What happens if you swallow gum?
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What happens if you swallow gum?
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Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#2Raise your hand if you read the topic wrong the first time.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#3I'm not sure why, but this makes me think of the time before ubiquitous internet, when the answers to questions like this one were much harder to come by.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#4It's always been amazing to me that in the post-internet, pre-enshittification era of the Information age that people could go around confidently spouting bullshit facts like "gum stays in your body for 7 years" when a few swipes of a thumb can tell anyone with an internet connection otherwise.
Nowadays this doesn't hold as true, because search results / LLM's tend to give you the information it thinks that you want rather than what is actually the result. Have seen a lot of people getting into dumb, easily disprovable arguments and using a copy pasted google summary as evidence to whatever absurd claim they are making.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#5Raise 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.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#6um why don't they answer the real question: what happens if you swallow bubble gum?! 12-year old me needs to know.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#7Nothing, really. It's food-grade plastic and it will come out the other end.
Now, what happens if you seal high-pressure hydraulic oil systems with it? Let's find out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RYVSmuOmc
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#8My child went through a phase of swallowing a bunch of gum. He got appendicitis. It might have been a coincidence. The article does not mention appendicitis but some of the symptoms are the same as intestinal blockage.
Re: What happens if you swallow gum?
#9Nothing, really. It's food-grade plastic and it will come out the other end. Now, what happens if you seal high-pressure hydraulic oil systems with it? Let's find out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RYVSmuOmc
Why is the pressure gauge full of liquid? (Presumably water? but why / how?)
Quite the talker there :)
Edit: Got it Shog9, thanks!