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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate the creativity, but that is not a drink, good sir/madam...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I posit that any substance which can be ingested as a liquid by pouring it from a container into one's mouth (the act of "drinking") is, by definition, a "drink."

[โ€“] atimholt 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Supposedly, gallium is non-toxic, and liquid at body temperature (though not room temperature).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think you replied to the wrong comment. Mercury is absolutely toxic. There's no safe quantity at all that you can ingest...