An argument for using plastic straws:

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• Riffz7@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty sure someone hallucinated this or there is another Phineas Gage I can’t find because this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage had a 3 foot iron tamping rod put through their skull by a powder charge.

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  • Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I assumed it was a joke playing off of the actual gage?

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yeah it read plainly as a reference to me but people also tell me other people don’t know the kinds of things I do a lot of the time.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes and no. The rod was actually a metal straw and the powder charge was actually a car traveling down I-80. Pretty common mistake.

    The only reason this is documented so inaccurately is because everyone was too busy looking at the Kim Kardashian pic that broke the Internet and couldn’t open their camera app quickly enough to get it for the vine.

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  • gex@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And there seems to be no “anatomy and pathology museum” in UCSF

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• peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That why they tell you not to drink and drive

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but on the other hand

    yummy milkshake

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thank god we have reusable silicone straw, safer than both one-use plastic straw and stainless steel straw.

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  • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno… is that surgical-grade silicone?

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    • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not planning on doing surgery with it.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• drahardja@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People do chip their teeth on metal straws, so it’s still a bad idea to use them in cars without those silicone bumpers.

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  • Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Youre right it was a large metal rod that went though his head. It also wasnt while driving it was an explosion or something, I don’t remember just find his wiki page. Shockingly he lived.

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  • Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why not fully silicone straws?

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  meanwhile in uruguay :

  They have to put up signs begging people to not bring mate on the bus, or to vaccinations, or paperwork at government buildings.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      then NEXT TIME keep my customisations properly.

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  • HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why, actually?

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.

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  • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      kinda? It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.

      Imagine you’re sucking on a metal straw in a bus and it hits a bump, and you slip …

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• cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pshaw … I can put a plastic straw through a potato

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• notreallyhere@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ha, this post is a trap

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• JelleWho@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Didn’t Mythbusters has an episode about if this was possible?

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