file this under "icky"

[Adrenochrome]

NNNNNOOOOOOO Not the sack! Was it a bean or the frank? the side of the bean.

[bassman]

I get them all the time from playing paintball. the best method to get them out without having a pincher stuck in the would site, is the cherry from a match head gets them to flee, then flush them. after that peroxide, peroxide, peroxide. Yeah, my grandfather taught me the same trick when I was younger. If you can heat up something and put it against the tick without burning yourself, it will let go. Hell, he used to use just a lighter and nothing else. I have no idea how he didn't burn himself.... Ticks....ugh. "spooooon!"

[Adrenochrome]

Yeah, my grandfather taught me the same trick when I was younger. If you can heat up something and put it against the tick without burning yourself, it will let go. Hell, he used to use just a lighter and nothing else. I have no idea how he didn't burn himself.... Ticks....ugh. "spooooon!" I know the "light-the-bitch and back out" trick..... but, IT WAS NEAR MY EYE!!!!!!!! RIGHT ON THE EYELASH!!!!!!!!! had to go plucks-ville I'm all for the "Ocular Impalement" scenes of a Fulci, but.....MY eye????? I felt it "pluck"!!!! dammit, man, I felt it "pluck"!!!

[bassman]

I know the "light-the-bitch and back out" trick..... but, IT WAS NEAR MY EYE!!!!!!!! RIGHT ON THE EYELASH!!!!!!!!! had to go plucks-ville I'm all for the "Ocular Impalement" scenes of a Fulci, but.....MY eye????? I felt it "pluck"!!!! dammit, man, I felt it "pluck"!!! Haha...yeah, I wasn't suggesting that you should have done that. Flame is not good when it's that close to the eye

[kortick]

yuck tom i am glad you got the little b*stard out before it could do any real damage and lyme disease is a problem with those little joys that is the problem of enjoying the outdoors we are the trespassers it is their environment and we are intruding on them i like the outdoors always have but we have to be careful lots of things out there that are yucky

[Adrenochrome]

we are the trespassers it is their environment and we are intruding on them i like the outdoors always have but we have to be careful lots of things out there that are yucky hmmmmmm...I never consider myself a "trespasser" here. My back porch is a lake. My front porch is "a way to town". I spend most of my time on "the back porch". I have a hammock 'tween two trees (5 ft from the lake). I nap. I fish. I think. I love. I don't see any of us "intruding". I see all of us "not able to respect", sometimes. Or, WE MUST CLUSTER HERE! Why do humans hate each other? I don't give a rats ass about border or preferrence. Why do humans hate each other?

[MapMan]

I just picked one of those little bastards from my armpit. I feel your pain. *Non disclaimer I don't give a damn if you are offended. I plucked from my armpit and wrapped it up in Kleenex and burned it alive.

[p2501]

Yeah, my grandfather taught me the same trick when I was younger. If you can heat up something and put it against the tick without burning yourself, it will let go. Hell, he used to use just a lighter and nothing else. I have no idea how he didn't burn himself.... Ticks....ugh. "spooooon!" yep. in the field i just use my zippo. it does the trick fine.

[mista_mo]

I like to think i'm a tough young man..I'm strong, and smart...but uhh...ticks..I have a tiny little problem with...I remember I felt something on the back of my neck one day, and I reached around and there was this big ol fat tick about the size of a small spider, filled with my blood, needless to say I crushed the little basturd..no one takes my blood but me.

[MapMan]

Let us not forget the dreaded Chigger. At least that is what we call them here. The tiny red bug that digs into you.

[Adrenochrome]

Let us not forget the dreaded Chigger. At least that is what we call them here. The tiny red bug that digs into you. Oh my, Chiggers. I have 4 of those.

[kortick]

maybe i worded it too harshly i just mean that if you go out into the wilderness then you become part of the food chain too i suffer from poison ivy badly i have a very severe allergy to it but if i catch it i have no one to blame but myself i wont get it watchng tv on my couch or reading a book

[Adrenochrome]

maybe i worded it too harshly i just mean that if you go out into the wilderness then you become part of the food chain too i suffer from poison ivy badly i have a very severe allergy to it but if i catch it i have no one to blame but myself i wont get it watchng tv on my couch or reading a book I thought that's what you meant.....I still don't see it as trespassing. That's such an "angry" word. Whenever I hike through the wilderness, I have respect when I visit and I never trespass. And, I'm always looking for Mr. Tumnus.

[livingdeadboy]

*Disclaimer NOTE: this thread is in no way meant as a violent/hate thread toward blood-sucking insects (for those Canadians that are easily offended by such things) I hate the little tick bastards too...and I'm canadian...ooooo ahhhhhh

[dmbfanintn]

Let us not forget the dreaded Chigger. At least that is what we call them here. The tiny red bug that digs into you. Oh yeah, the chigger! We have those little bastards everywhere here too. Wait, your "here" and my "here" are pretty damn close! I spent 3 and a half years at Ft Hood TX and the chiggers were REAL bad. We would spend two weeks at a time in the field and we would be covered in thsoe damn little monsters! You know what works well? Clear fingernail polish! Just put a little dab on the chigger-fied area and it will smother them. That why it's not good to scratch the chigger, it actually opens the hole and allows the chigger to burrow even deeper into you.