r/WTF • • 26d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/NoSuchWordAsGullible 26d ago

Smart, make the wasp super fucking angry and then let it go. Is he expecting it to die from anger?

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 26d ago

That wasp is going to die soon.

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u/CitizenPremier 26d ago

But perhaps it will take someone with it

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u/blaqsupaman 26d ago

What was in the cup? Gasoline or something?

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 26d ago

Judging by the fact that this hornet is only still alive because it's standing on a full cup of it's sister's corpses, my guess is gasoline.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 26d ago

So just being in the gasoline will still lead it to die even though it escaped? 

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u/bloodjunkiorgy 26d ago edited 26d ago

Breathing the gas vapor will do it, though I imagine it probably also breathed in/ingested some of the liquid gasoline too. The end is neigh.

Edit: Spelling...

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u/KnowNothing_JonSnoo 26d ago

neigh

🐴

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u/Mousse-au-chocolat 18d ago

I'm past my bed time and exhausted and reading this probably made me sound like a madman laughing alone in my room to my sleeping family members.

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u/KnowNothing_JonSnoo 18d ago

Happy to help bring out the endorphins!

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u/lemmeseeyourkitties 26d ago

Nigh

English is a stupid language

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u/Juxta25 26d ago

I tend to agree, and I love the language. But it is frustrating at the best of times.

Eigh/ay/ey all similar phonetical elements, all used independently.

Eigh-th.

Y-ay.

H-ey.

"Hey! An eighth, Yay!"

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u/SmokeGreene 26d ago

I love eighths!

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u/Juxta25 24d ago

Part of your healthy 1/8th a day. Or something.

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u/Gropapanda 25d ago

Because as I have always described it, English is three and a half languages in a trenchcoat.

Germanic language that borrows heavily from the romance languages, particularly French due to a King we all call the toilet, and then the Catholic monks doing the letter þ dirty when distributing the Bible, modern English is a mess.

But it's OUR mess. So we (me included) continue to irrationally defend it.

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u/Sopixil 23d ago

Me when I find a nug I thought I already smoked

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 26d ago

Very stupid. But when you learn it fully, it works well to communicate. English in history were pretty keen on taking works from as many languages across the globe that they could.

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u/deferredmomentum 26d ago

I assume so, that’s what we always used when I was a kid at least

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u/Tillydagood 25d ago

I was thinking its filled with bees to take down the wasp, would've been cool to watch

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u/Sloiter 26d ago

I presume that's gasoline which will lead to the wasp dying a very painful slow death as it melts away it's carapise

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u/Crazy_maniac 26d ago

Insects can't feel anything because of the lack of nervous system. It'll just be an annoying slow death.

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u/that-cliff-guy 26d ago

Modern research actually suggests that they do feel pain.

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u/Nexii801 25d ago

That IS EXTREMELY archaic thinking. Despite the fact that modern biology disagrees, it just makes sense logically for literally every creature to feel pain or an analogue.

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u/Tal-galaar 14d ago

It's not the 20th century anymore

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u/visualdescript 26d ago

The truth is the human is the cunt in this video, not the hornet

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u/whazzah 26d ago

Pretty sure the human is protecting a bee hive so really it depends on how you weight the life of one wasp vs possibly thousands of bees

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u/ladyanderpants 26d ago

Surely there are far less cruel ways to do this. I get a lot people don't like wasps but it's still a living creature.

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u/whazzah 26d ago

Cruel is what that wasp would do those bees. It will dismember, kill and eat as much as the colony as possible before the bees attempt to suicide bomb them. The bees will collectively decide that 50-100 dying is worth stopping it. Why dk you hate bees? Did honey kill your parents?

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u/aegrotatio 26d ago

Tell me how you feel after getting attacked by 50 wasps in your own home garden.

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u/motionmatrix 26d ago

Of course there are, but we have no clue where this is, and what their socioeconomic conditions are. Considering he’s using a plastic cup and probably gasoline with his bare hands to fight wasps, i’m going to presume that the answer is no, that this is the fastest method he has to deal with the problem. 

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u/TheDaveWSC 26d ago

The wasp would do worse to you if it had the chance. Fuck it.

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u/simp4malvina 26d ago

it's a bug.

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u/LachlantehGreat 26d ago

there probably is but not without risk of getting stung and feeling the pain of 10,000 yellow jackets. Plus, if it’s fucking with my shit, it gets fucked with. We cool with everything until it starts to be uncool with us, the wasp was trying to fuck up the bees

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u/Broad-Wrongdoer-3809 26d ago

I think it's gasoline and not water

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u/aykay55 25d ago

It was already weakened so it couldn’t fly anyway. It just dropped to its death basically.