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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

In Australia there's a tree called Gympie-Gympie.

"Gympie" is a powerful swear-word in the local aboriginal language (like "Fucking cunt!") and in that language, repeating a word twice is like amplifying it 10x. They named this tree the most aggressive swear they could come up with.

The tree is covered in tiny hypodermic needle-like hairs. Brushing against it leaves you coated in these hairs which inflict a pain that has been described as like being burned with fire, except with fire, your nerve endings are eventually destroyed. Not so with the Gympie-Gympie.

Pain from an encounter has been known to last for months or years. There is a story of a soldier on patrol who used it's leaves as toilet paper. He committed suicide after a few weeks. There's a report of a horse which brushed one of these trees, and it went mad and ran nonstop until it found a cliff and ran right over the edge to its death.

Gympie-Gympie leaves would make the most cursed glitter imaginable

[-] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

New fear unlocked Jesus Christ

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Those leaves remind me of stinging nettles... I'm sure Gympie-Gympie is worse, but my first time being stung by nettles scared the shit out of me as they got me clear through my jeans.

[-] anythingdull@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia says it’s in the nettle family, so you’re not wrong

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 50 points 2 days ago

Punching holes in poison ivy leaves sounds like a good way to get a rash.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 days ago

Obviously you buy a hole punch for this particular activity instead of your communal one. 

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

it's kind of hard to take off the stick, though

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 17 points 2 days ago

Some of us are immune. I have no idea why other than I got it from my mother, who has really bad allergies.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I recently realized I'm not affected by it either, for nearly 40 years I just thought I was great at identifying it and just careful. My wife got into it a few years back and it was horrible for her (big welts and oozing stuff, pretty gross), when she went to the doctor they were like, "Yep, that's poison ivy, here is some cream and a shot, be more careful"; so I went out and cleared all of it I could find and learned how to properly identify it.

I still try to wear gloves because I've heard that you can eventually start having a reaction but I have debated the idea of using an aerosolized form of the oil as an emergency oh shit button if an unidentified masked person tries to pull me out my car.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

..I should ask my mom if poison ivy affects her. pretty sure it does, though, and my allergies are worse. maybe I'm first in the line. too bad I don't have a kid to find out.

I remember at some summer jobs way back as a teen that I would literally sit in patches of poison ivy at times to eat lunch, because I didn't care to check and just found a spot in the ditch that looked comfy

now, wild parsnip blisters after getting sap on you and not cleaning it before exposure to sunlight... that shit is gross

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

I've heard people with Native American ancestry tend to have immunity to poison ivy, but I'm not sure if that's backed by science.

Also, if you got burned by wild parsnip... that was hemlock, a poisonous lookalike...

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

This is my superpower because I generally don't react to poison ivy.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 22 hours ago

I always react to Poison Ivy, wink wink nudge nudge

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

To us it’s just Ivy

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Not sure how long it takes, but I hear tell there's biodegradable glitter.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

There is, but to what standard does the manufacturer consider their product "biodegradable".

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

There are many, I believe the best ones are TUV certified water-biodegradable ('OK Biodegradable Water' cert). It's means it's 100% biodegradable and non-ecotoxic to a high standard, with at least 90% fully biodegrading in fresh water in 56 days or less, and confirms it does not biodegrade into microplastics - which some 'bioplastics' do.

'BioGlitter' is one example, a British invention now owned by a German company and made in Germany. From quick research it seems to be made primarily of Eucalyptus (leaf?) cellulose and wood pulp.

https://www.discoverbioglitter.com/what-does-ok-biodegradable-water-certification-mean/

[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Everything is technically biodegradable given enough time. Except lead maybe

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 9 points 2 days ago

If somebody inhales an irritant you could kill them, don't do this.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Sure would be a shame if an ICE agent walked through a cloud of aerosolized toxicodendron oil.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 2 days ago

The risk of collateral damage is too high, rejected, buy a gun.

[-] kushana@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

All natural biological warfare

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Extracting urisol for entirely legitimate purposes

[-] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 5 points 2 days ago

urushiol, isn't it?

I just searched it, urisol is a bladder drug of some kind. I guess you could weaponize it if you really tried.

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