If you offer me 250K I might be willing to do just about anything even boom boom boom.

This kind of sting is just wrong.

I'm not sure if we're seeing what the guy is describing. The second bee seems to be just as much a victim of the window/web as the first. If that is its sting we see then it's just either reacting to the spider or it's very lucky. I suspect, like Oxen_Morale said, that it's just a leg and it just looks like it's stinging the spider.

Bumble bees are communal bees. One queen with many workers so almost inherently when you see one bumble bee there are others not far away.

Bumble bees are not carnivorous, accordingly it would have no reason to deploy a sting other than defensively. As it was not under threat itself, the only conclusion can be that it came to the defense of the trapped bee.

The only real question is the mechanism used to communicate the threat and I would guess that it's pheromone based.

Trippy he totally does look like sting now that you mention it.

Hehe, that is Sting. He was in the police before he went solo

That one guy looks just like Sting.

No arguments there on the good at math idea not being funny... I never suggested such an option. What would have been good funny alternative bits for Colbert to have done could be a separate conversation I think (good satire punches up, etc).
I appreciate your personal note. It indeed jives with what one of my Asian American friends told me- they don't find particularly offensive either. This friend also mentioned that their experience is not equal to every Asian American experience though. For others, it seems that it stings quite significantly. So I don't think this is case closed.

The question I posed with my analogy still stands -- while this is not true for yourself or my friend, for some people of Asian descent, "the Ching Ching ding dong foundation for cultural sensitivity" might be offensive on a level similar to how it would have been for Blacks if he had used "The cotton-picking nigger foundation for cultural sensitivity". How many? Maybe that number is at 10%. Maybe that number is at .1%. Maybe that number is at 50%. I have no idea. How do we as a society figure whether that is the case? I think we do it by having a big old dialog where a lot of people of Asian descent are involved.

Instead what I see is a whole lot of posturing, sabre-rattling, and band wagon jumping from people that are not of Asian decent and therefore have no personal experience with this particular form of racism to bring to bear on the matter. Those people should be primarily listening and asking questions, not posturing and sabre-rattling.

I would maintain that in order for the satire to be effective, it actually needs to use offensive terminology. Clearly folks are already upset about the word "Redskins" (otherwise we wouldn't be hearing any of this), but not enough folks that anything is being done about it. To draw attention to how offensive it may be to those affected, he's using other, very offensive terms as a direct comparison. It simply wouldn't have any effect if he joked about "The Stephen Colbert Culturally Good at Math Foundation".

Also, on a personal note, I grew up with all the terms I mentioned in my first comment, and found them hurtful and offensive. I haven't, however, encountered them used as anything but clear satire for a very long time (a handful of exceptions in the past 15 years), and I personally find it takes a lot of the sting out hearing the phrases themselves made ridiculous, hearing people publicly accept that they're ignorant and offensive, and seeing people who would use them to sincerely hurt someone quickly ridiculed and shamed. So, still backing Colbert on this one.

Yes, I know. It's not technically a jellyfish, but a colonial animal.

I don't care. It looks like a jellyfish and stings like a bastard.

So you don't get concerned about your wife when she's up to 14 stings a day?

But 15...15 is the "I'm getting concerned sweetheart" point for you.

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Has anyone ever heard the sound of the velvet ant or 'cow ant'? All over Texas- If you pin one down they squeak similarly...real cute until you don't heed the squeak and pick one up-Their stings' worse than a wasp's-

No wonder it sometimes stings so bad and sometime you can't even feel the damn thing.

Hey, that cockatiel starts by playing that piano sting from those horror films.. creepy.

Easily one of Sting/Police's best numbers.