2026-09-18 23:15 UTC
Side note, do NOT pee on a Jellyfish sting! It won't help and may make it hurt more. Ideally, rinse with vinegar to deactivate the stinging cells and pull out any stuck stingers with tweezers. In a pinch, rinse with seawater and use something flat like the edge of a plastic credit card to pull stingers out. Touching them with fingers can make inactive stingers 'go off' in a secondary explosion of ouch. Fresh water can also set them off.
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@sgtstretch@appdot.net 2026-09-18 23:22
@cherizilla@retro.pizza So the movies have been lying to us‽
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@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party 2026-09-19 03:36
@cherizilla@retro.pizza Back when I was a kid in the '70s, we lived right on the Eastern shore of New Brunswick, less than a km from the beach. So we spent the summer in the water. My brother and I would entertain ourselves with jellyfish fights. Much like a snowball fight, but spicy. The blue jellys and lion's manes never seemed to bother us much. We'd pretend the red lines they left were tattoos. We'd never heard about the pee thing. Which was for the best.