A fire ant bite is indescribable?

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I love overdramatic commercials. When they present a product as life-changing or describe cold symptoms as near fatal, there's great comedy value.

Yesterday I saw a commercial on killing fire ants. A man looks at the camera and says this:

"The bite of a fire ant is indescribable."

Breaking your femur is probably indescribable. Same goes for having your foot run over by a truck. But getting bitten by a fire ant?

That's happened to me many times. So to help this man in the commercial out, I offer this word from the dictionary:

"Sting."

Yes, the bite of a fire ant stings. For a couple of minutes. Then you move on and hope you don't suffer something truly tragic in your life, such as heartburn.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Fool. Professional fool perhaps, but fool none the less.

Every year several Americans are hospitalized with severe adverse reactions to fire ant bites. Reactions like coma or being unable to breathe.

Almost every year someone old or infirm dies as a result of being stung massive numbers of times while unable to move and get away.

Because I am mot allergic to peanuts does not mean that I can blithely dismiss the fatal consequences of exposure for someone who is . . .

More thinking, less shallow sniping required . . .
March 16, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Anonymous said…
A dangerous allergic reaction, OK.

It still doesn't make the bite indescribably painful.

The reaction afterward, yes. It's just an overdramatic commercial.
March 16, 2008 at 10:22 PM
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