Wasp Award Recipient 2012

[Citizen Bleys]

An aunt of mine related a story once which, to me, reeks of bulltrout, but is germane to this topic:

One of her friends at the stables came from a country which has no bees* and saw one for the first time on a pile of hay; she was overcome with novelty, picked the bee up with one finger, and started petting it like a dog and didn't get stung. That's how docile honeybees are

*This is what reeks of bulltrout. Unless my knowledge of biology is deficient--which it may well be since it's the one mainstream science I hate--any place with no bees would have to be completely devoid of vegetation. This means that the mystery girl is from the moon. I can believe a honeybee treated gently enough would not immediately react to physical contact with a sting, though. Not enough to try it, mind you, just enough that I didn't immediately call my aunt a big freaking liar until a year later on a Final Fantasy message board.

[Shorty]

Maybe she had just never seen a bee before! I would like to know what country, specifically.

I love that that story seems to have made you so angry and you held it inside until the perfect opportunity to air it online.

[Jiro]

Don't have an issue with wasps. They stay out of my way, I stay out of theirs. Easy.

Honeybees will leave you alone if you leave them alone. Do you think the ceiling fan in the OP picked a fight with a wasp? No. It's a freaking ceiling fan.

Wasps are aggressive monsters born directly in the city of Pandemonium within the blackest depths of Hell. They will pick a fight with an inanimate object.

There is a certain hierarchy in Australia. Although the common thing is to say "everything is trying to kill you," that is simply not wholly accurate. The wasp, for example, lakes a lethal sting for creatures of large size, and unless flanked by its cronies like a bully in a schoolyard, will opt to leave you be so long as you show no aggression. The mutual respect of a tough enemy.

[Citizen Bleys]

Maybe she had just never seen a bee before! I would like to know what country, specifically.

The moon. It has to bee the moon.

I love that that story seems to have made you so angry and you held it inside until the perfect opportunity to air it online.

I came across as angry?

I don't get it.

There is a certain hierarchy in Australia. Although the common thing is to say "everything is trying to kill you," that is simply not wholly accurate. The wasp, for example, lakes a lethal sting for creatures of large size, and unless flanked by its cronies like a bully in a schoolyard, will opt to leave you be so long as you show no aggression. The mutual respect of a tough enemy.

I think you have wasps confused with honeybees. Wasps are the avatars of hate that will seek out the very threads of time itself for the throbbing of your heartbeat

[Shorty]

The moon sounds plausible.

Not angry, just worked up!

[drotato]

My friend is so allergic to honeybees... Once she had to dive out of a car because she was stuck in there with one... She would have been more swollen than a marshmallow in the microwave.

[Citizen Bleys]

The moon. It has to bee the moon.

It should be noted that the pun in that post was not intentional. Just noticed it now.

[Clo]

I've been stung a lot

I'm too drunk to say more

[Quindiana Jones]

Drunk on wasp venom?

[Unbreakable Will]

I had a mate in secondary school who had the worst hand-eye coordination ever. He sucked at basically every sport requiring such a skill, and it was always hilarious. One time, however, he showed us that he was actually an indomitable ninja put on this Earth for only one purpose: the humiliation and destruction of wasps.

So, it's lunch time and we're all sat about eating food. He has soup. In flies a wasp, which starts buzzing around, annoying everyone. My mate continues eating his soup and bides his time. Finally, the wasp flies in front of him.

It was the last mistake that wasp would ever make.

Quick as a flash, the guy picks up his spoon and raps the wasp with it, the way you would a disobedient child dog. The wasp drops, motionless, into his soup. Without missing a beat, my friend picks up a bit of bread, scoops the wasp up in and pops the whole thing in his mouth. xD

We all just sat there, astonished. Not only had he displayed lightning fast reflexes with extreme accuracy, but he also ate a wasp to assert his dominance.

That is amazing

Bleys, what about places that are typically frozen year round? While it's highly improbable that she's never seen one the possibility is still there. Although I have to say I agree that your Aunt's pants are on fire.

[fire_of_avalon]

There are no bees in Antarctica or the North Pole.

[Quindiana Jones]

Or the Moon.

[Citizen Bleys]

The moon is typically frozen all year round.

[Chris]

Fearing wasps? Try facing a freaking snake while you're peacefully attempting to pick some freaking bananas.

[Citizen Bleys]

Not all snakes are aggressive, and poisonous snakes tend to live in already hellish environments where nowhere in their right mind would be anyways, such as Texas or Australia.

If I see a snake, I try to catch it. Haven't caught one yet, but I'm curious about whether a common garden snake would get along well with my cat.