google image search comes back with “Asian soups?”
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Oh, I’m pretty sure there’s horrible agony. All JonS pointed out was that all your muscles will be locked down too hard from the paralysis to writhe 
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In Yellowstone I watched a tourist literally corner a massive bison to get a closeup picture. Nutso.
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I had a similar experience with one key variation.
Ooh, tendrils. I better look around to see where the jellyfish is.
Agh, it’s right in front of my face and the tendrils have stung my cheeks.
Ok, I’m clear, I will continue the dive.
Nope, I’m in agony and this dive is over.
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You are talking about Australian people, not jellyfish, right?
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I will forever remember a story I read from Australia about a guy who, on a bet, ate a slug and died. It wasn’t even because it was one of the many, many organisms there which are venomous or even poisonous. It just happened to carry a bacteria that gave him a fatal infection.
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Yikes! That’s is not good. I’m really glad luck was on my side. Do the stings hurt for a short time or is it something that lasts for days?
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Loud, check, Obnoxious, check. Can’t hold their licker? Are you sure they weren’t kiwis?
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New gag gift for friends with sleep apnea. Actually only one friend with the condition. And yes is imaginary…
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What a pretty octopus
Yup. As a newby at open water swimming, I discovered quite rashly that it’s not a good idea to swim in murkey water. Those stripey dots lasted ‘till I found some ‘windex with amonia D’ in the rental. Seemed to do the trick.
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Impressive, AI.
I believe it is a cyano bacteria - AKA Blue Green Algae.
Someone told me it might be a Nostoc, AKA Troll’s Butter, AKA Star Jelly.
There is a type found in China that is eaten called Fat Choy.
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The stings of that particular jelly (The ‘Sea Blubber’) hurt like hell for about 2 hours, then didn’t hurt at all, though it took a week or so for the marks across my cheeks to go away.
It made for a conversation topic in my job interview a few days later. I got the job as well, so maybe I stood out as ‘the guy with jellyfish stings on his face’.
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Hahaha add that to the job hunting tips.
Reminds me of the Star Trek Salt Vampire victims from the episode The Man Trap.
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Are you referring to Thylarctos plummetus?
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Days - based on a not so similar experience in Bali, where I never saw what got me. But the pain lasted about a day & the marks a couple of weeks.
Something I wish I’d known - in north Bali at least the invisible jellies like to come out at dusk.
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… I bite
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Unless, like my brother, you’re allergic to them.
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