Wasps should be genetically modified to be born without stingers
That way they can still perform their role as population regulators for other insects, which they don't need their stingers for anyway, and I can sit in my garden in the summer in fuckng peace.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 11:11, 5 replies)

Have you ever been stung by a wasp? I haven't since I was about four years old. That's 27 years without a sting.

I'm just wondering if this is typical or if I'm well overdue for the stinging of a lifetime. Once the wasp committee find out about this oversight they're going to swarm me in the garden.
( AWPS, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 11:13, closed)

I got stung last year.
Was staying in a Wigwam with the ex and 3 kids. It must have been in with us all night. Got up in the morning, went into the holdall. STING.
Right in my leg. Fairly nips, little cunt didn't survive.
Just glad it stung me and not the kids.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 11:15, closed)

I have. I once ran over an underground wasp nest with a rotorvator.
In the middle of summer.

Wearing only shorts and wellies.

I was stung 27 times, and was a little sick from it.

My stepfather, however, that evening, took me out to the shed, where we got a can of petrol, covered the nest, soaked some string in the petrol as a wick, trailed it back to the back porch, and he handed me his kitchen blowtorch as a lighter.

BOOM
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 11:17, closed)

I was stung as a child
And again a few years ago. To be fair the more recent stinging made me realise it doesn't actually hurt that much and my experience as a child (which I recall really hurting, most likely because I was a child) has distorted my perception of how bad it is and led to my phobia. Still doesn't change the fact I will generally freak out if one comes near me. When I fell asleep on the tube to work earlier this summer and woke up with something crawling up my neck, only to flick it away and realise it was a wasp, I very nearly suffered a stroke in front of all the other passengers.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 11:18, closed)

I'm glad it's not just me
I'm the one screaming like a girl in the beer garden as a wasp takes a fancy to my pint. Many times I've been sitting poker-faced on a busy bus with an immovable old lady to my right and a stripy little bastard crawling along the window to my left.
( AWPS, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 16:22, closed)