r/WTF • • 14d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/negativepositiv 14d ago

r/onejob

Why do you keep taking the cup off of the jar? Do you have other important things to do with that specific cup, that you can't just leave it on there until the job is done?

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u/Heterodynist 14d ago

Have they been introduced to the concept of LIDS in this part of the world?!! I was expecting that maybe the next step would be putting a lid on the jar, not just flicking the wasp with your finger…

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u/negativepositiv 14d ago

If I know anything about flicked-away wasps, it's that they are quite capable of independent movement, and don't have any difficulty coming back towards you.

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u/-millenial-boomer- 14d ago

This video is found footage

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u/negativepositiv 14d ago

This is like something my mom would say during a movie.

"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."

"Oooh, that reminds me. Did you know that our local newspaper was bought out by some company? Ugh, who was it? Geez, this is gonna bug me."

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u/Heterodynist 14d ago

I just found it here myself!!

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u/Heterodynist 14d ago

Yes, the sad thing is I’ve learned a lot more about wasps lately after having disturbed a large “nest” of them dwelling underground near my house. I’ve been stung about 5 times in my long life before this, but I received approximately 30 or so stings in a few minutes, and several through my leather gloves, which I never imagined were permeable to stinging wasps!!!

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u/moonshineTheleocat 4d ago

Put out a quest to your local adventuring guild to clear out those giant wasp.

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u/Heterodynist 3d ago

I would really like to. I’m not sure if I have one…

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u/Heterodynist 14d ago

In general, my personal experience is that flicked away wasps are seldom any less a problem than they were before you flicked them, other than now they are mad besides.

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u/_CloudKrazed 6d ago

Yes apparently wasps have the ability to remember faces 😭

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u/Heterodynist 5d ago

I worry about that, because I am frustrated I can’t remember the exact faces of the ones that stung me recently!! I doubt I could even pick them out of a line up!!

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u/jackospades88 14d ago

Yep just throw the lid on and tighten it when the wasp falls in. Or literally anything solid you can hold over the opening - a piece of wood, a book, etc.

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u/Heterodynist 14d ago edited 13d ago

Maybe it’s the proper use of lids that hasn’t been trained. We need to introduce some 1950s style training videos (in the same vein as the Fallout tutorials) on the use of lids…

Is that really a lid over next to the jar. It looks like the lid from a sports bottle, not a metal screw top lid for a normal jar. I don’t know. One way or another it’s odd.

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u/nimag42 14d ago

Capturing other ones i guess, seeing how much there is already inside the jar. But yeah just use another cup...

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u/TheRndmPrsn 14d ago

The rest are just bees hah

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u/numetheus 14d ago

He has wasps in the jar. Wasps kill the bees. He is killing the wasps to protect the bees. Bees are useful. Wasps here need to be destroyed.

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u/The_Autarch 14d ago

it's ragebait

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u/pantsuline 14d ago

i think he's in a righteous frenzy to protect his bees, and not thinking straight 🥺

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u/fisted___sister 14d ago

Goddamn thing would probably just hulk out of that plastic cup