• @seth
      link
      188 months ago

      deleted by creator

      • @BreadOven
        link
        88 months ago

        Once I was in some rock pool, wearing some old converse with holes in them because of the rocks.

        I must have stepped in a nest or something, because when I took the shoes off I had like 50 tiny (like rice-sized) leeches on one of my feet.

        Thankfully they came off easily.

        • @seth
          link
          118 months ago

          deleted by creator

          • @kofe
            link
            English
            48 months ago

            I…am both horrified and grateful for your story.

          • @BreadOven
            link
            28 months ago

            Thankfully I don’t think I’ve had any that attached. I think salt also works to get them off/dry them out?

            • IninewCrow
              link
              fedilink
              English
              38 months ago

              Don’t use salt, fire or lighters on leeches. The leech is attached, gave you a light anesthetic, punched a hole through your skin to a blood vessel and now drinking the blood by sucking through the hole. When you use salt or fire in the leech, you’re shocking it with extreme pain which makes it vomit through the hole it’s sucking on … basically puking into your body. This has the danger of causing an infection or even a reaction to whatever was in the leech stuff that went back into your body.

              Carefully and slowly pinching and nudging them is the safest way to get them off.

              • @BreadOven
                link
                27 months ago

                Interesting. Good to know. I haven’t removed one with salt in decades probably, but I will remember this. Thanks.

      • threelonmusketeers
        link
        fedilink
        English
        78 months ago

        stretching their little proboscides up and flop around like a slow version of those inflatable airdancers used to advertise car dealerships

        Thank you for this vivid description. Yet another reason for me to tuck my pants into my socks.

        • @seth
          link
          38 months ago

          deleted by creator

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        68 months ago

        After tucking in your pants, wrap some duct tape around your ankle sticky side out. Stop them ticks also

        • @seth
          link
          28 months ago

          deleted by creator

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      3
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      How many leeches are this guy’s breeches?

      This guys breeches are probably made out of several thousand leeches, at a minimum.

  • @pigup
    link
    1428 months ago

    A mosquito wrote this

  • ekZepp
    link
    English
    738 months ago

    [swamp-thing likes this photo] 👍

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      168 months ago

      Hahaha this. Swamps are so full of weird slimy and flying life. They are great, really great. But not for living in it XD

  • Sibbo
    link
    fedilink
    448 months ago

    So he is saying that getting drops of swamp water up your butt is totally safe? Or does he have a sphincter with an IP6 rating?

    • @Etterra
      link
      138 months ago

      He’s probably got an amoeba living in him somewhere important. But hey, he’s old, he don’t give a fuck.

  • @P34C0CK
    link
    388 months ago

    This river can kill you 1,000 ways.

    l can handle it. The only thing I’m afraid of is the candiru acu.

    It’s a tiny little catfish. It swims up into your urethra, spreads its little spines, and refuses to budge.

    You have to cut it out.

    That’s it I’m going back to L.A.!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      208 months ago

      it makes you feel better, the fish has only been documented doing this once in 1997, and it could have been a hoax

      Originally I thought the fish only went up there if you peed in the water, but that too seems questionable…

      But it does seem to like swimming up women’s hooha’s. Just don’t be a woman and you’ll be fine!

      • @Viking_Hippie
        link
        58 months ago

        Just don’t be a woman and you’ll be fine!

        Handy tip in general, that! 😛

    • rutellthesinful
      link
      fedilink
      178 months ago

      the candiru acu is actually the common name for cetopsis candiru

      the fish that swims up where it shouldn’t is the vandellia cirrhosa

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        248 months ago

        Yeah, I’d be more worried about the brain eating amoebas in the warm stagnant water.

        Maybe it’s safe if you keep your head out of the water and your fingers out of your nose. Dunno.

    • @Smoogs
      link
      78 months ago

      Let’s hope he’s wearing a cork or a condom

        • @RealFknNito
          link
          English
          68 months ago

          First, what’s in a username holy shit.

          Second, that sounds like a trip I’d have to sign a waiver for and everyone involved would be a different person by the end.

    • @oopy_soup
      link
      28 months ago

      I’m not sure he’s doing much of the tours anymore, the last time I saw him he was using a walker to get around. I love his work and his transition to black and white is beautiful.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    298 months ago

    As a desert dweller, this photo feels like a space of unknown wet horror. Glad he is happy but hard pass here.

    • @agent_flounder
      link
      English
      48 months ago

      As a lifetime resident of the arid Western United States, I am also gonna nope on outta that damp hell.

      • @Confused_Emus
        link
        48 months ago

        As someone who has lived in Louisiana, hell naw!

  • go $fsck yourself
    link
    English
    248 months ago

    “Swamps are great!” Says man that has the privilege of not getting horrific reactions to the thousands of bug bites.

  • @RatBin
    link
    138 months ago

    wetlands are some of the best place to be if you don’t mind the mud and the water. You get to see snakes, frogs, all that thrives in the water, insects, plants that never run out of water with these turgid leaves and flowers.

  • @Bytemeister
    link
    Ελληνικά
    78 months ago

    Yeah, swamps are great. I spent a week in a burning, alligator-infested swamp, and it beats the hell out of being around other people.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      28 months ago

      Picked up d2 again randomly last night. Just got through kurast and am about to bash mephs soulstone.

      Games so effing good after all these years.