The metal straw is preserved and remains a famous medical specimen at the Anatomy and Pathology Museum at UC San Francisco.
ha, this post is a trap
Pretty sure someone hallucinated this or there is another Phineas Gage I can’t find because this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage had a 3 foot iron tamping rod put through their skull by a powder charge.
I assumed it was a joke playing off of the actual gage?
yeah it read plainly as a reference to me but people also tell me other people don’t know the kinds of things I do a lot of the time.
This is funny because I do actually have a strong background in psychiatry which has a fair amount in common with both neurology and psychology and Phineas Gage’s case is actually a pretty famous one in regards to the historical evolution of all three of those fields.
And there seems to be no “anatomy and pathology museum” in UCSF
Yeah this didn’t happen.
But people do chip their teeth on metal straws, so it’s still a bad idea to use them in cars without those silicone bumpers.
Why not fully silicone straws?
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Thank god we have reusable silicone straw, safer than both one-use plastic straw and stainless steel straw.
I dunno… is that surgical-grade silicone?
I’m not planning on doing surgery with it.
Well some of us aren’t cowards
meanwhile in uruguay :
They have to put up signs begging people to not bring mate on the bus, or to vaccinations, or paperwork at government buildings.
then NEXT TIME save my customisations properly.
Why, actually?
It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.
Perhaps because the traditional way to drink it involves a vessel like this one, with a metal straw could potentially impale someone’s eyeball if the driver has to make an emergency stop
TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.
kinda? It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.
Imagine you’re sucking on a metal straw in a bus and it hits a bump, and you slip …
pshaw … I can put a plastic straw through a potato
Didn’t Mythbusters has an episode about if this was possible?
Probably, but myth busters isn’t the best source for scientific fact.
I’m still salty about them calling the bullet drop “myth” confirmed even though their data clearly showed the two bullets hitting the ground at different times. But that was always going to happen because they didn’t do it in a vacuum.
But I digress. A lot of their conclusions are drawn because they’re unable to reproduce a situation in a controlled environment, but that doesn’t mean the situation is impossible.
Surely there’s a picture of this specimen?
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