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Can I lick it? Yes you can. (feddit.de)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Galapagon 72 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"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

[–] ironhydroxide 15 points 9 months ago

Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Biology: Lick here... Yep, that's the spot. Continue... Oh yeah, keep going. Uhhh....

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I always hate how well this works...

Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

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!

[–] Classy 4 points 9 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Electronics: Only the low voltage side.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Mycology: “go ahead have a seat. Lick this one. It’ll be fun!”

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Software engineering... If you can lick it, you spelled "click" wrong. And that's why your code won't compile, you complete failure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'click'?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

In zoology, science might lick you, but it might also bite you.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chemistry + licking = cooking

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

And then there is NileRed, who does lick the chemistry He does.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Chemistry 50 years ago: it is encouraged to smell, taste, and injest all of your work

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the motherboard. how else can you tell that it is working?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment, I would… I mean my friend would have to shove their head into a server rack that is consuming high amounts of wattage. My friend would then have to try reaching for the motherboard by extending their tongue.

The only problem I see here is travelling to the data centre which are often located in different countries or even continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

ssh into the server and lick your desktop's motherboard

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I'd go for the monitor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is why they never get cleaned, you gotta start somewhere. Lick the keyboard!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The butterflies. Someone needs to see if they taste of butter.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You can lick anything at least once.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

So you’re saying I can lick Uranus?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

If you go there, yes.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i had to link it, no choice rlly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You can quest like a tribe does.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemme just lick my radioactive isotope sample.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We know not to lick it, therefor someone has licked it

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Medicine: In here? Sure, that's how you get c diff, staph, e coli...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Economics: How much are you willing to pay?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the market clears the price is equal to the marginal utility of getting licked

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Electronics: "It's useful in testing whether a battery has charge or not."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Comp sci and software engineering is pretty much the same thing

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Philosophy:

"That depends on your definitions, some may call philosophy a science, others may not, what do you think? Can you lick the philosophy?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is philosophy in everything. Any time you lick anything, you lick philosophy. Even if you lick nothing, you lick philosophy.