I've eaten stinging nettles before. If you fold the leaf properly (so that the side of the leaf with the stingers is folded in on itself) you won't get stung. Oddly enough, they taste like scrambled eggs.

/Polish

The leaves of rhubarb are poisonous.

When the nettles hit the anus?

Salad Fingers approves.

The leaves don't sting. I remember this from childhood dares. Only the stems have stingers.

/i think
//maybe British nettles are different

I am not sure if I want the pub landlord or the trainee solicitor to win.

good for the anti-allergies... but it causes an alergic reaction lol to most people... then you build up tolerance ot other alergies.

i took it in pill form for about a year, and the first 3 months it was amazing. alot of people in milwaukee get horrible seasonal and city allergies. after the first 3 months it seemed to stop functioning. used it the next season the next year and never really had the same affect.

jonasborg: When the nettles hit the anus?
Only if it involves oil.

jonasborg: When the nettles hit the anus?

WHEN THEY POOP!

squidzilla: Polish

You don't say?

For dessert: prickly pear.

Leaves of potatoes and chokecherries are poisonous and a half doze to a dozen chokecherry leaves can kill an adult with cyanide. Cooking neutralizes stinging nettle but potentiates choke cherry poisons. Apple seeds are poisonous and the seeds from 2 apples can kill a child with cyanide poisoning.

Came for oil and anus, leaving satisfied.

/uh . . .

Some morons will eat anything. Other morons will watch anything.

Is that one of those people who ate the nettle? I think he prefers to rub them on his nipples.

Mmmm... Nettle pizza...

Link (new window)

So... What happens when the throat is stung so much it swells shut?

Something about 'green bearding' and this:

Urtica is covered in thousands of microscopic hypodermic needles each filled with boric acid. On contact the needles break, causing the acid to flood over and burn the skin

Made me throw up a little.

Ask: The leaves don't sting. I remember this from childhood dares. Only the stems have stingers.

/i think
//maybe British nettles are different

Nope, they're the same (new window and while you're there click the link for nettle) and have stinging hairs on both leave and stem.

when the bullet hits the bone?
when the other shoe drops?
when the pope is catholic?

wait - don't tell me - i can get this!

Not all Americans are this completely clueless about food.

There are a few of us anyways

The "oil hits his anus" thread.

Came for the Salad Fingers reference, leaving satisfied.

/You taste like soot and poo.

Black Moses: when the bullet hits the bone?
when the other shoe drops?
when the pope is catholic?

When the pin hits the shell.

cwick: Black Moses: when the bullet hits the bone?
when the other shoe drops?
when the pope is catholic?

When the pin hits the shell.

When the feces hits the rotary motor.

I've had stinging nettle pizza, and it was delicious.

/make sure you cook them.

Don't go for a squat in the woods if there's stinging nettles around. Just trust me on this one.

Actually, a friend went to Germany and brought back some stinging nettle cheese. It was farking delicious! Everyone looks at me funny, but I like good, flavorful cheeses...as long as they don't smell or taste rancid like bleu cheese or some shiat like that, cheese is awesome.

Also stinging nettles don't hurt that bad, really. As an outdoorsy type, I often put the back of my hand on one on purpose to show others that it isn't that bad. If you get it on the fatty part of your thigh, you might get welts, but otherwise, meh. They are a great plant to encircle a grow operation with though. Erm....or so I have heard...

NoFarkingName: cwick: Black Moses: when the bullet hits the bone?
when the other shoe drops?
when the pope is catholic?

When the pin hits the shell.

When the feces hits the rotary motor.

When the fit hits the shan?

jerger: good for the anti-allergies... but it causes an alergic reaction lol to most people... then you build up tolerance ot other alergies.

i took it in pill form for about a year, and the first 3 months it was amazing. alot of people in milwaukee get horrible seasonal and city allergies. after the first 3 months it seemed to stop functioning. used it the next season the next year and never really had the same affect.

That's a fascinating story. Do you have any more?

Cheesy Rat: NoFarkingName: cwick: Black Moses: when the bullet hits the bone?
when the other shoe drops?
when the pope is catholic?

When the pin hits the shell.

When the feces hits the rotary motor.

When the fit hits the shan?

True story: a guy I know is potty training his kid. It's not going well. This week the kid crapped on the floor of his room, picked up the proceeds, and threw them into the ceiling fan.

Fit hits the shan indeed.

Haven't seen this particular cliché in a while...

In the butt, Bob.

Cheesy Rat: Also stinging nettles don't hurt that bad, really. As an outdoorsy type, I often put the back of my hand on one on purpose to show others that it isn't that bad.

Perhaps you have an immunity? I'm completely unaffected by poison ivy and poison oak to the point where I can walk barefoot in it and use my bare hands to clear it away. My father was the same way until after he went overseas in the military. Stinging nettles never bothered me, either; I can feel the part that's supposed to prick and do it, but it's no more uncomfortable than, say, feeling roughish wool.

Dusting off one of the oldies. I got a lol out of it.

He may have some trouble, however, when the oil hits his ANUS

stinging nettles like lots of allergens have different effects on people depending on their immune system. Some people can take the stings really well and will only be slightly bothered by it for a few minutes while with others the stings can last for upto a week. When i was a kid they used to effect me really bad lasting for days with huge white blister like welts, but I've somehow built up some immunity to them as they only last a couple hours with just some reddening around the site now days.

It's actually little microscopic hairs that cause the sting and not a chemical of some kind. These hairs lose their sting when cooked which is why nettles are used in certain foods.

I once dove into a patch of nettle during an indirect fire reaction course.

Yeah, the crotch burned for hours.

So why don't they just weave the nettles into shirts to throw over their brothers who have been turned into swans?

/obscure?

ScreamingDolai: So why don't they just weave the nettles into shirts to throw over their brothers who have been turned into swans?

/obscure?

Repeat after me seven times: nothing is obscure on Fark.