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This reminded me of this thread.
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It's definitely a good idea to check your .22 pistol to make sure there's not one left in the chamber when you go out shooting. However, it's generally not advisable to check by aiming it at your thigh and pulling the trigger.
"So your child has a fever?"
"Yes, his temperature is 483 degrees."
"Wha...how did you come up with that number?"
"Well, I don't have a thermometer, so I opened up the oven and turned it on. I put one hand on my child's forehead and one hand in the oven, and at 483 degrees they felt the same."
If for whatever reason you are feeling bored, you definitely should not unscrew the projectiles from .22 rounds and light off the powder in the casing, because eventually one WILL send shrapnel into your eye, with no Ill effects except a lacerated sclera fortunately (unfortunately?) sparing you your eyesight but earning you a visit to two trauma centers and a lot of medical bills.
Indeed. Everyone knows you're supposed to crush the primed case with vise grips. This is clearly part of the decline of the public school system.
We all know you love your girlfriend which is why you brought her to the ER when she started feeling ill. But you will actually not get better care if you look at the nurse as she gets ready to start an IV and say "If you hurt her I'll kill you."
"Common sense is so rare it should be considered a super-power."-Unknown
I finally made it through every post. This is the best thread in all of SDN.
are you kidding me? This is the best thread on the entire internet!
Please. Fish those odd objects out of your feces and bring them to the hospital in a little baggie. Refuse to believe that they are not gallstones, even when they are cut open for you to see that they are really just undissolved pill capsules. Argue the point ad infinitum. Have a nice day!
M
Ick!
Ah, that's the best one yet... thanks for the laugh!
If those two dudes broke your arm while you were walking home from Church on a Friday night, and the trauma surgeon fixed it via external fixation, DO NOT by any means use a wirecutter to remove it 4 days after discharge.
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Wait... so pills don't dissolve in the digestive system?
Some don't. Most do. There is one of the blood pressure pills that comes in a capsule that does not for some reason. She was on it. Cheers,
M
Some don't. Most do. There is one of the blood pressure pills that comes in a capsule that does not for some reason. She was on it. Cheers,
M
It's by design. The pill has a small hole in it and is permeable to water. As the osmotic pressure forces water into the pill, the active ingredient is forced out the hole. It's a method of extended release. The shell of the pill isn't degraded by GI enzymes and acids otherwise the dose would just dump in all at once.
Please. Fish those odd objects out of your feces and bring them to the hospital in a little baggie. Refuse to believe that they are not gallstones, even when they are cut open for you to see that they are really just undissolved pill capsules. Argue the point ad infinitum. Have a nice day!
M
Ick!
I almost would have just given up and said "yes they're gallstones, here's the name of a surgeon, have a nice day", but I don't know any surgeons that I dislike that much.
I almost would have just given up and said "yes they're gallstones, here's the name of a surgeon, have a nice day", but I don't know any surgeons that I dislike that much.
another important lesson: if you are a womean with a clitoral hood piercing you should not have intercourse with a man with a prince albert penile piercing
Nah, just make sure you are both wearing appropriate jewelry. Captive bead rings can't interlock. Just plain curved barbells are generally safe. A circular barbell down there is asking for trouble.
DH does piercing and tattooing. I know a little too much at times.
Why, thank you! I rather like your avatar, cute cat!
If it's icy, stay off your roof. If you don't, you'll have a bone sticking out of your leg.
If it's icy, stay off your roof. If you don't, you'll have a bone sticking out of your leg.
I'm not sure what happens from eating Icy Hot, but I think I can fairly safely assume it is nothing good. I'm glad to have learned this before I decided that really, that stuff has got to be tasty.
The "icy" comes from menthol (in and of itself dangerous) and methyl salicylate... roughly 15x more potent on a gram/gram basis as acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
A whole tube is potentially lethal - especially in kids.
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I spent 6 very long years as a vet tech, and to add in the fun - have multiple auto-immune disorders
5'2", 125 lb female
she got put in judo at 5 by her father and has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the least.
any EDTA/thiocyanate/thiosulfate/oxalate/citrate compound (except the iron complex of course) or the free acid, eg oxalic or citric acid, will dissolve iron but not flesh...
w/regard to metal rings around the c0ck/finger and metallic FBs.... when I read these stories of calling the fire team with Buzzsaws I thought of a chemical method instead (I'm a chemistry student)
any EDTA/thiocyanate/thiosulfate/oxalate/citrate compound (except the iron complex of course) or the free acid, eg oxalic or citric acid, will dissolve iron but not flesh. Whether using the salts or the acids, some buffer is needed (the pH turns alkaline as metal is dissolved), even bicarb will work here in absence of sodium dihydrophosphate.
a gas vent is needed for FBs because hydrogen is evolved
a last option is ferric chloride (FeCl3), this does not evolve hydrogen, and is astringent to the point of stopping bleeding... if the sharp FB is a blade FeCl3 will work well
(a blade's edges could also be dulled by running a DC current with the positive lead attached to the blade, about 0.5 V to 1 V, although I'm not sure how the nerves will take it )
it will be aqueous solution(all the disclaimers about exothermic reactions, etc., apply, of course :laughy
There you go, there's your research project for your residency!
Things I learn:
When asked if you have ever had heart problems there is no need to mention the AMI and cardiac arrest you had two weeks ago. It's more fun for me to discover it on my own.
'I didn't think that was the sort of heart problem you meant.'