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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

now that'd be a journey

[–] stringere 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That's nowhere near $240 worth of pudding. Give me about 60 gallons of milk, a pile of cornstarch, some sugar, and some vanilla extract and I'll make you over 8 cubic feet/220 liters of pudding. You'd drown.

Edit: I did the math and I could comfortably make over 50 gallons on pudding on that budget even with maltodextrin and modified corn starch, no heat just mixing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

lmao, I wish they dived in

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Steve Allen on his TV show in the 60s used to occasionally get into bathtubs full of weird stuff. The one I remember offhand was oatmeal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I would happily do oatmeal

[–] TriflingToad 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

nail polish that has been sitting out with the lid partly unscrewed for a week.

Or printer ink. Costs thousands.

Edit: missed the regrettable part 😞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

nice try nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lemon jello.
Just before it sets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Like it sets with you in it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

Oh yeah.
Me mold.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Elon his blood. 6L is enough.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oatmilk, Tea, Cum, Flavored water (no sugar pls)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Cum flavoured water could be a big seller

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

It’s a hard sell though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Coconut penis

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

one of these is not really like the others is it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Flavored water does feel like cheating. It's really just water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

as long as theres no sugar in it. sucks to get... sticky.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Feel like any resulting UTIs would be worth it for the great sleep that bath would bring

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Gallium? It's solid at room temperature, but your own body heat will melt it, so you lie down on a solid block of metal and then slowly sink into a melting puddle in the middle of it. It's non-toxic and six times denser than water so you'd be really floaty on it too

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sounds like something out of a horror film. Your body heat melts you into the material. Then, as heat gets distributed and you have more skin contact, you are no longer generating enough heat to keep the gallium melted.

You either suffocate as the material solidifies around your abdomen or you freeze to death as the material pulls enough heat from you to kill you.

[–] SapphironZA 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Actually because of the density you wont be able to sink more than about 1/6th of your body into it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I feel like this is worth uploading to Lemmy. It's an image, apparently from October 1972's National Geographic, of a Spanish miner floating on mercury:

It's denser than lead, so he's just sitting on the top of it like a block of styrofoam would on water. The effect of gallium would not be quite so pronounced, but same idea. This is also why you can't really drown in quicksand unless you work at it (which, if you completely panic, isn't impossible).

Meanwhile, you sink straight to the bottom in anything like oil, with no hope of swimming.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Hmm! Quite the investment vehicle!
(I'm now just picturing tech bros smugly smiling with bathtubs full of gallium)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Water based lube.

It’d have to be a communal bath though, and I’m inviting you all, even Hairy Steve.

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