This is what Cnidarians do and this is why they do it. It’s not the jellyfish’s fault for what happened: the jellyfish did not attack Rodney – he touched the tentacles and triggered the cnidocytes to shoot out their nematocysts.
Rodney, it could be worse, you could have been this guy: https://www.westernjournal.com/shark-bursts-waves-devastating-attack-parasailor-gliding-just-overhead-captured-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=bac6e4de4f520753fdcd528e1277c001
I ran across a jelly out on the reef just last week. The little dude was hard to see, but I saw him and managed to avoid him. Don’t want to end up like Rodney.
Doug K over 3 years ago
Did he say he wanted to make it hurt less?
B UTTONS over 3 years ago
Isn’t that why medical providers tell you step-by-step as they administer an injection?
Peterh778 over 3 years ago
Wiz: “Knowledge is power, use it well” :D
sandpiper over 3 years ago
Explanations can be more painful than the injury.
Doug K over 3 years ago
This is what Cnidarians do and this is why they do it. It’s not the jellyfish’s fault for what happened: the jellyfish did not attack Rodney – he touched the tentacles and triggered the cnidocytes to shoot out their nematocysts.
Imagine over 3 years ago
A jellyfish named Barbie.
SamuelMeasa over 3 years ago
So Wiz is now Ducky from NCIS. Choosing to wax poetics with his subject on how they got to his operating table?
Jayalexander over 3 years ago
One of the many reasons I do not swim in the ocean. It’s occupied.
WentBrown over 3 years ago
hahahaha
dcandmx over 3 years ago
Wizard-splaining…..
littlejohn Premium Member over 3 years ago
So Rodney found “someone” who has less of a backbone then he does. Yet this “someone” can really hurt people, unlike Sir Rodney.
MayCauseBurns over 3 years ago
Time for Wiz to whizz on the jellyfish sting?
Troglodyte over 3 years ago
Maybe Rod, but the Wiz is feeling better already!
derdave969 over 3 years ago
Perhaps the Wiz is hoping that a mind numbing explanation will spread to the extremities.
jagedlo over 3 years ago
Rodney, it could be worse, you could have been this guy: https://www.westernjournal.com/shark-bursts-waves-devastating-attack-parasailor-gliding-just-overhead-captured-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=bac6e4de4f520753fdcd528e1277c001
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Just remember, everything alive in the ocean eats something else alive in the ocean.
rshive over 3 years ago
That’ll teach Rodney not to touch stuff he shouldn’t.
timinwsac Premium Member over 3 years ago
The Wiz needs to wiz on Rodneys hand now.
Ichabod Ferguson over 3 years ago
Mansplaining at its finest.
jango over 3 years ago
And the wheel of evolution continues to spin.
Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 3 years ago
Wiz on it, Wiz!
TexTech over 3 years ago
Wiz must have gotten his latest copy of Cnidaria Monthly.
jim_pem over 3 years ago
I ran across a jelly out on the reef just last week. The little dude was hard to see, but I saw him and managed to avoid him. Don’t want to end up like Rodney.
andersjg Premium Member over 3 years ago
Portuguese man-of-war with all sails set.
Goat from PBS over 3 years ago
Can we get that medic from last week over here?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 3 years ago
But maybe now it is ready to cook!!
(One good thing about jellyfish: NO BONES!!)
KEA over 3 years ago
I know a palliative, but saying it would probably get me blocked
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
Wonder what would happen if a jelly fish ever met up with a peanut-butter fish?
hawgowar over 3 years ago
As a lad, I stepped on a Portuguese Man-O-War tentacle. Supreme ouchie. Thought I had stepped on lava.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 3 years ago
Tell that to the bloggers who write extensively about the symptoms without giving the promised remedy.