Schmidt - A Slightly Painful List
While looking for some information for my electronics project, I stumbled across some information on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Now, this may seem a very obscure index to create, alongside other such as the Beaufort Scale, Richter Scale and others, and I agree totally. When you actually have a use for the index, when you have been stung, you are most likely to be screaming and writhing in agony, not deliberating whether your sting rates as a 2.2 or 2.3!
However, if you happen to ever meet someone who also knows the scale, then feel free to use it. I have put a rough outline and examples below, for today’s random list:
The scale runs from 0 all the way to a dizzying… 5.
0 means that you haven’t been stung.
- Sweat Bee: Light sting, similar to a very small spark or pin-prick.
- Blad-Faced Hornet: Strong, continuous pain, like getting your hand stuck in a revolving door.
- Paper Wasp: Caustic, burning sensation. Imagine getting a paper cut, then pouring concentrated hydrochloric acid on it.
- Pepsis Wasp: Blinding and fierce, likie dropping a hairdryer in the bath while you’re in it, or electrocuting yourself with a toaster.
There is also one more rank, listed as the 4+. It is simply listed as being “like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your heel”. I am not sure who tried that one, but that must be incredibly painful, and stupid. Perhaps it will be Miss Harding’s next adventure.
For those of you who are interested, I am still learning Shavian, and I am progressing well. It’s an awful lot easier than the Roman alphabet, but typing it with the automatic spell-checker on probably wasn’t the best of my ideas. Keyboards are labelled with the Roman alphabet, from A to Z, with some other random symbols. Shavian has 48 letters and the naming dot, meaning that certain letters make two symbols. For example, a lowercase ‘u’ in the Roman alphabet creates the symbol for the ‘u’ sound, as in ‘up’. However, a capital ‘U’ creates the symbol for the ‘oo’ sound. Spellcheckers don’t like me typing fUl (meaning ‘fool’) and it corrects it to ‘full’, which, if typed in Shavian, creates ‘full’. Not good.
Anyway, more at some point. Probably tomorrow as I have an English lesson 