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Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

benpaco — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:09:19 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 02/21/2015 01:09

meccalecca wrote:

Dude nah. That's a Lion's mane jellyfish, those things are fine. First and foremost, they get way bigger (EDIT: for full disclosure, this picture uses some tricks to make it look way larger, but they can get much larger than your picture shows, the largest being 7.5 feet wide and 120 feet long):

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But their stings aren't that bad. It'd take swimming directly through the stingers of a larger specimen to actually cause you any real risk of death. It should hurt about as bad as being harshly purple nurpled (that's how my marine bio teacher explained it at least) but should go away after not too terribly long and just be a little red. You scared of jelly stings? Be afraid of these 3 (from least problems to probably most):

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Portugese man-o-war. Y'all probably know these guys already. Not just one organism trying to kill you, but a whole colony doing their best. They're brutal, one of my closest friends has been stung by a dead one and it's still intense. In rare cases it can kill you from not even too bad a sting, but you'll probably be OK as long as the venom doesn't get to your lymph nodes, in which case if you're swimming, you're screwed.

Glaucus atlanticus. Speaking of tiny and hard to see, just look at how small this beautiful critter is compared to the idiot holding him (I say idiot, but that's for dramatic effect - I think this guy is a scientist who knows what he's doing). Why, you may say, this isn't a jellyfish at all! You're correct, but it has a jellyfish sting. "Jellyfish". It's technically man-o-war. See, these little floating slugs eat man-o-wars for breakfast, literally. They harvest the stingers and keep the toxins in them, which means if you get concentrated man-o-war venom if you have the misfortune of picking one of these buggers up.

Irukandji. These guys are usually known as box jellies, but this is more specific. They're really hard to see (see the picture, they're tiny). You don't even notice the sting at first, it's very slight, been compared to a mosquito bite. On top of that, the sting causes "Irukandji syndrome", which means you can expect "severe headache, backache, muscle pains, chest and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, sweating, anxiety, hypertension, tachycardia and pulmonary edema." Also cramping. Lots of cramping, Fun if trying to swim into shore. Perhaps most fun is doom. Doom. You read that. Somehow, the toxins (which haven't even been properly fully identified yet) impact your brain to think that doom is imminent. Your demise feels so imminent, in fact, that even once on painkillers, even once you're not in much pain, patients beg their doctors to kill them before the doom closes in.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:25:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/20/2015 21:25

1. Eric Burdon

2. Chas Chandler

3. Alan Price

4. John Steel

5. Hilton Valentine

(but honorable mention for Danny McCulloch)

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

HazeyTwilight — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:58:03 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 02/20/2015 19:58

denmarkman wrote:

I can't say I live in active fear of animals killing me, but I'll tell you what I'm not a big fan of wasps.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

denmarkman — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:26:52 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 02/20/2015 19:26

I can't say I live in active fear of animals killing me, but I'll tell you what I'm not a big fan of wasps.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:26:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/20/2015 19:26

craola wrote:

I would hate to be killed by a house cat

After seeing this, I had hoped someone got my Hot Rod joke.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Patman360 — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:40:55 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 02/20/2015 17:40

Norman Bates wrote:

Seriously, have you ever considered stand-up comedy as a means to earn a living?

This, I would gladly go to a comedy club to see Kiki perform.

But yeah, the kraken and badgers.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

craola — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:33:06 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 02/20/2015 17:33

I would hate to be killed by a house cat, gecko, house fly, salmon or a woodpecker.

It has little to do with the pain/fear/etc. and more to do with the embarrassing obit that follows.

"craola died Saturday afternoon after a vicious attack by the common house fly...."

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Muslim-Bigfoot — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:23:30 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 02/20/2015 17:23

I'm more scared of Scorpions than snakes. Once saw a big one and was shaking for half an hour. Have seen snakes many times and wasn't that much scared. They just don't look scary to me. Tarantulas on the other hand . . . shudder.

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Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

meccalecca — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:05:45 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 02/20/2015 17:05

RepoMan wrote:

They're really not that dangerous/lethal iirc. Kind of like a wasp is all. Now, rattlesnakes on the other hand...

Yeah. It's not really a rational fear.

Snakes in general freak me out. I think any animal without legs or with too many legs is a problem. I've not had a run in with a rattlesnake out here yet, but when I was out here a couple years ago, we were warned by another hiker that there was one on our trail. Not the type of thing you want to hear when you're exhausted and close to the summit.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:59:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/20/2015 16:59

meccalecca wrote:

I think they're relatively common where I just moved to. Really hoping they don't find a way into my apartment.

They're really not that dangerous/lethal iirc. Kind of like a wasp is all. Now, rattlesnakes on the other hand...

edit:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74110.html

Good, informative read with this major takeaway => You now have an excuse to get those black lights you always wanted. 🤣

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

meccalecca — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:55:26 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 02/20/2015 16:55

Muslim-Bigfoot wrote:

Scorpions man; I'm just freaked out by them.

I think they're relatively common where I just moved to. Really hoping they don't find a way into my apartment.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Muslim-Bigfoot — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:50:36 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 02/20/2015 16:50

Scorpions man; I'm just freaked out by them. Also I always say that if I saw a crocodile I'd just lose my ability to move and it'd catch me.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

meccalecca — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:28:33 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 02/20/2015 16:28

If it counts, then easily flesh eating bacteria wins.

I think visuals are necessary for the full effect

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Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:52:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/20/2015 15:52

A dog is probably at the top of my list, they're seriously scary when they want to be, and it'd probably take them longer to kill you than a bear or a lion.

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

pa — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:58:51 GMT

Author: pa

Posted: 02/20/2015 13:58

I really hope to not be devoured by a shark while surfing...

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:28:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/20/2015 11:28

Anyways I donno a tarantula or something, something where a death is a slow, agonizing process, like being paraylzed on a mountaintop and a grizzly is slowly shredding you for food, something like that I donno.

And I thought there would be at least one bestality/sexual euphenism joke by now. I guess no one's groping the growler today

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:14:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/20/2015 11:14

Norman Bates wrote:

hahaha

Seriously, have you ever considered stand-up comedy as a means to earn a living?

this. Thanks, Kiki!!! I don't know how you do it, but I like it. A lot!

#cultofkiki

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Norman Bates — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:38:54 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/20/2015 08:38

Kiki wrote:

It's likely a lone owl gone vigilante.

hahaha

Seriously, have you ever considered stand-up comedy as a means to earn a living?

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Norman Bates — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:33:09 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/20/2015 08:33

Kiki wrote:

2. Sharks - Sure they don't have legs and arms but when you meet them it is more than likely going to be in the water

🤣

And pretty much the whole post.

#cultofkiki

Re: The 5 animals you are most scared of being killed by

Romanelli — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:42:47 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 02/20/2015 04:42

If I died at the hands of an American Fuzzy Lop rabbit, my life would have been lived in vain.