That happened to somebody lately here lutra. Guy went to take score, while somebody was unaware, and copped one right through the neck.
Had to be a messy cleanup job that did.
KKkill the buggers klu klux fasion-necklace burnings drive the message home that somebody is very high up indeed in one's little black book of obnoxious little arseholes who need not to waste my valuable breath 'afore I have the chance to breathe any of it.
I.e 'you are of sufficient caliber as an A-grade, pestilential infected muff flap, that jenny mccarthy's turds would get up and walk away before sharing the same cloud of blowflies, so have a tyre full of flaming petrol round your neck.
Or alternatively, knifing, kidney removal/failure perhaps. There is a charming, and rather large, very diverse genus of fungi, the Cortinarius family, more commonly known as webcaps, for the habit they have of leaving behind a cortina, a veil that covers the gills in young fruitbodies that have yet to expand.
Amongst this rather large, and frequently tricky to ID family, one of the sub-genera, IIRC its either Cortinarius subspp/Dermocybe, or the Leprocybe subgenus, A few species contain a toxin called orellanine, a bipyridyl nephrotoxin related to paraquat (infamous weedkiller, used in no few suicides. Unusual in that it is very, very slow acting, with a delay of even as long as a month post ingestion before symptoms of poisoning start to show. Larger scale ingestion tends to result in a more rapid onset and poorer outlook.
Trivia fact-Orellanine exhibits fluorescence under UV light, as do tissue sample taken from poisoning victims.
Others that come to mind:
Krait venom, hard to treat, doesn't always respond to antivenom (I forget weather this is the Bungarus, or rock serpent, or the quite different sea krait, Laticauda spp. Kraits of all descriptions are highly venomous, the venom being of a paralytic neuromuscular blocking nature, not highly aggressive snakes, the sea krait in particular.
Trivia factlet-bungarotoxins, from land kraits has been used to study the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, the alpha-BTX isoform of the protein inhibits acetylcholine binding to the receptors, acting in an analogous manner to curare and its related alkaloids, whereas the beta types cause actylcholine release, depleting stores, and resulting in a depolarizing neuromuscular block like that induced by succinylcholine. The gamma-bungarotoxin subtype is similar to the two beta isoforms in action, IIRC.
Simple one: 'K'
As in the atomic formula for the alkali metal potassium, coming from 'kalium'
A soft silvery metal, so soft it can be cut with a butter knife, highly reactive with water, or oxygen/air, the former causing rapid and copious hydrogen release, and a great deal of heat. Which result in the K actually melting and skittering around on the surface of the water its added to on a pad of H2. Followed by multiple cracklings, poppings and sparks as the hydrogen ignites, and the potassium metal eventually explodes. In small quantities that is. A pea-sized chunk of K tossed into water will make quite a bang.
So.... molten potassium enema. '1-squirt, 2-dive for cover, 3-'muffled thud, bangbangbangurrkkgghh...squelching, ripping, tearing noise, followed closely by 5- a finely divided gout of steaming innards become out-ards, gonads turned into stop-nads, and one hell of a case of heartburn
Lol, I still remember the lab demo in my last spesh school...where a person, or persons unknown fetched the bottle of potassium...by..mistake...rather than sodium, the metal above it on the periodic table. and considerably less reactive in comparison beteen Na and K (although an alloy of the two is actually liquid at room temperature and a more violent reaction with water than either metal on its own.
Result was a correspondingly pretty sizeable chunk of sodium metal tossed into a fish tank (empty of fish of course). The metal melted, and got blown all over the lab ceiling, only to drip back down in flaming rivers, back into the tank. With fairly predictable, but absofuckinglutely spectacular results.
I wish my phone back then had a camera, but that was before phones had videocameras commonly, if at all. I had an old motorola that texted, called, and cost me a tenner at the time, 2nd hand. Lol, I was the only other person in the room that didn't hit the deck aside from the teacher. Certainly took some stress out did that, just what I needed after a week of math lessons
(just try expecting a severe dyscalculic to pick up algebra and trigonometry by a sort of osmosis-as if, by sitting in proximity to people who AREN'T complete math dunces, it might somehow seep through whilst I abruptly jump from primary school level to GCSE level/bordering A-level)
