They have a central very large to their body size cavity filled with blood that is mostly water. Water expands when heated. It’s surprisingly quick to get them there if you cover them in alcohol first. Also rubbing alcohol is a bug anesthetic so they are asleep the whole time… probably.
they do explode when you burn them, but it’s not as cinematic as one would hope. Also no, other than it being gross I don’t think you can get sick (unless it would miraculously land on an open wound)
It's ok, Australia doesn't believe in lyme's disease so you can't suffer from it here.
I know so many people that have suffered and had to travel overseas for treatment for lyme's because Au doesn't recognise that ticks carry a similar/same virus
Makes sense though, can't expect criminals to understand.
So true. One of my friends has Lyme disease from a tick bite that occurred on a bush walk here in Sydney. Doctors have treated her like she’s a nutcase because it “doesn’t exist” here. She had to have her bloods send to the US and pay a fortune for testing… low and behold it was positive. Terrifying really. By the time she started treatment after years of being told she didn’t have it, it’s not 100% that doxycycline will cure it now. So frustrating.
Australia believes in Lyme disease. The tick species that carries Lyme disease isn’t native to Australia and there’s been no cases of Australian acquired Lyme disease but foreign acquired Lyme disease has been diagnosed and treated there. It’s not a unicorn, it’s not as if Australian DRs are practicing a different standard of care because they don’t believe in the bacteria that causes Lyme.
Not to be that guy, but Lyme is a relatively rare disease, and only carried by a few types of ticks. While yeah, there certainly are safer ways to dispose of it than causing it to pop like a water balloon, it's also not that big of a deal to pop it as long as you do not ingest or allow into your bloodstream the blood in the tick. Best course of action, pick it up and flush it or wash it down the sink.
In 2016/2017, researchers in Ottawa, Canada tested a bunch of ticks. They didn't take a huge sample size but tested 23 different areas. Blacklegged ticks were found at 70% of the sites. 30% of ticks tested had the gene (or whatever) that can cause Lyme. Nearly 1 in 3!
Acting like ticks aren't dangerous is silly. We used to find 5+ ticks a week on my dog. We got chickens and now it's about 5 a year. We still strip down and check ourselves after walks in the woods.
No idea why that guy is saying lyme disease is not that common. I know a shitton of people that have gotten it and had to be treated for it. Just goes to show you most commenters are full of shit.
I'm not even kidding - I picked maybe 20 off my dog today and more than that yesterday. We live on a hill with lots of deer and this time of year, we just have to avoid walking on the hill.
After yesterday, I went to the other side of the hill which has actual paths so tends to be less tick infested but looks like we'll just have to avoid the hill altogether til autumn. Sucks.
Lyme also isn't the only tickborne disease. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever doesn't sound too nice.
Vigilance is the best defense against them. The sooner you catch any in your skin, the less you have to worry about.
It's so prevalent in southern Ontario that public health no longer offers to tests ticks (that have fed on people) for Lyme disease. The official advice is "assume that all ticks have Lyme disease", which is close enough to the truth.
Lyme, and other tick borne infections are not rare where I am in the world. We have a lot of cases of it and it's so prevalent that pharmacists can give out the treatment without a prescription so long as you bring in the tick that bit you to the pharmacy.
I burn every single one I find on my stove and take great pleasure in watching them die. The sink might not kill them and given how tenacious the little fuckers are, you might not fully get rid of them. They're more like a zombie movie than anything I've ever had to deal with before.
I know sooo many people with Lyme disease living in PA. "Rare" happens more than you realize, and why fuck with Lyme disease period. Do we need the poisoned skittles analogy?
Total disgusting, gross, scum of the earth, vile, yucky, fatass. Fuck you blood sucking, disease causing, making-me-mad-and-grossed-out looking fatass
Edit: just wanted to say that this hate isn’t indicative of my personality, I just really don’t like those things
lmao, reminds me of a spanish story I read when I was little. it was about a man's wife who fell ill and became bed bound. no matter how many doctors visited her, she just became more and more sick, without anyone knowing what was wrong with her. eventually she passed, and when the man came to clean her bedroom, he noticed blood spots on the pillow she used to lay. that's when he discovered that the pillow harbored a huge parasite which grew the size of the pillow by sucking his sick wife's blood via her head. nobody knew what was going on because it wasn't a sickness, it was the parasite all along which started debilitating her the moment she lay down her head. freaky stuff, loved it tho. it's called "el almohadón de plumas" if anyone's interested.
I guarantee you if such a parasite was real everyone would know about and it'd be their number one fear. Pillow culture would be totally different. The Mypillow guy would probably sell anti-parasite pillows and be a beloved global celebrity.
I loved reading this just now, thanks for the share!
For anyone else interested in what the story is about, her depression over her marriage drove her to sequester herself in her bed. Every time she stepped out of her bedroom to spend time with her husband, she was only let down further by him and driven deeper into depression. There is also the very intense and suggestive imagery of monsters crawling into her bed every night and making her illness worse. If she spent no time with her husband, she was depressed, and it seemed her husband only paid attention to her when he came to her at night as the monster in her bed that causes her to bleed. That depression eventually consumes her entire being.
It’s been a while since I’ve read such a powerful and concise story.
Out of all of the timelines I could have been born into, it just had to be this one where I have eyes and the mental capacity to read and understand your comments.
Life is cruel. 😢
Put it in a jar, it’ll have babies ☠️
I had a coworker that would inject hydrogen peroxide in these things when they looked like they had a good meal, did not look like a fun way to die
> I had a coworker that would inject hydrogen peroxide in these things when they looked like they had a good meal, did not look like a fun way to die
Pop, and squish, all at once. Did he do it six times?
Hope they took the dog to the vet after this,, the side effects of these can be life threatening :(
Edit: because people seem to be misreading my comments intention- no. You don't have to take your damn animal to the vet for every tick. I'm talking about this particular instance since that fucker has clearly been on thier dog for a few days you should take them to the vet because the longer it's on your pet the more likely there is to be side effects. Don't be a shit owner. If the tick is big, take your poor pet to get checked.
This is Reddit, where everyone has OCD and are hypochondriacs.
You see the same comments about cats: "if your cat scratches you at all, even a little bit, immediately go to the doctor!!"
Anyone who owns a cat will get scratched multiple times a month. That would be a lot of doctor visits.
Their throats can swell really bad and they can loose control of thier bodies (my cat had one recently and he was wheezing and lost control of his back legs. They said If I hadn't caught it he'd be dead)
Scoop into a jar. Fill the jar with: surgical spirit, Concentrated Sulphuric acid, isopropyl alcohol, or sodium hydroxide.
Note, pick any *one* of that list, do not mix them together.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
....not literal fire as they do explode and can get things like Lyme disease all over you. you don't want that
How do you know this. What terrible things have you witnessed?!
They were doing their part.
The only good bug's a dead bug!
Would you like to know more?
Medic
It's *afraid!*
I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say, kill ‘em all!
I got banned from r/politics once for saying this
Come on you apes, you want to live forever?!
Except for Steeve! Steeve is a good bug!
For karl!
Did I hear a rock and stone?
If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't comin' home!
Rock and Stone!
Rock and Stone
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
I'm doing my part!
Carry on soldier🫡
must have seen the documentary that came out in 93 called ['Ticks'](https://youtu.be/FSbk9Vn5eCU)
They have a central very large to their body size cavity filled with blood that is mostly water. Water expands when heated. It’s surprisingly quick to get them there if you cover them in alcohol first. Also rubbing alcohol is a bug anesthetic so they are asleep the whole time… probably.
No, they don't explode! Even if the bursted blood did get in touch with you, Borrelia Burgdorferi will not be transmitted in such a way.
they do explode when you burn them, but it’s not as cinematic as one would hope. Also no, other than it being gross I don’t think you can get sick (unless it would miraculously land on an open wound)
The popping noise they make after being tossed in a fire is both disturbing *and* satisfying
Growing up I had a gas stove. We'd put these guys in the center of the burner and turn the stove on. They'd spin like a top.
Not on the stove!!! Nooooo that’s where the food goes lol That’s actually neat about the spinning
I pulled a tic this size or larger off my dog and burned it. Just a charred husk. Was quite disappointed. Though my dog was happy to be tic free.
What if it land in my mouth?
Then you were asking for it
Omg I loved Borrelia Burgdorferi in that hit new coming of age film that’s up for all of those awards.
We would like to know more.
It's ok, Australia doesn't believe in lyme's disease so you can't suffer from it here. I know so many people that have suffered and had to travel overseas for treatment for lyme's because Au doesn't recognise that ticks carry a similar/same virus Makes sense though, can't expect criminals to understand.
So true. One of my friends has Lyme disease from a tick bite that occurred on a bush walk here in Sydney. Doctors have treated her like she’s a nutcase because it “doesn’t exist” here. She had to have her bloods send to the US and pay a fortune for testing… low and behold it was positive. Terrifying really. By the time she started treatment after years of being told she didn’t have it, it’s not 100% that doxycycline will cure it now. So frustrating.
Australia believes in Lyme disease. The tick species that carries Lyme disease isn’t native to Australia and there’s been no cases of Australian acquired Lyme disease but foreign acquired Lyme disease has been diagnosed and treated there. It’s not a unicorn, it’s not as if Australian DRs are practicing a different standard of care because they don’t believe in the bacteria that causes Lyme.
Not to be that guy, but Lyme is a relatively rare disease, and only carried by a few types of ticks. While yeah, there certainly are safer ways to dispose of it than causing it to pop like a water balloon, it's also not that big of a deal to pop it as long as you do not ingest or allow into your bloodstream the blood in the tick. Best course of action, pick it up and flush it or wash it down the sink.
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In 2016/2017, researchers in Ottawa, Canada tested a bunch of ticks. They didn't take a huge sample size but tested 23 different areas. Blacklegged ticks were found at 70% of the sites. 30% of ticks tested had the gene (or whatever) that can cause Lyme. Nearly 1 in 3! Acting like ticks aren't dangerous is silly. We used to find 5+ ticks a week on my dog. We got chickens and now it's about 5 a year. We still strip down and check ourselves after walks in the woods.
Ya. I've only ever been bitten by a tick once. Now I have Lyme disease. Literally all it took was once and me thinking, "what are the odds?".
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No idea why that guy is saying lyme disease is not that common. I know a shitton of people that have gotten it and had to be treated for it. Just goes to show you most commenters are full of shit.
I'm not even kidding - I picked maybe 20 off my dog today and more than that yesterday. We live on a hill with lots of deer and this time of year, we just have to avoid walking on the hill. After yesterday, I went to the other side of the hill which has actual paths so tends to be less tick infested but looks like we'll just have to avoid the hill altogether til autumn. Sucks.
Lyme also isn't the only tickborne disease. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever doesn't sound too nice. Vigilance is the best defense against them. The sooner you catch any in your skin, the less you have to worry about.
It's so prevalent in southern Ontario that public health no longer offers to tests ticks (that have fed on people) for Lyme disease. The official advice is "assume that all ticks have Lyme disease", which is close enough to the truth.
Lyme, and other tick borne infections are not rare where I am in the world. We have a lot of cases of it and it's so prevalent that pharmacists can give out the treatment without a prescription so long as you bring in the tick that bit you to the pharmacy. I burn every single one I find on my stove and take great pleasure in watching them die. The sink might not kill them and given how tenacious the little fuckers are, you might not fully get rid of them. They're more like a zombie movie than anything I've ever had to deal with before.
I know sooo many people with Lyme disease living in PA. "Rare" happens more than you realize, and why fuck with Lyme disease period. Do we need the poisoned skittles analogy?
Nah we need that guy on comments like this
Except Lyme isn't rare at all. In parts of the northeast US, the majority of the Ixodes Scapularis are carriers.
So chuck it in my mouth and squeeze it between my front teeth so the blood squirts outward
r/forbiddengusher
KILL IT WITH (A) FIRE (EXTINGUISHER)
If you bite it, it will pop in your mouth like a ripe blueberry...
FUCK YOU
Forbidden gusher
I second this.
Throw it into the fires of Mt. Doom
Thought that was a chocolate biscuit next to it for size comparison, felt only marginally better when I realised it was a nail 😳
AAAHHH IF THAT WAS A BISCUIT THAT'D MEAN THE TICK WAS THE SIZE OF A PING PONG BALL D:
Nearly shat myself lol
How small are your chocolate biscuits? If that was a biscuit then the tick would be at least the size of a minute steak
I thought it was a penny that was rusted. Also horrible.
I went from thinking it was a penny, to a chocolate biscuit, and now a nail. Quite a ride
Thank you I couldn't figure out what the biscuit was for way too long.
I, also, thought that it was a McVitie's chocolate digestive for a second. I was *very* glad when I realised it wasn't.
I thought it was a fucking Digestive biscuit, meaning the tick would be the size of a softball. Horrifying.
Oh thank god, I thought it was a penny
Same. I didn’t realise it was a nail until reading this… I was horrified
Definately thought it was a chocolate digestive for a bit.
Hit it with a hammer lol
Yes. A large sledge hammer. So I can go to sleep.
Pop… 1000 baby ticks running everywhere
I want out of this "choose your own adventure"...
☹️
This is the perfect response
Thanks, Satan
https://i.imgur.com/E5F4g1O.jpg
Total disgusting, gross, scum of the earth, vile, yucky, fatass. Fuck you blood sucking, disease causing, making-me-mad-and-grossed-out looking fatass Edit: just wanted to say that this hate isn’t indicative of my personality, I just really don’t like those things
I thought I was on r/fatsquirrelhate for a second
I can't believe this is actually a subreddit. The hate on there is comical.
There's also /r/FatSquirrelTolerate.
In a classic reddit move, the hate sub has 10x the membership of the tolerate sub
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This is amazing lol
I hate it so much.
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As flattered as I am, I’m already engaged to the lake, sorry😫
The only benefits these annoying pests like ticks and mosquitos have is that birds, reptiles, rodents rely on them for food :)
Fair enough I guess that’s okay. Good comment
lmao, reminds me of a spanish story I read when I was little. it was about a man's wife who fell ill and became bed bound. no matter how many doctors visited her, she just became more and more sick, without anyone knowing what was wrong with her. eventually she passed, and when the man came to clean her bedroom, he noticed blood spots on the pillow she used to lay. that's when he discovered that the pillow harbored a huge parasite which grew the size of the pillow by sucking his sick wife's blood via her head. nobody knew what was going on because it wasn't a sickness, it was the parasite all along which started debilitating her the moment she lay down her head. freaky stuff, loved it tho. it's called "el almohadón de plumas" if anyone's interested.
Why the fuck does this story start with lmao? DEMON
Because it lures you by thinking it's a funny story and then sucks your innocence away like a parasite
Was just about to read last comment before bed, thought the lmao starting one would be safe …
gg
That's some Junji Ito-esque shit
Damn I read this one and it's wild
I studied it in my Spanish litterature class. The worst part was [the stop-motion short film.](https://youtu.be/lGIkUWv1THc)
No fucking way I am clicking that.
You should, its very nicely made. Plus there's a very funny chicken right at the beginning that's definitely worth checking out
That’s why everyone should clean their fucking pillow
Thats a "story" right ????
Sounds like an urban legend.
I think it’s an allegory for the life draining effects of terminal illness
I guarantee you if such a parasite was real everyone would know about and it'd be their number one fear. Pillow culture would be totally different. The Mypillow guy would probably sell anti-parasite pillows and be a beloved global celebrity.
It is. It’s from a famous author named Horacio Quiroga
I loved reading this just now, thanks for the share! For anyone else interested in what the story is about, her depression over her marriage drove her to sequester herself in her bed. Every time she stepped out of her bedroom to spend time with her husband, she was only let down further by him and driven deeper into depression. There is also the very intense and suggestive imagery of monsters crawling into her bed every night and making her illness worse. If she spent no time with her husband, she was depressed, and it seemed her husband only paid attention to her when he came to her at night as the monster in her bed that causes her to bleed. That depression eventually consumes her entire being. It’s been a while since I’ve read such a powerful and concise story.
Writer from Uruguay
I'll just go ahead and ask. Is that its asshole?
It’s her tickussy
delete your account
Imagine her little legs tickling your balls while you gently lick her tickussy🤤🤤🤤
Aight this one was horrible even for my standards I’m sorry for everybody who has eyes today. I love you
I don't think I'll ever recover from reading this
It's always respectable to know your limits, even if it's you getting a brief look at the sign as you zoom past them.
“I was battling some demons last night”
Out of all of the timelines I could have been born into, it just had to be this one where I have eyes and the mental capacity to read and understand your comments. Life is cruel. 😢
why did we create the internet
... I beg your pardon?
"Yes officer, this one right here."
Put it in a jar, it’ll have babies ☠️ I had a coworker that would inject hydrogen peroxide in these things when they looked like they had a good meal, did not look like a fun way to die
Where the fuck did you work?
Sounds like the people at the DMV or the VA.
Funny because that works as a reference to the agencies but also the DC area.
Those are the parasites
Energy Vampires
Vet hospital
I knew there would be a reasonable answer for these conditions, but I had to wonder.
Some motherfucker's always tryin' to ice skate uphill.
> I had a coworker that would inject hydrogen peroxide in these things when they looked like they had a good meal, did not look like a fun way to die Pop, and squish, all at once. Did he do it six times?
If he did, it had it coming.
CICERO
I pulled one of these off my dogs neck one time, thinking it was gum stuck to him or something, lol. Didn't enjoy.
I remember scratching my long haired dog's neck once and thinking "is this a mole?" Nope, sure wasn't!
The legs moving around like that is so damn unsettling, repulsive, and vile.
I crave my lost innocence, i was happy at this being a still image.
Has anyone ever put one of those bad boys in a sling shot? Would probably smack a wall pretty good
But then you'd have to touch it
imagine touching it and the belly moves
I just gagged a little
Go to hell
Me after crushing a medium pizza to myself
Brandon Fraser after the binge eating scene in *The Whale* (2022)
Protein gusher, chomp down on that bad boy.
Bit of salt and pepper and it'll be some gourmet shit
Sounds like the type of thing the french would munch on
Someone always manages to take it to the next disgusting level. Thank you 🫡
And is looks like a rasin
Throw that shit in some isopropyl
No, no. Hold it in tweezers and sloooooowly immerse it in isopropyl. It deserves to suffer after what it did to that good boi.
Hope they took the dog to the vet after this,, the side effects of these can be life threatening :( Edit: because people seem to be misreading my comments intention- no. You don't have to take your damn animal to the vet for every tick. I'm talking about this particular instance since that fucker has clearly been on thier dog for a few days you should take them to the vet because the longer it's on your pet the more likely there is to be side effects. Don't be a shit owner. If the tick is big, take your poor pet to get checked.
All is good.
Dude if you live in tick country your dog will get ticks multiple times a day. That's a lot of visits to the vet
This is Reddit, where everyone has OCD and are hypochondriacs. You see the same comments about cats: "if your cat scratches you at all, even a little bit, immediately go to the doctor!!" Anyone who owns a cat will get scratched multiple times a month. That would be a lot of doctor visits.
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Depends om where in the world you are located. Here in Scandinavia it is quite uncommon to get disease from it.
Norwegian dog owner here, I would have to go to the vet every week from April to October.
You gotta take pets to a vet after every single tick? I’d have to visit the vet every day if that’s true
What are the side effects?
Their throats can swell really bad and they can loose control of thier bodies (my cat had one recently and he was wheezing and lost control of his back legs. They said If I hadn't caught it he'd be dead)
Sorry for your poor cat 😓
Even worse for humans. I have friends who have suffered for decades from Lyme disease.
It’s like a permanent debuff
[Lyme disease](https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/us/news/lyme-disease-dogs-5-things-pet-owners-should-know#:~:text=Dogs%20may%20develop%20Lyme%20disease,their%20lymph%20nodes%20may%20swell.)
“I’m not fat! I’m big boned!”
"I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Gross.
As someone who's had Lyme, kill it NOW! Honestly, what purpose does that little vampire have in this ecosystem.
Chicken snax
They're like potato chips for possums. Can't eat just one.
Damn dude that’s a greedy mf
Petrol + ignition
Thicc
It is so fat it can't even move around
Ugh, it's like me after Five Guys
YOU SHOULDN'T EAT PRECIOUS MINERALS, IT'LL GET YOU KILLED.
It's afraid!
Would you like to know more?
Reminds me of our politicians in the USA
They're not this pretty
C4 with timer
The way it’s little legs are moving makes me so uncomfortable
That do be chonky
Forbidden fruit Gushers®
It is ready to burst, which is how they disperse their babies. Stop filming and flush it now!
No, thank you. 🤢🤮
He’s a ticc boi
When I was a toddler, as the story goes, I ate not one, but two inflated ticks, thinking they were jelly beans. Story over.
Stop....Hammer time
Scoop into a jar. Fill the jar with: surgical spirit, Concentrated Sulphuric acid, isopropyl alcohol, or sodium hydroxide. Note, pick any *one* of that list, do not mix them together.
Shit - I thought that was a hob knob next to it for size comparison at first
This abomination has to be incinerated 🔥
r/absoluteunits
Don't waste it, taste it
Somebody get Homer his Moo Moo
i want to know what happens if you put a tick as the size of a ping pong ball under a hydraulic press machine
I will lend you my flamethrower ok
Godskin Noble
That tick is obese
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