Deadly jellyfish invade UK beaches

I don't know how deadly a Portuguese man-of-war really is, but their translucent bodies would help them be formidable underwater hunters.

Hahaha come on, the man of war (or blue bottles as we call them here) are nothing. I have been stung by them literally hundreds of times surfing and swimming. They are a regular occurance on our beaches down here. They do give a nasty burning sting, especially if you cop it in the wrong place where it can feel like someone took a sledge hammer to your groin. But these things are not deadly. Its funny when tourists see them for the first time here though, usually picking them up and stinging themselves. We just pop them and bury them under the sand when we see them. You can pick them up by the ... [More]

My friend made a fun joke about them when I showed him the article. (I think it's fun?) "It's the spanish armada all over again!" But more seriously.. So we got some missplaced jellyfish? Big news.. And it's news, so of course it's blown out of proportions. Like the flue. "End of hte world!" right.. Not so much worse being effected then by a regular flue.. Why can't news give something less credit then it deserves, rather then way too much?

If the tentacles on these men-o-war are only 15 feet in length then they are only 'little guys'. The average length is around 10 metres (over 30 feet) and have even been known to be as long as aproximately 50 metres (165 feet)!

Why doesn't Britain just send in its Jedi population to take aggressive negotiations with the jellyfish? Who knows, they might find that their Sith population was at the heart of the crisis.

Why doesn't Britain just send in its Jedi population to take aggressive negotiations with the jellyfish? Who knows, they might find that their Sith population was at the heart of the crisis. This is a risky approach to recommend, I mean Darth Maul (Phantom Menace 1), was difficult enough to defeat, imagine facing a jellyfish with whoever knows how many lightsabers armed in each tentacle, the mind boggles!