Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Flies with brothers make gentler lovers
Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Flies who play the mating game while also living with their brothers are gentler to females during sex and tend to hassle them less, according a study by British scientists.

The study found that unrelated male flies compete more fiercely for female attention than related flies, pestering them more often for sex and leaving them little time to sleep or eat.

"Brothers don't need to compete so much with each other for female attention since their genes will get passed on if their sibling mates successfully anyway," said Dr Tommaso Pizzari of Oxford University's zoology department, who led the study.

"Their more relaxed attitude to mating results in fewer fights and they also harm the females less as their courting is not so aggressive."

The scientists also found that female mates of competing unrelated flies tend to have shorter reproductive lives and produce fewer offspring when males constantly harass them.

According to the research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, fly courtship is complex and involves a kind of foreplay of singing and genital licking.

"Repeated harassment of this sort may physically damage females as well as leaving them less time to get the food and rest they require for a healthy life," Pizzari said.

(Reporting by Kate Kelland, editing by Gareth Jones)

I just thought you all should know.

[RKDinOKC]

Fly courtship sounds an awfully lot like the band KISS.

[HHI944]

Well, should have the estimate on the rover today...

[GH85Carrera]

So you estimate you will get your estimate.

[Porsche-poor]

yawn! at least today I get a lunch break.

Met a guy from Oklahoma last night. He moved out here to make music.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

So you estimate you will get your estimate.

yup, they told me by end of business today. Everytime I look at the truck I something else. There's actually some sheet metal damage on the right side, right at the edge of where some trim goes....not horrible aesthetically, but it'd be god awful to try to repair with all the bends in the area and it's crinkled in one spot pretty bad...

[RKDinOKC]

$4263.29, just a rough guestimate.

[GH85Carrera]

No, a hundred bucks would be a ROUGH estimate.

[HHI944]

Somewhere between the two is my guess. The bumper and all related bits is 1k in parts

[RKDinOKC]

So...If you can get the parts for $1K, then parts would be billed by the body shop as $1782.63 including tax, with 15.7 hours labor at $135/hr or $2,119.50, totaling $3902.13. Again just a rough guesstimate.

[Rick V]

Evening Y'all
I am so tired of this global warming.

[HHI944]

Shop Estimate was $2790

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Evening Y'all
I am so tired of this global warming.

Have ya been shoveling all that global warm stuff?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by HHI944

Shop Estimate was $2790

What is the vehicle worth? Richard did not pay anything close to that for his.

[Rick V]

Not as bad as I was thinking Joe.
Glen we didn't get enough to shovel but I am tired of being cold

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Glen we didn't get enough to shovel but I am tired of being cold

That's all I could think of when walking to / from the office this week. Meanwhile, it's in the 70s at my house (not my condo ).

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

What is the vehicle worth? Richard did not pay anything close to that for his.

Richard got a good deal and his is significantly older. The Disco is worth around $5500

[Outback Porsche]

I was searching for 'maps of Tasmania' on the interwebs for our impending trip in three weeks.

I found this instead, bwahahahahahaha!



It reminded me of another Aussie expression to learn ya - 'Show us your map of Tassie'

[slodave]

Day one if NAMM done. What fun!

[HHI944]

I want to be an 'Environmental Preservation Demolition Expert' when I grow up.....