I’ve been stung by bullet ants several times. Actually, once by five at the same time. I would liken it to being hit hard with a red-hot poker (or rather, what I imagine being hit with a red-hot poker would feel like). I agree the sting should carry the top rating.
IMHO, the scale rates fire ants and bullhorn acacia ants much too low. I would rate them as well above honeybees, although the sting fades pretty quickly.
Did you squeal? I hear you get honorary membership in some Indian tribes if you take it like a man.
Wow, 5 bullet ants at one time! I was in the jungle in Panama and our guide pointed out bullet ants to us. He was a built like a linebacker (6’3", 240 lbs) and said he got bitten once and was sick in bed for two days. Regular-sized me (6’0", 180 lbs) made sure to stay away from the big scary ants after that story. Luckily they’re up to an inch long so they’re not too hard to see.
The fire ant rating seemed a little low to me as well. They aren’t horrible individually but they do tend to swarm and I had to take a college roommate to the emergency room for fire ant induced blood poisoning in the middle of the night once because her leg swelled up like a balloon. I have been stung literally thousands of times by them because of where I grew up. There was no way around it but the bites tend to heal pretty quickly on most people. I have also been stung by yellow-jackets, honeybees, one scorpion, and three red wasps at the same time. The latter sent me to the hospital in respiratory shock. The scorpion hurt like hell and even though I was a small child, it didn’t cause any medical emergency.
Tell me there’s more than that. That footage is wholly inconclusive. Yes, it does look like Hunter had a gun, but that’s it. I can’t imagine that anyone would accept this footage as a definitive defense of the Hell’s Angels.
ETA: it does look like there are some wtiness accounts of Hunter threatening Jagger. Anyone with more info, please fight my ignorance.
Ouch!
Worst I ever had was stung by a white-faced hornet - on the nipple. While I was sleeping.
Not the best way to wake up - but at least I never did what my brother once did - put his foot through a ground-dwellng yellowjacket nest.
Watched a little too much Gilligan’s Island when you were growing up?
Holy shit, I remember that episode. 
According to the minority of researchers who don’t believe that the dance is used to tell other bees where to find nectar, the dance is merely an avoidance behavior as the bee tries to prevent other bees getting its nectar, and the correlation between the dance movement and distance/direction to the nectar source is a completely coincidental, non-purposeful side effect of physiological changes on the bee during flight. These researchers ignore the large amount of experimental evidence supporting the idea that the dance is a purposeful communication, including the experiments where bee mockups on the ends of robotic arms could be used to direct bees to specific locations through dance communication. This was all pretty well hashed out here.
“Humans only use 10 percent of their brains.”:mad:
Sure they do.
I just found out on Jeopardy! that the tryptophan in turkey doesn’t actually make you sleepy. It’s a gut full of carbs on Thanksgiving that does it.
There’s no Nobel Prize given for mathematics because Alfred’s wife had an affair with a mathematician. First heard that one from my freshman year high school math teacher. On retrospect I should have known better: that guy was an accomplished joker.
I did just learn while looking up that link that the best debunking of the legend is that Nobel never married.
“You should drink 8 glasses of water a day.”
OK, thanks. In the normal movie Gimme Shelter it just whizzes past incredibly fast, all you see is the scuffle - they don’t freeze frame it to show the gun.
I never got the hang of the game, I always enjoyed making them all do the little crouch and explode thing
Then you had the hang of the game. Rescuing them wasn’t nearly as satisfying as getting them to fly across the screen using a chain explosion.
Mozart didn’t die broke and forgotten, doomed to be buried in a paupers grave because he had no money to pay for a “decent” funeral.
My husband tells me that during the filming of a Disney documentary the directors thought it would be more dramatic if they chased the poor little guys off of the cliffs (as mentioned above.) For some reason that makes it all the more tragic.
There is, of course, no way to ‘‘waste time’’ playing Lemmings the game. The true time wasted is time not spent playing Lemmings. (I’ve beat every level of the original, including the Sunsoft levels! My greatest life accomplishment.)
Ooooh, this one really chaps my hide. I’ve heard it from smart people who should know better. And they used it this week in a promo for a ‘‘Fringe’’ episode too. I heard one theory as to how this rumor got started: some scientist somewhere remarked that about 90% of the brain is uncommitted cortex (not possessing a specific function, but rather flexible in its use.) A majority of the human brain is uncommitted cortex, far more than other animals, but we are most certainly using every bit of it.
I remember when this first happened it was lampooned by comedians and commentators and water cooler pundits, none of whom mentioned the fact that she had to have skin grafting and originally sued for $10,000- $8,000 of which was medical bills and $2,000 in legal fees- which McDonalds absolutely refused to pay. She deserved every penny she got for what she went through.
I freely admit that I fell for the commentary when it first came out because I hate frivolous lawsuits but when I read a lot more about it, this case won me over and the jury did the right thing. I would have voted the same way once I had all the information and the story behind it. McDonalds was completely in the wrong there. I am glad that she won a lot of money for it.