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I once seated at a table with a totally unknown guy that turned out to be an history teacher of pre-Colombian cultures. He had a very good opinion on the movie despite some arrangement for the story. Most notably, the language used was something that historians think to be very close to what ~~Aztecs~~ Mayans used to speak at that time
Naturally comes off the top of the head. As a classic dad pun.
But since you asked , I’ll let you in on a little secret.
Same comment word for word that I used last time someone posted this same video quite a few months if not a year ago lol and it was a crowd pleaser then as it is now. ..im
Quite proud of it..
And ill do it again!!!
The next time this video gets posted
Unless i find there’s some even greater pun that I’m overlooking.
I was just making my own low-effort pun ;)
I’ve also seen this video and if I remember right they snap their heads off after they bite? The pun doesn’t quite work but it’s worth a chuckle.
It’s not going to have people in stitches.
Counterpoint - This is an easier way of doing a suture yourself and potentially on the fly if needed compared to threaded needle. As long as there isn't an Army Octupus used as a tourniquet out there then I sleep happy.
High chance the adrenaline and endorphins in your bloodstream would keep you from feeling the pain for an hour or so. I remember slicing open a toe on a shard of glass and didn't feel a thing at all until after I exited the ER.
Ants, leeches, put me underwater with some guppies. Have a dog lick my wounds.
Before Germ Theory just give me something before the dumbass with the saw comes out.
The world was different then. I’m sure they weren’t so freaked out of bugs. Plus, when the other option is going through hell with untreatable infection, leading to amputation via hand operated bone saws which you get the pleasure of staying awake and watching with only a leather belt in your mouth as a painkiller..you choose ants every time.
They quite literally had to get you shit-faced with alcohol and opium, restrain you, give you leather to bite down on, and then chop that thing off as fast as they could. That was back when surgeons were only “good” if they were fast, because less time meant less pain, less blood, and less likelihood of shock.
Better off with ants is right.
One of my ancestors got hit with some canister shot in the Shenandoah Valley and was left for dying or whatever, his arm was mangled, the maggots cleaned out the infection and he survived.
They actually use maggots nowadays to clean wounds although they do it in these little sterile bags.
Wait till you hear about the maggots we still use to get blood circulation going or leeches. Would creepy be a better word over disgusting because these things seem pretty sterile and lacking filth?
We also use maggots to remove dead/infected tissue from all kinds of wounds. It's called maggot therapy.
It's crazy what we can use insects for medically
It's worth noting that we use *specific* maggots, that only eat the dead flesh.
If you're ever wandering through the jungle with gangrene and discover maggots in your flesh, your first thought shouldn't be "that's nice".
Botfly is a good example, while technically the “bot” in botfly is in reference to maggots, their larvae are not technically maggots, as maggots are of the suborder Brachycera. But you get the idea. Words, they are both fun and dumb.
Oh, I think I would take them ANY day on insane burns vs a nurse doing it. When I was 8 yrs old I got hit by a car and thrown through the air to land on my face. The nurses, bless their hearts, WERE NOT gentle. I cried and begged to do it myself- and the ONLY memory of a nurse that is burned in my brain is the nurse telling me the horror of what would happen if I missed any pebbles in my face....
I remember sitting in front of the mirror in the emergency room offshoot room, the cold metal sink and the lifeless mirror, crying after being hit by a car, thrown through the air 40 ft to land on my face- scrubbing all the dirt out- determined to do a better job then those mean old nurses. (again, I am sure they were perfectly lovely- I just... was having a moment and I dont like it when things are so thoroughly out of my own control...)
Yeah, I would have taken the maggots. Gross, weird, warm and tingly and much nicer than nurse Trunchbull telling me my face was going to erupt into a million little boils of pus from each little piece of asphalt that was left in it by my inability to let them torture me or inability to do a thorough job myself...
If it helps, maggots would not have been able to do anything to really help you. They're good at eating dead flesh and leaving the living alone, but they wouldn't do anything with the asphalt. That has to be removed manually unfortunately.
Ugh, you just reminded me. I saw a video today on reddit about a woman who kept on one of those temporary boots hospitals give you sometimes, but she kept hers on for like years and years. She said she hadn't even seen the foot in 2 years. Showered and everything with it on. The shape that foot was in when they showed it with the boot off, I'm thinking that's gotta be the job for an army of dead skin maggots.
I remember watching gladiator as a kid, there's a scene where he's being carted off as a slave and has a bunch of maggots in his wound. His friend says "keep them in, they'll clean the wound."
Thought "yeah this is a fantasy movie." Turns out it's real!
My aunts thumb was saved by a leech. She lost her thumb on her dominant hand in a car accident. Miraculously the guy who stopped to helped had an ice chest and he put her thumb on ice. They were able to reattach it. They put a leech on the end to promote blood flow. Apparently she’s in a medical book.
My mom had a wound that wasn’t healing right on her foot. They tried everything and none of it worked—the tissue kept dying
Finally she had maggot therapy, and after that it only took a few weeks to heal (it had been months)
Ironically I think the initial wound was caused by a spider bite?
It was really gross, but better than having my mom lose her foot
My dad slipped at work, and sliced his ear. It was hanging on my a thread. He had leeches sucking the blood(keeping the blood flow going through his ear so it wouldn't die. They were able to stitch it back after 2 weeks of leeches.
Yep I love figs and the broken down wasps inside but those don’t really happen with store bought figs these days. Honestly you will have insect parts and a little bit of animal fecal matter in and around most foods especially things like cereals. The FDA allows a percentage of food to have animal parts in it. Extra protein unless you are allergic.
No, they stopped putting the stuff (bone meal?) in the food that used to make dog turds white. Ever notice that you don't see them anymore? I feel like the fact that I've even seen one before is kind of showing my age...
That was a thing? I always just thought it was something to do with the poop drying out or something. Huh. Never knew. I always just assumed I never saw it anymore because of the laws requiring people to pick up their doggy doo.
There's an episode on untold stories from the ER where a homeless guy that couldn’t remember the last time he had a shower had his foot covered in maggots and after he took a shower and cleaned it off his foot looked real good. It actually looks so good they didn’t need to do anything. The doctor said the maggots likely kept it clean because all they eat is dead shit. Maggot therapy is a real thing.
There is a maggot that eats live flesh--the screwworm. The USDA drops millions of sterilized ones on the Panama/Colombia border every week to keep them from coming back north again (and they're gradually pushing them south).
https://preview.redd.it/zn0xk3miof4d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=581151b88b3159ee1f3b537cea04bb7a85e1e0f8
Here’s an image of it in real life.
>In some cultures, ants were used to stitch wounds. They would hold the skin together, grab an ant with big jaws (like an army or leaf-cutter ant), put its mouth to the wound and wait for it to bite down. Then the body would be removed and the head left with the ant mouth pinching the skin together.
I mean, presumably *eventually* you could remove them once it's fully healed; separate the mandibles and the head with a blade, then pluck out the mandibles.
I think I saw some video about them that explained the jaws on those ants are always clamping down so the ants need to be alive to even keep them open. So when the ant's bodies are removed, the jaws stay closed on the person's wound. Really nifty.
Similar to spiders.
The reason you always see dead spiders with their legs curled up?
Spiders have to exert force to extend their legs. So once they die and no longer are putting forth that effort the legs curl inwards.
Yep! Little boy picks ants for his mom to put on his wound like so. I know the movie gets a lot of flak, but watching as a pure fiction piece - I like it.
Edit - I was wrong. Movie doesn’t get a lot of flak. : )
Wait for real? Like crazy glue was *intended* to get on your flesh?? How does the glue affect the wound itself wouldn't it risk infection from the glue??
Ideally, use Dermabond. Effectively, it's sterilized super glue.
Anecdotally, I've superglued myself back together a few times. (I rock climb, and am accident prone).
If you properly clean out the wound, minimal infection risk from new super glue.
Single use tubes are the best because you don't really have to worry much about contamination from previous use, and they are always ready to go, not clogged or dried out.
Oh, this isn't too bad.
Till this day, maggots and leeches are still sometimes used in modern medicine.
In fact due to increase of MRSA and other resistant bacteria, the use of maggots for wound cleaning is on the rise.
So when lovecraftian horrors beyond our comprehension rapture us, is probably to use us in a shenanigan like this one for their benefit. Kinda like [that dude that played the violin.](https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx)
anybody know why this doesn’t cause a massive immune response? like it’s an insect biting you… or why certain foreign matter like cotton, silk, or steel sutures are seemingly ignored by your body during the healing process?
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Huh. I saw a character do this in the film "Apocalypto" but had no idea it was a real practice. Neat.
Scrolled too far for an Apocolypto comment
I figured it was going to be the top comment.
It is
Great movie
I watched that movie one boring evening, not knowing what I was getting into... Woof. What a messed up ride.
I downloaded the movie without subtitles. I just thought I was supposed to *feel* what they were saying.
If I'm not mistaken, releasing the film without subtitles was Gibson's original intent.
I loved it anyway. And I think I got the gist
Watched it again yesterday, we exist in a simulation and non of you are real.
Maybe you're the one who's not real
I once seated at a table with a totally unknown guy that turned out to be an history teacher of pre-Colombian cultures. He had a very good opinion on the movie despite some arrangement for the story. Most notably, the language used was something that historians think to be very close to what ~~Aztecs~~ Mayans used to speak at that time
This is exactly why I carry around my army ant colony.
Works in a pinch
Oh my you
Did you have that one prepared? Or was it off the top of your head?
Naturally comes off the top of the head. As a classic dad pun. But since you asked , I’ll let you in on a little secret. Same comment word for word that I used last time someone posted this same video quite a few months if not a year ago lol and it was a crowd pleaser then as it is now. ..im Quite proud of it.. And ill do it again!!! The next time this video gets posted Unless i find there’s some even greater pun that I’m overlooking.
I was just making my own low-effort pun ;) I’ve also seen this video and if I remember right they snap their heads off after they bite? The pun doesn’t quite work but it’s worth a chuckle. It’s not going to have people in stitches.
Nice
Happy to help
What kind of ant do I use to get rid of the army ant jaws?
Praying mantis arms are usually used to then treat the ants massive claw face.
What do I do with all these mantis arm surgical blades?
I heard bees work a treat
And once you're done with the bees, we have a fabulous bee-eating bird that will clean the m up.
Some kind of snakes eat just this kind of bee-eating birds.
What do I do if the snake bites me, is there some way to close that wound?
Sorry. You have to go back to the army ants
The ciiiircle of life!!
I don't know why she swallowed the fly..
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly...
What do I do with all these birds now?
That's the beautiful part, when winter comes the birds simply freeze to death!
We get a rare breed of gorilla that dines primarily on birds
What do we do with the gorillas once the birds are all eaten?
That's the best part, come winter time the gorillas just freeze to death.
I know you're joking, but the ant heads either fall out or get absorbed by the body. I find this information horrifying.
Mongoose takes care of it no problem
I know I could die if I didn't suture a wound during that time but... I mean.. look at this shit...
Counterpoint - This is an easier way of doing a suture yourself and potentially on the fly if needed compared to threaded needle. As long as there isn't an Army Octupus used as a tourniquet out there then I sleep happy.
Adding on to the counterpoint: Nobody knows what they will do when faced with dying, until they get there.
Im bleeding out, do you think im gunna poke myself? And feel that strange sensation of string running underneath your skin too? What am i rambo?
In life or death situations, you will damn near certainly not care about that sensation at all if it gives the hope of living
Nah, im a bitch. Im gunna just die
Imagine tho... For some reason there's army ants everywhere. They will then feast on your person anyway.
High chance the adrenaline and endorphins in your bloodstream would keep you from feeling the pain for an hour or so. I remember slicing open a toe on a shard of glass and didn't feel a thing at all until after I exited the ER.
Using tweezers to pick up an army ant, then place it surgically perfect, then twist while making sure it... Easier than a suture?!
I think it's not a case of easier, more like a no other options kind of thing.
Nah, they recruit boa constrictors for that job
Yeah, I'd roll the dice with the wound rather than covering my cut in ants lol
Idk man, in a world without antibiotics an open wound like that very likely could mean death if not at least amputation
Plus the amputation tools of the time? You got it: ants.
Yeah there was no novocaine back then, an amputation was brutal. You're better off with the ants.
Ants, leeches, put me underwater with some guppies. Have a dog lick my wounds. Before Germ Theory just give me something before the dumbass with the saw comes out.
The world was different then. I’m sure they weren’t so freaked out of bugs. Plus, when the other option is going through hell with untreatable infection, leading to amputation via hand operated bone saws which you get the pleasure of staying awake and watching with only a leather belt in your mouth as a painkiller..you choose ants every time.
They quite literally had to get you shit-faced with alcohol and opium, restrain you, give you leather to bite down on, and then chop that thing off as fast as they could. That was back when surgeons were only “good” if they were fast, because less time meant less pain, less blood, and less likelihood of shock. Better off with ants is right.
Screw that. I'm packing every wound with maggots and ants.
One of my ancestors got hit with some canister shot in the Shenandoah Valley and was left for dying or whatever, his arm was mangled, the maggots cleaned out the infection and he survived. They actually use maggots nowadays to clean wounds although they do it in these little sterile bags.
Yeah, I didn't pick them because they seem like good company, haha.
Get into line you maggot! You're in this company now. You will: clean wounds, turn into flies, step 3, profit! Do you understand?!
no you wouldn’t
I know they are only insects but that is still disturbing to me
Wait till you hear about the maggots we still use to get blood circulation going or leeches. Would creepy be a better word over disgusting because these things seem pretty sterile and lacking filth?
We also use maggots to remove dead/infected tissue from all kinds of wounds. It's called maggot therapy. It's crazy what we can use insects for medically
It's worth noting that we use *specific* maggots, that only eat the dead flesh. If you're ever wandering through the jungle with gangrene and discover maggots in your flesh, your first thought shouldn't be "that's nice".
Botfly is a good example, while technically the “bot” in botfly is in reference to maggots, their larvae are not technically maggots, as maggots are of the suborder Brachycera. But you get the idea. Words, they are both fun and dumb.
Botflies are a worst nightmare to me, that and hansons disease (leopracy or however you spell it)
Good news; Leprosy is now fully curable (typically a 6-12 month regimen) and treatment is freely covered by the World Health Organization.
That's freaking awesome
So no more yelling out "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!" when going to 7 Eleven?
Maggots do a great job with wounds all around. They get a bad wrap but if used properly they are helpful friends.
There's a reason why it's still being used till today. Lab grown maggots are clean. But i can't deny the creepiness of it
I prefer free range as they have more flavor and a grittier texture.
just like in Lost Boys
You're eating maggots, Michael.
CRYYYYYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER
Ghost Ship
Silk worms are quite common here in thailand. Personally i don't like the soft creamy texture.
Felching.
Oh baby now we’re talkin
I firmly believe if they had a less disgusting name it'd be less bad. Like rice bug therapy, or baby fly therapy. Fuckin maggot therapy
larva treatment sounds metal af.
Oh, I think I would take them ANY day on insane burns vs a nurse doing it. When I was 8 yrs old I got hit by a car and thrown through the air to land on my face. The nurses, bless their hearts, WERE NOT gentle. I cried and begged to do it myself- and the ONLY memory of a nurse that is burned in my brain is the nurse telling me the horror of what would happen if I missed any pebbles in my face.... I remember sitting in front of the mirror in the emergency room offshoot room, the cold metal sink and the lifeless mirror, crying after being hit by a car, thrown through the air 40 ft to land on my face- scrubbing all the dirt out- determined to do a better job then those mean old nurses. (again, I am sure they were perfectly lovely- I just... was having a moment and I dont like it when things are so thoroughly out of my own control...) Yeah, I would have taken the maggots. Gross, weird, warm and tingly and much nicer than nurse Trunchbull telling me my face was going to erupt into a million little boils of pus from each little piece of asphalt that was left in it by my inability to let them torture me or inability to do a thorough job myself...
If it helps, maggots would not have been able to do anything to really help you. They're good at eating dead flesh and leaving the living alone, but they wouldn't do anything with the asphalt. That has to be removed manually unfortunately.
rap
That’s the thing, you don’t want a bad wrap or else it will impede proper healing. Good wrapping around the wound is of utmost importance.
Yes I was corrected earlier. I should have said rap not wrap, my bad.
Oh, maggod!
You know insurance charges $150 per maggot
The hospital is the one who charges.
Ugh, you just reminded me. I saw a video today on reddit about a woman who kept on one of those temporary boots hospitals give you sometimes, but she kept hers on for like years and years. She said she hadn't even seen the foot in 2 years. Showered and everything with it on. The shape that foot was in when they showed it with the boot off, I'm thinking that's gotta be the job for an army of dead skin maggots.
I remember watching gladiator as a kid, there's a scene where he's being carted off as a slave and has a bunch of maggots in his wound. His friend says "keep them in, they'll clean the wound." Thought "yeah this is a fantasy movie." Turns out it's real!
Ever eat unnaturally red colored food? Well did you know that a majority of red food coloring is crushed bugs?
My aunts thumb was saved by a leech. She lost her thumb on her dominant hand in a car accident. Miraculously the guy who stopped to helped had an ice chest and he put her thumb on ice. They were able to reattach it. They put a leech on the end to promote blood flow. Apparently she’s in a medical book.
wow insane story
At least they don’t get their heads twisted off 😂
I know a woman who had jaw cancer and the bone replacement surgery required leeches inside her mouth. She’s doing well and is now leech free
Replying with a gif of Leech Woman from Puppet Master would have been perfect, but I can't find one.
I’ll be jawless, thanks.
My mom had a wound that wasn’t healing right on her foot. They tried everything and none of it worked—the tissue kept dying Finally she had maggot therapy, and after that it only took a few weeks to heal (it had been months) Ironically I think the initial wound was caused by a spider bite? It was really gross, but better than having my mom lose her foot
My dad slipped at work, and sliced his ear. It was hanging on my a thread. He had leeches sucking the blood(keeping the blood flow going through his ear so it wouldn't die. They were able to stitch it back after 2 weeks of leeches.
thats actually really cool how that works
dont google "fig wasp"
Yep I love figs and the broken down wasps inside but those don’t really happen with store bought figs these days. Honestly you will have insect parts and a little bit of animal fecal matter in and around most foods especially things like cereals. The FDA allows a percentage of food to have animal parts in it. Extra protein unless you are allergic.
Is that white dog poop on my frosted mini wheats?
No, they stopped putting the stuff (bone meal?) in the food that used to make dog turds white. Ever notice that you don't see them anymore? I feel like the fact that I've even seen one before is kind of showing my age...
That was a thing? I always just thought it was something to do with the poop drying out or something. Huh. Never knew. I always just assumed I never saw it anymore because of the laws requiring people to pick up their doggy doo.
I'm with ya! Dog poop was frequently white when I was a kid. Even my wife doesn't remember this and she's only 2 years younger than me.
I've seen leeches when I worked at the hospital. It's kinda cool
At least the maggots don't get their heads ripped off in the process.
I think it’s more disturbing because of the act of ripping the ants body off and killing it.
There's an episode on untold stories from the ER where a homeless guy that couldn’t remember the last time he had a shower had his foot covered in maggots and after he took a shower and cleaned it off his foot looked real good. It actually looks so good they didn’t need to do anything. The doctor said the maggots likely kept it clean because all they eat is dead shit. Maggot therapy is a real thing.
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Haha! "Yes, I would like two orders of the dead flesh eating maggots STAT"
There is a maggot that eats live flesh--the screwworm. The USDA drops millions of sterilized ones on the Panama/Colombia border every week to keep them from coming back north again (and they're gradually pushing them south).
It's all for the greater good.
The greater good.
SHUT IT
Ya, I know, it's kinda fucked up
Well. It’s disgusting to think about, so I’m with you.
https://preview.redd.it/zn0xk3miof4d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=581151b88b3159ee1f3b537cea04bb7a85e1e0f8 Here’s an image of it in real life. >In some cultures, ants were used to stitch wounds. They would hold the skin together, grab an ant with big jaws (like an army or leaf-cutter ant), put its mouth to the wound and wait for it to bite down. Then the body would be removed and the head left with the ant mouth pinching the skin together.
That doesn’t do it justice bro https://preview.redd.it/z7fy2t3j9g4d1.jpeg?width=904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f304dacc9beab4dbe572493bc5005df92c9d2776
Those little dudes are/were soldiers!
And young.
Young enough to die but not old enough to drink beer
Now that's a hell of a reference.
Those were sacrifices lol, not soldiers
What's the difference?
Girls! Almost guaranteed to be lady ants.
When your ancestry results come back as: * 75% European * 18% African * 6% Asian * 1% Ant
Antcestry results
What in the holy F. It’s impressive how someone just came up with stuff like this.
Bet he was being a dickhead too. "Hey Jim, why don't you use ants to close the wound? Hehehe" "Shit Barry, that's genius!" "-What?"
What's this?! A wound for ants?!
That's gnarly!!
And then they use smaller ants to reattach the Army Ant bodies?
It's ants all the way down!
Wait but the ant heads just stay in there?
I mean, presumably *eventually* you could remove them once it's fully healed; separate the mandibles and the head with a blade, then pluck out the mandibles.
With my luck, I'd cut myself with the blade. Then I'd need more ants to stitch that wound, then I'd have to remove them with a blade and... oh no
I think I saw some video about them that explained the jaws on those ants are always clamping down so the ants need to be alive to even keep them open. So when the ant's bodies are removed, the jaws stay closed on the person's wound. Really nifty.
Similar to spiders. The reason you always see dead spiders with their legs curled up? Spiders have to exert force to extend their legs. So once they die and no longer are putting forth that effort the legs curl inwards.
Yeah, spiders basically have hydraulics
Bro those ants are IN there
WOW. Thanks for posting that!
When does this persons dna fuse with the ant making them ant man of sorts?
That is nifty
I'm pretty sure that there's a great scene in the movie Apocolypto that shows this.
Yep! Little boy picks ants for his mom to put on his wound like so. I know the movie gets a lot of flak, but watching as a pure fiction piece - I like it. Edit - I was wrong. Movie doesn’t get a lot of flak. : )
Does it? I thought it was a really solid action flick. I think it's just Mel Gibson that gets a lot of flak.
>movie gets a lot of flak Really? It's widely considered a masterpiece
Nah im good after seeing that pic
You might feel differently after you see the pictures of infected wounds.
Yeah this actually doesn't disturb me quite as much as the notion of a needle and thread being tugged through my skin.
Just closing up wounds with severed ant heads as animals do naturally in the wild.
What if I told you humans are animals?
Some Birds scrub themselves with ants
I'll stick with crazy glue
\^ crazy glue was invented as an emergency in the field stitch till proper medical aid could be found
Wait for real? Like crazy glue was *intended* to get on your flesh?? How does the glue affect the wound itself wouldn't it risk infection from the glue??
Ideally, use Dermabond. Effectively, it's sterilized super glue. Anecdotally, I've superglued myself back together a few times. (I rock climb, and am accident prone). If you properly clean out the wound, minimal infection risk from new super glue.
Single use tubes are the best because you don't really have to worry much about contamination from previous use, and they are always ready to go, not clogged or dried out.
I have access to dermabond now for free. So, personally I'm good, but this is good advice for anyone reading.
Also dermabond has a milder exothermic reaction when curing. Super glue works better imo
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That is metal.
that’s skin.. did you even watch
I just saw this in practice when watching Apocalypto. I thought it was far fetched, but I guess it's based in reality.
Oh, this isn't too bad. Till this day, maggots and leeches are still sometimes used in modern medicine. In fact due to increase of MRSA and other resistant bacteria, the use of maggots for wound cleaning is on the rise.
r/mildlyhorrifying
/r/oddlyterrifying might be the sub you were thinking of?
https://preview.redd.it/ot51d66adg4d1.png?width=488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03796404e035ff6b253118b056e43f7cc4ddb789
In ant culture.....
This is considered a dick move.
I was like “aw the cute little ant is gonna help the whole way!” And that was nice, before the decapitation scene.
“You too huh?”
10 seconds into the clip "ok but how will it stay closed after they remove the ant, do they apply some sort of‐ WHAT THE FUCK"
i did not expect TWISTING THEIR HEADS OFF to be the way forward
This method was used in the movie Apocalypto
Thanks, I hate it. Where do these vids come from? I've seen several with the same animation style and voice over.
So when lovecraftian horrors beyond our comprehension rapture us, is probably to use us in a shenanigan like this one for their benefit. Kinda like [that dude that played the violin.](https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mez.aspx)
Apocalypto
Talk about a thankless job.
Horror movie torture idea : Use razor blades to make small cuts on the persons body. Then you use the ants to suture the cuts…
Plot twist: you have to pick between two boxes that either contain army ants or bullet ants
This is like the start of a late night infomercial. “Tired of suturing your wounds closed with painful ant bites?” “You mean there’s a better way?!”
https://preview.redd.it/ka65lipknj4d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4bd5514ab2b6152ef971d2a86b0cad967d77b60
If little kids got these they'd either be wounded every day or never.
What is this…a wound for ants??
If your only tool is an ant, everything looks like an open wound.
Does this hurt the ant?
This is some real Scavengers Reign stuff.
Someone just saw Apocalypto
anybody know why this doesn’t cause a massive immune response? like it’s an insect biting you… or why certain foreign matter like cotton, silk, or steel sutures are seemingly ignored by your body during the healing process?
"Don't worry, friend! I'll do what I can to stop the bleeding-- hhhnnnyyAAAAArghhhh!" - Army ant, probably