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Thursday, August 21st, 2008 09:42 am
[personal profile] tamaranth
JELLYFISH everywhere ewwww

As if the autumnal weather weren't bad enough ...

I am actually quite phobic about jellyfish (plus, being stung by the fairly common blue things hurts) so will avoid south coast at the merest possibility of my phobia healthy caution being triggered by specimens that are actually dangerous.

Can haz summer nao pls?

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 09:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com
I notice they haven't ventured as far as East Anglia...

We thought we might try Walberswick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walberswick) over the weekend if it brightens up. Or visit the relatives at Colchester zoo...

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
I notice they haven't ventured as far as East Anglia...

See? CONSPIRACY. (I blame spidermonkey. He has probably trained them)

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 10:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com
Definitely healthy caution. I got stung by one of the bampots when I was kid (though in the Firth of Clyde, really, barely the sea at all), and I hate them.

We were on the South Coast last week, and didn't see any. Perhaps it was too windy for them.

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
Got stung by several of the blue ones a couple of summers ago and it really was painful -- I'm sure it hurt worse than the stings I got as a kid.

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymoonray.livejournal.com
Bah! I'm suddenly a lot less keen on beaches.

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
Southend probably relatively safe!

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ajshepherd.livejournal.com
Bloody Portuguese Men-of-war* coming over here and taking all our jellyfishes' jobs!


*What IS the plural of 'Portuguese Man-of-war' anyway?

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
What IS the plural of 'Portuguese Man-of-war' anyway?

Evils.

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ivory-goddess.livejournal.com
What IS the plural of 'Portuguese Man-of-war' anyway?

They already are a plural - a single one is actually a colony of organisms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Man_o%27_War

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moral-vacuum.livejournal.com
A colony of _evil_ organisms.

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moral-vacuum.livejournal.com
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/127606098_b642e1fb0b.jpg?v=0

http://www.lifesavingfoundation.com.au/slsf/home/images/marine_stingers_sign.jpg

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
hmm, the one in the first sign looks more like a kraken than a jellyfish ...

Apparently you can also pee on the stings to neutralise the poison. This is why going to the beach alone is bad (and worse for Gurls).

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moral-vacuum.livejournal.com
I would rather be warned that there are Kraken about than not, however.

Date: Friday, August 22nd, 2008 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reverendjim.livejournal.com
Jellyfish are bloody evil stingy things and it's not at all a phobia it's just Common Sense. Once while canoeing in a harbour (on my way to Panama) I took delight in decimating the spineless buggers with my oars. Still left six hundred billion of the bastards but I was doing My Bit. Ha!
(I may have been drinking)

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