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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: daerid on Tue, 20 August 2013, 15:04:26

Title: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: daerid on Tue, 20 August 2013, 15:04:26
...avoid getting bitten by a Black Widow

This s**t sucks hard :-(
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 20 August 2013, 15:05:38
I'm sure it sucks way more than the keyboard :(

Hope you are ok!
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: hashbaz on Tue, 20 August 2013, 15:05:47
Oof. :(
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: esoomenona on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:15:34
...avoid getting bitten by a Black Widow

This s**t sucks hard :-(

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

/me goes to find a black widow
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: Thimplum on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:23:33
...avoid getting bitten by a Black Widow

This s**t sucks hard :-(

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

/me goes to find a black widow

You have one on your desk, you're so new. JKJKJKJK
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:35:00
...avoid getting bitten by a Black Widow

This s**t sucks hard :-(

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

/me goes to find a black widow

You have one on your desk, you're so new. JKJKJKJK

wait, is the OP about the keyboard, as in he bought one, and it sux, and he felt bitten?
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:37:14
...avoid getting bitten by a Black Widow

This s**t sucks hard :-(

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

/me goes to find a black widow

You have one on your desk, you're so new. JKJKJKJK

wait, is the OP about the keyboard, as in he bought one, and it sux, and he felt bitten?

I'm pretty sure he actually got bit by a real black widow spider.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: lazerpointer on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:41:24
Take a pic of ze lesion! I'm sure it hurts!

Did you go to the doctor?
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:45:56
Take a pic of ze lesion! I'm sure it hurts!

Did you go to the doctor?

you don't need to go to a doctor, unless you're a very young child/ a geriatric/ or an immuno-compromised person.

Contrary to the Mythical insta-death surrounding black-widow bites... It may be painful, but is far from "deadly".

Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 20 August 2013, 16:48:19
Unless you're allergic in which case, you'll go into shock and probably die before they can rescue you..

Second case, could be your air way seizes up, and you'd require tracheostomy, WHICH can be performed by a friend with a knife and a hollow tube.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: lazerpointer on Tue, 20 August 2013, 17:02:52
TP4 - I've just always been curious, cause I grew up around a lot of them. Could never use a wheelbarrow or any yard equipment, really, without having to get rid of at least 1 black widow.

Where'd you even get bit, daerid? I bet what ever you were doing, you'll be more cautious next time  ;)
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: Thimplum on Tue, 20 August 2013, 17:06:39
Whenever TP posts, I always learn something. Well, most of the time anyways.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: daerid on Tue, 20 August 2013, 18:46:49
This is the little ****er right here.

Yeah I went to the hospital. Didn't know what else to do, and my health insurance covers pretty much everything. Glad I did, too. Morphine really helped things out.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: ComradeSniper on Tue, 20 August 2013, 18:50:45
Ouch. I hope you heal up soon, that doesn't sound like much fun.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: Puddsy on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:23:35
This is the little ****er right here.

Yeah I went to the hospital. Didn't know what else to do, and my health insurance covers pretty much everything. Glad I did, too. Morphine really helped things out.

LOOK AT THIS *******. THIS ******* RIGHT HERE. Screw that guy.

At least insurance covered most of it.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: demik on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:24:25
you must burn your house down as payback now.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: The_Beast on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:25:08
you must burn your house down as payback now.

It's the only way to make sure they are all gone  ;)
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: demik on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:30:03
i'll hold all your keyboards while you settle!
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: daerid on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:30:30
At least insurance covered most of it.

Actually, it covered all of it.

you must burn your house down as payback now.

Personally, I said we should take off and nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:32:41
Yikes!  Glad you are ok (and at least able to post).
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: noisyturtle on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:41:18
When I was a kid my cat MC was bitten by a brown recluse. One of the most difficult 48hrs of my life, but in the end he pulled through and lived to the ripe age of 17. He had this big cavern in his chest where the vet pulled out all the dead tissue  :(

Glad to hear you're OK now as well.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: CommunistWitchDr on Tue, 20 August 2013, 20:42:04
This is the little ****er right here.

Yeah I went to the hospital. Didn't know what else to do, and my health insurance covers pretty much everything. Glad I did, too. Morphine really helped things out.

Go find another black widow, make it bite that one.


When I was a kid my cat MC was bitten by a brown recluse. One of the most difficult 48hrs of my life, but in the end he pulled through and lived to the ripe age of 17. He had this big cavern in his chest where the vet pulled out all the dead tissue  :(

Glad to hear you're OK now as well.
Gotta say, I would much rather be bitten by a widow than recluse.
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: daerid on Tue, 20 August 2013, 22:09:43
Gotta say, I would much rather be bitten by a widow than recluse.

Apparently it runs in my family. Mom was bitten by a Black Widow, Dad by a Brown Recluse (didn't have a necrotic reaction though).
Title: Re: If I might make a suggestion...
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 20 August 2013, 22:13:18
At least insurance covered most of it.

Actually, it covered all of it.

you must burn your house down as payback now.

Personally, I said we should take off and nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Buh if you do this.. it may create giant nucular bw-spiders.  then it would be insta-death