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.
Comment on The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months agoIf 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.
weariedfae@lemmy.world 2 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
User caution of course. Not exactly my first point of call on an urban site haha.
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.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
To check if what were real? The dice? Her teeth? Reality itself?
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I think the dice? It definitely made me question reality though…
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
And I get weird looks for spitting into my hand to texture soil…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It’s how you do it!!
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.
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.