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FuckTammy
Gryffen89
Vamp13
i had a honeybee sting my eye once, i had a swollen eye i couldnt see out of for 2 weeks afterwards. it also hurt like nothing ive ever felt before, and i dont get hurt by bee stings, like if a bee stings me somewhere normal its not enough pain for me to really have a much more than "ouch that hurt" reaction.
Denare
Gorgoror
Ouch !
SithElephant
TheBigCheese93
ROBOTvsMAN
ihavethelowground
What the actual fuck
BlueTyphoon
That's... shockingly not as bad as I would have expected. I'm sure it hurt like absolute hell and there's alot of complications though
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
New fear unlocked. Thanks @op. -_-
ILikeRespondingWithWillSmithGifs
I remember getting stung on my eyelid in first grade while drinking water from a drinking fountain. I didn’t even notice it until my teach ask what was in my eye. And I pulled out the stinger.
dasclown
New Fear Unlocked!
Frodomann1
keep your eyes on the prize boys…
weave
Roll nat 1 for a perception check
"You see a bee butt"
Solarbeard
But what?
HonHomes
HonHomes
Also:
Rockafella83
CanIGetSomeExtraSalt
New fear unlocked
viila
You're fine, you don't have oculars to sting.
CanIGetSomeExtraSalt
A mouth sting seems somewhat better
Zanzetuken
Got stung on the tongue as a kid and thought that was bad enough! (Drank from a garden hose, bee was inside and flew out all mad)
cuddleskunk
There was an elderly couple with adult children next to me when I was a very little kid (2-3 years old). It was an apartment complex, and they would regularly sit in the courtyard and strike up conversations with everyone. One day, they stopped going to the courtyard and we wanted to know if they were okay. They were in mourning because their oldest son had just died via an allergic reaction to a bee sting after he drank from a can of Coke he had left by a pool outside and it stung his throat.
SunPraisingIntensifies
:(
Freemage69
I want to thank you all for confirming my belief that this 'outside' people keep talking about is actually a demented hellscape I should avoid at all costs.
cre8majic
that happened to me with a soda can, bee was inside, under the lid
StevenAlleyn
Well that’s the opposite of what you want
TacoPoweredHelicopter
Ya you want to sting the bee in its eye.
slyvic
What are you going to use as a stinger? Your weiner?
TacoPoweredHelicopter
My Weiner is to small unfortunately... Stupid small Weiner.
ItsActuallyDavidNow
It’s certainly the opposite of what eye want.
Torvucci
I'll tell you what eye want, what eye really really want !
OuthouseAficionado
Eye see what you did there.
RolandleFartere
Eye. Eye eye eye eye.
jungleofthesenses
beenbanned5
As a beekeeper, yes they do go for the eyes
LovelyEnvy
I feel like I'm the only one who's reaction was 'shit they're evolving'. It's like that tv trope if your fighting something stronger, then go for the eyes. The wasps and bees have also figured this out.
firlefranz
reddenbocker
When I was young, on my way home from school on a hot day, I a hornet flew up and decided that my eye looked like a nice place to land for a drink. It landed on my eye, and I reflexively blinked, trapping it UNDER MY EYELID. As you might expect, I immediately freaked out, feeling something squirming and wriggling under my eyelid, right up against my eye, and ran into a nearby store, batting ineffectually at my eye and screaming about something being in my eye. Unfortunately, all people saw 1/?
reddenbocker
2/? was some crazy kid freakin out over something; the hornet was under my eyelid, so they couldn't see what i was talking about, and eventually chased me out of the store, unaware of what was happening. The hornet was trapped luckily, pinned between my eyelid and eyeball and unable to move, or it probably would have stung me in the eye. As it was, I had to force myself to calm down, remembering that if something was in your eye, it would tear up, and eventually wash the thing out (hopefully).
reddenbocker
3/? I was basically crying as it was, but stood, head down and blinking, until the hornet was washed out of my eye and flew off. This is how I know it WAS a hornet, as I saw it drop out of my eye and go flying wetly away, probably having had a bit more water than it had been looking for.
DreamPhreak
trippingthelightfantastic
SubTrout
Mmmmyoink
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
RED ALERT SHITHEADS!!!!
Mrw1cked
I had very high pressure in my eye once and had to have a needle inserted to release fluid to relieve the pressure.... That was an experience for sure.
Svartsinn
Melonfish
kirmes
This is how it starts ...
WeylandYutaniCorp
*Rubs hands together greedily*
ARrocks
BunchaCrunchOfHuman
They won't let you bring bees in here
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
Beads
Dondarian
GOB's not on board
ARrocks
notacobra
So... There's a concept known as "revealing your power level" and I'm afraid I'm going to have to do that a little here.
Not to discredit the new England Journal of medicine, but that's a vespoid or formica stinger.
It's likely not their fault, as whoever wrote the case study is likely quoting the patient's own claims.
But yeah, that's a wasp sting.
Bee stingers have two ridges that run along the top of a larger canal with a bulb higher up. This looks like vespula vulgaris.
Freemage69
"Wasp sting" does NOT make this any better.
CobainsSarcoma
well that's different i guess
madguy50
*amplifies voice with hands* So is anyone gonna fuck this guy or what??!
trasneoir
Looks like its up to you bud.
WeirdStray
Thanks for clearing that up, I was really worried for a second there!
Steffn
"Bee stingers have two ridges that run along the top of a larger canal with a bulb higher up." You are exlusively referring to honey bees, aren't you?
HighMagosSquidward
Vulgaris indeed
TerraDactyl89
1 upvote for you, you nerdy definitely non-cobra you.
gobnaitOLunacy
airwoman
This was a beautiful correction. Thanks for sharing!
Ohdearaudrey
KilljoyWasHere
Just listen to me: this person fucks, and they’re fun at parties, because that’s exactly the kind of conversation that would have to be guaranteed for me to attend a social event willingly.
sfrinlan
I'm always down for a "well actually" if you know what you're talking about. I'm going to take all your claims at face value without doing any further research, so +1!
Alistairetheblu
sidenote: it's *so* fitting that wasps' scientific name includes "vulgar" (and yeah, I know it's not meant that way, but still)
Klaxun
As an expert, could you weigh in on how that stinger came off the wasp? I thought that only happened to bees.
CardboardEmpress
I've had a wasp leave its stinger in me before. Not pleasant.
mrose50
You've never left a cane on the hookers bedstand?
Gameshow
pockpock
Not as much as an expert, but it only happens to bees because bee stingers happen to get stuck in our skin. The abdomen in both is very squishy and if the singer of a wasp gets stuck, they also fly off without it. Source: Happened to me just this weekend, I was wearing thick rubber gardening gloves and a wasp stung the gloves and got stuck, panicked and flew away leaving the stinger behind.
Qualtagh
I imagine immediately closing their eye could've contributed to the stinger breaking off instead of pulling out
seventailfox78
What they should have done of course was keep their eye open and carefully waft the wasp away with gentle hand movements. That would be my plan, anyway, if I ever get stung in the eye by a wasp. 😅
aabcdort
Telharmonius
I've always talked about bees having barbs on their stingers. That's why they die when they thing. The stinger and the venom sac are pulled out during the sting. This example does not look like a bee stinger at all.
zylokun
In other words that's WORSE.