fffffinally getting around to those bust sketches hur hur
for @daetur!
shithowdy: fffffinally getting around to those bust sketches hur hur for @daetur!
you would not believe your floor
Mercury Dime and Wasp
I did some research on the picture of the wasp with the mercury dime last night when I also noticed how odd that was.
It’s originally from National Geographic, and the photographer’s name was Paul Zahl and he worked for National Geographic between 1949 and 1978, and that explains the super cool old dime since they we still in circulation for many of those years. (After the US discontinued silver coins in 1964, they became increasingly difficult to find, but Mercury Dimes were still fairly common prior to that.)
Ohhh! If it were pre-1965 it would totally explain it, as you said!
Fun fact: so ~20 years ago I worked in a coin shop, and I’ve gone through multiple bank bags of quarters ($500, or 2000 quarters) and in all the time I had done that I have literally only found a single silver quarter in all of them (you can tell because of the date and the fact that they do not have the bi-metallic edge like nickle-clad copper does.)
And yeah! There was a whole bunch of baiscally illegal activity after silver got expensive and removed from coinage where people would basically melt down silver coinage into ingots and then smuggle them around so they could sell it for the value of silver
ninterbit: quick nelf for @drekkydrimm
The Lich King goes for a job interview
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
moonsofavalon: prokopetz: thesallowbeldam: momma-crow: 1petulantkitten: 1petulantkitten: artistil: weavemama: BY A WHAT THATS ALL THE BIG SCARIES IN ONE BUG TFFFJU Give it a dime, apparently. Had to go research this thing, and the answer to what to do if it stings you is
BY A WHAT
THATS ALL THE BIG SCARIES IN ONE BUG TFFF
JUGive it a dime, apparently.
Had to go research this thing, and the answer to what to do if it stings you is scream.
from Wikipedia-
“One researcher described the pain as “…immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations. In terms of scale, the wasp’s sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt sting pain index, second only to that of the bullet ant, and is described by Schmidt as “blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric”.“
Soooooo…dissociate to escape or?
It’s laying eggs in you.
Let’s back up a second and fully appreciate that description.
The Schmidt sting pain index, a widely used classification system for the bites and stings of ants, bees and wasps, is literally the personal ranking system of a guy named Justin Schmidt, who goes around letting bugs sting him for science. Like, that’s this Thing as a scientist.
In one entry, he describes the sting of the common bee as “almost pleasant, [like] a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard.”
In another, the sting of the yellowjacket is described as “hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.“
So when the Schmidt sting pain index characterises the sting of the tarantula hawk as “blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric”, well, now you know what your standard for comparison is!
this is fascinating but when do we kinkshame Justin Schmidt
Why is that being compared to a Mercury Dime, a coin that hasn’t been minted since 1945?
