Comment on The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry.

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you tap unknown object in your tooth, you can discern stone, pottery, clay, metal, plastic, etc etc, without ingesting possibly contaminated soils so close to your bloodstream.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And I get weird looks for spitting into my hand to texture soil…

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s how you do it!!

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    • weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why? Giving soil the ol’ hawk tua is way faster than digging out a water bottle from the pack.

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      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re a man (or woman?) of culture, I see. Precisely why I did it that way for years. I eventually got a camel back, and that worked pretty good - squirt a couple drops of water from the mouth piece on the soil and away you go.

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  • weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even the tooth tap is still no longer recommended. Both my undergrad and grad schools refused to teach/allow students to put anything in our mouths due to risks of contaminated soil.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      User caution of course. Not exactly my first point of call on an urban site haha.

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  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This just brought me flash-backs of the absolute nut-bar I used to play DnD with that would tap dice on her teeth before rolling them “to check if they were real.”

    This is the closest thing to context I may ever have to that experience. I thought she was checking real vs imaginary, maybe she was checking if they were… ummm… real bones? wait. no.

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To check if what were real? The dice? Her teeth? Reality itself?

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      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think the dice? It definitely made me question reality though…

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