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Wolfsburg Willy wrote:As the victim of one or two ticks and the remover of literally hundreds from our dogs when we lived in East Anglia (red Deer are mainly responsible for the prevelance of the tick population) there is an easy removal method;
take a pair of tweezers (flat ends like pliers, not pointed ends) and grip the offending insect with the tweezers as close to your skin (or your dog's) as possible. This is the awkward part: then rotate the tick ANTI-CLOCKWISE at least 360 degrees and you will feel a click, the tick will come away complete with jaws, head etc. If you pull them away without the twist, or you rotate them clockwise, you will leave jaws or other bits still attached and they will fester. The reason for the anti-clockwise twist is to do with the way their jaws interlock (try twisting the old-fashioned type of key ring the wrong way and you'll see what I mean). If you reverse your wrist the opposite way to start with you'll get 360 degrees of twist.
Ticks are the carriers of many diseases, mainly Lyme Disease in the UK, which ain't so funny if you get it, although it's still incredibly rare. Don't worry about the odd tick bite, it's the mess they make when they fall off you full of blood and you tread them into the new carpet!!
I must get out more
Yes you are probably right. Did you just take what you were told or read as true or have you been able to satisfy yourself by reasoning. Yes it is a bit difficult to get your brain around and true It is generally ascribed to the coriolis effect but if you discuss it with like and open minded people of a particular persuasion it is posible to cause even more confusion by stuff like that asking the question: Does the magnitude of the force increase or decrease as you move away from the equator. The inference is that it increases. Unfortunatelly this argument seems to hold for both cases and so gives no clue. Many highly respected people whose opinions are beyond question have got it hopelessly wrong in history and few have owned up to it. Was it that clever chap in the wheelchair and computerised voice that recently admitted that a proposition he put foreward over twenty five years ago is colpletlley wrong?Wolfsburg Willy wrote:Wolfie,
you don't mean precessional effect, that's gyroscopic. You mean Coriolis Effect, that's what makes your water go down the plug'ole widdershins!
I am trying to get out more. I wanted to go to Vanfest but I've got to go with a grown up.
Willy
