The Sumbitch Playground

**Sumbitch** · 08-07-2015, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by Cujo

Heros those guys. When men were men.

...and women, too...

**Sumbitch** · 08-07-2015, 08:42 AM

Absurd Creature of the Week: If This Wasp Stings You, ‘Just Lie Down and Start Screaming’

This is the business end of the tarantula wasp, and by business end I mean the end that once made a guy crawl into a ditch and cry. True story.

JUSTIN SCHMIDT IS an entomologist, and has accordingly been stung by a lot of bugs. So he invented something called the Schmidt sting pain index (named after some guy called Schmidt, apparently), which ranks the pain of insect stings from one to four. Down at one is something like the fire ant, which is so named for a reason, while up at four is the bullet ant, which is so called for a very, very good reason.

Joining the bullet ant at four is a critter that lives right here in the southwestern US: the tarantula hawk. It’s actually a kind of solitary wasp with a sting whose resulting pain only lasts three minutes, but it’s so fiercely electric that it could only be described as totally unacceptable. “There are some vivid descriptions of people getting stung by these things,” says invertebrate biologist Ben Hutchins of Texas Parks and Wildlife, “and their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming, because few if any people could maintain verbal and physical coordination after getting stung by one of these things. You’re likely to just run off and hurt yourself. So just lie down and start yelling.”

Either this wasp is giant or this is a child holding it. Probably the former though, on account of child endangerment.

**Sumbitch** · 10-07-2015, 06:02 AM

Austin Dillon in horrifying crash; five fans injured

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Coke Zero 400 early Monday morning, but the finish of the race was marred by a horrifying crash that sent Austin Dillon's car sailing into the catchfence at Daytona International Speedway.

Dillon walked away and waved to the crowd after his car got airborne and was torn apart by the fence. He was been checked and released from the infield care center with a bruised tailbone and forearm.

Track president Joie Chitwood III confirmed 13 fans were examined and eight declined treatment. Of the five treated, one was transported to a local hospital, treated and released. The other four were treated at the infield care center.

"It's not really acceptable, I don't think," Dillon told reporters after exiting the care center. "We've got to figure out something. Our speeds are too high, I think. I think everybody could get good racing with slower speeds. We can work at that, and then figure out a way to keep the cars on the ground. That's the next thing. We're fighting hard to make the racing good. I hope the fans appreciate that. We don't, but it's our job. You go out there and hold it wide open to the end and hope you make it through."

**Sumbitch** · 10-07-2015, 06:03 AM

^ I think we got to hand it to that NBC cameraman.

**Sumbitch** · 12-07-2015, 09:25 AM

Serena Slam: Williams Smashes Her Way to Another Wimbledon Title

**Sumbitch** · 12-07-2015, 09:26 AM

No dawgs on this thread either, unfortunately.

**Sumbitch** · 12-07-2015, 05:48 PM

Another thank-you to November Rain for my first actual green. Three guesses what for.

**Sumbitch** · 12-07-2015, 06:03 PM

**Luigi** · 12-07-2015, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by wjblaney

Another thank-you to November Rain for my first actual green. Three guesses what for.

I went to see Slash in Impact Arena a few years ago. 2011 I think. Pretty much just a GNR cover band from their Appetite For Destruction days, which suited me fine.

Good gig, bar he was a fat fucker and the Thais just want to stand there with their iPads. Singer was from.... Alice in Chains? maybe not.

**Sumbitch** · 12-07-2015, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by Luigi

I went to see Slash in Impact Arena a few years ago. 2011 I think. Pretty much just a GNR cover band from their Appetite For Destruction days, which suited me fine.

Good gig, bar he was a fat fucker and the Thais just want to stand there with their iPads. Singer was from.... Alice in Chains? maybe not.

here is a video from that concert.

Doesn't look like a fat dude. I've seen more recent pix, too. Prolly just big from lifting weights. The lead singer is Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge. Just as an aside, the original lead singer for Alice in Chains was Layne Staley. That was one of those rock 'n roll OD stories.

After a decade of battling drug addiction, Layne Staley was found dead in his condominium on April 19, 2002, two weeks after his actual death.

Alice in Chains' current vocalist, William DuVall. DuVall replaced Layne Staley in the reformed band following Staley's death.

They are fcuking good now and have released two albums since reforming: Black Gives Way to Blue in 2009 and The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here in 2013.

**Sumbitch** · 13-07-2015, 05:27 AM

**Sumbitch** · 13-07-2015, 05:32 AM

**bobo746** · 13-07-2015, 01:00 PM

**Cujo** · 13-07-2015, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by bobo746

I know I should feel sorry or symathetic towards someone that has hurt himself probably quite badly but it was such a stupid thing to do that all I can think is (in the voice of that kid in the simpsons) "haha"
Am I bad?

**OhOh** · 13-07-2015, 02:12 PM

How about the car driver's family as the driver died of a heart attack at the scene.

They of course became immensely wealthy, him being very well insured.

**Kurgen** · 13-07-2015, 03:01 PM

He's a bearded hippy, fukk him.

**Sumbitch** · 14-07-2015, 10:57 PM

**stroller** · 14-07-2015, 11:03 PM

**Sumbitch** · 15-07-2015, 07:34 AM

Why was the last dude sitting straight up when the two guys in front are so far into their leans, their bikes look riderless?

**Sumbitch** · 15-07-2015, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by bobo746

Jorge Lorenzo:

**Chittychangchang** · 18-07-2015, 09:26 PM

**Sumbitch** · 19-07-2015, 05:55 AM

^

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

What's amusing about this?

**Chittychangchang** · 19-07-2015, 06:30 AM

**Sumbitch** · 19-07-2015, 07:00 AM

^ Hypothesis: big foot, yeti, sasquatch, whatever you call it, does exist.

**Sumbitch** · 19-07-2015, 07:03 AM

which would mean we may not be the only concurrently existing member of the homo genus on the planet.

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