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Watch out for the Jellyfish!!!


Chocoholic Fayz, you're a sick man! A very sick man - that's hilarious!
Chocoholic Hey All, It appears to be jellyfish season at the moment, lots of them floating around the beaches particularly in Fujerah. The little round squidgy ones you can see pretty well, but I encountered one I hadn't seen before. It kinda looks like a piece of string with orange bubbles in it, normally a couple of meters long just floating in the water. Avoid these things! I got stung about 6 times and it leaves really painful bubbled lines where the stingers catch you, feels like your skin is burning, not pleasant at all. GAB You have to pee on the sting! Seriously!! Chocoholic I had some steroid cream and antihistamines, so they did the trick, still hurting quite a bit though. GAB Try vinegar (which is weak acetic acid)- I have heard that that is good for jellyfish stings. MaaaD hope you feel better soon choco easternjewel jellyfish sting?? I thot they were only cuddly & cute?! Sorry to hear that choco. get well soon GAB Man of war jellyfish are deadly. Chocoholic As are box jellyfish. Yes EJ, many of them sting, (feels kinda like a bee sting, but many in one spot and you get whelps where the individual stingers have come into contact with the skin) that's how many of them catch prey, their tenticles inject toxins into fish, plankton or whatever else causing paralysis. Most non harmful to humans but pretty painful and doesn't look very nice. A sting from the Man O War or Box jelly fish is deadly and will kill a human being in a very short space of time - there is no cure, luckily they're only found in certain parts of the world. Liban Karma.

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GAB Liban, re: karma-that is an entirely different belief to your own!! :lol: Liban In Islam we beleive in a similar concept.... You get whats coming to you. For us, this is in the hands of God... A Godly Karma if you will... :) Chocoholic Not really Liban, it's just the jelly time of year, you go in the sea, you take your risk and I did and it hurt, no big deal. Liban I went in the sea and was not stung... Chocoholic Ok stop it now! We were on the other side of the coast and practically everyone got stung. Really no big deal, so chill. Richard Owl Mirror
Perhaps Liban is equating himself to DANIAL entering the Lions Den and God protecting him from harm ? Chocoholic Or perhaps he just tastes bad. GAB :lol: :lol: Seriously though-what kind of jellyfish are around here? I've only come across the ones that look like mandarin segments and are harmless. I am actually concerned for my kids. Chocoholic The ones I saw were the small, round, clear type. But you get the normal bluey or purpley ones too. I think what stung us was not an entire jelly fish but tentacles that were left over from ones getting caught in fishing nets. The stingers stay active for weeks on their own. They are long, a couple of meters in length and look like a piece of clear string with orange bubbles running through it.
Liban
Who??? Liban
If you even had a single brain cell you would know that jellyfish have no taste buds....
Stupid... GAB :lol: :lol: :lol: BTW I think Richard means Daniel!! Chocoholic Er I know jellyfish don't have taste buds - purlease I know alot about animals and marine life. - It was called sarcasm! But I guess it's lost on you. Liban
Yes, yes, you know alot about everything... Thats the result of an inflated ego...
The only thing lost on me is how you can live in an Arab and Islamic country and yet be bigoted against us... Chocoholic Not biting, stinging whatever, take yer views somewhere and stop talking about yerself - AGAIN! How you ever survived in Canada is beyond me. GAB It is a love hate relationship that is so aaawww darn cute!! :lol: Liban
Many things seem beyond you... Chocoholic :violent1: Nah Malaka! Liban Malaka pousti.... You are such a kolotripa. kanelli Liban on alykaapio. :lol: Liban Kaneli and company, fae ta arhidia mu GAB All Greek to me! :lol: Liban :lol: fayz
I agree, somebody is meeting someone behind the monkey bars after school
....Love is in the air
Everywhere I look around
Love is in the air .... GAB :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Nookie behind the lunch shed!! Fayz...that used to be a popular song by JPY-John Paul Young, an Australian, many moons ago :lol: :lol: Chocoholic You can't use Pusti for a girl, it means gay man! And you don't use Malaka for a female either! It's malakismeni! ande ghamisu, starchidia mu! (if I had any) - motions towards crotch to enforce the sentiment! Simfono me Kanelli. Ftani pia! fayz hahahaha, you go girl.
Liban and Choco when the first meet.....
GAB Fayz :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That is hysterical...but it makes you wonder what kinda sick mind can find stuff like that!! :shock: Chocoholic I saw several dogs with bollocks like that at the dogs show a couple of weeks ago, you couldn't help but look, they just hang there! GAB My dog is like that- the breeder wanted to call him Nads. I could just see my girls at their private school pet show calling out "Go Nads, Go Nads". :lol: Hence his name is not remotely close to that! fayz sorry that was a bit crewd, I'm having server problems at work today so I find myself with a little more time on my hands. GAB :lol: You are such a liar you are not sorry at all!! :lol: fayz
Actually I can't take credit, i was on another Dubai forum site and some guy had this as his signature. fayz
Nah, you know me to well :lol: Liban
Yeah but nobody told you to lick those paparas...
Ise vlakas.... Pipa queen... GAB Liban-you are one sick puppy! Lionheart Arent Jelly Fish and crabs harm to eat??? Chocoholic Crabs are tasty good - mmmm mmmmmm I believe in some countries jellyfish as also a delicacy, but no thanks. sniper420
I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAte jelly fish. Damn! I hate em :x XRW-147
Only if you're alergic.
Choco, jellyfish are tasteless on their own, they're liked for their texture. Kitster the edible ones are quite good...ive tasted a few kinds, made into something like sushi...they dont have their own taste...if there is, its so subtle that you hardly taste it (tastes more like saltwater) but the texture is like...well...jello..only a bit firmer...but otherwise, its ok..hehehehe tastes great with vinegar! :) and chilli!!! Defo I have been to the beach and have swim in the Arabian Gulf like a 1,000 times by now (hehe), but havent seen any yet... Kitster oh, it wasnt here that i tried them by the way, i wouldnt want to try that experience again, not that i didnt like the taste, but it was just a one time thing...hehehehhehehe :lol: :lol: :lol: ilfab We went to Fujeira in November and there were plenty of them... Yak ! Harmeless though (little round ones). haven't seen any in dubay though. hope the B******* are not coming here... They're a pain in the H***



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