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Those were the days! (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DON'T MOUTH THE PIPET!!!

[–] ChlorineAddict 21 points 1 year ago

Sad pipet noises

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Explanation? Are these guys huffing ether or something?

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They pipette by mouth, which is not very safe.

[–] expatriado 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but how are we supposed to accidentally discover artificial sweeteners?

[–] new_guy 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By distilling piss from diabetic people? Idk I'm not a scientist i just like the memes

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WTF? Piss is all natural!

[–] expatriado 9 points 1 year ago

unless you drink from the pipet

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Basically it took many years before someone developed something that could be run with a trigger or button. Before that you used a vacuum (your mouth) to pull liquid into a pipette. Heard an older chemistry professor talk about a colleague who years before swallowed a salmonella sample by accident. A lot of people surely got hurt this way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not a scientist but I'm guessing they are siphoning some chemical by sucking up a small amount in the tube to transfer it to another container

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Aww, I thought they were blowing bubbles. Looked like fun.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look how long their fancy straws are! I bet they keep chemicals a safe distance away from possible ingestion!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering if a crazy straw was tested...for safety

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

lol lol let me suck up this salmonella sample real fast

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought they were sipping pee to test for diabetes 😋😌

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Uh, yeah, suck it, pipet boy.

[–] atomicorange 4 points 1 year ago

The silliest of straws.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pipettecore ftw!?