# There are Dopers who want to see video of a 25-year old blackhead being removed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368 "2013-10-16T02:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368/21 "2013-10-17T15:04:16Z")
Lousy technique, that’s all I can say. Yes, it got the job done, but some basic antiseptic precautions would have been smart. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368/22 "2013-10-17T15:19:50Z")
This video is the best argument I have ever seen against “intelligent design”. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368/23 "2013-10-17T15:28:24Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Lousy technique, that’s all I can say. > > Yes, it got the job done, but some basic antiseptic precautions would have been smart. What… I’m sure they held that needle over the flame of a Bic lighter for a few seconds before they started. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368/24 "2013-10-17T15:45:03Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Lousy technique, that’s all I can say. > > Yes, it got the job done, but some basic antiseptic precautions would have been smart. I saw a video on You Tube that had a title along the lines of “MRSA ALERT!” It wasn’t an abscess, but a sebaceous cyst that a young man had on his shoulder, and his friends were lancing it with an X-Acto knife! :eek: :eek: :eek: If he didn’t have MRSA then, he almost certainly did afterwards. I spent the morning of 9/11 having one of those removed from my scalp. The doctor himself admitted that he thinks those things are gross. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368/25 "2013-10-17T15:56:50Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I saw a video on You Tube that had a title along the lines of “MRSA ALERT!” It wasn’t an abscess, but a sebaceous cyst that a young man had on his shoulder, and his friends were lancing it with an X-Acto knife! :eek: :eek: :eek: If he didn’t have MRSA then, he almost certainly did afterwards. I didn’t see anyting MRSA-like in the video, and I watched the whole thing. MRSA (and MSSA) skin infections manifest mainly as boils and abscesses. That lesion was neither. It didn’t look infected at all. Not all skin abscesses are MRSA these days. Heck, in my office, nearly half of them are still MSSA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-dopers-who-want-to-see-video-of-a-25-year-old-blackhead-being-removed/671368.md?page=1)