summer_jackel

There's an Aesop's fable I read as a young kid that concerns nettles: the story is that if you brush against a nettle, you get stung, but if you grab it as hard as you can, you don't. "Whatever you do, do with all your might" is the lesson there, but the first time I encountered a stinging nettle, I wanted to see if it was actually true.

Either it was the wrong kind of nettle, or Aesop was being metaphorical and/or full of bollocks. Owie ow.