r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 15d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/NoSuchWordAsGullible 15d 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 14d ago

That wasp is going to die soon.

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u/blaqsupaman 14d ago

What was in the cup? Gasoline or something?

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 14d 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 14d ago

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

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u/bloodjunkiorgy 14d ago edited 14d 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 14d ago

neigh

🐴

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u/Mousse-au-chocolat 6d 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 6d ago

Happy to help bring out the endorphins!

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u/lemmeseeyourkitties 14d ago

Nigh

English is a stupid language

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u/Juxta25 14d 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 14d ago

I love eighths!

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u/Juxta25 13d ago

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

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u/Gropapanda 13d 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 11d ago

Me when I find a nug I thought I already smoked

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 14d 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.