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- This Wasp’s Sting Is So Excruciating You can’t Help but Fall Down and Start Screaming
- Legendary Artist Transforms Himself into His Late Wife
- Controversial Mayor Called ‘The Punisher’ Turns Philippines’ Most Violent City into the Most Peaceful
| This Wasp’s Sting Is So Excruciating You can’t Help but Fall Down and Start Screaming Posted: 07 Jul 2015 06:28 AM PDT The Tarantula Hawk is a type of wasp with an excruciatingly painful sting that lasts only three minutes, but feels like a lifetime. The pain, rated four (highest) on the Schmidt sting pain index, is best described as "fiercely electric". Bug experts and people who have been stung claim the pain is a lot like getting electrocuted. And the best strategy to deal with it is – get this – to lie down and start screaming! According to a report in the Journal of the Kansas Entomology Society, "Tarantula hawks produce large quantities of venom and their stings produce immediate, intense, excruciating short term pain in envenomed humans." The report adds that "the instantaneous pain of a tarantula hawk sting is the greatest recorded for any stinging insect," but "the venom itself lacks meaningful vertebrate toxicity." In other words, the wasp's sting isn't deadly, but it's so painful that it'll make you want to die.
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| Legendary Artist Transforms Himself into His Late Wife Posted: 07 Jul 2015 06:07 AM PDT When artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge met his future wife for the first time, in 1993, she dressed him up in her clothes, makeup, and a wig, transforming him into her lookalike. That, in essence, was his first step towards self-transformation, two decades in the making. To this day, even though his wife Jaye has passed on, Genesis continues their love affair by trying to become her. Genesis, who was born Neil Megson, was already a controversial musician, artist, and a pioneer of modern body transformation in the '70s and '80s, long before he met his wife. His 1976 art collective COUM Transmissions, staged an exhibition called 'Prostitution', which featured pornographic photographs, sculptures made of used tampons, and transvestite security guards. He had his genitals pierced in the early '80s, making it to the front page of many British publications. But his highly unconventional life got even more bizarre after his first meeting with Jacqueline Breyer, a.k.a Lady Jaye. Genesis fell hard for the tall, blond registered nurse, who shared his passion for body modification. "She told me she saw me as a mirror image of her, and that we were meant to be two halves of one," Genesis recalls of that first meeting. Since then the two became inseparable. |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2015 05:25 AM PDT Rodrigo Duterte, the Mayor of Davao City, Philippines, is being hailed as 'The Punisher' for his controversial crime fighting strategies. Despite being a government official, Duterte allegedly uses vigilante methods that have elicited severe criticism across the world. But in Davao, he's considered a hero. During his long mandate, he’s transformed the city once known as the murder capital of the Philippines into what many call “the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia”. The Punisher is a comic book and movie character who will stop at nothing to keep criminals in check. He resorts to violence, torture and even murder in his war against wrongdoers. Some say Duterte isn't very different. Although he has never openly admitted being involved in the kidnappings and executions of various crime lords in Davao, his controversial comments on crime and encouragement of vigilante activity have convinced a lot of people that he is indeed a real-life Punisher. “If you are doing an illegal activity in my city, if you are a criminal or part of a syndicate that preys on the innocent people of the city, for as long as I am the mayor, you are a legitimate target of assassination,” Mr Duterte said in 2009. Three years later, during a press conference, he reportedly offered a $120,000 reward to whomever brought him the head of an alleged gang leader, and a $24,000 bonus if it was brought in a bag of ice, “so it won't smell so bad”. |
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