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Catching scorpion using ants /r/ALL
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1) why do you want so many scorpions
2) why do you have so many ants
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u/CELTICPRED Feb 04 '23 •
They're for the boo box on Captain Hook's ship
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u/Hobear Feb 04 '23
That scene fucked me up hard as a kid. I was terrified of it.
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u/BinarySpaceman Feb 04 '23
Glad I'm not the only one. Legitimately traumatized me.
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u/rebeard-artworks Feb 04 '23
So traumatized in fact that it was the immediate first thing that came to mind.
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u/markomakeerassgoons Feb 04 '23
It was so traumatizing for me my mind has suppressed it and I have no recollection
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u/TheRottenKittensIEat Feb 04 '23
I had completely forgotten it until these comments, and I loved the movie as a kid. I just re-watched that scene and I had no recollection. Damn that was brutal.
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u/yankeeteabagger Feb 04 '23
Was the character that was put in the one played by Glenn Close?
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u/Interpole10 Feb 04 '23
To this day I still have an irrational fear of scorpions because I watched hook as a kid. Not at all worried about the black widows that actually live where I am, but if I’m walking through a park I’m on high alert for the scorpions that I know don’t live there.
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u/scud42 Feb 04 '23
Fun fact: The actress who played the boo box pirate was actually Glenn Close
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u/seizuregirlz Feb 04 '23
I knew that but still had to go look at the side to side pic again. The make up folks were brilliant for that movie
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Feb 04 '23
I’m inordinately happy to see a Hook reference. lol
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u/CantDoThatOnTelevzn Feb 04 '23
I just learned last year that it’s a widely panned movie. Critics hated it and even nostalgia driven user reviews can’t fully save it on metacritic and tomatoes.
It was and remains one of my favorites, even after a few adult rewatches.
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I have loved it since I was a kid.
“To die would be an awfully big adventure.”
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u/Tiny-Peenor Feb 04 '23
- Why are you using your hands to catch scorpions
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u/anal_opera Feb 04 '23
Because my dick doesn't have thumbs
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u/RobWroteABook Feb 04 '23
I don't know about the first question but the answer to No. 2 is because my family is Irish Catholic.
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u/HerezahTip Feb 04 '23
Hold on this doesn’t answer the question for me
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u/honeypinn Feb 04 '23
Aunt, ants. Irish catholics have big families.
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u/HerezahTip Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
HA! Thanks for helping me get there
Ants and aunts sounds different where I’m from. Aunts is more like “ahhnts”
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u/pinkfootthegoose Feb 04 '23
it's obvious. They used scorpions to catch more ants.
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u/alegendim Feb 04 '23
Can't really imagine a less appropriate situation to wear fingerless gloves
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u/shewy92 Feb 04 '23 •
Prostate Exam
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u/probablymagic Feb 04 '23
Some people call that a second date.
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u/Antisymmetriser Feb 04 '23
To be fair, a general rule of thumb for scorpions is "the thicker the claw the softer the sting". Most dangerous scorpions have very thin claws, of course you should check if this holds for the scorpions in your area before taking this as scripture!
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u/Long-Improvement-894 Feb 04 '23
In all fairness, if someone stuck a stick through my letterbox covered in ants, I’d go out to see what the hell was going off too
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u/smokethis1st Feb 04 '23 •
“Hwat in the Hail”
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u/CocaineUnicycle Feb 04 '23
Dammit Bobbeh
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u/Peace_Is_Coming Feb 04 '23
Just checking: are the ants used as bait because the scorpion eats them or something that terrifies then so they run out?
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u/TukTukAbouk Feb 04 '23 •
Ants can easily overwhelm a scorpion so the first thought the scorpion has is that its burrow is being invaded and they're searching for food.
Scorpions can't fight off an ant swarm so the best strategy is to give up your hole and run.
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u/veringo Feb 04 '23 •
This is blatant scorpion propaganda. RIP Antie.
Never 4get 🐜
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u/sausagedog90 Feb 04 '23
Utterly fucking traumatising. Rick Moranis has some explaining to do.
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u/LUNA_underUrsaMajor Feb 04 '23
Nothing can fight off an Ant Swarm
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u/N-ShadowFrog Feb 04 '23
Except another ant swarm
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u/Sky-is-here Feb 04 '23
That ends up being more of an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Look up the global war of ants going on right now. Literally it spans continents and neither side is really winning.
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u/KDaBlasian Feb 04 '23
Don't forget the ant species that uses mind control on other ant species to expand and conquer.
The ant queen charges into a hive ALONE while emitting hormones/pheromones that cripple and confuse the ants, she pulls up on the opposing queen and engages in a 1v1 and just enslaves the entire colony.
Absolutely bonkers, mother nature is a freak.
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u/AdonalsiumReborn Feb 04 '23
Small scale hive wars happen all the time. The winning colony (usually the more numerous hive unless it’s two separate species) will consume the larvae of the lose and dismember their queen. It’s brutal stuff.
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u/BTYOR Feb 04 '23
So they are just like humans
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u/AdonalsiumReborn Feb 04 '23
Yeah sometimes I eat a bunch of edibles on nights with no work the next day and just watch ant wars on YouTube. There’s a bunch of documentaries and even some of the homemade ones are good. Often the wars are 5:1 or worse for one side, all it takes is one scout to find the trail of the other hive’s scouts and it’s game on.
Anyway, yeah your point is a thought I’ve had many times. It’s very human-like, only without the tools. There’s even some ant species that have separate chambers in their thorax storing chemicals and these bad boys run into the middle of the enemy and combine the chambers and suicide bomb them. It’s wild.
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u/Timmyty Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
I once again crave a video game that does all this nature stuff accurately and fun.
I would totally play Ant Turf Wars, where you have your queen lay a bunch of bomber ants to go do a suicide run while you have to make sure you have enough aphids stored up and the queens successor remains protected, etc etc.
Honestly could be ridiculously funny. You could be a human that shrunk down and became the leader of the ants somehow (Think Pickle Rick armor, but respected by the Pickles)
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u/TherronKeen Feb 04 '23
well boy oh boy let me introduce you to SimAnt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acuO3CZ9Y4Q
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u/grendus Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23 •
Scorpions are exactly the wrong size to fight ants. They're too big to bring their pincers and tail to bear (I'm not entirely sure they can strike the ground with them), but not big enough that they can smash them. They're also really built for 1v1 combat, ants attack in swarms that are really hard to defeat unless you can kill them hundreds at a time.
The scorpion is fleeing what it thinks is an ant invasion, only to get snatched up by a human. I'd feel sorry for it, but... eugh!
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u/domo_roboto Feb 04 '23
That scorpion was a bit indignant when it got picked up… da fuq ya doin…
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u/FlemPlays Feb 04 '23
“Ants are the Millennium Falcon of the Animal Kingdom.” -Ze Frank at some point in the future probably.
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u/elliothtz Feb 04 '23
“The ants attack butt holes… the ants attack, but holes aren’t safe enough for scorpions. Jerry, why did your write it this way?”
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u/Various-Month806 Feb 04 '23
Some very small scorpions do eat ants, but will pick off individual ants. I think something this size more likely finds them an irritant/threat (in large numbers).
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u/miki258 Feb 04 '23
"Jenny, did you left the door open? We have fucking ants in here! Jenny wher... Oh shit!"
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u/Olysses02 Feb 04 '23
I think the scorpions fear ants as it came out of the hole before the ants did
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u/gdogger231 Feb 04 '23
Follow up question. Why.
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u/secret_fashmonger Feb 04 '23
Just a guess, but maybe for food? Some places in the world grill them on a stick and sell them as street food.
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u/Arylius Feb 04 '23
Indeed. Someone mentioned she was speaking Vietnamese and i can confirm that they do in fact dry them and eat them.
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u/midgitsuu Feb 04 '23
What do they taste like?
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u/waltanator7 Feb 04 '23
Tried one in Thailand, it was crunchy and bitter. The more I chewed, the worse it got. Chugged the rest of my beer after just to get the taste out of my mouth. I'm sure some people enjoy them, but it wasn't for me.
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u/mattaugamer Feb 04 '23
They’re sold routinely here in Thailand as well as Vietnam (the video she is speaking Vietnamese) but the species is also a quite common in the pet trade and apparently she’s collecting them for that, according to another comment.
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u/LemonPepperGood Feb 04 '23
Comments linked her TikTok and said she sells them as pets
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u/hednizm Feb 04 '23
Why does she need all those scorpions?
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u/AusCan531 Feb 04 '23 •
She uses them to catch ants.
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u/Squ_d Feb 04 '23
She is slowly collecting all the ants and scorpions in the local area to destabilise the ecosystem. She plans to hold the whole world hostage by taking all the ants and scorpions world wide
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u/deadbird17 Feb 04 '23
Sounds like a job for Captain Planet!
EARTH!..
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u/jayvenomva Feb 04 '23
WIND!
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u/MIK34L Feb 04 '23
FIRE!
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u/d0rkyd00d Feb 04 '23
Ah cmon man! Thanks to you we summoned captain pluuuurrrrnnaat. We're all fucked.
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u/NeoHenderson Feb 04 '23
It smells like we’re doomed
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u/scardien Feb 04 '23
Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Damnit he's crop-dusting us again.
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u/r00kie Feb 04 '23
I want a Captain Planet reboot where he realizes his only way to solve the problem is to reduce the population and control the remainder with a fascist regime.
Kinda like buzzaro Superman.
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u/Arkista_Tev Feb 04 '23
You mean the live action Captain Planet series starring Don Cheadle? Not even kidding. That's a thing.
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u/banandananagram Feb 04 '23
Her TikTok bio says she specializes in selling them
Presumably as pets, as it is an extremely popular species for keeping pet scorpions because they’re relatively docile and their sting is non-lethal to humans
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u/btwomfgstfu Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23 •
their sting is non-lethal to humans
But hurts like a mother fucker. I was four years old when I was stung by one (south Florida, par for the course). It was the 80s and my sister was screaming that it was a baby crab. My parents called 911 and they advised us to pour a mixture of flour and water over it. I don't know if they wanted us to deep fry it or what, I was in immense pain and I don't remember much after that. I survived though, with no special powers. Still live in south Florida!
Edit: I'm a caregiver to my mom with dementia and lo and behold, she most definitely remembers the scorpion incident, and the flour and water mixture was to be placed on my toe to draw out any poison, not on the scorpion for deep frying purposes. Lol what a weird way for my brain to remember that event!
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u/firesmarter Feb 04 '23
Also back in the 80s, whenever someone would get stung by a bee my grandfather’s solution was to put some damp tabaco on it. Never understood how it was supposed to help and never heard anyone else suggest that.
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u/bdsmmaster007 Feb 04 '23
googled it cause it sounded interesting
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u/Time_Punk Feb 04 '23
It worked like magic for me when I got stung by a wasp! Friend sprinkled some tobacco out of a cigarette and mixed it with some spit and stuck it on the sting. Pain and swelling instantly gone I was so impressed. I figured the nicotine must have some topical numbing effect as well because the pain went away so fast.
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u/kumquatrodeo Feb 04 '23
I grew up with this “cure”. It lowers the Ph a bit I think, and maybe the nicotine has a numbing effect. Folk lore says it draws the venom out too. I think crushed aspirin would work better, but in my youth down in the swamps, tobacco was more handy. Everyone smoked or chewed.
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u/LandlockedGum Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Lmao I got stung by a bark scorpion in my bed in 3rd grade. Lost all motor control of my eyes and limbs. Eyes darting uncontrollably. 8 stings. Shit huuuurt but gave way to a scorpion hunting hobby with black lights. Blew my mind how many there are in Arizona. I now live in Florida tho 💀
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u/Glittering_Airport_3 Feb 04 '23
AZ bark scorpians are one of the most painful stings for scorpians in the world, generally the bigger they are, the less their sting hurts
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u/Chihuahua_Overlord Feb 04 '23
Size of the scorpion itself has nothing to do with it. You want to look at claw size. If they have big meaty claws like this. Their sting isn't as bad, if they have dainty claws, their sting is usually what gets ya.
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u/Gunzblazin101 Feb 04 '23
Did they want you to put the mixture of flour and water on the scorpion or your sting? When I was little my family went camping and I got stung by a couple bees as we ran into a small hive and they attacked. My dad pulled the barbs and put a little mud on each sting. He said as the mud dried it would help pull the venom from the sting as it pulls moisture up as it dried. Maybe they were thinking the same thing? Could be wrong.
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u/hipsandnips111 Feb 04 '23
No one should have to go through that. Living in south Florida I mean
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u/cartonfl3sh Feb 04 '23
or food
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u/recumbent_mike Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
No, I think their song is actually lethal to food. E: leaving it.
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u/maybelle180 Feb 04 '23
Or souvenirs encased in acrylic/fake amber- they’re popular in Mexico.
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u/imghurrr Feb 04 '23
That stinks. Wild catching animals for the pets trade are usually not very sustainable for the species.
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u/ElderTheElder Feb 04 '23
Many years ago a friend was visiting from out of town and we were throwing a party at our tiny apartment, when a giant house centipede stared darting up the wall. Everybody, including plenty of guys, started screaming and cleared away as fast as they could. One guy was like “somebody give me a shoe.” Wife was looking for a paper towel. I was probably looking for the can of Raid.
In the chaos, our visiting friend—a quiet, rail thin girl with an old family lake house in Wisconsin (basically a rickety shack with plenty of critters hiding in every crevice)—just goes “oh Jesus Christ guys” while calmly walking over to the wall, placing her bare hand over the doomed centipede and clenching her fist. Then she threw it in the trash and wiped her hand with the paper towel my wife was looking for, before returning to her beer.
She humbled many people that day.
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u/Killerbunniez Feb 04 '23
I live in Wisconsin and have been told the giant centipedes are good and eat other pests. When I see them, I pretend I didnt.
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u/ElderTheElder Feb 04 '23
I’ve had them in every apartment I’ve lived in (and now a house) in NYC and Chicago. Yes, they’re good and great and eat all the other things. They can also live to be twelve years old and are the fastest land insects and seem to have no fear of people and a knack for staying out of sight until they’re right next to you. Sometimes I try to ignore them, many times I can’t. My cats also like to eat their legs and leave the torso wriggling around on the floor for me to find later.
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u/bearbarebere Feb 04 '23
😭😭😭 I’d like to fucking unsubscribe from house centipede facts
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u/Laulena3 Feb 04 '23
Before moving to Wisconsin, I was prepared for the snow, but I was NOT prepared for the house centipedes. Holy hell. But after 2 years, I’m finally getting used to them. We have an understanding.
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u/MonteBurns Feb 04 '23
Our coexistence strategy is basically “stay away from our areas, and you’re cool.” If you fall in the tub and I find you the next morning, sorry, you’re getting smooshed. Spider bro gets a little too close to computer? Sorry dude, should have stayed in your corner.
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u/31spiders Feb 04 '23
I genuinely love spiders because I hate bugs (mosquitoes always bite me 1st I wish I knew why) we have a similar understanding. Stay in my house if you want….thats cool….crawl on me or my food and HOPEFULLY I don’t squish you (in a reaction) but you WILL be relocated outside.
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u/almondcow2000 Feb 04 '23
some people are genetically more “appealing” to mosquitoes than others actually (i have looked this up many times because they dine on me like a family style buffet and treat my friends like 4-day-old thanksgiving leftovers) there’s plenty of articles on google if you’re ever curious :)
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u/31spiders Feb 04 '23
I tried. Everything I saw said blood sugar is a thing, or your cologne, or soap, or whatever. I tried this with everything being constant except the person obviously (my son never gets bit….so I asked him to use my soap/shampoo/deodorant/cologne for the day), same results…..I got eaten alive and he didn’t get one. We both eat the same things especially in the summer when he’s off school.
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u/Kittentits1123 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
All I can imagine are the buckets tipping over while I'm driving, or the lids coming off and my car becoming one chaotic horrifying nightmare.
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u/Vladimir_Putting Feb 04 '23
You simply cannot imagine the things you see on the back of a motorbike here in Vietnam.
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u/candacebernhard Feb 04 '23
When she picked them up with her hands, I was like damn, girl. You couldn't bring some cooking chopsticks or something? Ballsy. Everybody's so ballsy
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u/Vladimir_Putting Feb 04 '23
Some of these Vietnamese women are hardcore. The work they do in the middle of the day with the intense heat and humidity. It's completely humbling.
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u/TheMadShatterP00P Feb 04 '23
Those buckets get worse from left to right.
Then the person just grabbed that little devil by the tail like it was a slice of cheese!
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u/jwill602 Feb 04 '23
You don’t want to see the third bucket…
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u/KatiePorter2024 Feb 04 '23 •
Third bucket is dipping sauce.
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Your average Vietnamese woman.
Seriously, my brother and I grew up in the states and when we encountered an outside roach or scorpion in the house, we'd send our mom who has seen worse in her fishing village in Hue, Vietnam. She would jojo walk in the room and pimp slap the everliving fuck out of the buggers into their next 100 reincarnations over.
I've never seen such a display of power and don't think it will be surpassed within the family.
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u/juususama Feb 04 '23
That Roach all like "oh? You're approaching me?"
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u/AvgBonnie Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
And mom was like, “I can’t slap the shit out of you without getting closer.”
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u/Tarasaur84 Feb 04 '23
This comment is just glorious. You (and your bad ass mom) made my morning. I'm a baby, and I would run away.
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u/Designer-Donkey-5849 Feb 04 '23
Thats a great mental image lol. Just walking over and Wa-Bam!
Im always super scared to hurt bugs that got inside and apologize profusely when I carry them out, she would probably have no patience for that weak shit at all lol!
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u/VulturE Feb 04 '23
walking over
Sir/Madam, I believe the original comment said Jojo walk. This isn't some standard walking, we are talking full-on power walk strutting like you're gonna kill everyone.
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u/nestzephyr Feb 04 '23
I like so many of the expressions you used.
Jojo walk, pimp slap, everliving fuck, next 100 reincarnations over.
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u/Reasonable-Grade1272 Feb 04 '23
LMFAO. The way you describe it makes it hilarious. She sounds fearless!
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u/krinkleb Feb 04 '23
I'm going to have nightmares about that hole in the ground.
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u/Savageparrot81 Feb 04 '23
What did she use to catch the ants though?
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u/Ricky_Rollin Feb 04 '23
Looks like she had some fish? I’m imagining she went near ant hill and left out quite a few pieces of fish. Then when it’s absolutely swarmed, you take a bucket with a shovel and turn the bucket on the side and just kind of scoop the whole thing in there real quick.
I’m only speculating here, but that’s how I would do it.
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u/thirdeyedesign Feb 04 '23
Just tip the bucket on its side with the fish guts inside, skips the shovel shenanigans.
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u/Ricky_Rollin Feb 04 '23
Hey buddy, where the hell were you when I was coming up with this plan two hours ago?
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u/bidoofguy Feb 04 '23
Alright but what did she use to catch the fish
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u/Savageparrot81 Feb 04 '23
Right? It’s like that time some old lady ate a fly. It’s going to spiral for sure
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u/FranksRumham19 Feb 04 '23
Buckets
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u/Savageparrot81 Feb 04 '23
Buckets will never fit down the hole in an ants nest, you’re dreaming
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u/AnonAlcoholic Feb 04 '23
From what I've experienced living in older houses, probably just half of one tiny fucking crumb that dropped on the floor unnoticed.
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u/moofein Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
The way I gasped when she picked it up with her bare hands
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u/ogjaspertheghost Feb 04 '23
Usually with scorpions the bigger they are the less dangerous they are
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u/azxander Feb 04 '23
A fact I learned from Indiana Jones
“When it comes to scorpions, the bigger the better. A small one bites you, don't keep it to yourself.”
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u/Special_Rice9539 Feb 04 '23
Apparently that type of scorpion isn’t lethal to humans
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u/Equal_Oven_9587 Feb 04 '23
I mean, there are a lot of things that aren't lethal that I don't want to pick up with my hands.
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u/Icy_Understanding119 Feb 04 '23
I suddenly feel sorry for scorpions, which is not a sentence I'd ever expected to say.
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u/cervantesrvd Feb 04 '23
Don't feel bad for them, they had a pretty successful music career.
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u/flashaguiniga Feb 04 '23
One even branched off to have a rather successful fighting career as well.
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u/Psychic_Hobo Feb 04 '23 •
Ikr? It looks so genuinely annoyed.
"WHAT THE FUCK SUSAN YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND DUMPING ANTS IN PEOPLE'S HOUSES hey hey HEY PUT ME DOWN"
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u/ctrlzkids Feb 04 '23
Was waiting for the scorpion to have the last laugh when it appears to be stuck on the glove with its tail free.
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u/KratosMessi27 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
The special ant specie call by the Vietnamese name is "kien bo nhot" , very poisonous , it will force the scorpion to come out the cave. They use about 0.5 kg of ants for a catching trip. And the scorpion is sell for food (domestic and export market) ,Chinese love them.
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u/Marvheemeyer85 Feb 04 '23
I don't know why, but scorpions and fire ants do not coexist. Here in Texas, you either have to deal with fire ants or scorpions but never both
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u/Silly-Role699 Feb 04 '23
Because no matter how bad-a** the scorpion is a colony of ants will turn it to food in minutes. Size in that context doesn’t matter, they will immobilize it, including the tail, and either drag it to the nest alive to be cut to pieces or do it right where they got it. Also, they get around the armored exoskeleton by digging in and cutting their way thru the joints, either cutting to pieces or going inside the poor arthropod. Absolutely brutal. Ants are the real insect and arthropod world killing machines, spiders, scorpions, even wasps and centipedes don’t compare at all, nothing stands up against a colony of ants.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Driver ants have been said to be able to strip a buffalo down to bones overnight. They’re really adept at raiding termite colonies
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u/BlackFireMage92 Feb 04 '23
Apparently they’re the only other species on earth that can mobilise for war. Crazy stuff.
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u/Silly-Role699 Feb 04 '23
Yep, and some species practice stuff that looks remarkably like tactical thinking, such as using defensive choke points, making alliances between colonies, launching raids on supply lines (food sources), employing mercenaries (other species of ants that live in the colony co-operating with them in combat), using different strategies depending on the foe engaged, some species even practice slavery by kidnapping other colonies larva and raising them as workers within their own colonies.
Not to mention certain species practice ranching (by protecting and caring for aphids that produce food for them like we do with milk cows) and agriculture (raising mold and fungus underground as food sources) and food storage via specialized ants that store a type of processed nectar like substance within their bodies.
It’s scary and wondrous how smart ants appear when you look at them properly. They are societies of millions and billions, right amongst our feet and we barely notice them.
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u/watersofserenity Feb 04 '23
I feel like marvel is horribly under utilizing ant mans true powers and assets. instead we get "ants are small but helpful!"
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u/amadiro_1 Feb 04 '23
Maybe true, but Ant-Man is a lot easier for the kids to like, than Billion-Ants-Man.
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u/Potatopeeler137 Feb 04 '23
The McGyver episode with the ants was nightmare fuel aplenty..
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u/mastro80 Feb 04 '23
I would have tried to catch them with a flamethrower, but apparently she is the professional so I will bow to her superior technique.
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u/baronvonsmartass Feb 04 '23
A few questions:
Why does a person want or need a bucket full or scorpions?
What do we us as bait to catch a bucket full of ants to use as a means to get us the scorpions? Is it sausage?
Is there a purpose we keep an energy drink with the scorpion bucket?
Do we trade the scorpions as currency for awesome manicures?
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