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[MTF]

Where are you right now?

I'll be honest, that is literally one of my largest fears. I love forests, and unfortunately with forests come ticks.

Poland. I'm in a forest pretty much every day. I'm not afraid of ticks, it's just annoying they can carry such a shitty disease.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Jesus fu king Christ, I honestly don’t get how people can live with themselves teaching other people how to be successful when they themselves aren’t successful. When did “fake it until you make it” become the primary business model of guru wannabes? Is there some term that is the opposite of the imposter syndrome? The “emperor has no clothes” syndrome?

 

[Aditya Gunjal]

Poland. I'm in a forest pretty much every day. I'm not afraid of ticks, it's just annoying they can carry such a shitty disease.

What the hell is tick? A bug which leaves under skin? Or a fugus type of thing?

 

[Antifragile]

Jesus fu king Christ, I honestly don’t get how people can live with themselves teaching other people how to be successful when they themselves aren’t successful. When did “fake it until you make it” become the primary business model of guru wannabes? Is there some term that is the opposite of the imposter syndrome? The “emperor has no clothes” syndrome?

MJ, what was the trigger for this? Sounds like a story there.

I am with you. I don’t get endurance racing advice from obese people.

 

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[Mathuin]

I am with you. I don’t get endurance racing advice from obese people.

That's fatphobic

 

[Aditya Gunjal]

Jesus fu king Christ, I honestly don’t get how people can live with themselves teaching other people how to be successful when they themselves aren’t successful. When did “fake it until you make it” become the primary business model of guru wannabes? Is there some term that is the opposite of the imposter syndrome? The “emperor has no clothes” syndrome?

Yeah whats matter?

 

[MTF]

What the hell is tick? A bug which leaves under skin? Or a fugus type of thing?

They're tiny parasitic arachnids.

Tick - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They live in India as well though I assume a different kind than in Europe.

 

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[Ing]

Had 4 ticks this year already (I removed 3 today).

I live in an area where roughly up to 1 in 3 ticks is infected with Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacteria that causes Lyme's disease). They say that the risk of infection if the tick is removed within 24 hours is very low but it's never fun to see another motherfcker in your skin and wonder which one you got.

Yes, thats shit here. I had two this year till now. Though without Borrelia its itching weeks long sometimes.
If you suck the bite place some minutes after removing it, than it does barely itch.
I take a plastic bottle, press it and put it on the bite place. That sucks the poison out of the bite.

I m not affraid, look your body every evening after woods visit and you ll be nearly safe.

 

[MTF]

I m not affraid, look your body every evening after woods visit and you ll be nearly safe.

I actually did that yesterday and it didn't help. Seems like the F*ckers hide somewhere and bite at night.

 

[c4n]

I actually did that yesterday and it didn't help. Seems like the F*ckers hide somewhere and bite at night.

They can stay hidden in your clothes. I always take off my "forest clothes" and leave them on the balcony for a few days.

I kid you not - my family's record is we found 11 ticks on our son after returning from the woods, most of them still crawling and not attached. It later turned out to be 12; we found the last one the next day, hiding in his belly button (found it because son was scratching it like crazy)!

 

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[Antifragile]

They can stay hidden in your clothes. I always take off my "forest clothes" and leave them on the balcony for a few days.

I kid you not - my family's record is we found 11 ticks on our son after returning from the woods, most of them still crawling and not attached. It later turned out to be 12; we found the last one the next day, hiding in his belly button (found it because son was scratching it like crazy)!

Incredible. Wow, that’s a lot.

Would a clothes wash cycle get rid of them? Or is that “killing an animal, thou shall not”?

 

[SteveO]

Why the hell do people make commitments they know are beyond what their feeble selves can keep? They say, let us set off at six, but when your disciplined self turns up at the dot of the hour, there isn't a soul in sight. Meanwhile, you have trekked a full 3 Kms in the dark, at risk of being waylaid! I feel like strangling this whole institution!

The groups I hang out with are the opposite. Meet time for my 4 wheel group is at 6. 5:30 is the time to be there. Show up at 6 and they are all gone.

 

[MTF]

Incredible. Wow, that’s a lot.

Would a clothes wash cycle get rid of them? Or is that “killing an animal, thou shall not”?

They're very resilient but I assume they wouldn't survive that if the temperature were high enough.

I draw the line at aggression and consider it self-defense lol. If I remove a tick I'll throw it out the balcony or wash it down the sink.

 

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[c4n]

Incredible. Wow, that’s a lot.

Would a clothes wash cycle get rid of them? Or is that “killing an animal, thou shall not”?

Yeah, needless to say we didn't go to that particular area ever again lol.

I agree with @MTF that washing at high temperatures should kill them. The second part is up to you, but I have no mercy for ticks and alikes.

 

[Anon05554]

Find better people. Those who make empty promises aren’t the kid of people you want to be around. Drop them. Either keep going solo or find new people to join you.

Wish I could. They are workmates who think they have all the time in the world. It's a good thing I'm working on being an entrepreneur. Just four years to go and hopefully, I will have earned the right to choose who to work with. Thanks Antifragile for the effort you put in answering people's queries.

When I grow up, I want to be like you!

 

[Anon05554]

The groups I hang out with are the opposite. Meet time for my 4 wheel group is at 6. 5:30 is the time to be there. Show up at 6 and they are all gone.

Lucky you. They must share your values. When I rebuked them for setting time they knew they couldn't keep, they proudly reminded me that we are Africans. What cheek!

 

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[SteveO]

One of my dogs had a tick once. I've never had one.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

MJ, what was the trigger for this? Sounds like a story there.

Just tired of stumbling across people who have no product and offer nothing unique other than greasy, slimy marketing funnels that use the same old marketing gadgets to sucker people into their illusions. Tired of the used car salesman gadgetry that appears in copywriting, funnel marketing, and sales pages... whenever I see this shit, I know whatever you're selling lacks true value, and is most likely, a repackaged "cult of marketing" (won't name names) crock of shit.

There's clearly a divergence in business... those who believe slick marketing can sell anything, including dog shit products and services (the bro-marketing "FYRE" methodology) and those who actually offer good products and services. Just sick of seeing the former. The problem is, there are too many suckers in the world, so the shit works. And it only gets worse.

 

[Andy Black]

Jesus fu king Christ, I honestly don’t get how people can live with themselves teaching other people how to be successful when they themselves aren’t successful. When did “fake it until you make it” become the primary business model of guru wannabes? Is there some term that is the opposite of the imposter syndrome? The “emperor has no clothes” syndrome?

It’s definitely a thing MJ…

View: https://youtu.be/swH8oCen2kw

 

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[Aditya Gunjal]

They're tiny parasitic arachnids.

Tick - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They live in India as well though I assume a different kind than in Europe.

Sorry sir, but i have never been to woods or forests as such. I have heard of leeches which also suck blood in same way.

 

[Kak]

Thought this was cool:

Marian Anderson, the famous Metropolitan Opera soloist, was approached by a young woman who said, “I’d give my right arm if I could sing like you.” To that, Marian replied, “Would you give eight hours practice a day?”

The great pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski said, “If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.”

 

[GPM]

Thought this was cool:

Marian Anderson, the famous Metropolitan Opera soloist, was approached by a young woman who said, “I’d give my right arm if I could sing like you.” To that, Marian replied, “Would you give eight hours practice a day?”

The great pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski said, “If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.”

I watched a video of a YouTube guitar player that I like. He likes to make fun of the "gurus" and "gods" who populate YouTube and are perfect all the time. Lots of his videos break down how they lie in their videos and it's mostly BS.

He recorded a short clip of him playing after a one week vacation where he was away and didn't touch a guitar. After one week he was making all kinds of mistakes. I found it interesting and refreshing.

 

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[Kak]

Celsius sends shockwaves through crypto industry after pausing withdrawals, transfers amid 'extreme market conditions'

Celsius is one of the largest crypto lending companies in the world, with more than $11 billion in assets.

www.marketwatch.com

Holy crap! This might be a $11B Ponzi scheme…

 

[GPM]

I went for a bike ride today in Fish Creek park. A beautiful park inside the city of Calgary. On a small trail I rode past the half eaten and stripped carcass of a deer, with its intestines and stomach torn out and thrown maybe 15 feet away from the rest of the body.

What the hell??? I've never seen anything like that in the city before. We have lots of coyotes, but I don't think one would do that to a deer, I think they stick to rabbits. There are signs up that there are cougars and lynx in the area, and lots of my neighbors post videos of lynx on their yards. Apparently there is a bear in the park as well which is very unusual.

Either way, it was pretty freaky to see in the park, I am in it 4 days a week from spring to fall, and have not seen that before. My wife says maybe it was "the upside down world".

 

[Aditya Gunjal]

I went for a bike ride today in Fish Creek park. A beautiful park inside the city of Calgary. On a small trail I rode past the half eaten and stripped carcass of a deer, with its intestines and stomach torn out and thrown maybe 15 feet away from the rest of the body.

What the hell??? I've never seen anything like that in the city before. We have lots of coyotes, but I don't think one would do that to a deer, I think they stick to rabbits. There are signs up that there are cougars and lynx in the area, and lots of my neighbors post videos of lynx on their yards. Apparently there is a bear in the park as well which is very unusual.

Either way, it was pretty freaky to see in the park, I am in it 4 days a week from spring to fall, and have not seen that before. My wife says maybe it was "the upside down world".

Sir what do you mean by "upside down world" ?

 

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[GPM]

Sir what do you mean by "upside down world" ?

A reference to the "stranger things" series on Netflix. Essentially an alternate dimension lives over top of ours and weird things can spill over into our dimension.

 

[Aditya Gunjal]

A reference to the "stranger things" series on Netflix. Essentially an alternate dimension lives over top of ours and weird things can spill over into our dimension.

Sir have you heard of youtube channel named
The facts by how to hunt.com mainly steve ishadel. There he shares experience from people sent in form of emails by reading them.
Do you think in subjects like "sasquatch" and all?

 

[StrikingViper69]

Jesus fu king Christ, I honestly don’t get how people can live with themselves teaching other people how to be successful when they themselves aren’t successful. When did “fake it until you make it” become the primary business model of guru wannabes? Is there some term that is the opposite of the imposter syndrome? The “emperor has no clothes” syndrome?

They're tiny parasitic arachnids.

I thought @MTF was replying to @MJ DeMarco at first

 

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[MTF]

I thought @MTF was replying to @MJ DeMarco at first

LOL that would be a pretty sophisticated British-style insult.

You tiny parasitic arachnid, you disgust me!

 

[Mathuin]

LOL that would be a pretty sophisticated British-style insult.

You tiny parasitic arachnid, you disgust me!

“Great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies” from the current UK Prime Minister

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