Are there no deadly scorpions?
Oh yes, but they're in the minority. Even with them, deaths from scorpion stings are generally limited to the young, the old, the infirm and the allergic.
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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.
billytea - Feb 09, 2009 8:05:45 pm PST #5869 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.
Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 8:06:49 pm PST #5870 of 30000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
you can drink rattlesnake venom enough to kill ten people if betten and suffer no ill effects.
Yeah, seriously. Who tested this?
Scrappy - Feb 09, 2009 8:07:04 pm PST #5871 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I got stung by a bee while coaching a soccer game once. I kept on with the game which impressed my 7th-grade girls so much that they wrote a poem about it. Don't remember the poem, but it was sweet.
Scorpions OTOH, scare the bejeezus outta me.
Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 8:08:43 pm PST #5872 of 30000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I associate scorpions with The Rock. And I never even saw that movie.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 8:11:22 pm PST #5873 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, seriously. Who tested this?
It was on Spike TV. Might not have been the most rigourous scientific method, but you know a couple dudes tried it.
Hil R. - Feb 09, 2009 8:13:01 pm PST #5874 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I associate scorpions with The Rock. And I never even saw that movie.
I saw that movie. You didn't miss much.
billytea - Feb 09, 2009 8:14:03 pm PST #5875 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.
This is fantastic. Wikipedia notes that Schmidt, of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, also gave descriptions of various stings. For instance:
Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity.
Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
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Laga - Feb 09, 2009 8:18:36 pm PST #5876 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
See, someone told me they're called sweat bees because they don't sting, they only make you sweat. I guess I'm glad the bees never disabused me of that notion. Pretty much every other type of insect in the midwest got ahold of me at some point in the 70's or 80's.
Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 8:21:00 pm PST #5877 of 30000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
It was on Spike TV. Might not have been the most rigourous scientific method, but you know a couple dudes tried it.
Was this "1000 Ways to Die"? Or that horrific show "Manswers"?
That... is something, billytea. I never truly imagined how a connoisseur of pain would think, and I now I don't have to. Thanks for that.
DavidS - Feb 09, 2009 8:23:25 pm PST #5878 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
Except on my ring finger. But yeah.
Growing up in Florida I had many red ant bites (burn, hurt, itch), chiggers (itch, burn), horseflies (multiple times - always at the pool. Painful, but not as bad as a bee sting), mosquitoes in the hundreds, carpenter ants (ouch!) I saw scorpions but never got stung by one.