Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.
Purposefully licking things.
Chemists of old were a bit less safety conscious than we are today. Tasting the chemicals you just made was just part of the job back then.
Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.
We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!
very sensitive chemoreceptors
laughs in canine
"Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?" is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.
EDIT: Michael Sveda's discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937
Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.
Biology: Lick here... Yep, that's the spot. Continue... Oh yeah, keep going. Uhhh....
Human anatomy: you’re technically always licking it. And now you’re aware of it. Your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touching your teeth.
I always hate how well this works...
Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation
The fuck did I do to you? Now I can feel my tongue and I don't know how to breathe!
I hope you can hear your blinking for the rest of the day!
I've heard that with enough lack of stimuli combined with enough concerted concentration, you can actually begin to feel your guts as they process food. Like, feeling the muscles contracting.
Geography: You can try, but it's gonna take you a while.
Cartography: "Would you not lick my maps, please?"
History: Fuck You.
Sociology: Allowed and encouraged in some fields, others... better not.
Economics: "Is Human Resources there?"
Medicine: "Next, please." or "Don't, please."
Civil engineering: Go ahead, eat the dirt.
Law: Go to jail.
Political science: Could you please do this somewhere else?
Electronics: Only the low voltage side.
Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.
Software engineering... If you can lick it, you spelled "click" wrong. And that's why your code won't compile, you complete failure.
NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'click'?
NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'sudo rm -rf /'?
Ftfy
📞Hello police? Yeah it's this one.📞
In zoology, science might lick you, but it might also bite you.
Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!
And then there is NileRed, who does lick the chemistry He does.
Chemistry 50 years ago: it is encouraged to smell, taste, and injest all of your work
You know it's an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.
A quick question, should the software engineer lick the monitor screen or the keyboard?
I… uh… am asking for a friend who is a software engineer.
I am a butterfly instructor.
Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I'd go for the monitor.
This is why they never get cleaned, you gotta start somewhere. Lick the keyboard!
Lemme just lick my radioactive isotope sample.
Medicine: In here? Sure, that's how you get c diff, staph, e coli...
Economics: How much are you willing to pay?
If the market clears the price is equal to the marginal utility of getting licked
Electronics: "It's useful in testing whether a battery has charge or not."
Philosophy:
"That depends on your definitions, some may call philosophy a science, others may not, what do you think? Can you lick the philosophy?"
There is philosophy in everything. Any time you lick anything, you lick philosophy. Even if you lick nothing, you lick philosophy.
I'd also lick your anus
You on the lab safety committee, Tip?
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