The Deadliest Creatures

[distort303]

Real terror lurks in quiet darkness

As the archetypal bumper-sticker proclaims: "Being Paranoid Doesn't Mean that They Aren't Out to Get You." The world of the paranoiac is nothing but a teetering rock slide - impending destruction always hovering just a moment away. Some have suggested that a daily tablespoon full of this viewpoint can actually

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[naamah_darling]

Once read an account from a guy collecting box jellies for a zoo. They were wearing protection, but his sleeve had ridden up, and about an inch of tentacle tagged him on the inside of his forearm. He said it felt like a red-hot poker searing into his flesh, and only fear of what would happen if he dropped the huge bucket full of them kept him from dropping what he was doing to writhe in agony.

I've seen pictures of people who've been stung and have lived. The marks are terrible, like they've been lashed with a red-hot scourge.

People laugh when I say I will never go into or near the ocean. Ever. I know better.

[naamah_darling]

Oh, man. I haven't seen that. That's really disturbing.

[gemfyre]

There is a saying in the Australian tropics.

"Box jellyfish will kill you. Irukandji will make you wish you were dead."

[beyondcrazy4you]

IRUKANDJI.

Aren't those the ones that are like, the size of a fingernail, and can get through the nets, and then kill you dead?

THOSE ARE AWFUL. I thinK I saw the same program as you.

[naamah_darling]

Yes! The ammonia works well, apparently.

My problem would be holding it until I was on land, since if I were stung I would probably pee on myself anyway! I'd have to have someone else pee on me.

Jellyfish sting pee videos. I am deeply afraid that there is porn of this somewhere.

[naamah_darling]

Is there some sort of handy-dandy German word for the combination of both?

[naamah_darling]

I can't top that. I just can't.

I need to ask someone who speaks German what "trainwreck syndrome" would be in German.

[saciel]

trainwreck syndrome. We have no word for that.
Mostly we talk of morbid fascination (Morbide Faszination) or morbid curiosity (Morbide Neugier).
People who are "victims" to it have a shock (Schock, schockiert) or paralysis ("She was paralyzed looking at his wounds" = "Sie war wie gelähmt als sie seine Wunden sah") and if we want to discriminate someone inappropiatly looking at an accident we call him "Gaffer" ("Watcher" in a negative sense) but that also refers to people who look at naked women and stuff.