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Wasps! Why are people so freakin' afraid?

  • 27-08-2015 04:17PM
    #1
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭degsie


    What's the deal here? Why are ppl so freaked out by wasps? Don't get it.

    Story in the papers today about a boy getting knocked down while running away from an 'angry' wasp. He had a sandwich in his hands which apparently angered the wasp.


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  • #2
    Luke92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Luke92


    Hurt when they sting.


  • #3
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Because they're cnuts!


  • #4
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Their stings tend to....eh....sting.
    Some people react badly to wasp stings.


  • #5
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,318 ✭✭✭✭briany


    What, the alternative option is to stand there and let them land on us and maybe sting us?


  • #6
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,879 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    Probably because they sting you? Multiple times?! And they're just little feckers.


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  • #7
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,916 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Never been stung by wasp or bee in my life, will let you know if it happens


  • #8
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,075 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    They're nasty little fcukers

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #9
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    My sister is allergic to them


  • #10
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,297 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Was it the wasps sambo?


  • #11
    Polo_Mint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭Polo_Mint


    Because wasps dont give a fuck. They dont have a conscience. Bastards


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  • #12
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,297 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Never been stung by wasp or bee in my life, will let you know if it happens



    On standby.


  • #13
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    Bees stings get stuck in you when they sting you, and end up pulling their own organs out when they pull away.

    Wasps know they can sting and fly off intact so they are extra evil.


  • #14
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Because theyre grumpy bastards with arse daggers. Thats a good enough reason


  • #15
    kellso81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭kellso81


    One time me and my girl were out in the woods, when my girl lost her mood ring, i went looking for it and stepped on a wasp's nest. I got stung loads and died and my girl cried. That's why me and my girl don't like them


  • #16
    OneOfThem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭OneOfThem


    Can we have a moments silence for our friend degsie. I think we all know what's gone on here. The wasps have taken him hostage and forced him to make that post. Trying to lull us unto a false sense of security. Dead now, he is. They don't leave living witnesses.


  • #17
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    They bring major pain when they sting. I always have a fear one is going to be under my bed and fly out and sting me at night. This happened me once on holiday and I'm paranoid about it since.


  • #18
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade




  • #19
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Had to laugh at mate of mine who used to swear they were harmless,he used to let them crawl all over his hands like he was some kind of wasp whisperer.....until he got stung one day


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    degsie wrote: »
    What's the deal here? Why are ppl so freaked out by wasps? Don't get it.

    For a lot of people it seems to be that they were stung while quite young. And relatively the pain was much worse then - and probably memory has exaggerated how bad it was too.

    These things coupled give a good motivation for being terrified. Until you are then stung as an adult. I have seen quite a few people stung as adults who go "Hang on - that was not really so bad actually" because the experience was nothing like they remembered from the first time.

    Then there are people who have not been stung ever but have observed the terror of the people I have just described and presume it must be some awful experience. So they have a learned fear.

    But then of course there are a sub set of people - thankfully a minority - for whom being stung is potentially fatal.


  • #21
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    They colonised half the world.


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  • #22
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I got stung in the mouth a few years ago. Little fcker snuck in to my bottle of Fanta and I took a slurp of waspy fanta and he stung me.

    Never forget. Never forgive.


  • #23
    FelineOverLord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭FelineOverLord


    I despise the word 'sambo'.


  • #24
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Cos they're horrible little bastards!! They hover and attack without warning!!


  • #25
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,998 ✭✭✭Satriale


    The ordinary ones are fine, it's these little feckers...



  • #26
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Bees will sting if you attack them or to defend the hive, and only once, then they die makes sense.


    Wasps, "oh look, there's a human, let's go f*ck his day up, with multiple stings, why? Cause we can". Complete d*cks*


  • #27
    6541
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭6541


    White Anglo Saxon Protestants - What's not to be scared off !


  • #28
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,199 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    degsie wrote: »
    What's the deal here? Why are ppl so freaked out by wasps? Don't get it.

    Story in the papers today about a boy getting knocked down while running away from an 'angry' wasp. He had a sambo in his hands!

    He wasn't holding the sandwich. His friend had a sandwich and was being attacked so the young lad, being the very definition of a good friend, took on the wasp with his toy sword he was showing his friend and the wasp then followed him.


  • #29
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    PucaMama wrote: »
    My sister is allergic to them

    Can she not get gluten free ones?

    They're all the rage now.


  • #30
    X6.430macman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭X6.430macman


    its really funny when people get scared when wasps are around


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  • #31
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,297 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    X6.430macman wrote: »
    its really funny when people get scared when wasps are around



    Funny ha ha or funny peculiar loike?


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