Consider the following: Beverley Callard in a WonderBra, cute little Gary Coleman, Michael Jackson fans somehow being able to use computers. All proof that looks can be deceiving.
Further proof of this can be found in one of nature?s more bizarre creations, the Box Jellyfish. They are?an abomination so absurd that you can only imagine Mother Nature?made them with the bits left over from creating the rest of Earth. Those bits being a discarded lunchbox, half a Morrison’s carrier bag, some Sellotape and a bucketful of phlegm.
Put that lot together and you are left with something that looks?less like?A?Deadly Predator Of The Sea and more like An?Art Project By Six-Year-Old Boy With ADHD. But do you remember when we said that bit about ‘looks can be deceiving’? in the last paragraph? Good, because the Box Jellyfish is a bastard.
The sting from one of these daft-looking things will kill?you in less than three minutes and?they have been responsible for almost six thousand human fatalities since 1954. They are otherwise known as ‘Sea Wasps’, which is?not really giving them the respect that they perhaps deserve.?When was?last time you saw a man stung by a wasp, flail around in agony, pointlessly trying to?urinate on himself as he goes into?anaphylactic shock, has a massive heart attack and dies, all in time it takes John and Edward to murder a song?(which had probably already?murdered another song)?
A box jellyfish?has enough venom to?kill up to three people and is indigenous only to Australia. All it would take is one of these little phlegmy, Sellotape-y little fellas to spare the world of Aussie?Bore-Rock merchants Silverchair. Just one.
Sarah Hayes is eating a lovely pear says
I’d forgotten about Silverchair. Let’s set one on The Saturdays.
All Women Stalker says
Eeek! Jellyfish, ewwww.
Pingu says
The funny thing is they’re not actually jelly fish they belong to the cubozoa class rather than the schyphozoan, they’re more complex than jellyfish, ordinary jellyfish just drift around waiting for food while box jellies actively hunt their prey
Sunny says
Steve Irwin… awww.
Andy says
Fun take on Fleckeri but wanting on the facts front:
1. The Box Jellyfish is NOT indigenous just to Australia and can be found throughout the Indo-Pacific, Caribbean and Hawaii. Careful when holidaying in Thailand, Malaysia etc because in Oz they have warning signs, in Asia you’re on your own
2. A Box Jellyfish has 3 people for breakfast and packs enough venom to kill 60 adults
3. It is estimated they kill 100-200 annually in Asia while in Australia 80 people have been killed in as many years
4. Anaphylactic shock and urination are the weird stuff of blog authors while the most potent venom known and vinegar are really what it is about – the venom kills, the vinegar stops the stinging
5. The article forgot to mention they have 24 eyes and 60 arseholes – sounds like a full of sh*t Microsoft board meeting!
Quade says
The funny thing is they
jack says
oh man I want to kill it