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My all-time favorite eBay tag is when sellers put in "nameoftoy NOT hypedartistsnameshere".

And I hope you're okay David, make sure you get rehydrated. (I've taken to just carrying a seltzer bottle with me around the house this summer.)

 

Yes! It was the first thing I thought of when spider was said! I wouldn't mind these little guys at all!

 

haha Grace!

 

I was only bitten once (upstate New York is the epicenter of dangerous Lyme disease) and I didn't mess around. Took it out the right way, took a photo of it, flushed it, and then took antibiotics for two weeks as a precautionary measure. Probably didn't need to, but I didn't want to risk it. Ticks have really soured the upstate countryside for me, which is a shame.

 

I caught a case of Lyme disease out in eastern Long Island thanks to ticks. Symptoms acted up soon enough to treat it with antibiotics but it was not fun at all. (Duh.)

 

My neighbor has "chronic Lyme" or something like that. He's in and out of the hospital year round, lost something like 50lbs, is strong enough to walk the dog some days and other days is bedridden... Lyme is no joke.

Here in CT we're taught a protocol pretty early on... If you go in the woods or tall plants, you inspect yourself as soon as you leave, usually before getting into the car. If you're with others, you spot check each other. (Of course, there are certain limits, lol.) I've never been bitten but have found a few crawling around, usually on my socks. Ticks usually crawl about aimlessly for up to 24 hours on a body until they find a prime biting spot. You usually have time to find them, but they can be tough to find, especially when they're pinhead small.

...I love how living in CT has made me a tick expert, ugh.

 

Yeah, it isn't really funny. I fixed my post.

I was lucky to catch it in time. Even then, the symptoms were rough. I had ridiculous pain in one leg on one day, and then the other leg the next day.

Longer time effects can be really serious though.

 

Oh, I didn't mean the "Lyme is no joke" part as a jab against you! I didn't see anything wrong with your original post, because frankly I can't even remember it. Was just sharing my personal experience with it.

 

Wait.. what happened here? It sounds like dudes were walking up and down the line just randomly shit talking people?

 

Oh no. No offense taken. I just shouldn't make light of something that someone else may have worse on this board. Lyme and ticks suck (no pun intended)!

Not sure. I'm not on ExpressoBeans. There were several artists there aside from Pushead, so a lot of their fans were there too for prints and other art, aside from awesome skull goodness. But essentially, what you said seemed accurate. General shit talking based on something from a bulletin board. Awkward.

 

What are we related?! Just took a shower (I lived in a mudpit all day working) and upon drying off was like "WTF is that a mole?" Nope a god damn tick on my side. Pulled that sucker off just as he started sucking and then burned him into oblivion for spite.

Thankfully it was a larger tick (not the smaller deer ticks that carry Lyme). BUT I'm in prime Lyme country no? Western NY State. Damn it now I'm getting radioactive and a case of lyme's disease!

 

I'm glad you caught the Lyme early Tim. Eastern Long Island is rife with those debilitating ticks ruining many people's lives. They're hard to see normally and if they're in a nymph stage then they're damn near impossible to spot.

 

"Lixx... must... SMASH NOOOOOBS..!!!"

 

Huge FUCK YOU to Instagram.

Apparently refusing to 'upgrade' (and continue running an ancient app version) wasn't enough to ward off their non-chronological/algorithm-based feed nonsense. Posts jumping from hrs ago to minutes ago and back... it's absolutely ridiculous

Secondary IG FU for not giving users the choice to opt-out. Yet another app goes from functional & enjoyable to pure shit overnight...

*that last bit was NOT a slight towards the new SB. In fact, the board change goes to show that a new interface can be beneficial (at the very least palatable) when user feedback is actually considered and respected. So yeah... fuck you Insta & THANK YOU James & Co.

 

Shoot, a new IG feed? I don't have that yet... Crap, now I really don't want to upgrade. I like my feed in chronological order, thank you very much.

Then again, FB did buy IG... That's when the ads started.

 

Fuck the police. They enjoy bringing up that if people would talk to them, they could be more
helpful. They can't even tell me what exactly counts as a noise complaint.
"You have to go to city hall and read all that information."
So fucking helpful.

 

Why do police seem not to know the very laws they're supposed to uphold?

Oh Story TIIIIME!!!

I was considering making a noise complaint this weekend... Neighbors were blasting music at 10:30pm when we were trying to relax. Then we considered the fact that these asshats probably have a gun collection and had second thoughts.
We've had issues with these numbnuts in the past. They're ridiculously rich rednecks. The kids have driven extremely loud motorbikes up and down the street all damn day before, until someone got fed up and called the police. Apparently the kids don't have licenses (no shit) so they can't drive motorbikes on public roads. Wompwomp. What do they do instead? Drive in circles around their property for HOURS in retaliation.
Even better, the husband is on a hefty workers comp after hurting his back. YET I saw him climbing to the top of his roof on a two-story ladder and cleaning his own gutters... And chainsawing trees in his yard... And working on his motorboat... And his truck... And the kids' bikes...

 

That's the lamest story I have ever heard. You should throw a dragon in there. Or Laser weapons. And then change the beginning. Replace the middle with something more interesting. Oh, and rewrite the end.

 

I never said it was a good story! Maybe it's better for bedtime?

Oh, and fuck you fly that bit me last night. I woke up with an itchy cheek (facial cheek, before anyone asks) and end up discovering a dime-sized welt. I guess touching it activated "turbo itch" because damn... That was itchy. Some Benadryl applied to the area stopped it in a few hours, but still.
Fuck bugs that bite.

 

Fuck burps that result in a bit of vomit.
Not cool.