# Help me perpetrate a holocaust. (TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834 "2003-04-24T13:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/1 "2003-04-24T13:16:08Z")
Ok, let me get this out of the way… EW EW EWW EW EW EW EWW EWW EW EW EW Ok… done. Eww. Umm, I feel really, really, unimaginably embarassed to post this online, but I need your assistance. Eww After taking a shower today, I noticed a pinching sensation on my upper thigh, and looked down to see what it was. Looking down, I see this little… Thing. On my skin. WTF? So, of course, pick it off. WTF… It’s a bug. Why the hell do I have a bug on me, is it a tick? Then I look on my other upper thigh… And there is another one. Huh?? So I pick that one off, and closely inspect it. Hmm, this is an awfully odd little bug… What the hell is it… Wait… No, It Can’t be! I have crabs! AAAARRGGGHHH First off, I know there is a shampoo… Can I just walk into a (non-local) drugstore and buy it, or do I need a prescription. Because I am not going anywhere, until I have purpetrated a holocaust. I mean, OMG… This is friggin disgusting. And second of all, How the hell did I get these??? I haven’t slept with anyone! Could this have been transmitted via, say, bathroom towels or something? Because like… Eww! And can the bedding be washed, then re-used, or does it need to be pitched? Answer me quick, because I am, literally, going to sit RIGHT HERE, until someone answers me. Because, I feel so friggin… dirty or something, and I am ashamed to be seen in public and all. Thanks for the assistance. Great way to break myself in on these boards, huh? Do I win the TMI Award for the day? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/2 "2003-04-24T13:23:14Z")
[This](http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/lice/factsht_pubic_lice.htm) might help you dirty little man. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/3 "2003-04-24T13:26:05Z")
This is some good information for you. [Pubic Lice](http://health.yahoo.com/health/encyclopedia/000841/0.html) And I have no idea about the bedclothes and such. Good luck! (and I hope you don’t itch too much.) ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/4 "2003-04-24T13:27:13Z")
I’d cover my whole body with that lice-killing shampoo. Ewwww… ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/5 "2003-04-24T13:28:41Z")
That’s the whole problem… I didn’t, so I had no idea, until I noticed one. Ugh. Ew. Gross. Ok, Thanks for the info… I’m going to go cause rampant death and misery upon these unwanted… THINGS. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/6 "2003-04-24T13:35:07Z")
Oh yeah, the site doesn’t mention it but you need to shave your entire body. ---
**Author:** ![Branwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Branwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Branwen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/7 "2003-04-24T13:45:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by modro \* > \*\*Do I win the TMI Award for the day? \*\* You get my vote.😃 Here is another website. It says you can just wash your linens. > **[Pubic lice: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia](https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000841.htm)** > > Pubic lice are tiny wingless insects that infect the pubic hair area and lay eggs there. These lice can also be found in armpit hair, eyebrows, mustache, beard, around the anus, and eyelashes (in children). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/8 "2003-04-24T13:46:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*Oh yeah, the site doesn’t mention it but you need to shave your entire body. \*\* :dubious: might want to get a second opinion on that before you take advice like that from a guy with Master of Parody in his sig… ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/9 "2003-04-24T14:23:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*Oh yeah, the site doesn’t mention it but you need to shave your entire body. \*\* I’ve done that before. Well, I got the stuff. I was comtemplating just going to bathe in a 55 gallon drum of ddt. You have no idea, the amount of shame and utter disgust I feel with myself right now. Eeew. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/10 "2003-04-24T14:35:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*:dubious: > might want to get a second opinion on that before you take advice like that from a guy with Master of Parody in his sig… \*\* Curses! Foiled again! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/11 "2003-04-24T14:36:34Z")
Dang it! Ever since reading this thread, I’ve been itching!!! Talk about psychosomatic! ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/12 "2003-04-24T14:38:27Z")
I know! I didn’t start doing that until AFTER I noticed. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/13 "2003-04-24T16:04:56Z")
My ex brought them home to his first wife and she was PICKING THE LITTLE SUCKERS OUT OF THE BABY’S EYELASHES. Talk about disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-perpetrate-a-holocaust-tmi/170834/14 "2003-04-24T17:34:56Z")
Ewww. The holocaust has occured. Nary a single one of those filthy little bastards remains, and what was there, is now gone. So relieving is it, knowing that those things are no longer present. Currently I am in the process of being extremely anal and cleaning up every last object in the house that I have even so much as brushed against. Every bit of clothing that I couldn’t wash with hot water, is in my closet, sealed in plastic bags. Needless to say, the little bastards will live no longer. I even went so far as to shave, umm, a lot, figuring that anything remaining can now die due to loss of habitat, in the off chance that some of them escaped the repeated gassings, shootings, hangings, burning, poisoning, etc etc… I figure if it works in the Jungle, it should work here. And as for the thing with the baby, Eww. That is DISGUSTING.