(This might fit better in Great Outdoors, but fk it.)

The bees were out en masse on campus today, and while I love to watch them, the topic came up as to how much a bee sting hurts. As I've never been stung, I did what any sensible college student would do...I looked it up. And found something really funny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

In the name of science, somebody actually got stung by like 75 different kinds of stinging insects and ranked the pain level of the stings. The whole ordeal seems to have made him a little crazy, as you can tell by the descriptions.

Tell me what you think

haha, some of those descriptions are ridiculous. I live on a farm, and have subsequently been stung plenty of times. Sweat bees, wasps, honey bee, bumblebee... By the way, I believe it varies from sting to sting how bad it hurts even if it's by the same type of insect. Sweat bees in particular can vary a ton. I guess it depends on how sensitive the skin in the area is and maybe a few other factors, but sometimes you barely notice the sting and laugh at the pathetic creature, but other times they can really lay it on ya... By far the worst sting I have ever had was the bumblebee... I was raking hay on a tractor with no cab and disturbed a bit of a swarm of them, but I saw it was happening and just took off on the tractor trying to get away so luckily only one of them chased me, but it chased me a solid quarter of a mile before it finally stung me--right in the back of my head, through a thick layer of hair and everything. And he hung on there, had to actually knock him off. That thing hurt like a bitch, swelled up the rest of the day and everything... Not a pleasant experience at all.

i just wanted to let you know that I lol'ed. that's all.

Stupidity for the sake of science is still stupidity.

Wow, so I was reading the wiki for that bullet ant:

It is described as causing "waves of burning, throbbing, all-consuming pain that continues unabated for up to 24 hours"

Then you read this:

The Satere-Mawe people of Brazil use intentional bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become a warrior.[3] The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural chloroform, and then hundreds of them are woven into a glove made out of leaves (which resembles a large oven mitt), stinger facing inward. When the ants regain consciousness, a boy slips the glove onto his hand. The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for a full ten minutes. When finished, the boy's hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed because of the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal a total of 20 times over the course of several months or even years.[4]

Those people are effin crazy.

Yeah, they went there on Wildboys once... and they tried it. They ended up in the hospital, it was awesome.