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The sig's coming along nicely, Johnny!
. . . but what's up with the spider?
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The sig's coming along nicely, Johnny!
. . . but what's up with the spider?
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lol, thanks.... I get a bit carried away when bored and sitting in front of the computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
As for the spider, Tanegashima brought up the fact that there are heaps of nasty creepy crawlies over here in this neck of the woods that would like to bite and sting you, so I thought that would be a handy addition to the strike force... a lot of the creatures strike fear into people...:D
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How about a swarm of massive, flesh-eating fire ants - you got those over there, right?
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Oz takes the bulk of them.... they are very nasty. However bull ants are worse, they can see you from a distance of a meter and come after you. The little bastards grow over 40mm/1.5inches and their sting can induce anaphylactic shock. They bite really hard!Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ead_detail.jpg
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Have you heard of that breed of ant (African, I think) called the "Bullet Ant?"
They are so named because that is how their sting allegedly feels. I guess they are considered almost a biological hazard and the entire species has been rounded up and kept under lock & key.
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Those suckers are the worst of all ants, you stay in intense pain for a good 24 hours, and yea they say it`s like being shot with a bullet!
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In the southern American states we have fire ants: little tiny bastards that are aggressive as hell! Their mounds pop up overnight in people's lawns, and it's a real treat to run one over with the lawnmower while wearing sandles.
Growing up in Texas, I regard them more as a nuisance than anything else, but in California they are regarded as a deadly plague rapidly infecting the entire country. The sensationalism is quite amusing.
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lol, now that sounds like a barrel of laughs...
When ever we visit Dads family South of Sydney we have to wear fully enclosed shoes if we play around out in their back yard, they have lovely trapdoor spiders everywhere and redbacks.
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Trapdoor spiders? Those guys have always fascinated me, but are they dangerous to humans? What do they do? I'd always figured they'd be like ant lion or tiger beetle larvae - they'd hide real good if they felt anything big come along.
And what are "redbacks?"
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.
*EVERYTHING* in Australia is poisonous and out to kill you, even the things critters brought over from Europe have deadly venom.
I'm all for having a cybernetic enhanced army of Jack Jumper Ants at our disposal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a.pilosula.jpg
This with a titanium infused exoskeleton and red terminator eyes.
Wearing Uggs? Meet my friends!
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Is this awesome or creepy? No need to decide!
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Wow... thats creepy as hell! I LOVE Sci-Fi, especially when it's real ;)!
Regarding the Bullet Ant, you know that there's a rite of passage where adolescents in order to "become a man" stick their hands in gloves filled with them?:
You'll never complain about a paper cut after that any more.
But the greatest asses of the Ant Kingdom are gonna be the Soldier Ants:
http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleim...g/armyant1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Ant
Ants taking over and enslaving entire Colonies of other ants! Ants are real bastards!
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Insects in general have always fascinated me. When I was in elementary school through junior high, I actually had a "zoo" of creepy crawlies in my room (in jars and aquariums, of course).
Phantar, have you heard about that ritual anywhere else other than in that video? I wanna see some close-ups of what their hands look like after that!
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Sadly, no, bud I DID find an article by a Sunday Times reporter who dared to undergo said manhood ritual once:
Here's said article in its entirety.Quote:
[...]If there’d been a machete to hand, I’d have chopped off my arms to escape the pain. The other boys were in a similar state, but, interestingly, my host, who had been through the ritual before, seemed far more in control.
It took three hours for the pain to ease a little, and shortly after that I was back playing footie with the kids — though with a hand clasped in each armpit and a pause every few minutes to scream a bit. Twelve hours later, my hands were swollen up like inflated washing-up gloves. If I pressed a thumb into them, it took two minutes for the impression to disappear from the fluid-swollen flesh. [...]
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Originally Posted by MrMatthews
Interesting.
What kills me about nature shows that focus on insects are the added "munching" sounds when bugs eat. :lol: