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- alexacastrato, on 07/14/2009, -0/+23Little *****, when I lived in Phoenix these bastards would drop on you FROM THE CEILING and THEN sting you. Bastards.
- gbudavid, on 07/14/2009, -0/+13I found them in my Boots at Camp Pendleton...
- Skurt, on 07/14/2009, -0/+9The Chinese? I thought they just put them on a stick and ate them? So it was really a research project?
http://www.bestoday.com.au/sick/images/scorpions.j ...
The market was bustling with people. But here's the thing. The Chinese people I saw all seemed to be buying things like lamb kebabs and fruit.
On the other hand, the people gathered around the centipedes and scorpions on a stick were, in almost every case, tourists or American TV reporters doing fun features on weird Chinese food.
These people were basically lining up to eat scorpions. A reporter would hold up a skewer of scorpions, and the camera person would get a close-up shot. Then the reporter would scrunch up his or her face, take a bite of a scorpion, chew, swallow, and declare that it really wasn't that bad. Then, depending on how in-depth the feature was, the reporter might take a bite of seahorse.
I watched as this procedure was repeated with several different TV crews. Then the truth hit me: The Chinese don't eat scorpions. They feed their scorpions to TV reporters.
I would not be surprised to learn that the Chinese word for scorpion is ``TV reporter food.''
/Dave Barry - cygnus2112, on 07/14/2009, -0/+7When I lived in Atlanta, they would crawl through cracks in the foundation and come up into the house. Thankfully, my Husky liked eating scorpions.
Agreed though, ***** little bastards. - inactive, on 07/14/2009, -1/+6Is it weird that I'm more afraid of being bitten by a brown recluse or black widow than a scorpion? :/
- ShiftyBizniss, on 07/14/2009, -0/+5that's horrifying.
- Treshnell, on 07/14/2009, -0/+4We used to have black widows all over the place in the city I used to live in. Open up an outdoor shed and there'd be one sitting on the door. Nasty, scary looking things. Still gives me the shivers thinking about them.
- Bermygoon, on 07/14/2009, -0/+4Do you have to go to the hospital if you are stung?
- Bonksnp, on 07/14/2009, -2/+5SCORPION WINS.
- buckygrad, on 07/14/2009, -3/+6I truly believe that if there truly exists a cure for cancer it will be found within the biodiversity of this planet and not wholly synthesized in a lab. This is why conservation is important.
- rheaume, on 07/14/2009, -0/+3Here I ammmmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHIhPieyvdg - BobDle, on 07/14/2009, -0/+3wow. ***** glad we don't have those where i live (tennessee)
- Wingin, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2I dunno. I think it's a little funny because the first thing I thought of when I started reading these comments was that I thought it was supposed to be my country that was the home of creepy crawly bities and yet I've never had to worry about a scorpion. :)
A lot of people are creeped out by spiders though, so you're sure to be in good company. - drunkenoaf, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2New drug applications?
What does the submitter mean -- new drugs (makes sense), or applying existing drugs into new disease areas (which doesn't follow from what's said before). I know "new drug applications" sounds really cool and knowledgeable, but... it's meaningless here. - Myztry, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2Drugs are just a rip off of naturally occurring compounds. It's not like they start with a carbon (or whatever) atom and 'program' it towards a purpose. They start with an already existing naturally occurring compound with a measurable effect and then try to reverse engineer it. Discover what it does and how.
That's why it so important to find these starting blocks. Nature isn't any smarter than us but it's had billions of year to trial and error all the combinations and their effects. It could all be done mathematically if we mapped and understood the entire bodies systems but ...
The part they leave off from the term 'drug trial" is "and error". Nature/Evolution has already undertaken those crude steps and it's not something trivially disposed off. We get things like cancers constantly but in most cases our natural systems can cure it before we even knew we had it. Something mere medical science can not achieve. - asgardshill, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2I never do. It just hurts like a little bastard.
- mytradingrobot, on 07/14/2009, -2/+4Yea, scorpions are a bad deal. We have them in the area where I live, but luckily not right where my house is. I have friends though that have to have exterminators come to their yards to get rid of them on a regular basis. I looked for some scorpion poison articles on http://www.my-article-directory.com and did not find any, but there are some at http://ezinearticles.com/?Scorpion-Removal---Trick ...
- guillejr, on 07/14/2009, -1/+3They already use scorpions for making drugs - check this out: http://www.drinkhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009 ...
Arriva Mexico! - rob132, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2TOASTY!!
- lennybird, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2Live in Phoenix. Had 4 in our house since I moved here a year ago. My ten year old sister got stung. Said it hurt way more than a bee sting, but she was fine otherwise.
- moxley, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1Kind of...because a Brown Recluse bite can ***** you for life....you can have joint problems, big pits where your flesh and nerves keep turning necrotic like 1 year later....
Black Widow bites aren't fun, but unless you're a toddler you're good. Most scorpion stings aren't too bad unless it's an Az Bark scorpion. - thoughtsonthis, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1OUCH!
- lennybird, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1All but the bark scorpion in Arizona - or so I've heard - aren't very deadly save for babies and the elderly. Drink a lot of water and take a few swallow-able 500mg Vitamin C's to flush the toxin.
- sodappop, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1A lot of drugs do not exist in nature... amphetamines for one.
- pantsperch, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1Yes. You're right. There is some bug out there whose turds stop our cells from going all ***** haywire.
Conservation is important, I agree with you, but man, saying that protecting the bugs can cure our diseases is dumb.
Besides that, molecules are ***** natural as *****. - DaneArden, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1lots of drugs come from plant and animal sources that treat every thing from hypertension to inflammation .
"molecules are ***** natural as *****"
HUH???
show me a naturally occurring rayon or Teflon molecule. - StigNordas, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1I want to party with that scorpion!
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -1/+2Scorpions, neon spray paint, black light
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