Have you been stung by a jellyfish?

[Phlegmak]

Have you been stung by a jellyfish?

 

[Antilogic]

My favorite is the sign on some Florida beaches "Be Careful, the Jellyfish are Biting Today". I wish I had a picture.

After getting stung once as a kid, you learn to heed that warning.

 

[Mowque]

I've never even seen the sea...so no.

 

[eastsidebagel]

Yes, once in Israel. In the months May and June the normally so busy beaches are almost completely empty in this season.

 

[North King]

I don't live near an ocean, and have only stepped into it maybe three times in my life on various, very special journeys. Well, I guess I do live near it now, but I don't have transportation.

 

[ArneHD]

Only by the relatively harmless ones we get up here.

 

[Antilogic]

Only by the relatively harmless ones we get up here.

No Portuguese man o' wars up there in Scandinavia? Okay, they aren't technically jellyfish.

 

[Dachs]

Yes, rather traumatizingly on a trip to the beach at Pensacola when I was ten, and again when a jellyfish elected to die in my vicinity while swimming at Cozumel over winter break. Got covered in fragments of jellyfish and ended up aborting the swimming plan for the "visit Tulum" plan.

 

[thetrooper]

Only by the relatively harmless ones we get up here.

Are we talking about blue jellyfish or Lion's mane jellyfish or some other kind of jellyfish here?

Relatively harmless until you go face first into them

 

[Aramazd]

No, although I don't think Jellyfish are too common around here.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Not yet.

 

[ArneHD]

Are we talking about blue jellyfish or Lion's mane jellyfish or some other kind of jellyfish here?

Relatively harmless until you go face first into them

Lion's (is this a grammatically correct use of an apostrophe?) mane I suppose. Didn't know the English name for it.

 

[Dachs]

Lion's (is this a grammatically correct use of an apostrophe?)

It sure is!

 

[thetrooper]

Lion's (is this a grammatically correct use of an apostrophe?) mane I suppose. Didn't know the English name for it.

Dunno about the apostrophe my friend... And, speaking frankly, I don't care that much

 

[ArneHD]

It sure is!

You're right, it is!

Dunno about the apostrophe my friend... And, speaking frankly, I don't care that much

 

[Mirc]

Not yet, but friends of mine were, while I was in the water with them. I hate jellyfish(es?).

 

[Formaldehyde]

Yes. Numerous times if you include anemones and corals which have the same defense mechanisms.

http://jellieszone.com/nematocysts.htm

Not my reef tank but I've owned similar ones before:

 

[~Corsair#01~]

I got a sting when I was about ten. It was pretty mild and I didn't notice it was there until I got out of the cold water. Urine actually works really well at clearing it up.

 

[I'm Cleo!]

I grew up near the shore, so I've been stung by harmless ones a bunch of times.

Cleo

 

[Formaldehyde]

Most of them aren't that harmful. It's only the ones that prey on fish, like Portugeuse man-of-wars or sea wasps, that you really have to worry about. The bottom line is to beware of any sea creature that is your size or bigger.