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CharlestonJew posted:I read a book when I was a kid, I forgot the name of it, it had the word "Bible" in the title. It was about a crazy pastor taking his family to africa to teach the savages about our lord and savior Jesus Christ. One of his daughters was crippled or something and the village they were staying in had a tidal wave of angry-rear end ants come by and just start biting the poo poo out of people, so the crippled girl got left behind by her mom and got like a billion ant bites. so now im a little wary of ants and africa Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Pretty lame book but yeah that part was metal.
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420 Gank Mid posted:Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver ah thank you i was tryin so hard to remember the title
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CharlestonJew posted:I read a book when I was a kid, I forgot the name of it, it had the word "Bible" in the title. It was about a crazy pastor taking his family to africa to teach the savages about our lord and savior Jesus Christ. One of his daughters was crippled or something and the village they were staying in had a tidal wave of angry-rear end ants come by and just start biting the poo poo out of people, so the crippled girl got left behind by her mom and got like a billion ant bites. so now im a little wary of ants and africa
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There's an ant crawling up your back in the nighttime There's an ant crawling up your back in the nighttime But you think that's okay while you're sleeping That ant crawled in your head in the nighttime That ant crawled in your head in the nighttime But you think that's okay while you're sleeping Someday, that ant, he will grow up to be President Someday, that ant, he will grow up to be President But you think that's okay while you're sleeping The President calls your name in the nighttime The President calls your name in the nighttime But you think that's okay while you're sleeping The men ransack your house in the nighttime The men ransack your house in the nighttime As the ant crawls up your back while you're sleeping
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273423-X posted:Isn't there already an ant thread in PI? Oh well, I'll post here as it will probably get more traffic Look at that blue-exoskeletoned idiot, lol.
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So gamergate ants happen when the queen is dead, fascinating stuff. I wonder though, does it also happen when the queen receives death threats and is driven out of the anthill? The Wikipedia doesn't cover this contingency.
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Such things do not happen as all the workers obey the will of the queen without exception. Threatening her would be unthinkable and certainly lead to death at the mandibles of their peers. Some people suspect this would make for an ideal society. Fortunately such a thing will never actually happen in human society, although in some circles they seem to come disturbingly close.
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Tell me more about how humans organize themselves in the gamergate thread.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Are there any insects that go to war with fire ant colonies and win? I don't know about winning, but I know there's another ant species that lives successfully in fire ant regions. They are super aggressive about killing fire ant scouts so the colony stays hidden. If that doesn't work, the soldiers pull a Thermopylae while the workers evacuate the queen and brood.
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Oct 16, 2014 16:56
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can someone explain gamergates to me
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memy posted:can someone explain gamergates to me it's a website where you can buy videogames. ive never bought anything there cuz Steam or gmg is cheaper but it's still around so they're doing something right.
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So is gamergate a thing with all ant species? Or do only a few species of ant do this?
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CharlestonJew posted:it's a website where you can buy videogames. ive never bought anything there cuz Steam or gmg is cheaper but it's still around so they're doing something right. thanks
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stjamesgate is one of the best investments in monopoly. it belongs to the lucrative orange property set which can get landed on whenever someone rolls doubles with 6 or 8 to get out of jail, and when getting out of jail otherwise, 6 8 and 9 are common rolls on two six sided dice.
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video games should be fun imo
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Aunts are pretty cool, I once met a colony of aunts and they bought me ice cream and smoked cigarettes and one even slipped a little bourbon into my Pepsi drink. I was 8 years old. The year was 1957. And I knew what a real woman was like.
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they just don't make board games like they used to. when did parker brothers get replaced by the marx brothers?
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DoctorStrangelove posted:So is gamergate a thing with all ant species? Or do only a few species of ant do this? It's only in a few species and in many species it might also differ from colony to colony. Some species only exhibit gamergate behaviour in the absence of a queen. Gamergate colonies can also be monogynous or polygynous, just like queen colonies.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't play video games ten hours a day.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I am not an awesome ant.
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can i sell my used games for basically nothing at gamergate? can i buy used games? someone should do a gamergate faq
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blainestereo posted:The only thing I regret in life is that I am not an awesome ant.   this one looks like she's got a plate on her head (her head is actually that shape to block tunnels)
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Paladinus posted:The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't play video games ten hours a day. think of all the free time you could have!
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273423-X posted:
In a video game I would use that as a platform to cross lava or some poo poo gently caress there's two of them so now I gotta make a tricky jump over the lava after wards I get space jump boots
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Honey pot brought all the gamergates to the yard
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My favorite ant is the bullet ant, or Paraponera Clavata: From the Wikipedia article: quote:The pain caused by this insect's sting is purported to be greater than that of any other hymenopteran, and is ranked as the most painful according to the Schmidt sting pain index, given a "4+" rating, above the tarantula hawk wasp and, according to some victims, equal to being shot, hence the name of the insect. This tread is fun AND informative, just like the old gamergate thread! (Don't know if bullet ants actually have gamergates though so this might be slightly off topic)
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That photo doesn't showcase bullet ant's beautiful mandibles nearly enough, here is a better one, slightly spoiled by an ugly watermark:
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Reading ever more about gamergates, I have to say they're even more creepy and savagely brutal ant societies than the usual lot. First female to sexual maturity bites off bits of the others that would otherwise be attractive to males. The human equivalent of an aspiring gamergate would need first to rip the tits off of the other women around them in short. After their first mating they then secret pheromones that basically tell everyone else to accept their place on the bottom rung. Still, there are costs. Gamergates live nowhere near as long as Queens. The Snark fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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kick_the_penguin posted:What type of ant is that? I had no idea that there were ants like that. I'm learning so much about ants today. Cephalotes varians http://www.antweb.org/description.do?genus=cephalotes&species=varians&rank=species&project=allantwebants
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Gamergatefacts is worth making a twitter account just to follow. I have never before learned so many ant facts in one place but this thread might outperform that!
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blainestereo posted:That photo doesn't showcase bullet ant's beautiful mandibles nearly enough, here is a better one, slightly spoiled by an ugly watermark: We have very different definitions of beauty. Bullet ants are monsters. There's a tribe in the region where they live who will make a glove with live bullet ants stitched inside and, as a rite of manhood, warriors put the glove on their hand and try to endure the pain for as long as possible. These people's descendants are now called "gamers".
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BottledBodhisvata posted:We have very different definitions of beauty. Bullet ants are monsters. Ah yes, the rite of carpal tunnel. Barbaric stuff.
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what i dont understand is how feminist spores have infiltrated gamergates and make them their literal puppets. feminist spores can wipe out whole populations and its pretty terrifying that there is a feminist spore specifically designed for each type of gamergate
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Aunts are pretty cool, I once met a colony of aunts and they bought me ice cream and smoked cigarettes and one even slipped a little bourbon into my Pepsi drink.  Now that Tokaii's been outed as a pedo (apologist), does that make you the oldest goon?
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memy posted:
nah now it's genesplicer
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Don't drown an ant colony, they'll try to make a raft to protect the queen and larvae until they reach land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ZysgGAABw
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Marlamaid Swordhand posted:Don't drown an ant colony, they'll try to make a raft to protect the queen and larvae until they reach land. this is the best gamergate thread gbs has ever had, im learning so many interesting facts about interesting bugs
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