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WELL, THEY ARE BOTH PRETTY GROSS. Ticks are harder to get rid of, considering mosquitoes just fly away after they're done, but I have a blood type apparently that they prefer to feast on. SO I'M BIASED. I've been fortunate enough to not run into a tick yet.

I fucking hate ticks. Fucking hate ticks.

I'VE NEVER HAD A TICK EITHER but god the just seem so fucking disgusting. Mosquitoes are like, more normal. I DON'T KNOW

levade is telling me how she has a tick head stuck between her fingers and she's just going to let it fall off because otherwise she'd have to dig it out with a needle.

DO MOSQUITOES DO THAT?

NO

Edited 2009-05-23 00:24 (UTC)

I AM WINNING.

I'd also like to note that ticks give you lyme's but mosquitoes give you so many goddamn things. They're like a flying invisible pestilence.

I hate mosquitoes but fuck, ticks are gross as hell. their heads burrow into your flesh. siiiick

... OKAY, THAT IS PRETTY FUCKING DISGUSTING. I would probably needle it because I'm an impatient bastard, but damn.

THEN AGAIN, LAST SUMMER I GOT AT LEAST FIFTY MOSQUITO BITES ON MY ARMS. Ticks are more gross, but mosquitoes are definitely more pesky.

TOTALLY UNDERSTANDABLE

When I was much younger, I once had a tick on the inside of my fucking ear. Another time, I had one on the back of my neck, and I thought it was a scab, so I picked it off, and when I looked at it, I SCREAMED AND THREW IT TO THE GROUND BECAUSE IT WAS A FUCKING TICK.

Mosquitos, however, are easier to kill, and they don't burrow deeper into your body when you try to kill them if you try to kill them the wrong way.

WHO SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT WINNING THIS IS FOR SCIENCE

Health dangers are irrelevant we're clearly judging this on totally irrational criteria.

Oh god they do? AUUUUHHFDKFDSFS

THIS IS TOTALLY NOT IRRATIONAL, TICKS ARE FUCKING CREEPY

I'd use the goddamn needle because jesus christ I'd have to get that thing the fuck off me IMMEDIATELY LIKE RIGHT NOW.

Oh geez mosquitos are annoying though, yeah. I'm glad I live in Arizona, we still have them but not in huge disgusting numbers.

The tick's head burrowing in thing? Nah, that's an old wives' tale. They just cling for a day or so and fall off. People thought that because you can get a mild infection from it sticking in there and the slight swelling made the head less visible.

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D:

THAT IS NOT TRUE

YOUR REACTION IS HILARIOUS THOUGH

I SHOULD'VE KNOWN THAT WERE IT TRUE, I TOTALLY WOULD'VE HEARD ABOUT IT ALREADY

FROM YOU

IT IS A VERY PREVALENT MISCONCEPTION. I AM SURPRISED YOU DID NOT HEAR ABOUT IT ALREADY FROM SOURCES NOT ME.

I ONLY BRING YOU TRUE HORRORS.

LIKE

ZOMBIE

GODDAMN

SPIDERS

?!?!??????

YEAH. I'm impatient when it comes to all of that shit, and would much rather just dig it out and get it over with.

THEY REALLY ARE. Speaking of bloodsucking creatures though, I think I'd take both mosquitoes and ticks over leeches. THOSE THINGS FUCKING HURT, MAN.

Plucking ticks off my dog is not an experience I enjoy.

I warned you.

OH GOD LEECHES

THE THOUGHT OF LEECHES FREAKS ME OUT SO MUCH I THINK IF I GOT ONE ON MY I'D BE COMPLETELY INCONSOLABLE

LIKE I'D JUST START SCREAMING AND WOULDN'T FUCKING STOP UNTIL SOMEONE KNOCKED ME OUT

God I can imagine. Do you feel the urge to boil your hands afterwards? How else will you ever be clean again?

Oh. Huh. That's actually good to know. I meant more the tick itself, though, as a response to, you know, something trying to kill it while it's still attached to your body, but hey, I would be happy to hear that's an old wives' tale too.

THEY ARE STILL FUCKING CREEPY THOUGH.