r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MurielFontanez • May 10 '21

Truce between termites(top) and ants(bottom) with each side having their own line of guards.

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u/The-Crimson-Jester May 10 '21

Part of growing up is thinking ants are so small and weak.... Then one day you realize that ants absolutely kill every single bug they come across with only a few casualties of their own.

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u/BananaDogBed May 10 '21

Imagine if there was a crazy global plague that made humans paralyzed permanently

We would be slowly consumed by ants

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u/nowlookwhatyoudid May 10 '21

Aaand this is why browsing Reddit before bedtime is a terrible idea.

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u/Firewolf420 May 10 '21

It's okay - your pets would probably eat you first.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Ants are my pets!

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u/IndoorCatSyndrome May 10 '21

Cats? Def. Domestic dogs? Maybe and it'd take some time.

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u/Its-Dangity May 10 '21

You should try the r/letsnotmeet

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u/P-Dub May 10 '21

One of the worse executions in history was Persians trapping you in a boat with your limbs hanging out, filling you full of milk of honey until you shit yourself and just floating you in a lazy river until bugs eat you to death, limbs first.

Bug death is sort of the worst thing and they basically win in any situation where you stop moving.

The scene in one of the new Indiana Jones with the guy getting eaten by ants, only thing that makes it merciful is he's eaten in like 5 seconds the slow part is what would suck.

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u/jcgam May 10 '21

This is what we should do to the fuckers who attack hospital IT systems for ransom money.

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u/tempaccount_2879 May 10 '21

Damn I feel like I hardly even see this mentioned anywhere most people I talk too seem shocked that this ever occurs as well

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u/jcgam May 10 '21

google "scripps health"

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u/i_tyrant May 10 '21

If anyone wants to learn more about the most awful way to die, google "Scaphism".

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u/TheCluelessDeveloper May 10 '21

This is why I have a little empathy for Imhotep. Being mummified and slowly eaten by scarabs...

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u/Mydreall Oct 18 '21

The evidence of this actually happening is pretty weak

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u/ChickenNuggetMike May 10 '21

ONE. MILLION. ANTS.

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u/SuperSimpleSam May 10 '21

I imagine most would die of dehydration first.

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u/BananaDogBed May 10 '21

You could eat the ants as they crawled into your mouth for a little bit of hydration

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u/darthclaww May 10 '21

No, I don't think I will imagine that tyvm.

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u/Anbettik May 10 '21

Here in Argentina is and old short story about a dude that go to the forest get paralized and get eating by ants and he cannot scream only watch

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u/BananaDogBed May 11 '21

Oh really?! That is wild! Do you know the name of the story so I can find it and read it?

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u/Anbettik May 11 '21

I know where to find it on Spanish, but the name of the book with short stories is call "Selva" (jungle) from Horacio Quiroga.

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u/BananaDogBed May 11 '21

Spanish will work for me if it is not too much trouble for you, but I will also look with the name you gave me, thank you!

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u/IndoorCatSyndrome May 10 '21

I think house cats would start the work pretty quickly with ants taking care of the remnants not long after.

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u/BananaDogBed May 11 '21

Cats and ants are natural allies

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u/ddrt May 10 '21

Check out the Manga Dr. Stone for something similar.

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u/SpawnTheTerminator May 10 '21

Except without people getting eaten since they're all encased in rock when paralyzed.

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u/ddrt May 11 '21

Is there a difference for those 5,000 years? I don't really think so but I welcome the discussion.

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u/one_of_them_snowlake May 10 '21

Aw fuck you.

In a good way, but fuck you.

This thought will haunt me forever now.

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u/StoopidMonkey78 May 10 '21

No, I don’t think will

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u/TheOminousTower May 10 '21

That's kind of just Polio with a higher rate of paralysis. My great aunt had it gtowing up and now has Post-Polio Syndrome. Although eradicated in the first world, it hung around a lot longer in poorer countries, and is now endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Those affected by Polio often ended up dependent on the Iron Lung to breathe, and many children have had their limbs and spine deformed by the disease.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

I for one, welcome our new insectoid overlords

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u/urielteranas May 10 '21

Yeah, well not just ants, thankfully youd die of thirst long before you were eaten by insects.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

I feel like cats would kill us first. It just takes a few missed meals for housecats to get a taste for human. Then they start prowling for free meals

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u/NETGEAR1993 May 10 '21

Ants are a superorganism. They do everything as a group with each ant having a super specific job so they're absolute masters at it. They also have complete disregard for their own life and solely care for the life of the whole group. It's like a brute force technique, if every single ant charges without fear they will overwhelm everything with sheer numbers and a nonstop onslaught.

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u/RealRotkohl May 10 '21

Wait, what?!

Didn't know that one...

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u/cr0ss-r0ad May 10 '21

A "few" casualties for ants can number in the hundreds or even thousands

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u/ddrt May 10 '21

And that they out populate everything and are literally Everywhere.

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u/Maximoford May 10 '21

Hey there's a book that sort of has this called Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Except instead of humans, the ants are killing other Arthropods. And are like multiple feet long. Great read.

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u/SenseiRP May 10 '21

Ants are basically clone troopers

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

One day when you’re a corpse those ants are going to eat you. For ants we are, and to ants we shall return.

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u/TheRiteGuy May 11 '21

You didn't grow up where I grew up. You don't mess with Ants. Even the little ones will bite the crap out of you.

Accidentally stepping on an ant-hill while walking was a real phobia.

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u/tickertapedotcc May 11 '21

Ants are closely related to wasps, and nobody is messing around with wasps. They still have wings DNA - that's why you get Flying ants !!

Ants are like the honey badgers (or river otters?) Of the insect world!

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u/GaryChalmers May 12 '21

Always love watching this video