing new.

[subach]

Well in this PC era there are few occasions where I can say this.

That's kinda gay.

[mephis]

Choo choooo!

[elvenkratos]

so...the flies turned gay? lol

[PuddyKatz]

i always thought there was only a few beers difference between straight and gay guys

[bitRAKE]

It's called pulling the train - not chain, lol.

[dafttool]

It wouldn't be the first "courtship chain" being blamed on alcohol.

[narcoleptus]

Just think of the benefits and spin offs of this research!!!

[DamienZshadow]

yea, like further understanding the affects of alcohol on behavior to determine whether or not someone should be held completely accountable for a crime they commit? Yea! I think that's a pretty big benefit. How about coming up with an anxiety drug that implements a more controlled version of this affect on people suffering from certain mental illnesses? Oh the list goes on! would you like to contribute?

[narcoleptus]

Can't help being sarcastic! I've got a sarcasm gene in my DNA!

The more we understand how alcohol induces 'dodgy' behaviour the better! but don't get carried away! this vid is up here because it has a 'novel' hook ie alcohol makes flies gay!

Personally I would prefer longer, more 'in depth' video essays, these are just titbits!

Okay you can slaughter me now!

[DamienZshadow]

'indept video essays'? ...yea, I'd expect to see one of those in a video with a duration of 51 seconds [/sarcasm]

seriously though, since brief summaries offend you so much, click on the god damn link in the video description.

[rnistuk]

Courtship chains! Damn. I'll have to try that.

[CohanDigitmatta]

conga lines?

haha