Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.

'Bushwhacked'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


P.M. Marc - Feb 09, 2009 7:35:54 pm PST #5858 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I attempted to get leeches to bite me, but they weren't the people sucking kind. I was sad.

I've been stung by bees, bitten by fleas, and also by mosquitoes. And probably other things I don't want to think about.


billytea - Feb 09, 2009 7:43:57 pm PST #5859 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I have never been stung by a wasp, about which I remain happy. Nor have I ever been swooped by a magpie, about which I am inordinately proud.


Laga - Feb 09, 2009 7:45:50 pm PST #5860 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I've been hornswaggled by a killdeer.


§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 7:45:59 pm PST #5861 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Everybody in the South, everybody in the Caribbean. All of Mexico and South America. Africa. India. Just to start. Not getting bitten in those places would be the rarity.

I used to think scorpions killed, and I woke up one night to find my father had just been attacked by one in the bathroom and we got sent back to bed. I was sure I'd wake up to a dead father. Not a good night.

So your mosquito odds are good, but watch the diseases around where you're hanging.

I wonder if bee sting is a venom and not a poison. Venoms have to go right into the bloodstream--you can drink rattlesnake venom enough to kill ten people if betten and suffer no ill effects.


§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 7:49:05 pm PST #5862 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The total worst was the horseflies in lake area Quebec. Big beasties and you feel the bite. I mostly don't feel getten bitten by mosquitos. Which is good, because most of the antimosquito stuff gives me a migraine. Oh, and then there are sandflies. Tricksy puppies.


msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:49:35 pm PST #5863 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

We stayed by a lake in Eth for a night or two and I was scared of mosquitos there, but we stayed unbitten. We did get a flea later on the trip at a different locale and that was no fun.

shirft, I too had a tick bite, of which my brother loves to remind.


megan walker - Feb 09, 2009 7:49:48 pm PST #5864 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

A moose bit my sister once.


msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:50:12 pm PST #5865 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ooohhhhh CHIGGERS. ugh.


Burrell - Feb 09, 2009 7:54:48 pm PST #5866 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I used to think scorpion bites killed too.

I suspect we have a brown recluse living in a small hole in one of our back windows. It freaks me out, but so far as long as we leave it's window closed and leave it alone, it leaves us alone. But that venom is nasty.

you can drink rattlesnake venom enough to kill ten people if betten and suffer no ill effects.

::shudder::


Laga - Feb 09, 2009 7:57:49 pm PST #5867 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Are there no deadly scorpions?