Oh the fruit flies

Ok, this has nothing to do with anything this blog is about, but neither do half the posts I write.

"Across a number of different kinds of pain, genes seem to be at least half the driver of how much pain you experience," they say. You know how they developed this idea that pain is genetic? Fruit flies. What did they do, pull their wings off? Sometimes researchers disgust me. It has to be a hard job, too. I can't imagine testing pain on animals to see if they feel it.

I have a really high pain tolerance. My tattooist says that your pain tolerance goes down as you get older, according to his experience being tattooed. I hope that's not the case.