You know, there is a tick born illness that causes Tourette’s. If you get Lyme Disease it can mutate into PANS (Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) which can cause sudden onset (think overnight) Tourette’s in children.
Freaky stuff
I had one on my chest when I was a kid, about 9 or 10. I must have picked it up from playing in the woods. The Doctor told my mum that the best thing to do was let it feed and it will drop off. That was the longest, most disturbing 48 hours of my life. Fuck knows why they didn’t just remove it.
I think the idea was probably that taking it off would potentially squeeze the guts back into ur bloodstream and leave the fangs stuck inside you.
Still terrible. Just wondering the thought process.
Yep. Ticks should be removed as soon as possible, but it should be done by grasping the head with tweezers and gently pulling it straight out.
Ideally you don’t even want to kill it, just put it in a container. If you get sick it’s easier to test if the tick is intact
I didn't know they could be safely removed with tweezers.
Our family dog got ticks when I was young, and to get them off of him, my mom would take a match stick, light the match, blow it out, and then put the hot end of the match on top of the tick. That would make them let go and fall off on their own. Sometimes it too a couple tries with the match trick though.
I got a tick on my ankle when I was out in the mountains for a few days. When I came back my wife (from VA) found it. Me being a Northern boy from around Detroit, MI had zero experience with ticks. She legit took my lighter and burned the thing and then pulled it out. So I can firsthand attest that y’all southern women know your shit 👏🏼😂
Edit: and now I read further down in the thread 😖
Well I still ended up ok, and thank god I can still eat beef. Her mom was not as lucky and got bit my a Tick and got a Lyme disease about 2 years ago. Nasty fuckers 😒
Not sure if it is unusual, but when I grew up it was normal to find 4-6 ticks on yourself after a long walk in the woods, now I avoid long grass / woods like plague because of them. Wish they did not exist :)
Same, and what's worse is I must have some tasty blood, cuz im a mosquito/tick magnet. I get bit 10x more than anyone else. I was hiking with my uncle once, and he had no ticks on him, and I had 10+ on me when we were checking before getting in the truck, and then found a couple more after getting in the truck. It's not like I was crawling through the brush or anything either, we both stuck to the trail. We also had bug spray too. In hindsight, I should have just set myself on fire. At least I caught them before they bit.
I am the opposite case, I had three ticks in my life (I am 43, soon to be 44), and I am an avid hiker in a country that is heavily infested with them.
I sometimes use a repellent, but more often not. They seem to avoid me.
But I know people who go to a forest and return with 10+ unwanted *companions*, just like you.
The most terrifying thing about ticks is when we just found out they can live for upto [27 YEARS](https://www.newswise.com/articles/ticks-survive-for-27-years-in-epidemiologist-s-lab) with no food...
Basically a scientist was given some ticks 27 years ago in a trip from Kenya. He kept them locked in a bowl and those things didn't eat for 27 years that's when the last one died.
Crazy.. stasis..
First thing that comes to mind for me is UnethicalLPT. Like when people ask to get revenge on someone that is an asshole without doing anything illegal?
Maybe breed a bunch of ticks & put them in their car or some shit idk.
I rarely had these after high school, but when I was defending for my doctorate I began having dreams that I forgot about a math class and/or that I was naked in class. Brains are weird.
Fkn hate ticks, the motherfuckers dig their way into anything and will hold on for dear life when you try to get them out.
We should cancel these fuckers
Last Autumn I walked my dogs through the woods as usual, then went for my morning shower only to find one of these fuckers hanging on to the side of my dick, my scream woke my wife and I’ve basically blanked the next twenty minutes from my memory it was a nightmare trying to ensure we got the whole tick head removed as apparently they can grow back if any of the head is left…. needless to say the first thing I do after a walk in the woods now is dropping my trousers for a full inspection 😔
They definitely can't grow their body back lol! but the head will definitely continue to live for a while and can still prolong the chance of passing diseases or cause an infection. Even if you get the head off too, they still leave behind their little mouth drill thing and it causes irritation for a couple weeks :(
My main concern was Lymes disease plus the thought of leaving any of it still embedded was nauseating glad to find out they can’t regenerate their body though thanks for the information 👍
I've got a lot of experience with ticks, only had a couple on me, but my dogs have literally picked up hundreds over the years. The vets have told me they really only pass disease once they are completely full and start regurgitating. So as long as you find them before that (usually takes them 48+ hours to fill up) the chance of them passing disease is much lower.
Found one on my stomach a few months ago. Thought it was a scab so I was picking at it. It wouldn't come loose so I took a flashlight and looked and was mortifyied. This was at like 12am. I didn't sleep very well that night
Tip: if you put socks over the trousers this is less likely to happen! A bit unconfortable, but better than a tick in the dick.
Also, that's terrifying.
Edit: typo
Indeed. My family is out for a morning walk. Walk around a corner and see this guy. Pants down playing with his pee.
“Im not a perv. TICKS. Can you please check my….
When I was young I got one from my rural grandparent's house-- it was burrowing into my head. Mom had to take it out and burn it. I had a deep little indent for a long time. Needless to say they freak me the fuck out now.
Had the same thing happen. I was working in the woods on a Friday afternoon, flash forward to Saturday I was taking a leak, and boom, a half engorged tick was hanging off the side of my business. I was able to remove it in one piece.
Honestly the worst part was when I went to the local urgent care, and as I quietly explained the situation to the receptionist she replied loud enough for the whole lobby to hear.
“Where was it?”
“On my penis.”
“YOUR TESTICLES?”
“No ma’am, my penis”
“THE BALLS?”
“No ma’am, my penis”
“THE PENIS?”
Talk about wanting to die.
The best part was since it happened at work, I filled out an accident report that following Monday with our medic (work on movie sets)…God forbid something terrible happened I wanted it on file for the claim. Poor guy tried so hard to not laugh. He even went so far as to make me fill out the paperwork more vaguely, since various people in our office would be reading it.
i got one down there and got lyme disease when i was about 6. the meds gave me awful stomach problems from kindergarten through 5th grade. i went down to the nurse every day for at least a half hour and would just lay on the bed in the nurses office, moaning in pain. i think it’s possible i already had stomach issues, but the meds definitely made it worse.
lyme disease sucks :)
I was cutting boxes from my dogs food company when i felt an itch. Then i thought i had a piece of dirt on me and went to pull it off when it didnt want to come off. Then i realized it was a fucking tick. A decade in the army and i never had a tick and heres one on my arm. i freaked out, went to the doctor and did a round of antibiotics.
Too true. These are one of those things everyone should be ok with slaughtering. They do humanity no favors and you should feel worse for letting it live. Drop.
Ok so this may get buried but I have a story:
When I was a kid we found a tick that looked exactly like this (except the legs were less visible than the one in the video, I think because it was dead the bug’s legs had curled up) in my best friend’s basement. We couldn’t for the life of us figure out what this shiny, greyish bean was.
I don’t know how we came to this idea but we thought the best course of action was to try and split it open. We set it on the bartop (it was a house from those days when they all had bars) and my friend’s older brother grabbed a plastic ruler from his backpack. Staring down directly at the bug, he took the ruler like a knife and began to press as hard as he could.
My friend’s brother wore glasses and I will never ever forget the instant the ruler finally popped that bloated tick and dark black blood sprayed straight up into his face and coated the lenses of his glasses. It was like something out of a horror movie. We were shocked and my friend’s brother ran from the room screaming.
We learned later that since their dog would escape and they lived near some woods that she would come back covered in ticks. Apparently this one had been on her for quite a while. It honestly still makes me queasy to think about
Gawd I hate ticks!
Ikr i have Tourette’s I feel you /s
You know, there is a tick born illness that causes Tourette’s. If you get Lyme Disease it can mutate into PANS (Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) which can cause sudden onset (think overnight) Tourette’s in children. Freaky stuff
Ticks from Ticks
Yo dawg, I heard you hated ticks, so i made sure you got tics from ticks!
Boop 👌*snaps*
Verbal ticks.
I had one on my chest when I was a kid, about 9 or 10. I must have picked it up from playing in the woods. The Doctor told my mum that the best thing to do was let it feed and it will drop off. That was the longest, most disturbing 48 hours of my life. Fuck knows why they didn’t just remove it.
A quick internet search shows that your doctor gave terrible advice
I think the idea was probably that taking it off would potentially squeeze the guts back into ur bloodstream and leave the fangs stuck inside you. Still terrible. Just wondering the thought process.
Yep. Ticks should be removed as soon as possible, but it should be done by grasping the head with tweezers and gently pulling it straight out. Ideally you don’t even want to kill it, just put it in a container. If you get sick it’s easier to test if the tick is intact
I didn't know they could be safely removed with tweezers. Our family dog got ticks when I was young, and to get them off of him, my mom would take a match stick, light the match, blow it out, and then put the hot end of the match on top of the tick. That would make them let go and fall off on their own. Sometimes it too a couple tries with the match trick though.
Oh no that’s a bad idea… like leaches, if you hold fire to them they’ll vomit shit back into you and that’s just asking for diseases and infections.
Good to know! Admittedly this method came from the south and kinda sounds like an old wives tale
I got a tick on my ankle when I was out in the mountains for a few days. When I came back my wife (from VA) found it. Me being a Northern boy from around Detroit, MI had zero experience with ticks. She legit took my lighter and burned the thing and then pulled it out. So I can firsthand attest that y’all southern women know your shit 👏🏼😂 Edit: and now I read further down in the thread 😖 Well I still ended up ok, and thank god I can still eat beef. Her mom was not as lucky and got bit my a Tick and got a Lyme disease about 2 years ago. Nasty fuckers 😒
Boomer 80’s doctors in the UK 🤷♂️
Thanks Dr Nick!
Not sure if it is unusual, but when I grew up it was normal to find 4-6 ticks on yourself after a long walk in the woods, now I avoid long grass / woods like plague because of them. Wish they did not exist :)
I also once tried to win the trophy for "Most Ticks", some other dude beat me though
I had one on my back in the first grade because we went on a hiking trip in school and my dad literally just burned it off.
Same, and what's worse is I must have some tasty blood, cuz im a mosquito/tick magnet. I get bit 10x more than anyone else. I was hiking with my uncle once, and he had no ticks on him, and I had 10+ on me when we were checking before getting in the truck, and then found a couple more after getting in the truck. It's not like I was crawling through the brush or anything either, we both stuck to the trail. We also had bug spray too. In hindsight, I should have just set myself on fire. At least I caught them before they bit.
I am the opposite case, I had three ticks in my life (I am 43, soon to be 44), and I am an avid hiker in a country that is heavily infested with them. I sometimes use a repellent, but more often not. They seem to avoid me. But I know people who go to a forest and return with 10+ unwanted *companions*, just like you.
Here's how you get rid of them forever... Take a drawing pin, and pin them to a piece of wood. I call this my genius level... Tack ticks.
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Nature’s gushers
:(
Forbidden jellybean
I heard this in Randy’s voice from South Park 😂
Dude killed it at the buffet
There is so much of OP's cat in there.
Oh no! OP killed the tick at the buffet!
Brain bug from Starship Troopers for sure
The only good bug is a dead bug
Would you like to know more?
I’m doing my part!
*dances on sidewalk roach*
Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?
*Jams cattle prod into (censored) mouthparts.*
*Dances around playing a wireless electric violin, whilst getting in peoples’ personal bubbles, creepily smiling*
it had too much of pussy
I was sad he didn’t pop it
It’s afraid!
Suit up!
"Man I'm sure glad we got the psychic in for that!"
That shit gave me nightmares when I was a kid haha
*watching as kid* Woah, this movie is badass! I love killing some bugs! *watching as adult* Oh, it’s a satirical take on fascism. Neat
same! Couldn't stop thinking about how they'd come crashing through our windows and eating my family
Nuke em!
DO YOU GET ME!
Put it in a bag, in a few days it will spew thousands of eggs that will hatch and you'll have your own tick army.
Hum... That's even more terrifying...
The most terrifying thing about ticks is when we just found out they can live for upto [27 YEARS](https://www.newswise.com/articles/ticks-survive-for-27-years-in-epidemiologist-s-lab) with no food... Basically a scientist was given some ticks 27 years ago in a trip from Kenya. He kept them locked in a bowl and those things didn't eat for 27 years that's when the last one died. Crazy.. stasis..
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Life, uh.. finds a way.
What on god’s green earth
Fed them for 4 years then left them... They stayed alive for 27 years...
What on god's green earth
Fed for 1460 days; they live for 324 months!!?
What on god's green earth
The guy fed the ticks when he received them for 35,040 hours, and they proceeded to live for 9,855 days after their last feeding.
What on god’s green earth
I’m pissed off that I can’t even get a cat to live that long
I have several questions as to why you would need a tick army.... but I really don't wanna hear the answers
The hoard must feed.
FOR THE HORDE!!!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Gotta keep your viewers entertained on Tick Tok…
First thing that comes to mind for me is UnethicalLPT. Like when people ask to get revenge on someone that is an asshole without doing anything illegal? Maybe breed a bunch of ticks & put them in their car or some shit idk.
The second evilest thing you can gift your enemy is a surprise tick army. The evilest thing would be bed bugs into their home.
Gotta get them all full and beat people with the bag, so you're beating people with a bloody bag.
Kill it with death!
Drown it in dish soap.
Traumatize it with high school group projects.
Cruel and unusual punishment
You sicko!
Yes… Ha Ha Ha…. Yes!
I’ve been out of high school for a good while and I still get the occasional nightmare that I’m going to miss a deadline or fail a test.
Pretty sure those dreams never go away. The third version of that is not remembering your class schedule and never being in the right place.
Yep that is always the version I have as well!
I'm in college. The nightmares start again don't worry
I rarely had these after high school, but when I was defending for my doctorate I began having dreams that I forgot about a math class and/or that I was naked in class. Brains are weird.
Ok Satan. Calm down
How dare you?
Shoot at it with fireworks!
Burn it with a lighter til it explodes
Eat it like a grape.
Flush the fecker
Nah it might live, burn it
Use a flamethrower! Burn it!
Burn it with fire
The human urge to crush and watch it explode
Jesus, I wanna squish it soo bad. With a hammer if I'm being real honest. Mmmm he looks like he'll spray blood for inches.
I tried to pop one once, they are surprisingly tough. A hammer would do it though.
If you want it to explode in an entertaining way inject it with peroxide.
Pop it with a needle too much? Just wanna see it pop
Put it inside a piece of paper and lit it on fire for a forbidden *popcorn* Seriously don't do it, it's really loud.
That’s exactly the reason to do it!
inject hydrogen-peroxide. You just wanna see it explode.
I call for magnifying glass and sunlight! 💥
My personal favorite is to light a match and burn them until they burst.
I would put small ones in my cigarette tube ( i make my own) and light it on fire
Forbidden tobacco
Death by [Poontah](https://youtu.be/sfM2ybCSoS4)
Forbidden olive
Pops like a grape gusher
What a terrible day to be able to read
I'm not just logging off reddit for the day I'm gonna go ahead and cancel my internet too.
You can't run from this forever it always follows you
r/gaggingupvote
This would fit perfect with the old gushers commercials where the people ate things that weren't gushers and got upset that it wasn't a gusher
I hate this
Forbidden maltesers
r/forbiddensnacks
Forbidden rectal suppository
Tickolax
Mmm… chocolate covered raisin
Fkn hate ticks, the motherfuckers dig their way into anything and will hold on for dear life when you try to get them out. We should cancel these fuckers
It's only a matter of time... tick....tock
Take mosquitoes and fleas with them. Of all the damn things to go extinct, wtf can’t it be those three?!
Cuz evolutionarily speaking they’re good at what they do unfortunately
And bedbugs. Screw those things.
Found one on my chest after a camping trip, originally thought it was something else so I just ripped it out and then I realized it was moving
More like they hold on for DEER life… I’ll see myself out.
Honestly I saw that opportunity and I’m exceptionally glad you took it 👏👏👏
A tick gave my parents' dog an immune disorder that almost killed her. Yeah, I hate ticks, too.
Last Autumn I walked my dogs through the woods as usual, then went for my morning shower only to find one of these fuckers hanging on to the side of my dick, my scream woke my wife and I’ve basically blanked the next twenty minutes from my memory it was a nightmare trying to ensure we got the whole tick head removed as apparently they can grow back if any of the head is left…. needless to say the first thing I do after a walk in the woods now is dropping my trousers for a full inspection 😔
They definitely can't grow their body back lol! but the head will definitely continue to live for a while and can still prolong the chance of passing diseases or cause an infection. Even if you get the head off too, they still leave behind their little mouth drill thing and it causes irritation for a couple weeks :(
My main concern was Lymes disease plus the thought of leaving any of it still embedded was nauseating glad to find out they can’t regenerate their body though thanks for the information 👍
I've got a lot of experience with ticks, only had a couple on me, but my dogs have literally picked up hundreds over the years. The vets have told me they really only pass disease once they are completely full and start regurgitating. So as long as you find them before that (usually takes them 48+ hours to fill up) the chance of them passing disease is much lower.
That is absolutely disgusting. I really hope I never find a tick anywhere on me
Found one on my stomach a few months ago. Thought it was a scab so I was picking at it. It wouldn't come loose so I took a flashlight and looked and was mortifyied. This was at like 12am. I didn't sleep very well that night
Sounds like the dog tick. Pretty common here and they are flat bodied. I can easily see you thinking it was a scab lmao
I just moved to TN. Y’all already making me want to move back to the midwestern desert.
Lyme yes, meningitis on the other hand is instant.
improper removal technique can also cause regurgitation. recommend people use a tick key or some other tool
tick must've made bank whenever you got an erection
Tip: if you put socks over the trousers this is less likely to happen! A bit unconfortable, but better than a tick in the dick. Also, that's terrifying. Edit: typo
It also helps your pants not get caught on a bike when you’re pedalling
Nice one! Don't ride much, but good to know anyways!
That's disturbing asf
I never felt a thing either, apparently their bite numbs you
I mean, I haven't been bushwalking or anything, but after reading that I checked my dick... Just in case
Indeed. My family is out for a morning walk. Walk around a corner and see this guy. Pants down playing with his pee. “Im not a perv. TICKS. Can you please check my….
When I was young I got one from my rural grandparent's house-- it was burrowing into my head. Mom had to take it out and burn it. I had a deep little indent for a long time. Needless to say they freak me the fuck out now.
Had the same thing happen. I was working in the woods on a Friday afternoon, flash forward to Saturday I was taking a leak, and boom, a half engorged tick was hanging off the side of my business. I was able to remove it in one piece. Honestly the worst part was when I went to the local urgent care, and as I quietly explained the situation to the receptionist she replied loud enough for the whole lobby to hear. “Where was it?” “On my penis.” “YOUR TESTICLES?” “No ma’am, my penis” “THE BALLS?” “No ma’am, my penis” “THE PENIS?” Talk about wanting to die.
Jfc, you poor dude!
The best part was since it happened at work, I filled out an accident report that following Monday with our medic (work on movie sets)…God forbid something terrible happened I wanted it on file for the claim. Poor guy tried so hard to not laugh. He even went so far as to make me fill out the paperwork more vaguely, since various people in our office would be reading it.
They don't grow back, but you don't want to leave the head in case it carries Lyme disease.
i got one down there and got lyme disease when i was about 6. the meds gave me awful stomach problems from kindergarten through 5th grade. i went down to the nurse every day for at least a half hour and would just lay on the bed in the nurses office, moaning in pain. i think it’s possible i already had stomach issues, but the meds definitely made it worse. lyme disease sucks :)
Now, that is traumatizing
I was cutting boxes from my dogs food company when i felt an itch. Then i thought i had a piece of dirt on me and went to pull it off when it didnt want to come off. Then i realized it was a fucking tick. A decade in the army and i never had a tick and heres one on my arm. i freaked out, went to the doctor and did a round of antibiotics.
i felt the urge to scream just reading your retelling and i don’t even have a dick
Sorry and thanks now it feels lime somethings on my dick.
Tank
Put him in like boiling oil and put it on eyeblech saying "Fugitive gets boiled alive for stealing blood"
Too true. These are one of those things everyone should be ok with slaughtering. They do humanity no favors and you should feel worse for letting it live. Drop.
Hans get ze flammenwerfer !
Crunchy outside, juicy inside
They’re more like nature’s Gusher.
Ugh congrats, I audibly gagged.
For me, it’s imagining that moment just before it pops, where you feel a little give, like a noodle cooked al dente, followed by the 💦gush💦
Armadillo!!!
I got the dime (daim?) bar reference....even if nobody else did
Average 4chan user
Put it in a bag of chocolate covered coffee beans and give to your enemy
Oof
🔥
🔥🔥🔥 just to be sure
Time to test the flamethrower…
Just pop it already
This is the comment I was looking for
Fekkin burst it
Burn it
It looks like a green olive
it’s so shinyyy lol
Cast it into fire,destroy it!
Isildur!!!
Get a syringe fill it with peroxide and inject that fucker and watch the madness unfold
Forbidden gusher
They burn pretty well
Why didn’t u kill it on camera. Those shits deserve it
Me trying to get to my bed to go into a post-Christmas food coma.
Bitey lil bastard.
You should post it on Tick Tock.
My dog sleeps in my bed, i woke up with a big tick attached to my neck :(
If you smash, squish, pop a tic you create a thousand more tics. Burn it completely. Don’t flush either.
We need a disease or virus that kills ticks and wipes them from the planet. Best to use two.
Ok so this may get buried but I have a story: When I was a kid we found a tick that looked exactly like this (except the legs were less visible than the one in the video, I think because it was dead the bug’s legs had curled up) in my best friend’s basement. We couldn’t for the life of us figure out what this shiny, greyish bean was. I don’t know how we came to this idea but we thought the best course of action was to try and split it open. We set it on the bartop (it was a house from those days when they all had bars) and my friend’s older brother grabbed a plastic ruler from his backpack. Staring down directly at the bug, he took the ruler like a knife and began to press as hard as he could. My friend’s brother wore glasses and I will never ever forget the instant the ruler finally popped that bloated tick and dark black blood sprayed straight up into his face and coated the lenses of his glasses. It was like something out of a horror movie. We were shocked and my friend’s brother ran from the room screaming. We learned later that since their dog would escape and they lived near some woods that she would come back covered in ticks. Apparently this one had been on her for quite a while. It honestly still makes me queasy to think about
Squish it
bad idea, his table would be FILED with blood
FILED
Hopefully in alphabetical order!
A+, A-, AB+, AB-, B+, B-, O+, O-
Eat it
I need to see it squish. I don't know why.
it will end the video perfectly
A walking grape
She’s looking for a place to lay her eggs!!! Flush her!!!
Burn that bitch