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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On June 18 2016 19:14 Korakys wrote: These ones I used the 3M ear plugs for years at work. I nicked quite a few for home use as well (for sleeping) and I never had any cause to complain. You can reuse them for maybe a week or longer if you wash them. But 200 pairs in a box! I regret not stealing a whole box before I left that job. And I usually frown on that sort of thing. Pro tip: To best install them, reach over the top of your head with your opposite hand and lift up the top flap of your ear. Insert the bud with your other hand (on the same side). It will go in super easy that way. So 3M it is, thank you. Will try those. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On June 18 2016 15:39 JumboJohnson wrote: They can barely take a shower, do you really think they could go scuba diving? Barely take a shower is not the same as cannot take a shower. Science can definitely find a way around this--but I have a feeling the experience will not be pleasant. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On June 19 2016 02:00 Thieving Magpie wrote: Barely take a shower is not the same as cannot take a shower. Science can definitely find a way around this--but I have a feeling the experience will not be pleasant. You can probably custom design something that'd allow you to breath almost as well scuba diving as on land. The problem with a tube is that you have to put in a bit more effort to push the air through the tube (mitigated by wide tube), and you need to take decently deep breaths to reach the air outside the tube (mitigated by thin tube). If both of those are major issues, it may not be possible with a conventional device. At that point we'd need to get a bit creative I think. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11839 Posts
The problem is the same as for people without holes in their neck. Your lungs are weak as fuck. They can't even pump air in that is 0.1 atmospheric pressures lower than your lungs surroundings. Which is why a 1m snorkel doesn't allow you to breath at all. Eating through the tube won't work, as it connects to the air pipe in your neck, not the food pipe. Talking through the hole is probably impossible due to a lack of lips, but maybe you can train your neck muscles to contract in a way that allows whistling? You can possibly build a simple valve system which you screw onto your pipe and the scuba tank to allow for scuba diving. It should basically work the same way as the valves on a scuba mask. This is probably not a very save thing to do. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On June 18 2016 15:31 Epishade wrote: If someone has a stoma in their neck to breath, how do they go scuba diving? Do they make diving masks designed for people with airholes in their neck? Or do they just stick an L-pipe in there and try and make sure it stays above the water? What happens in they're on an airplane and the breathing masks fall down. Do they stick it over their neck? Will turtlenecks suffocate them? What if they have their mouth full of food but want to continue telling their story, can they just talk to me through the hole? Or what about if they're very hungry but they can't shovel food down fast enough? Can they just take a bite of their burger with their neck for maximum eating efficiency? Having a stoma is apparently an absolute contraindication if you want to scuba dive (http://www.ndc.noaa.gov/pdfs/diving_exclusions_and_qualifications.pdf), but there's an instrument known as a "larkel" that allows people to swim post-laryngectomy so you could (probably) modify one for scuba diving(please don't actually try this). As for conventional breathing masks they don't work, but there are specialized breathing masks (http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=386007 or http://www.google.com/patents/US3262447) available. | ||
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Khalum
Austria831 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11839 Posts
On June 20 2016 03:32 JimmiC wrote: Would a vegan swallow man juice? Depends on the person in question. Firstly, they need to want to swallow "man juice" in the first part, which i don't think a majority of the population likes to do, even without any thoughts into their nutritional decision. Secondly, i guess it depends on their specific definition of veganism and the reasons thereof. If they are a vegan for ethical reasons, swallowing "man juice" would not be a problem, unless it is being produced in some sort of horrible dystopian semen farm. Under most normal circumstances, semen is extracted with the consent of the man in question, and without inflicting any unwanted suffering onto him. Thus, there is no ethical reason not to swallow it in those cases if the reason for you being a vegan is to not be a part of animal suffering. If you are some sort of dogmatic vegan, that is principally opposed to eating anything involving animals, it once again depends on if you view humans as animals. If you don't view humans as animals in that regard, it is once again not a problem, and you can swallow as much semen as you wish. (This point of view could technically also allow cannibalism, depending on the exact definitions.) However, if you are dogmatically opposed to consuming anything that involves animals, and view humans as animals, you might be opposed to swallowing semen. I assume that this is a very small minority of vegans though. If you are very strict about this, you would not be allowed to eat anything at all, and thus have starved years ago, so you are no longer a part of the population. If you are a vegan for allergy reasons (I don't know if these exist), you are probably also allergic to semen. I am pretty sure that almost all vegans are in the first category, and that they would thus not have a problem with swallowing semen based on them being vegans. They might have a problem with it based on other reasons. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On June 20 2016 03:51 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: are giant checks cash-able? If it had the pertinent account information on it and signatures, I don't see why not. I've never seen one with actual routing and account stuff on it though. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On June 20 2016 04:02 ThomasjServo wrote: If it had the pertinent account information on it and signatures, I don't see why not. I've never seen one with actual routing and account stuff on it though. Yeah, as long as it has all the necessary info it's legal, though typically banks reserve the right to refuse cheques, just so people don't turn in cheques written in human blood, or drawn in hieroglyphs on massive stone tablets, or tattooed onto a cow. | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On June 20 2016 08:14 ZigguratOfUr wrote: Yeah, as long as it has all the necessary info it's legal, though typically banks reserve the right to refuse cheques, just so people don't turn in cheques written in human blood, or drawn in hieroglyphs on massive stone tablets, or tattooed onto a cow. I'm pretty sure BoA will take checks in human blood, they even give you a bonus credit for it. | ||
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Naracs_Duc
746 Posts
If they are a vegan for ethical reasons, swallowing "man juice" would not be a problem, unless it is being produced in some sort of horrible dystopian semen farm. This is the best sentence I've read all month. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11839 Posts
If i open up a surgery shop that attaches ursine limbs to people, and the police tries to shut it down, can i claim constitutional protection because if my shop is closed down, it once again becomes impossible for a lot of people to acquire bear arms? A similar question arises when i build medieval castles. And what happens if i do both? | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On June 21 2016 19:30 Simberto wrote: The second amendment of the US constitution states that "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" If i open up a surgery shop that attaches ursine limbs to people, and the police tries to shut it down, can i claim constitutional protection because if my shop is closed down, it once again becomes impossible for a lot of people to acquire bear arms? A similar question arises when i build medieval castles. And what happens if i do both? How are you sourcing your bear arms would probably be as much an issue. | ||
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On June 21 2016 19:38 ThomasjServo wrote: How are you sourcing your bear arms would probably be as much an issue. Synthetic bear arms are the futur, I'm telling you. | ||
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riotjune
United States3394 Posts
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