Raise your hand if you read the topic wrong the first time.
I read "a gun" and was wondering if it's really that many people that would warrant writing an article about it.
I'm assuming the GP's brain replaced the 'g' with a 'c'.
What happens if you swallow gum?
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Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mixing peanut butter and gum. As a matter of fact, it is a perfect solution for getting out gum stuck in your hair. It just dissolves. Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched.
Gasoline's abilities as a solvent led to it being used as a dry cleaning agent at one time.
...and its flammability is what lead to the use of chlorinated solvents:
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#43Raise your hand if you read the topic wrong the first time.
No, but if you want to something about what happens when you swallow what you probably think it might have been misread as, the Straight Dope has some information on that [1].
[1] https://www.straightdope.com/21341232/how-many-calories-are-...
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#44Try eating a chocolate while chewing bubble gum. The gum will soon dissolve / break into tiny threads/pieces. It might be rough experience and you may feel like spitting it out. Happened to me by accident as a kid and I remember asking some cousins to do the same and they experienced the same thing. Unless gums are made differently, it should still work.
Mixing peanut butter and gum. As a matter of fact, it is a perfect solution for getting out gum stuck in your hair. It just dissolves. Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched.
> Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched.
Isn't that basically how to diy napalm?
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before the internet, everyone knew that if you swallowed a watermelon seed that it would grow in your belly. Ipsofacto, if you swallow gum, a gum tree would grow. It is known
Before the internet everything happened in periods of seven years. All the cells in your body would be replaced, your luck would recover from a broken mirror, the bankers would discharge your debt, and missing people would finally be declared dead. It was a much more elegant system than we have today. Edit: And of course, the seven year itch.
laughs in 7 year data retention, then cries
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#46Ever since that xylitol study came out, I've stopped chewing gum
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#47Ever since that xylitol study came out, I've stopped chewing gum
And what study are you referring to?
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#48Try eating a chocolate while chewing bubble gum. The gum will soon dissolve / break into tiny threads/pieces. It might be rough experience and you may feel like spitting it out. Happened to me by accident as a kid and I remember asking some cousins to do the same and they experienced the same thing. Unless gums are made differently, it should still work.
Haha, yeah I did that exactly once. Turned into a horrible goo.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mixing peanut butter and gum. As a matter of fact, it is a perfect solution for getting out gum stuck in your hair. It just dissolves. Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched.
> Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched. Isn't that basically how to diy napalm?
Yes, though when doing it on purpose, you try to dissolve as much styrofoam into it as you can to get it closer to being a gel.
Not something to do out of curiosity though, fumes given off while burning are exactly something to be avoided.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#50What's amazing is how, if you chew a piece of gum long enough, it suddenly breaks down. All of it, at the same time, into bitter-tasting, mealy soup of gum particles.