Beware of wasps!
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Bregante wrote:no 6ft drops (got the enduro for that :P ), just concerned it might be a bit flexy but I am getting some rave reviews of it on the other thread so am seriously tempted to go with the RL!!
well is'nt flexy for me but i'm about 9 stones maybe it would be for a larger rider, i dunno? test ride
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I sat on a wasp once. It had landed on my bed and i sat down to put my socks on. Stung me on the bridge about an inch back from my sack :shock: Not sure whether the pain was the worse thing or my mum trying to apply ointment :oops:0
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wasps - tw@ts with a shot gun
bee's - a drunk homelss person with an addiction to bright things0 -
cgarossi wrote:In summary, yeah wasps are little bastards.
BUT they do kill flies and such, and provide a vital (if annoying) service.
As Tommy Saxondale said "wasps are bastards.........they're just bastards".Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.
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Well they seem to slack off the job every time I have a barbeque!
We caught 6 wasps in an upturned pint glass once. They even started fighting each other. Or so it seemed! :shock:0 -
supersonic wrote:Hercule Q wrote:supersonic wrote:They never read any physics tests - they fly under the power of their own ignorance.
so based on your logic if i ignore physics and flap my arms reallly fast i can fly?
Why of course! For a bit.
quoted from 'The Guide'
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, it suggests, and try it.
“The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it’s going to hurt. That is, it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground.
“Most people fail to miss the ground and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
“One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It’s no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won’t. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you’re halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground or about how much it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss it.
“It is notoriously difficult to pry your attention away from these three things during the split second you have at your disposal. Hence most people’s failure, and their eventual disillusionment with this exhilarating and spectacular sport.
“If, however, you are lucky enough to have your attention momen-tarily distracted at the crucial moment by, say, a gorgeous pair of legs (tentacles, pseudopodia, according to phyllum and/or personal inclination) or a bomb going off in your vicinity, or by suddenly spotting an extremely rare species of beetle crawling along a nearby twig, then in your astonishment you will miss the ground completely and remain bobbing just a few inches above it in what might seem to be a slightly foolish manner.Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
adb1006 wrote:I sat on a wasp once. It had landed on my bed and i sat down to put my socks on. Stung me on the bridge about an inch back from my sack :shock: Not sure whether the pain was the worse thing or my mum trying to apply ointment :oops:
haha... *touch wood* i ain't been stung by a wasp ever , headbutted a couple of bees that fly head on, swollowed enough midges to make a familysize omlette, but no wasps. Sometimes get a bit of trouble at work when on my bright yellow forklift... they think they can take me on mwahaha 0 -
One of the giant furry feckers flew into my room this morning! I didn't know what it was at first, made a right noise, sounded like a strimmer! After flapping around aimlessly for a few mins it found the open window again.0
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Ouch, got stung myself once doing the Lifescan 3G. Beautiful day, beautiful part of the world blasting down fast forestry road when one flew into one of the vents of my helmet and started buzzing about. I stayed cool as road went from rapid down to slow climb up the other side of a big dip. Still cycling I unclipped the lid and went to shake the little blighter out. Hooked up my shades on the helmet straps and dropped them and had to stop. Bent down to pick up shades and did the obvious thing with my lid to have a free hand for the shades. Put it back on my head but the wasp was still in there and that's when it got me. 5 mins later up the climb the pain in my legs was playing top trumps on the pain in my head so i just soldiered on. Felt a bit of a prat though.0
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That old story about science saying bees should not be able to fly is a myth. Funny, but still a myth - dates back to 1930s.bigchazrocks wrote:
If you do the maths on paper, the physics just don't add up. According to calculations, by many different mathmaticians, and phyisicists, they CAN'T fly!! :shock:sheepsteeth wrote:i agree about bees, they are masive at the moment. wasnt there some issue with the bumble bee in as much as science couldnt figure out how the bee could actually fly?
Of course they can, but according to the calculations, it's impossible... So much for logic eh?You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.0 -
bee flys in the house and heads flat out for the closed patio doors, when it gets near it stopped and turned around then flew out the window where it came through. wasp does the same except flys right into the glass doors knocking itself out, gotcha *splat* 0
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Wasps live for 5 things: apples, sugar, more sugar, even more sugar, and LAGER
Bottle with sweet stuff in really works as a trap. At golf course tee once was an almost empty 2l bottle of Coke on its side - rammed thick-full with wasps. None seemed to be leaving it anytime soon to mess with the humans, so I guess it did the trick.0 -
many years ago (in the eighties!) when i was a kid....a few mates and I were running around up a hill, whihc was covered in all sorts of bushes and trees etc....
One of my friends wee brothers was with us and it was one of those summer evenings that have not happened since the eighties.
Anyway...the wee brother of my friend slipped an fell feet first into a gorse bush...we all laughed...then he started screaming...another laugh....then my mate (the brother) started screaming, then another mate and then me....
Turned out...the wee brother had slipped into a wasps nest (bike) in the bush and was stung a lot...in fact we all got stung quite a lot, but he really got the brunt of the attack!
Needless to say it was the quickest sprint off the hill and into the closest mates house where his mum sat us all up on the bunker (kitchen counter or worktop for those that don't use bunker to describe such a thing) and produced the biggest tube of savlon I have seen to this day....
Horrible creatures.Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
Nice bee:
Evil wasp:
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The evil wasp looks like something from DOOM! (the game, not the shite film)0 -
If you think wasps are bad then you should see the hornets that have recently settled near to my house, absolute bastards. Luckily haven't been stung by one yet, that would seriously hurt :?0
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That wasp looks a bit of a rapist!
And yeah, i can remember when i first saw a hornet (the fuck off wasps with inch+ long stingers)... I did the most sensable thing... ran!0 -
Japanese Giant Hornet:
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arrghhh! :shock: :shock:
never going there then!0 -
supersonic wrote:
Why of course! For a bit.
"i cannee change the laws of physics"
Great quote. Klingons on the starboard bow!
Starboard bow starboard bow, there's klingons on the starboard bow starboard bow jim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asEThe trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Giant Anthem X0 -
It's worse than that, he's dead Jim!0
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a couiple of years ago i got stung on the a** by a bumblebee when i sat on the b****d it really hurt and swelled up quite bad couple ride a bike for a week
and this was up in the cairngorms near avimore2 Broken fingers broken again... F@$%^£g hell that hurt!!!
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METAL!!!!!0 -
Sounds more like up in the Chalfonts.0
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It's life jim but not as we know it!
Boldly going forward cos we can't find reverse. The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Giant Anthem X0 -
If that's a genuine photo... Woah...supersonic wrote:Japanese Giant Hornet:
Thats a BIG wasp! (Yes, it's hornet, but it's really a wasp on steroids...)
I'd guess that it would hurt a little if you got stung! Boo-yah mofo
Sick to the power of rad
Fix it 'till it's broke0 -
:shock: :shock: :shock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFKQaU25puI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6rbbtnFfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVljkR0vC8
Are these things unstopable??
:shock:Boo-yah mofo
Sick to the power of rad
Fix it 'till it's broke0 -
The Tarantula hawk wasp!
They are the daddies of the wasps!0 -
Have a look in the Spiders! thread in the crud section for more creepy crawlies, and the mantis we have!0
