All Spiderman2 left me with was a great desire to never see Alfred Molina (is that right?) shirtless.

I seem to have two related superpowers in relation to insects - one useless/harmful one mildly_useful/don't_count_on_it.

I seem to attract mosquitos better than anyone I've ever known. If I go out with friends the bity bugs will ignore everyone else to dive bomb me. (Actually I guess that is useful - just not to me.)

The useful one: bees, wasps, hornets red ants and so forth - the insects with major stings seem to leave me alone. I have never been stung. When I was three there was a field filled with bees near our house. Knowing no better I would run into it, and chase to bees to watch all the pretty patterns they made - until my parents caught me and nearly had a heart attack and explained to me why this was a Very Bad Thing. At 20 I was also on a camping trip where six of us stumbled on a hornets nest. I was the slowest runner of the bunch and still the only one the did not get stung. In general I've had my share of this type of encounter and gotten away scott free. I would never bet on this; I'm pretty sure if I went deliberately provoking sting insects I would regret it sooner rather than later - but in the meantime I can boast of never having been bee/wasp/hornet/ant stung or spider bitten.

Of course the latter is one reason I don't have spider strength...

It's so bad that we can't stop watching it.

I liked Spiderman 2 better than the first one, but I found some huge flaws in it that stand apart from my lack of affection for the character -- just some admission of the fact that the issues that bother him at the start of the movie are mostly unresolved at the end. I thought that dissatisfying.

It's painfully difficult for me to watch. I liked the first one so much more.

What did you like about the second one?

My worst insect experience involved falling off my bike and landing with my ankle in a fire ant bed. I don't think we even tried to count the individual stings, but it swelled up like a bad sprain.

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What did you like about the second one?

I hated the first one a lot, and that's why I liked the second one better. It's pretty faint praise, and I can't remember the details of the first to be able to explain how the second failed me less.

Kat, I can't belive you're hating Spider-Man 2 - I thought it was much better than the first one, and I liked the first one fine.

Molina is a much better, more complex and interesting villain. And I thought Peter Parker's life was grounded in reality so that you understood the sacrifices he made to do the right thing. I think it's the best comic book movie that's been made.

I kept getting stung repeatedly one year on vacation when I was about 12. Oddly, it only happened when I wore one particular shirt.

Bees will attack a "black bag", which is, appropriately enough, a bag made of black cloth and stuffed with sand or rice or something fairly weighty, that's hung near their hive. They will also attack, somewhat less fiercely, a white bag. Behaviorists speculate that black and white are colors of bee colonies main predators, thus the colors are hardwired into the tiny bee brain as "enemy! attack!" So if your shirt was black or white Fred, this may be why you got stung while wearing it.

Also, wasps and yellowjackets, both members of the hornet family, are attracted to floral prints, because they prey on the insects that eat leaves and drink the nectar.

I have a severe localized allergy to stings, and have done much research to figure out what not to do to keep from getting stung. The next one could cause an anaphylactic reaction...or not. No way of knowing, the doctor said, and I'd really just as soon not find out.