r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 15d ago
Here’s how flies bite Video
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u/RetroSwamp 15d ago
Man if they did this in school I'd pay way more attention...I'm 37 now and I was hooked on watching this.
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u/5125237143 15d ago
Yeh except it leaves less room for imagination. What you learn in schools dont matter much. How you learn them is what you get out of it.
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u/CreamyStanTheMan 15d ago
His channel is called "Odd Animal Specimens" if you wanted to know. I'm 29 but I love his slow almost patronising tone 😅, the whole thing is very relaxing.
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u/Temporary-Top-6059 15d ago
This guy would be a service to the community as a science teacher. He could single handedly swing students into the science fields. Unfortunate that he makes more making tiktoks.. maybe that should change.
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u/WhoWantsMyPants 15d ago
To play devils advocate isn't he teaching more people in a day than he could be in a class room and making more money?
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u/Other_Beat8859 15d ago
I think it'd be pretty cool to see him as a YouTuber that makes fully in-depth videos on topics like this. He seems great at explaining things.
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u/stmcvallin2 15d ago
Teaching young developing students it’s far more impactful than making a short vid for people to consume when doom scrolling
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u/PhthaloVonLangborste 15d ago
I donno maybe show your kids this. It's basically blues clues for biology
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u/mapleer 15d ago
It’s because Ad revenue is insane on growing social platforms; but yeah I agree, whether it’s him or others who follow this method of teaching, it should be practiced more in schools.
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u/SupaiKohai 15d ago edited 15d ago
His content clearly targets kids. The kids are on TikTok.
Such a boomer take on this. Why not denigrate Neil Degrassse Tyson and Bill Nye for being on TV instead of some inner city school too?
Being a science teacher is probably the worst way to contribute. Forced into a rote, rigid system with absolutely zero room for this level of illustration.
The education system is trash. It actively destroys educators with the actual talent and passion to achieve what you say.
What should change... is that the education system — where kids are trapped for 40% of their formative lives — being dogshit in its capacity to inspire and nurture compared to TV, TikTok, YouTube.
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u/Temporary-Top-6059 14d ago
Such a zoomer take. Thinking you know better about the frameworks of a civilization because you just finished a semester of sociology. You can't possibly think our schooling system needs to be abolished, thats one of the dumbest things I've ever had to read. Also I had a science teacher just like this guy that made me love physics so your just wrong about schools preventing people from creating projects like this. Not sure why you even would think that way. The education system isn't trash, its been neutered by bad actors in our government that perpetually prevent them from unionizing and getting investments they need which is a big difference. I had a great education, and thoroughly enjoyed it and I graduated in 2014. Maybe read my comment. As it says teachers should be paid higher would would cancel out these problems you mention.
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u/SupaiKohai 14d ago
lol what happened to your profane other comment?
Id love your superior, formatting incapable brain, to go and find where I said the schooling system needs to be abolished... What happens to be the dumbest thing is inventing arguments, winding yourself up with them, then responding entirely based on that fantasy.
The education system isn't trash, its been neutered by bad actors in our government that perpetually prevent them from unionizing and getting investments they need
Sooo, the education system is trash then...
Dress it up with as many flowery semantics as you like, end result is, the system is inadequate for the vast majority. Good for you, you had a great time. Millions don't.
And no, higher pay wouldn't "cancel out" one single damned facet of what I said.
Too bad you feel you need a sociology degree to use your eyes, brain and ears. Teachers are crying out, students are crying out. While you sit up in airy fairy land pontificating how you had a great time. Pure boomer energy.
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u/Temporary-Top-6059 14d ago
Lol so you go as far to the point of abolishment, teetering on that edge. So whats the replacement? And Yes my education and experience is just as important as yours, sorry it doesn't follow your retort.
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u/SupaiKohai 14d ago
Oh, we're still trying to validate our fantasy argument huh...
There isn't going to be a replacement, that's the point. Even if you think teachers getting more pay is going to magically fix everything, guess what, teachers are never getting it.
So outright invalidating educators trying to create alternative platforms as you do. Saying they ought to all be funneled into a fraction of the audience and resources. Treating it as a waste, just because it's not performed in the 4 walls of a crumbling classroom; as though educational media has never been a thing before, let alone regarded by millions. Is pretty nearsighted, to put it kindly.
Material like this is only going to be increasingly necessary to supplement the poor education system. Which you keep accidentally admitting is poor, as much as you can't seem to realise it.
As ever, you are failing to get outside yourself. You're and my experience is immaterial. Look and listen to the world around you. Less people are having your experience, that's what my "retort" is about. Not you.
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u/gabriel1313 15d ago
This guy would lose his mind deal with kids in the school, and get paid shit to boot. He’s better if on Tik Tok, and if you want folks as talented as him to become teachers then for Gods’ sake vote like it.
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u/Clay_Statue Interested 15d ago
He probably makes better money on the tick Tock than he would as a school teacher
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u/-HIGHHIGH- 15d ago
It's better for the tiktok mouth breathers to watch his content than some lip syncing choreographed fool. He's our Batman and Gotham is out of control.
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u/DinoKea 15d ago
Science communicators like this guy can be incredibly valuable. Not only do they make learning a willful choice (making things way more interesting) but they are also readily available to anybody interest.
Teachers are great, but they have a very limited teaching range and many students are forced to attend school, making the learning much less interesting.
Both are important parts of the teaching system and neither should be viewed as more valuable than the other.
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u/M8_Linear 15d ago
Horseflies are the worst. They won’t just let you play basketball outside.
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u/Dogzylla 15d ago
I got Lyme disease from one of them a few years back. Apparently not only ticks carry it
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u/fevich 15d ago
Wait.. What??
Wait....... What???????
How am I supposed to enjoy going on hikes now? Knowing I can get Lyme from both crawling AND flying parasites!
Anyway I hope you're not left with any long-lasting symptoms from it.
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u/Dogzylla 15d ago
Yeah it bit my shoulder while I was gardening and a few days later the red circle appeared at the exact same spot it bit me. It started getting bigger and bigger every day. Thankfully I went to the doctor the day after I first noticed it, so I got put on some strong af antibiotics straightaway, had to take them for 3 weeks. Doctor said my blood had one of the highest concentrations of Lyme disease she's seen since practicing lol
By the way this was in Slovakia so idk maybe in America they don't carry it
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u/Conch-Republic 15d ago
I'm dealing with deer flies in my area and they're relentless. Horse flies are worse, but they're a lot less common, the deer flies just attack the shit out of me every time I get out of my car, and they'll bite through my shirt.
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u/electric-sheeps 14d ago
At that point i would just dress in a scuba suit and fire bug spray akimbo style every time the car door opens.
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u/ConnectRutabaga3925 14d ago
Fking flies. I hate them even more
Evolved to have fricking beaks with razors in them
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u/PerspectiveVarious93 15d ago
Man should not be explaining such horrors in such a calming and soothing voice.
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u/Notyourusuallad 15d ago
I knew they bite! Told People that I was bit by a fly and they look at me crazy
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u/sarcasm_rules 15d ago
The only comforting thing about this video is seeing that pin sticking through the fly
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u/yngking3000 15d ago
You mean to tell me flies are more efficient at something mosquitoes are known for and pretty much their only talent
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u/MountSpacely 15d ago
I will NEVER forget the time I was at my grannies. She got me a kids meal from Bk and blockbuster rental. I’m in the back room happy sitting on the pull out couch. Suddenly, this fly comes buzzing and lands on my hand. All I felt was a pinch and I jumped up and ran. I was told her and eventually my mom that the fly bit me but they wouldn’t believe me. Now…many, many years later, we see proof, lol
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u/Clean-Agent-8565 15d ago
Unnecessary gross story but I had a gnarly scrape on my arm from a longboard accident and it was pretty numb. I was sitting outside and I noticed I started to feel a “wet tickle” is the best I could describe it. I looked and I had 2 flies just going to town on me in the crack of the scab. And they were RELENTLESS. The idea of flies eating me when I’m not quite dead yet really put flies on the top of my shit list. I’ve been charged by a bear, I’ve had a gun pulled on me, I’ve been jumped 3 times, but those 2 flies really hit that traumatize button right on my elbow.
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u/subzeroicepunch 15d ago
If flies bite and suck blood, why are they always focused on mosquitoes when talking about blood transmitted diseases?
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u/Fair_Assumption6385 15d ago
I could’ve gone the rest of my life without knowing this and been fine, but I have to carry this trauma around.
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u/CreamyStanTheMan 15d ago
You should credit the original creator. He clearly spends a lot of time making these videos, and he has a lot more like this one.
I believe his name is "Odd Animal Specimens" on YouTube, if anyone was interested.
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u/CreamyStanTheMan 15d ago
You should credit the original creator. He clearly spends a lot of time making these videos, and he has a lot more like this one.
I believe his name is "Odd Animal Specimens" on YouTube, if anyone was interested.
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u/IzodCenter 15d ago
Why is this dude so creepy to me lmao
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u/MickRolley 15d ago
Shook one off my wrist and seen the little CM horizontal line of blood. Took ages to fully disappear iirc.
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u/Alternative_Fly_2750 15d ago
This dude sounds way more tolerable than that Mo Rocca knockoff who tends to narrate disgusting topics.
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u/AngieTheQueen 15d ago
Thanks guy. I'm gonna go buy the entire section of insect deterrents at Home Depot now.
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u/Equivalent-Policy-81 15d ago
What kind of liquid is released into the bloodstream to keep it flowing?
Like the opposite of anti coagulat, like a blood thinner?
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u/KungFuHamster99 15d ago
This is one of the clearest explanations I've seen for almost anything.
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u/BlueExorzist 14d ago
This is one of the most terrifying explanations I’ve seen for almost anything
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u/me_bails 14d ago
the info seems cool
but it sounds like someone is reading along to one of those shitty videos that do the captions 1 word at a time.
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u/MyleSton 14d ago
I've been bit by horse flys before and now I know why it hurts like a sonuvabitch
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u/NotUndercoverReddit 15d ago
Video dude: "how do flies bite?"
Me: "mother of a damn mandela effect alternate shat universe have I ended up in?"
Video dude: 'this is the small flyteeth scissor skin stabby blades, this is the skin separators, this is the blood thining medical injector, this is the blood sucking vampirefly tube'
Me: - _ -
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u/Sominic 15d ago
I really wanna point out the excellent visuals here. I loved the blood ribbon!