Thousands of Venomous Portuguese Man O’ Wars Wash Ashore in Australia:‘It Was the Stuff Of Nightmare

[Rainboo]

[QUOTE=Géza!;52850762]There's a reason there are stalls selling swimming sandals near every coast that has sea urchins

At least, in Europe there are[/QUOTE]

this is actually the first time i've heard of those

[Rocâ„¢]

Australia is ours now.
Prepare yourselves to love cod fish forever.

[Czer]

I remember getting at stung at least once per annual trip to Hawaii by one of these fuckers before highschool times set in and that was done with.
I remember that the two worst ones were one had a giant fuck off stinger tendril down the entire length of my back, and another time one tiny painful bastard got caught in the collar of my rash guard somehow so it was just fucking constant, jumping pain.

I can appreciate the weirdness of biology but really, Fuck these painful things

[Kube]

[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;52850983]Australia is ours now.
Prepare yourselves to love cod fish forever.[/QUOTE]

The Portuguese Empire rises again! Their advancement in naval bio weapons will overwhelm the world!

[LAMB SAUCE]

[QUOTE=Sobek-;52850092]I basically did as a kid. Insisted my mum take me to the beach during a big rainfall (swimming in the rain is awesome) but it was summer and the ideal time for bluebottles to be around. I dove in and quickly got covered head to toe (literally covered) in blue bottle stingers... All I remember is a blur of the worst pain of my life, being thrown into a tub of ice, and the agony of lifeguards ripping all of these tendrils and stingers off of me. It was pretty insane.

And yes, they had a good wrap of my meat and two veg.

You don't want to experience this.[/QUOTE]

Maybe it was because you were a child that you remember it so horribly?

I jumped into water I thought was all good after .5 seconds of inspection full of these stingers. Got wrapped up head to toe, took hours to pick them off myself. It felt hot and itchy rather than painful.

Or maybe you had an allergic reaction

[FlandersNed]

Reminds me of that Alex Rider book, 'Stormbreaker', where an evil subordinate gets killed by what's supposed to be a Man-Of-War but is portrayed by a giant eviler cloud thing

[video=youtube;hbN0X_nJp-8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbN0X_nJp-8[/video]

[shutter_eye5]

ohhh man not going to the beach then this summer.

It'd be terrifying if it were thousands of Irukandji jellyfish... these things are so tiny and are near transparent.
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Irukandjijellyfishsize.png/800px-Irukandjijellyfishsize.png[/IMG]

The worst part is, their venom is one of the most potent on earth.

[Shirt.]

[QUOTE=shutter_eye5;52854231]ohhh man not going to the beach then this summer.

It'd be terrifying if it were thousands of Irukandji jellyfish... these things are so tiny and are near transparent.
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Irukandjijellyfishsize.png/800px-Irukandjijellyfishsize.png[/IMG]

The worst part is, their venom is one of the most potent on earth.[/QUOTE]

Imagine if these things were able to trap water vapor and went airborne...