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Era, what bug is this and how afraid should I be

Chopchop

Chopchop

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'd just leave it alone.

I've found that most of the time, you'll never see the bug again anyway.
 
Fiction

Fiction

Fanthropologist
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Oct 25, 2017
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Elf Tower, New Mexico
Tuorom said:
I don't blame you they are the quickest arthropod I've ever encountered I think. And the weird shit they have on the bottom of their abdomen always freaked me out. They have a look that says fuck nah.

What? Scorpion rain?! Please expand I'm curious.
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I've told that story a bunch of times on the old site but:
Basically, I was at Lake Sumner and was showering off with a friend right as the sun was setting in one of those old bathrooms in state parks that have showers. When we went in, we turned on the light. I wasn't wearing shoes because I was an idiot 16 year old girl.

Anyhow, after I was done I was brushing my hair and stepped on what I thought was a goat head. Spoiler: it wasn't
Then I felt something hit my shoulder and it was another scorpion. Then more came falling down as my friend picked me up and we ran screaming from the bathroom. My brother came and killed the beasts.
What had happened was a mother scorpion had crawled up into the light. When we turned it on, it got too hot and her and the babies started bailing. Scorpion rain.
 
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Mariolee

Mariolee

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Oct 25, 2017
10,307
VenomousCoffee said:
All these posts and no one talking about OP saying "my thumb's fingernail" instead of thumbnail.
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I've attributed thumbnail to computer icons for so long my brain refused to type that down.

Fiction said:
Yes, as I grew up in the desert and these little fuckers run at a billion miles an hour.

I've literally had scorpions rain on me (plus I got stung) and I hate this creature more.

Something about it viscerally terrifies me
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Lmao actually I'm in the desert right now. Rancho Mirage.
 
Midramble

Midramble

Force of Habit
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
10,456
San Francisco
Fiction said:
I've told that story a bunch of times on the old site but:
Basically, I was at Lake Sumner and was showering off with a friend right as the sun was setting in one of those old bathrooms in state parks that have showers. When we went in, we turned on the light. I wasn't wearing shoes because I was an idiot 16 year old girl.

Anyhow, after I was done I was brushing my hair and stepped on what I thought was a goat head. Spoiler: it wasn't
Then I felt something hit my shoulder and it was another scorpion. Then more came falling down as my friend picked me up and we ran screaming from the bathroom. My brother came and killed the beasts.
What had happened was a mother scorpion had crawled up into the light. When we turned it on, it got too hot and her and the babies started bailing. Scorpion rain.
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Aaaand suddenly I'm itchy
 
Escaflow

Escaflow

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Oct 29, 2017
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The only way you can be saved OP

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Tuorom

Tuorom

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Oct 30, 2017
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Fiction said:
I've told that story a bunch of times on the old site but:
Basically, I was at Lake Sumner and was showering off with a friend right as the sun was setting in one of those old bathrooms in state parks that have showers. When we went in, we turned on the light. I wasn't wearing shoes because I was an idiot 16 year old girl.

Anyhow, after I was done I was brushing my hair and stepped on what I thought was a goat head. Spoiler: it wasn't
Then I felt something hit my shoulder and it was another scorpion. Then more came falling down as my friend picked me up and we ran screaming from the bathroom. My brother came and killed the beasts.
What had happened was a mother scorpion had crawled up into the light. When we turned it on, it got too hot and her and the babies started bailing. Scorpion rain.
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lol that's wild. Good story, thanks.

Scorps are pretty cool arachnids. If you look at their face when they eat they have two really small claws that grab chunks of what their eating and bring it back to their mouth. And if you grab the danger part of their tail and let them lay on your finger they will give you a nice hug :)
And their carapace absorbs UV light so they become neon when you shine a UV light on them, which makes them easy to find in the dark.
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Stinkles said:
Most metal album of the 80s
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Scorpion Rain by Slipknot. A ballad.
 

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Fiction said:
I've told that story a bunch of times on the old site but:
Basically, I was at Lake Sumner and was showering off with a friend right as the sun was setting in one of those old bathrooms in state parks that have showers. When we went in, we turned on the light. I wasn't wearing shoes because I was an idiot 16 year old girl.

Anyhow, after I was done I was brushing my hair and stepped on what I thought was a goat head. Spoiler: it wasn't
Then I felt something hit my shoulder and it was another scorpion. Then more came falling down as my friend picked me up and we ran screaming from the bathroom. My brother came and killed the beasts.
What had happened was a mother scorpion had crawled up into the light. When we turned it on, it got too hot and her and the babies started bailing. Scorpion rain.
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This is the most viscerally disturbing story I've read in a long time
 
Zyrox

Zyrox

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hit the gym, OP. You wanna be ready for the coming battle.
 
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