Evidently his lice didn’t see all that well, either.
I call bullshit. No way you saw a louse the size of a cockroach. They’re the size of a sesame seed.
exageration maybe?
Maybe she had coconut crabs? They’re nocturnal, so it’s conceivable you might not notice you had an infestation during the day.
Maybe, but it doesn’t make much sense. You’d never see one.
How do people walk around with pimples that have come to a big white head and not squeeze them? How do they resist? I’m imagining that it has to do with potential scarring or something, but I wouldn’t be able to leave it alone!
I worked with a guy like that - he had acne issues, and just about every day, he would have one or two of the juiciest whiteheads you’ve ever seen. Try talking to someone like that and not being mesmerized and staring at their zits, too!
In the first volume of his war memoirs Spike Milligan relates the story of a Sgt. who had crabs and the medical officer sending him to get some Blue Unction** (the only use of which was to treat crabs).
Sgt. goes into a pharmacy in London while it’s full of people and (sotto voce) asks the clerk for some .
Clerks (loudy): “BLUE UNCTION?!”
Sgt: YES, I’VE GOT BLOODY CRABS!!!
and presumably emptied the store 
**A google search gets this:
They’re quite tasty with drawn butter! mmmm mmmmm !
Dude, I can’t stop itching!
I googled this btw, and you can get these things on your eyelashes! Wtf!
I’ve heard of light bulbs, too.
And doorknobs.
Black heads too, when I see someone with some the sizs of pinto beans just halfmway out the pore already I want to offer to do it for them, it wouldn’t even require any pressure.
Bettee than having to look at it forevef gag
Well, the problems with the story
- Can’t find any reference to “Blue unction” OUTSIDE the retelling of the joke.
- Mercury Chloride is used as a medicinal back in middle ages ( middle east).
It would treat skin diseases of all sorts, bacteria , fungi or animal… eg ring worm .
A more modern name for it is “Mercurochrome” which was yellow or orange. (To help reduce overdosing, you could apply the smallest amount to make the area yellow… and know that was enough.)
Topical iodine replaces mercury chloride as a “treat anything” anti-septic. Previously iodine was dangerous as it killed sensitive skin (membrane… ),but the pov-iodine of modern times reduces the risk of chemical burns from it.
Back to 1, an obscure part of the joke is that “Unction” is a catholic term… “the Sacred Mystery of Unction” … it means anointment … “most of the Orthodox use Unction not only for physical ailments, but for spiritual ailments as well”.
True story here. In my youth, I got pubic crabs and could not figure out what they were. A fellow student at my tech college who was a former prostitute identified them for me and told me what to do. I had no idea how I could have gotten them until one of my carpool seatmates was telling stories and said that he had just gotten over a case of crabs. EEEeeewww!
I did try to remove them one by one and did massive laundry and suddenly became a clean freak. I’m surprised my mother didn’t demand an explanation. The truth is, even if you think you got all the crabs removed, the eggs need more strenuous treatment. Thank goodness for the former hooker who coached me through it all.
It’s called shaving off all your hair. The lice attach the eggs to hair. No hair, no eggs.
Crabs aren’t head lice. Unlike head lice, crabs glue themselves to the skin. Shaving doesn’t help get rid of them once you have them, although it will help you not catch them if you don’t have them yet. They use hair as public transportation, before they settle down on the skin to raise their happy little families.
What WhyNot said. Crabs, not lice.
How are you so distracted by X that your two to six-year-old child had the time and inclination to crawl into a claw machine? The doors they crawl into are small, and it has to take effort. How do you not notice that going on? There are dozens of reports of kids doing this… ::shakes head::
That happened to my nephew once! We still don’t know how he got in there, but it took almost a whole role of quarters to get him out;)