My new favourite wikipedia entry
This is gold: The Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
My favourite pain description:
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream).
Sweet.
[Schmidt's] original paper in 1984 was an attempt to understand the role of the sting in the evolution of Hymenopteran social behaviour. The index contained in the paper started from 0 for stings that are completely ineffective against humans, progressed through 2, a familiar pain such as a common bee or wasp sting, and finished at 4 for the most painful stings. Notably, Schmidt described some of the experiences in vivid and colorful detail.
My favourite pain description:
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream).
Sweet.
posted by Philip at 10:03 PM
4 Comments:
I know now what part of hymenopteran phil was wiki-ing to get this nugg'.
i wasn't opteran.
(i went the high road, that's how you can tell c-bean from c-butter: classiness.)
Capitalization and proof reading are another way you can tell.
I'll give that burn a 1.8 on the Sting Scale:
Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
Sounds pretty painful, CocoBean.
why is wikipedia so anxious about that writeup? its got all these warnings! what the hay!
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