Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

Can I lick it? Yes you can.

⁨1100⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Oiconomia@feddit.de⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/b2d05d5d-d2f0-4933-87b2-c387dd15d4d1.png

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • Galapagon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
    • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

      source
      • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

        source
      • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • Oiconomia@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?” is absolutely the question and inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

      source
    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.

      source
    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Literally how we got aspartame. It started as an ulcer drug.

      source
  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
    • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

      source
      • commanderoptimism@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I always hate how well this works…

        Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

    source
  • AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Electronics: Only the low voltage side.

    source
    • Oiconomia@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        You can always lick the ground or earth depending on where you live

        source
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
    • Jivebunny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Certain tree frogs in the Amazon: while you’re at it, lick us too

      source
      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I want to make a joke about “that’s how you catch herpes”, but my brain is fried.

        So I’ll just leave you with the knowledge that the Colorado River Toad is also psychedelic. and the Park Service really want people to stop.

        source
  • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Software engineering… If you can lick it, you spelled “click” wrong. And that’s why your code won’t compile, you complete failure.

    source
    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        NameError: name ‘lick’ is not defined. Did you mean: ‘sudo rm -rf /’?

        Ftfy

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • Mikufan@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Let’s ask Microbiology and Virology

    source
    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “Lick this dish please.”

      “So you do lick the science?!”

      “No. You are the science.” <checks watch><marks something down on a clipboard>

      source
    • QTpi@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      My Clinical Microbiology teacher: I’m no longer allowed to teach you how to waft plates, but… if you happen to catch a whiff of ____ growing on a plate, you would smell ____. ::wink, wink::

      source
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
  • growsomethinggood@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
    • HonorableScythe@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      As long as it’s the ice cream you’re licking and not the liquid nitrogen.

      source
  • callyral@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Chemistry + licking = cooking

    source
    • charolastra@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well I’ll be…! I wonder if that’s how they came up with the word?

      source
  • lenuup@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
  • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

    source
    • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You know it’s an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.

      source
      • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Or the dizzying high resulting from tasting 2,3,4,5-tetramethoxyamphetamine

        source
    • mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      And sometimes inject.

      source
  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

    source
    • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        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 in different countries or continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

        source
        • -> View More Comments
    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I have eaten fried moth. Tasted much like almond

        source
      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        They taste more like flies and less like butter.

        Source

        Don’t ask.

        source
    • pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Licking is for mouses and touch-pads.

      Use the onLick() event.

      source
    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Isn’t there a game where if you put ketchup on the disc it does something to make it easier to speedrun? So licking might be too unreasonable

      source
      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Thanks for sharing the insight. Apparently, it was a speed run hack on Xbox for an old SpongeBob game.

        So, there’s some precedent set in the field of computer peripheral licking to improve results.

        source
    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Lmao dammit emacs

      source
    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
      Hey there I am Dev

      I set the universal constants.

      source
  • dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You can lick anything at least once.

    source
    • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      So you’re saying I can lick Uranus?

      source
      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        If you go there, yes.

        source
      • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Point yourself at the surface so that when you get there the tongue-part of the pressure diamond you’ve become is lowest.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
      • supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        That you wish you could ;)

        source
    • odium@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      How would I go about licking the sun?

      source
      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Just send a meta-lick into the future. After long enough, the Sun will come closer to get licked.

        source
      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Choose parts of the sun the sun has thrown away so as to not need to find a way of surviving to living range of the surface of the sun

        source
  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    i had to link it, no choice rlly

    source
    • bazus1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You can quest like a tribe does.

      source
    • SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You beat me to it, but I’ll also add this other obligatory link.

      source
  • HonorableScythe@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Medicine: “Yep, and say aaaahhhhhh while you’re at it”

    source
  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Lemme just lick my radioactive isotope sample.

    source
    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Well, lots of someone’s painting watch faces with it.

        source
  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Comp sci and software engineering is pretty much the same thing

    source
    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I would say replace “Computer Science” with “Computer Engineering” (or electrical engineering) and it works pretty well

      source
      • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Not really. Software engineering is part of computer science. Computer engineering and electrical engineering have more to do with physical hardware and circuits.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • nodimetotie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Economics: How much are you willing to pay?

    source
    • Oiconomia@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        This man economics

        How does $3.50 sound?

        source
  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Electronics: “It’s useful in testing whether a battery has charge or not.”

    source
  • peak_dunning_krueger@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Philosophy:

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

    source
    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

      source
      • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        is my toungue staying inside my mouth licking the inside of the mouth? does that mean it’s also licking philosophy?

        source
    • mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Philosophy is science. It’s the very foundation of all of our studies. What do you think PhD stands for?

      source
      • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Philosophy isn’t science. Science is philosophy. Philosophy can be science, reason, mysticism, and a bunch of other stuff I can’t remember

        source
  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Biology: Yes. Most definitely. Please do.

    source
    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      But those worms & cow eyeballs & sheep lungs we had to dissect in elementary school??

      source
      • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        nutritious and delicious!

        source
  • loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’d also lick your anus

    source
  • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You on the lab safety committee, Tip?

    source
  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m the white lantern of our sector, I’ve actually been to Uranus and licked it.

    source
  • jherazob@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Herpetology: Bed plan bad plan BAD PLAN!!!

    source
  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Just here to voice my appreciation for the ATCQ title.

    source