• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      They’re named after the tape measure and if those birds let go its the coming back in you’ve got to worry about.

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      Older people around here tell stories of homemade treatments where the person would be fasting for hours while sat on a chair with a hole, with a bucket of milk or white wine below. According to them, this would make the tapeworm get out (very slowly) into the bucket.