Talk:Gu (poison)

Further editing needed

Revising this article has turned into an enjoyable timesink but I'm stopping for now. It still needs consolidation and editing. Please help. Keahapana (talk) 21:19, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

--68.49.32.166 (talk) 23:55, 24 August 2010 (UTC) This "article" appears to be English description about Chinese. This logic would put all non-en Wiki into the en Wiki

In fact, there was a story, it may have been by Poe but now I am less certain as I am unable to find anything on a precursory search, perhaps it was Lovecraft or even Leiber. The point being, it was the one where the narrator gets the funnel with teeth marks, puts it under his pillow and learns in a dream it was the funnel used to execute a woman famous for poisoning her brothers or her family, I forget exactly (it's been a while). The point of this being, until I read this article I had always associated poisoning for profit with France or Poe. In addition, nearly all the material referenced is by westerners. Lastly, the phenomena described (the aforementioned poisoning for profit) is by no means nor by any stretch of the imagination a Chinese monopoly. Further, by this logic the entire english wikipedia may be deleted because it could be written in the encyclopedia of another language. Might want to get yourself some kevlar shorts! 55378008a (talk) 17:53, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

UPDATE: Short Stories: The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle Full online text of The Leather Funnel by Arthur ... some details of the woman's career, her unbridled ... like other tigresses her teeth were both ... eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LeaFun.shtml (courtesy duckduckgo)

Have a look at this; note where by far the most people are too sick to do anything more than sit home and edit wikipedia (specifically the first and [1] black and white world map images).

Note none of them are in China. (This is due to cold medicine, newly banned in the freshly declining west?)[2][3] while this article is dressed as having something to do with China, in fact currently the practice of poisoning people to steal their assets is far, far, far more common in America and Europe. Note also these are the two places with the only significant population increase on the planet; firstly because people about to die breed like rabbits because it's a survival adaptation and secondly because everyone and their dog much rather obtain millions by jabbing someone once with a needle and then taking advantage of their mental feebleness than actually do anything useful.

Likewise, the snake likely benefits from evolving a venom which causes the bitees (or more properly in the context of this article, jabbees)(or spritzees, in the case of habu, mozambique spitting cobra - contact lens solution, anyone?, etc.) it doesn't kill to go forth and multiply, hence boosting its food source, as well as boosting the source of food (and housing) for its food source (think kids dropping food the mice can eat). Lastly, the poisoning to obtain assets naturally results in freeing credit to build on the freshly obtained vastholds. With the exception of rumored cities built for millions in China in which no one is living[4] (which I'd like to point out I have no idea whether or not they actually really exist and also Spain)(UPDATE: Forbes tells us the biggest ghost city is now nearly full), housing tends to fill up, especially if people are paid to do so with the aforementioned freshly available credit. They also use the newly acquired powers over newly enfeebled minds to induce them to print money. Note this degrades the value of money, further disenfranchising the newly enfeebled. There is no job search assistance on this or any other planet, nor disability recovery program, for people poisoned by snake spit, regardless of whether they did so voluntarily or something or someone else did it to them, unawares or otherwise.

This article is about people doing it, not 'somethings.' For the latter I'd think you'd want demonology or witchcraft or something.

Note also even freshly demonized leaders of distant (or not-so-distant, as the case may be) climes are said to be being subjected to the rapid infill and population influx nearby to their homes, even if this does not on its face negate attempts, sourced or otherwise, to paint them as part of the problem and not the solution.

Not that it'll do any good, but like to point out I could not care less what you build where or how you pay for it, nor am I trying to imply I would never do this (utilize low interest loans to develop; not the poisoning, and not on inhabited islands) myself. That is to specify I do not have an opinion; I just dont want to be really sick. Incidentally neither developers nor contractors are going to get paid either if they get poisoned with this stuff, nor are people fulfilling contracts for hits on environmentalists, nor are the people who put hits on them. Just look at what happened to Izzy (it's gone now, but there was a 'he just didn't feel as comfortable after 2009' actually it was 'the sense of peace he usually felt after a murder no longer came over him' or similar). Better get yourself some kevlar shorts! 55378008a (talk) 07:48, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Mentioning

Did you seen this - - - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDbZLldeII&index=28&list=PL6KftEIxjzaClVCeo5v8Wq4tRBgY30vC8 ? ? ?

213.59.138.184 (talk) 16:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

A specially here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDbZLldeII#t=22m53s

213.59.138.184 (talk) 16:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Wug? Really?

This is a weird article in many respects, but the weirdest is that because one source suggests translating a word with the non-word wug this whole article does the same thing?! And a link to this article has been added to the disambiguation page for wug as though it’s now the standard translation! Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to just use the Pinyin (after explaining the meaning)? —☸ Moilleadóir ☎ 12:59, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Probably, yeah. Smowo (talk) 08:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes really, wug is a word used in fields such as linguistic anthropology and folk taxonomy (see this page's Bibliography for more usage examples). Unlike English, many languages have words for this life-form classification meaning "reptiles, amphibians, insects, etc." Although the portmanteau wug is uncommon, it best fills the English lexical gap for creep-crawly critters. In rereading this Gu article, it might be a good idea to repeat the "= worm + bug" a few times in Section 2. The other linguistic wug-wugs plural test term is used in fields such as language acquisition, and this could be clarified on the Wug dab page. Keahapana (talk) 23:26, 16 February 2019 (UTC)