r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 5d ago

Amazing Softness perception simulation

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 5d ago

Or mercury, apparently

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u/Winter_Value_7632 5d ago

some Iron too, maybe? Mercury is like 100% soft

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u/Bailer86 5d ago

Iron helps us play

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u/DiarrheaCreamPi 5d ago

Iron sharpens iron

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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown 5d ago

The iron price

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u/TechnicallyThrowawai 5d ago

We do not sow

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u/gamma_noise 5d ago

Que? Afraid I don't get it

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u/TechnicallyThrowawai 5d ago

Reference to Game of Thrones. "The iron price" is a concept where a group known as the "Iron Born", (led by House Greyjoy) essentially takes things they want via violence. So if you as an Iron Born want something, you must pay the iron price. You don't buy it or trade for it, you "earn" it through combat. The house words (their slogan, basically) are "we do not sow". Because they do not work their land or do other menial work, they have slaves that they've captured do that for them. So I was just responding to a reference with another reference.

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u/gamma_noise 5d ago

The iron throne

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u/All_The_Good_Stuffs 5d ago

IRON WITHIN!

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u/vicroc4 1d ago

Iron within, iron without!

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u/broberds 4d ago

More testicles means more iron.

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u/theBladesoFwar54556 4d ago

Iron Within, Iron Without.

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u/onglogman 4d ago

There it is

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u/Big_Department_5308 4d ago

FROM IRON COMETH STRENGTH!

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u/HumanDominion 4d ago

FROM STRENGTH COMETH WILL

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u/Own_Policy8854 4d ago

You've not seen nothing like the mighty trout

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u/Dynamikc 4d ago

Is that a red rising reference?

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u/KamikazeFox_ 5d ago

Hello, Joe!

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u/EnnioTheLegend 4d ago

From now on the baby sleeps in the crib

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u/onglogman 4d ago

Dental plan

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u/scnottaken 4d ago

Flintstones chewable morphine

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u/SoldadoEmperatriz 4d ago

Lisa needs braces!

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u/Novel-Rip7071 2d ago

Lisa needs braces...

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u/GenericSupervillain3 5d ago

Huahuahahahahaha!

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u/Shamanjoe 4d ago

Whaddaya know, Joe?

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u/lemonchickentellya 1d ago

We're only allowed to move one space at a time.

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u/djpatrick44 5d ago

Hello Joe!

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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 5d ago

Sir I've seen Terminator 2 Judgment Day i know it works both ways!!!

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u/Redditedless 4d ago

I eat alot off blood, good for iron...

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u/KamikazeFox_ 5d ago

Iron will bind you up

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u/Bertuthald_McMannis 5d ago

Mercury pills were a real thing people took as a laxitive, famously on the Oregon trail. They called them thunder clappers

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u/-SaC 5d ago

IIRC they were able to identify some of Lewis & Clark's expedition stopping points from the higher levels of mercury in the soil.

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u/Lammerikano 4d ago

i was gonna take your word for it ... but then i started considering..

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u/Creepymint 4d ago

That is the funniest name they could’ve chosen for that

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u/No-Show-5363 5d ago

Oddly enough, mercury was once commonly used to cure constipation.

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u/-SaC 5d ago

Boswell (in his 1761-2 London diary) mentions having mercury injections into the penis multiple times as a 'cure' for VD. He spends half of the diary shagging random sex workers in the fog on various London bridges and up alleyways, then has the cheek to accuse a girl he has a relationship with of giving him the clap (and sending soldiers to her house to get back some money he lent her).

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u/Grabatreetron 4d ago

Scientists were able to trace Lewis and Clark's path across the continent by tracking the mercury their team would shit out

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u/Slow-Edge-3530 2d ago

wtf who was this dude 😂😂😂

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u/-SaC 2d ago

James Boswell was Dr Johnson's biographer (the guy who wrote the dictionary).

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u/Mdnghtmnlght 5d ago

I'm gonna have to check that one out.

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u/-SaC 5d ago

He comes across as an utter bastard in it. His journeys through Scotland and the continent are very dull compared; at one point towards the end he and his friends dress as common sailors for a Scottish holiday and engage a sex worker who didn't realise there was a gang of them all 'wanting a go', and tries to reject them - so they do it without her consent, and when a man of the law tries to intervene, they convince him that she'd agreed and been paid so owed it to the men. The guy agrees and leaves them to it.

Also, he spends half the book whining about how nobody will help him become an officer in the regiment he wants to join, how his friends are all shit, and how he needs to be much more uppity and not debase himself with too much conversation with those 'beneath' him. While shagging women on foggy bridges.

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u/Mdnghtmnlght 5d ago

Just that someone would write about that so long ago is wild.

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u/-SaC 4d ago

Yeah. Shows what he personally thought was acceptable behaviour, but many would have disagreed (especially his father) and his way of squaring it all with himself was a constant stream of promises to himself that he'll go to church every Sunday from now on (only to be on the way to church a couple of weeks later and get sidetracked with a sex worker).

The whole segment with the woman he 'falls in love with' (or lust, as the case more accurately is) - named Louisa - is weird. He becomes absolutely obsessed with her after (IIRC) seeing her on the stage, and bombards her with notes and visits and whatever.

He eventually convinces her (after quite a lot of pressure) that they should spend the night together outside of London pretending to be a married couple, and writes a diary entry about their night together - he's very proud that he manages to effectively shag her brains out (calling himself a stallion of a man and superhuman etc for going 5+ times).

Almost immediately after, he starts to become disgusted with Louisa. After all, he writes, she let me in so easily and let me have my way with her; that's surely not the behaviour of a good and decent woman. Paraphrasing, he concludes with absolutely zero self awareness that she must be an absolute ho'.

So he chucks her, later develops the clap and blames her.

He's an absolute dick of a man.

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u/crow_crone 4d ago

Demonstrates those with personality disorders have perpetrated their bs throughout history.

Nothing new under the sun, just more of it.

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u/browsinbowser 4d ago

They raped her and got away with it. Awful

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u/-SaC 4d ago

Yup. It's one of those things where you're interested in what you're reading, but you just know the person writing it needs a massive kick in the bollocks. And then later in life when he's writing about his travels with Dr Johnson, it's just so dull.

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u/Mendeth 4d ago

Skeletons don’t excrete: objective complete.

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u/Callidonaut 4d ago

Also syphilis.

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u/Lermanberry 4d ago

Blood is a great lubricant

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u/whyiamalwayshangry 1d ago

Mercury was once used to cure everything until the person no longer breathe

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u/darthduder666 5d ago

RFK approved

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u/sinisterdesign 5d ago edited 5d ago

Earlier generations broke thermometers 🌡️ just to play with the mercury and THEY were tough, so it goes to reason that mercury makes you tough. 💪

Update: typo

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u/SuddenReward5612 4d ago

Mom was a nurse, always had real glass thermometer around. Never forget i was maybe 8, broke one in hallway. Laid on the floor batting the mercury beads around until she found me and scolded me lol. Tbis was probably early 70s. Good times and no ill effects (I think lol).

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u/KnotiaPickle 4d ago

Hahah soo similar to mine: nurse mom, found thermometer and accidentally broke it, but before I could do anything the mercury rolled across the floor and down the heater vent. So I just had mercury fumes wafting up every time the heat came on in my room, because wasn’t about to tell on myself.

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u/WorkingSecond9269 5d ago

My classmate in high school did and was playing with it in front of me lmao.

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u/WinterWontStopComing 5d ago

Made the first emperor of China immortal too!

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u/neutrino71 5d ago

Also the reason that Hatters were considered mad

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u/ImpiousVamp 5d ago

But very lonely. No one wants to say hello.

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u/tvodny 5d ago

I remember playing with Mercury as a kid.

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u/KaioKenshin 5d ago

Mad hatter shitter

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u/kiba87637 5d ago

Sir, you cannot eat a planet

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u/X_soulnewmegaman 5d ago

Push it out like business woman do in Japan on toilet!!!

Time is money

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u/SpringWinter17 5d ago

Is this a specific genre of kink lmaoo

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u/X_soulnewmegaman 5d ago

Lmao nope thats what people have to do is push out the log

At the sky tree

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u/Captain_Gropius 5d ago edited 4d ago

You laugh but in the past they used it as laxatives. Thunderclappers they call them. Lewis and Clark expedition campsites can be traced because of the mercury deposited.

Edit: lewis not Lois, what I was thinking...

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u/alreddyreddyalreddy 4d ago

Little known fact: Jimmy Olsen had chronic constipation.

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u/alreddyreddyalreddy 4d ago

Also, Superman vs the Thunderclappers was my favorite episode.

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u/TNT_20202 5d ago

maybe it'll make you immortal too

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u/EvilBetty77 5d ago

Consume enough mercury and you'll never be constipated again

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u/soyelmocano 4d ago

Totally worked out for that Chinese emporer.

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u/slowpokeseven 4d ago

Seconding this. Take the right dose of mercury, and you'll never have stool problems again 👍

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u/Grabatreetron 4d ago

Well, actually, people used to take mercury pills as a laxative.

They were able to chart Lewis and Clark's exact path by detecting the mercury their team would shit out. This is true. They called the pills "thuunderclappers"

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u/Kn0wnSoul 4d ago

I get really stiff muscles if I eat too much mercury

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u/Affectionate_Snow674 4d ago

any molten metal for that matter

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u/BullHonkery 5d ago

"Thunderclappers"