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

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  !ilikthebred@lemmy.fmhy.ml

  Fantastic poem

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for informing me of the existence of this sublemmy.

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is the tooth tap, dear fossil?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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• BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are there other rocks that may stick to the tongue? Something porous and/or absorbent?Pumice for instance?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably but it’s like a certain reverberation I’m looking for with the tooth tap you don’t get with the tongue test.

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