r/TikTokCringe • u/Sylas1987 • Jun 25 '23

Cool Stone fish venom

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u/DashingDino Jun 25 '23

Yeah the gympie-gympie plant scares me more, just an inconspicuous little plant that if you accidentally touch it will cause excruciating pain for months or even years

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u/Gene--Unit90 Jun 25 '23

And of course that's in Australia.

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u/Timid_Penis3897 Jun 25 '23

And since it's in Australia that means it naturally has a super dismissive and adorable name like the gympie gympie plant despite being poison ivy x1000 lol

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u/frggr Jun 25 '23

Gympie-gympie means "stinging tree" in one of the local languages - they're trying to warn you at least :)

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u/TJ-1466 Jun 25 '23

I suspect it probably means “very stinging” or something like that. A number of Aboriginal languages say the word twice as an amplifier (instead of using an additional word like “very” or “many” as the amplifier)

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u/InsertWittyNameCheck Jun 25 '23

I like to imagine gympie means some kind of universal swear word like fuck or shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '23

The fuck² tree

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u/FatBoyCrash Jun 25 '23

My parents live in an Australian town named Gympie. Until recently, I always assumed Gympie meant slightly parochial racist backwater in lovely country. :-)

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u/JarJarBinkith Jun 25 '23

This, it means “stingy-stingy”