Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 PAGETICK! Err, TOP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 DFA what happened to the dog picture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 The dog went the way of the dodo. Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 DFA I dare you to post to the demoralizing the troops thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 I'd like to see DFA take on MikeAdam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 iain said: DFA I dare you to post to the demoralizing the troops thread. Â What thread is this? Â *looking for the 'demoralizing the troops' thread* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 trask said: I'd like to see DFA take on MikeAdam. Â DFA would be a DMW = Dead Man Walking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 funny making claims about someone you've never met. could be he's 200lbs, 3%, and a blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do...oh wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleblebleb Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Was there some other thread about ticks and disease and such? What's the big deal about ticks? Find, squash, send, send, send? Eh, Specialed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 fleblebleb said: Was there some other thread about ticks and disease and such? What's the big deal about ticks? Find, squash, send, send, send? Eh, Specialed? Â Deer ticks can carry Lime disease... symtoms are flue like I think and if not treated can cause you to die... i think if you are exposed to lime diease the tick bite is surronded by a red circle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plexus Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 South side of Erie is covered with them in the springtime. It's an annual ritual of checking the partner and picking the ticks off of her, and vice versa. No big deal, you have better chance of dying in a car crash than Lyme disease in Washington. Check it out, the data is about two years old but still relevent. Â http://www.skagitvalleyherald.com/articles/2001/07/05/news23505.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Muffy_The_Wanker_Sprayer said: Deer ticks can carry Lime disease... symtoms are flue like I think and if not treated can cause you to die... i think if you are exposed to lime diease the tick bite is surronded by a red circle... Â Initial symptoms are flue like, but it can get worse. Â plexus said:No big deal, you have better chance of dying in a car crash than Lyme disease in Washington. Check it out, the data is about two years old but still relevent. Â Hmm, dying in a car crash is actually something I worry about from time to time, so that stat doesn't make me feel much better. Anyway, it's the bit before you die that's worse anyway. Joint pain, kinda like debilatating arthritis. Might put a bit of a damp rag on your climbing. Â Ahh heck, why not just read the American Lyme Disease Foundation web page. Their info is probably way more accurate than mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Muffy_The_Wanker_Sprayer said: fleblebleb said: Was there some other thread about ticks and disease and such? What's the big deal about ticks? Find, squash, send, send, send? Eh, Specialed? Â Deer ticks can carry Lime disease... symtoms are flue like I think and if not treated can cause you to die... i think if you are exposed to lime diease the tick bite is surronded by a red circle... Â Â The ticks have to be in you for a few days! before they can spread disease. Of all the years of climbing I've done in Montana, which makes L-worth look like Martha Stewart's bedroom as far as ticks are concerned, I've had maybe three dug into me and they've been extracated at the end of the day - no big deal. You're not getting any disease unless the tickies hang out in you for days and days - and then its like a 1 in ten thousand chance that tick has lyme disease or RMSF anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 AHH SPECIALED DEFENDING HIS PEOPLE AGAIN!!! Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 erik said: AHH SPECIALED DEFENDING HIS PEOPLE AGAIN!!! Â Â I have been retained by the Tick Defemation League to advocate their interests and dispel popular misconceptions about Baby Jesus's wonderful creation. Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 good to know specialed, I will keep that in mind and be a tad less neuratic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 The ticks have to be in you for a few days! before they can spread disease. Â 12 to 24 hours is how long it takes for a tick to start feeding after it takes hold. Once it starts to feed, the bacteria can be transferred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappy Posted March 27, 2003 Author Share Posted March 27, 2003 Sure hope that 24 hour thing is true, the little bitch that I yanked off my forearm has left me with a 2cm circle of deep red, no white center though. I have been bitten many times in the past but this is the first time I have had the red circle. Bastard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleblebleb Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 The ticks/lyme disease page is pretty good. Â The bacteria live in tick guts, which is why infection takes something like 36 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 and most of the redneck methods of ridding yourself of ticks (burn it with a butt, cover it with grease, etc) only make the tick puke its meal, and gut bacteria, back into your arm or whatever, radically increasing your chance of getting the Lyme... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 If its stuck to the point its hard to remove... too late. If its only been in there for 24 hrs or less it should come right out. Â Â ...Ticks that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleblebleb Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Hmm, that page doesn't mention why the tweezers are the way, but I'll buy that explanation. Where is the barf gremlin when you need it, eh? Guess it also means it's better to be fairly decisive with the tweezers. Â The real question - raise your hands if you carry tweezers on your Cascades rack (right next to the chainsaw ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 if you use enough deet, or oil of catnip, you wont need to use tweezers. Â you might attract cougars with the oil of catnip though, better not take it up Si. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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