Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.
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.
Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.
We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!
"Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?" is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.
EDIT: Michael Sveda's discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937
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.
I always hate how well this works...
Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation
The fuck did I do to you? Now I can feel my tongue and I don't know how to breathe!
I hope you can hear your blinking for the rest of the day!
I've heard that with enough lack of stimuli combined with enough concerted concentration, you can actually begin to feel your guts as they process food. Like, feeling the muscles contracting.
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.
Law: Go to jail.
Political science: Could you please do this somewhere else?
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 wants people to stop.
Software engineering... If you can lick it, you spelled "click" wrong. And that's why your code won't compile, you complete failure.
“Lick this dish please.”
“So you do lick the science?!”
“No. You are the science.” <checks watch><marks something down on a clipboard>
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::
Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!
A quick question, should the software engineer lick the monitor screen or the keyboard?
::: spoiler I… uh… am asking for a friend who is a software engineer.
I am a butterfly instructor.
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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 located in different countries or even continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.
Also, I don't know if Amazon will let my friend in a similar situation into their data centers to lick the AWS motherboards.
Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I'd go for the monitor.
Apple could have avoided an entire lawsuit for their butterfly keyboards, if their users did this one thing. SMH.
They taste more like flies and less like butter.
::: spoiler Source Don’t ask. :::
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
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.
Point yourself at the surface so that when you get there the tongue-part of the pressure diamond you've become is lowest.
Thank you for the practical advice! Uranus exerts a lot of pressure and getting my tongue up there could be challenging.
I would say replace "Computer Science" with "Computer Engineering" (or electrical engineering) and it works pretty well
Not really. Software engineering is part of computer science. Computer engineering and electrical engineering have more to do with physical hardware and circuits.
Exactly. The things with the electricity. You don't write code into a circuit
You might need to reread the post and this comment thread to understand you're saying the same thing as me and telling me I'm wrong