• Thassodar
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    31 day ago

    Not trying to be funny, but would a plastic spoon also suffice? I’ve never had a tick before.

    • @silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      131 day ago

      The notch is the useful part; it lets you lift the tick off your body without squeezing it. Skillful use of good tweezers does the same. (The ones on a Swiss army knife dont really work for this)

        • @silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          41 day ago

          Or he didn’t know how to do it without that. The match-as-best-approach was conventional wisdom for a lot of people for a long time

    • @Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee
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      51 day ago

      Had a friend tell me about using dental floss to wrap around as close to the skin as possible, tighten, and pull the tick off. Haven’t tried it, but seems like it might work