OT: got stung badly today: ACCENT to the rescue! :OT

RRP

Maybe this is common knowledge - but if not...please read on!

Today while mowing I rattled 2 nests of yellow jackets (tiny, SUPER NASTY ground living wasps).

I got nailed 7 times before I even knew I hit a nest.

Thankfully I still had a can of wasp spray and most of those "aerial" killers bit the dust!

OTOH I went right in and discovered I had no ACCENT Meat Tenderizer to make a paste to solve my swelling wasp stings...called my neighbor and she had a brand new container! I "borrowed" it and then later today I bought her a new one!

I've been REALLY nailed by fire ants, jelly fish and these yellow jackets and every time the ACCENT meat tenderizer has saved me! 
 

Elijah

If you remain still the yellow jackets will attack whatever is moving. At least down here. 

RRP

Actually I knew/noticed something like that from what was the smallest nest, but the real swarm that nailed me came from the second one and they hit me before I knew it!

Ozzie_Isaac

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

Battleborn

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

I heard if you pee on it, it makes it better. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Battleborn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

I heard if you pee on it, it makes it better. 

Wise man told me once, suck venom before pee on venom.

OhioEgger

Benadryl works well.

dmchicago

Battleborn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

I heard if you pee on it, it makes it better. 

What if he’s not around?

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Battleborn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

I heard if you pee on it, it makes it better. 

Wise man told me once, suck venom before pee on venom.

I think what he actually told you was to NOT suck on the wound AFTER you pee on it.  

paqman

MSG makes everything taste better!

AnothaStolenGenrator

That stuff works great on your junk too if you ever get chafed down there.  

paqman

🤣😂

RRP

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Battleborn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

I heard if you pee on it, it makes it better. 

Wise man told me once, suck venom before pee on venom.

I was thinking of the joke where the punch line was “the doctor says you gonna die”

WeberWho

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Battleborn said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wonder if it works on rattlesnake bites? 🤔

I heard if you pee on it, it makes it better. 

Wise man told me once, suck venom before pee on venom.

I was thinking of the joke where the punch line was “the doctor says you gonna die”

I thought the same. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Make love, not war.  Learn to live with nature, not destroy it.

RRP

Ozzie_Isaac said:,

Make love, not war.  Learn to live with nature, not destroy it.

Those are flies, but I have to ask…being clear out there in AZ how could you have heard what I was calling yellow jacket wasps as I was getting nailed?

but worst then all that…did your years with CAT turn you into a bug fornicator photographer?


LMAO

Ozzie_Isaac

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:,

Make love, not war.  Learn to live with nature, not destroy it.

Those are flies, but I have to ask…being clear out there in AZ how could you have heard what I was calling yellow jacket wasps as I was getting nailed?

but worst then all that…did your years with CAT turn you into a bug fornicator photographer?

I used to go after the mud dabbers with a tennis racket.  Wasps and yellow jackets were to nimble to hit consistent.

CAT taught me to focus on the details and see what is around you.  A side effect of that is noticing amorous bugs.  Remember, a fornicating bug cannot sting or bite you. 

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:
I used to go after the mud dabbers with a tennis racket.  Wasps and yellow jackets were to nimble to hit consistent.

Years ago I bought one of those $2 "bug zapper" tennis racquets from Harbor Freight.  It "zapped" my fingertip (ouch!) so I figured it could kill a fly.  
I've always realized I'm not the most coordinated guy, but dammit; I couldn't hit a fly in flight to save my soul.  For weeks.  
Finally, one landed on my curtains, on an exposed "hump".  Whap-Zap!  I got him!  I also almost burned my house down.  
Thank goodness flies are rare here.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:
I used to go after the mud dabbers with a tennis racket.  Wasps and yellow jackets were to nimble to hit consistent.

Years ago I bought one of those $2 "bug zapper" tennis racquets from Harbor Freight.  It "zapped" my fingertip (ouch!) so I figured it could kill a fly.  
I've always realized I'm not the most coordinated guy, but dammit; I couldn't hit a fly in flight to save my soul.  For weeks.  
Finally, one landed on my curtains, on an exposed "hump".  Whap-Zap!  I got him!  I also almost burned my house down.  
Thank goodness flies are rare here.  

I have found the "scoop" method works best.  I put the electric racket perpendicular to the surface the fly is on then run it along it and "scoop" the fly.  Works every time.

Also, the image of the fly dead, but curtains scorched is hilarious.

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:
Also, the image of the fly dead, but curtains scorched is hilarious.

It wasn't, at the time.  

RRP

Ozzie_Isaac said:  Remember, a fornicating bug cannot sting or bite you. 

So TRUE!   Nearly 50 years ago I had a real horse’s ass boss who knocked up a young married teller and thankfully he got fired AND “someone” beat the living SH*T out of him as well! 

RRP

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:  Remember, a fornicating bug cannot sting or bite you. 

So TRUE!   Nearly 50 years ago I had a real horse’s ass boss who knocked up a young married teller and thankfully he got fired AND “someone” beat the living SH*T out of him as well! 

BTW - NO, that young teller was NOT my wife!  And that former boss who got the sh*t beaten out of him had enough sense to never report his beating to the police! He just told people he “tripped” in his garage falling face first breaking his nose and both cheek bones!

Ozzie_Isaac

RRP said:

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:  Remember, a fornicating bug cannot sting or bite you. 

So TRUE!   Nearly 50 years ago I had a real horse’s ass boss who knocked up a young married teller and thankfully he got fired AND “someone” beat the living SH*T out of him as well! 

BTW - NO, that young teller was NOT my wife!  And that former boss who got the sh*t beaten out of him had enough sense to never report his beating to the police! He just told people he “tripped” in his garage falling face first breaking his nose and both cheek bones!

Those were the real days.  Nowadays they just post any angry message on FB and make a TikTok video about their feelings.