The Project star Michael Hing made a seriously X-rated confession on Friday’s episode of the Channel 10 show.
Hing was joined by his co-stars while the panel discussed what the most painful bites and stings from different Australian critters are.
Australia has earned its reputation for having the most dangerous animals; and venom expert Bryan Fry has ranked Australia’s most painful creatures.
There’s a whole host of critters on the list, including spiders, caterpillars and a number of seriously scary-looking jellyfish.
When the panel came to discuss which creature they’d pick if they had to be stung by one, so they could say they had “survived”, Hing had a rather surprising response that left his co-stars gasping.
“I would pick jellyfish,” he said rather coyly, before adding: “...because I want to get pissed on.”
His co-stars didn’t quite know what to make of that, with silence falling over the panel for a moment before some of its members erupted into awkward laughter.
Upon moving on, the panel revealed that the critter topping the pain index was the Irukandji jellyfish.
Professor Fry revealed it can be the “mental injuries” that cause far more damage than the short-term, excruciating pain from its sting.
“Your average civilian who gets stung by one of these things is not going to have the lifetime of mental scar tissue that I’ve accumulated,” he told ABC.
“The trauma is far and away the worst in this sense and does cause actual mental injuries.”
Each tentacle, up to a metre long, and its head, have stingers, and researchers in Far North Queensland say they “actively” hunt for prey despite being more than 90 per cent water.
“The pain goes on for two weeks or more, successively getting worse as time goes on … it is a brutality, a physical torture,” said Prof Fry.
“I’ve heard it from [multiple people] who’ve been stung, almost the exact same words, where they describe an impending feeling of doom.
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“There’s this psychological effect that is as traumatising to these people as the physical impact of the pain. There’s no antivenom. We have no way of neutralising it at this point, all we can do is treat the symptoms.
The scientist continued: “There’s a million different ways to produce pain … and in the case of the Irukandji, whatever pain pathway it’s going through … it’s not one of the pain pathways that morphine blocks.
And to make matters worse, painkillers don’t help alleviate the pain, with the professor adding: “Morphine has no effect on these people. Zero.”
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