The worst pain in the world. Could you endure?

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Guy willingly gets stung by bullet ants.

Proceeds to be in excruciating pain for over 8 hours.
Would you attempt this?



Schmidt Pain Index:

1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
2.x Honey bee and European hornet.
3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream).
4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your heel.
 

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Guy willingly gets stung by bullet ants.

Proceeds to be in excruciating pain for over 8 hours.
Would you attempt this?



Schmidt Pain Index:

1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
2.x Honey bee and European hornet.
3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream).
4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your heel.


What kind of pain scale is this? :what: Sounds like an adventure trip sometimes and a food review other times. :dahell:
 

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What kind of pain scale is this? :what: Sounds like an adventure trip sometimes and a food review other times. :dahell:
I couldn't say if the descriptions were Schmidt's.
They may have just been written by other people.

It's generally accepted that the bullet ant does give the most painful feeling known to man.
 

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The worst pain the world is a cluster headache.

Women who have given birth have said that a cluster headache exceeds the pain of giving birth, as well as passing kidney stones. In fact, people have been known to commit suicide from cluster headaches (although the number is low).
 

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On that scale, red harvester is the farthest I've experienced (which is pretty weak)...though I've had infections that left me immobile and in tears :ehh:
 

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The worst pain the world is a cluster headache.

Women who have given birth have said that a cluster headache exceeds the pain of giving birth, as well as passing kidney stones. In fact, people have been known to commit suicide from cluster headaches (although the number is low).
saw a vid of a woman who had those headaches. ive seen lots of disturbing videos on the net, but that was right at the top. it was too much for me. looked like absolute terror



what on earth?
 
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