• @[email protected]OPM
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      4 months ago

      If you tap unknown object on your tooth, you can discern stone, pottery, clay, metal, plastic, etc etc, without ingesting possibly contaminated soils so close to your bloodstream.

      • Track_Shovel
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        84 months ago

        And I get weird looks for spitting into my hand to texture soil…

        • @weariedfae
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          64 months ago

          Why? Giving soil the ol’ hawk tua is way faster than digging out a water bottle from the pack.

          • Track_Shovel
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            44 months ago

            You’re a man (or woman?) of culture, I see. Precisely why I did it that way for years. I eventually got a camel back, and that worked pretty good - squirt a couple drops of water from the mouth piece on the soil and away you go.

      • @weariedfae
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        54 months ago

        Even the tooth tap is still no longer recommended. Both my undergrad and grad schools refused to teach/allow students to put anything in our mouths due to risks of contaminated soil.

      • @[email protected]
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        44 months ago

        This just brought me flash-backs of the absolute nut-bar I used to play DnD with that would tap dice on her teeth before rolling them “to check if they were real.”

        This is the closest thing to context I may ever have to that experience. I thought she was checking real vs imaginary, maybe she was checking if they were… ummm… real bones? wait. no.

  • Buglefingers
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    12 months ago

    Are there other rocks that may stick to the tongue? Something porous and/or absorbent?Pumice for instance?

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      12 months ago

      Probably but it’s like a certain reverberation I’m looking for with the tooth tap you don’t get with the tongue test.