quote:Originally posted by discodamage: i think my sister got bilharzia when she was in belle afrique. is that the one where you cant stop burping, but your burps both smell and taste of faeces?
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: i think my sister got bilharzia when she was in belle afrique. is that the one where you cant stop burping, but your burps both smell and taste of faeces?
Oh wow. One of my work colleagues has that.
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Shit. It totally is a tick. And it totally is the sort of tick that gives you Lyme Disease. Look! That picture! That's what was growing on me! In me. Exactly that. It has a small white mark on its stomach too, and according to net-doctor: "...occasionally, the tick carries a small bacterium called Borrelia burghdor feri in its stomach. This is what causes Lyme disease". And I have a "red spot close to the tick bite" which is one of the Lyme disease symptoms. Carter! What should I do? Am I going to die?
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Ewww. Have you made a will?
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Crumbs Fi, this is more than your average cooties. Don't worry, Miss Hoover from The Simpstehns got lyme disease and she came back. She did appear to have jaundice though.
I know she's a cartoon, but don't let this knock your confidence.
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quote:Originally posted by Hippychick: Ewww. Have you made a will?
Oh yeah, because I've got so many expensive possessions to leave behind.
My iRiver with the smashed screen, scratched-to-fuck remote control and dead-in-one-ear headphones I leave to grandad in the hope he will one day overcome the insurmountable perils of technology and experience the transcendent joy of discovering 20 hot sweaty skinny pale gigabytes of boy-on-boy tucked away in a nook of my mp3 player in a folder innocently titled 'Spoken Poetry'. My books I donate to all local charity shops except the Cancer Research and Oxfam branches across the road from the main library, both of which charge roughly £20 per Wordsworth classic, are staffed by racists, smell, and refuse to stock any author who mentions her cunt of every page, particularly Kathy Acker. My wardrobe full of expensive vintage garments I bequeath to my lifelong friend Doreen who will doubtless appreciate my taste in clothes since I stole most of them from her attic when she was distracted downstairs in her kitchen pouring us whiskeys. Sorry Doreen.Posts: 1083
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Maybe spidernub reincarnated. Or maybe spidernub is conveying vengeful messages from the dead, instructing whole armies of pernicious insects to come after me and bury themselves under my skin. It's like The X Files. Those slugs writhing under the skin. I'm waiting for my eyes to turn black.
I still have the deadly tick trapped in a glass. Perhaps I should set it on someone hateful. Someone hateful, rich and related.
So last night I'm in the bathroom, cleaning my teeth, when there's a sharp pain in my leg. I ignore it, because I'm nails, but it gets sharper, like a pin being stuck in me. I look down. THERE'S SOMETHING ON ME! IT'S BRIGHT GREEN! I say 'Oh my god what the FUCK is that' in a voice higher than I have ever spoken in, whilst simultaneously flicking it off with a towel. Today, my wife and I trap this... thing... in the bathroom. It hops like a cricket, but it's neon green, with a red spot on its back, and it BITES humans in unprovoked late-night attacks. Can I have a what the fuck, please?
I did think of Macandrew as I lay trembling in the bath, afterwards. I thought, they know. They've read the spidernub conversation, and they know what we've been thinking. First Macdaddy gets a tick, and now I'm bitten by a mysterious green bug which cannot be indiginous to this country no way. They're coming to get us. It's like The Birds, only with insects. Gneeeeeeeee.
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Gah! I had one of those on my stepladder the day I was moving out of my old flat. In fact, I left the stepladders there as I didn't want to have anything to do with the insect. It was about two inches long, and as luminous as can be. Maybe me rejecting it caused it to seek solace in another part of Dalston.
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quote:Originally posted by London: Because it BIT me! Crickets don't bite people, do they?
Seems like a lot of reports say they do (do a Google search for "crickets bite"), although the cricket FAQ on there says they don't. But obviously they do, so that page can FAQ off.
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