So you're saying that it's a GREAT idea?

You know what, sure, why the hell not. I'll see you on the Darwin Awards lol

I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.

In that case, sodium and potassium should be fine too

How many licks to get to the center of a sodium lollipop

Do not lick Am

😏 Are you a green element on the periodic table? Cause I wanna lick you

Na: bad. Cl: bad. NaCl: amazing!

... How exactly would you lick hydrogen? Or helium for yhsy matter...

It's about whether you die before you can reach it

Ah, I see I've fallen for the classic ambiguity - I was assuming the vast chemistry arena we were licking things in was not a frictionless vacuum. Yes, it's hypothetically pyrophoric with water; though it would require some prodegious amounts of slobber (or some small amount of effort) to produce that effect just by licking it - and I'm not entirely sure how well human salivary glands operate under vacuum conditions....

If you have enough saliva, just one...

1. Fill a balloon with the gas
2. Stick your tongue in the balloon sphincter
3. Wiggle your tongue
4. Reconsider the decisions you've made that led your life to this point

O₂ or O₃? How about isotopes?

The long-lived isotopes of uranium are about as dangerous as lead, actually: heavy metal poisoning is the overwhelming concern. Same as bismuth, which is effectively stable and incorrectly marked "Probably fine".

Lead lolly, yellow lolly

This is a joke by Tom Scott in one of the best Citation Needed episodes.

1. Reconsider the decisions you've made that led your life to this point

OR

New kink unlocked

New fetish unlocked, but still hidden behind balloon sphincter.

If that moment of introspection concludes with you being happy with your path and current situation, then who am I to judge. Carry on with your ballonilingus and be happy.

Tounguepunching the gas sphincter, oh joy

Just go slow and keep it wet. It might take some time to build up your tongue strength and loosen up the opening, but I believe in you. Go forth and achieve your dreams.

I wouldn't advise licking calciums:

The chemistry of calcium is that of a typical heavy alkaline earth metal. For example, calcium spontaneously reacts with water more quickly than magnesium but less quickly than strontium to produce calcium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. It also reacts with the oxygen and nitrogen in air to form a mixture of calcium oxide and calcium nitride.[14] When finely divided, it spontaneously burns in air to produce the nitride. Bulk calcium is less reactive: it quickly forms a hydration coating in moist air, but below 30% relative humidity it may be stored indefinitely at room temperature.[15]

Because calcium reacts exothermically with water and acids, calcium metal coming into contact with bodily moisture results in severe corrosive irritation.[59] When swallowed, calcium metal has the same effect on the mouth, oesophagus, and stomach, and can be fatal.[46] However, long-term exposure is not known to have distinct adverse effects.[59]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium

Because of vigorous reaction of quicklime with water, quicklime causes severe irritation when inhaled or placed in contact with moist skin or eyes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide

Carry on with your ballonilingus and be happy.

That's gotta be a sentence no one has ever said before.

So.. I should lick it fast and then hide from the effects under a table?

The good version of this says "see you on the other side".

Thanks for believing in me :D

It’s really funny, yesterday I saw a dude walk around with a T-shirt with exactly this periodic table and thought it was hilarious and now I find this

Yeah I guess that's true, your salvia probably isn't penetrating the oxide layer with enough vigor to be too much of a concern. Don't eat it though!

https://youtube.com/shorts/Kk9rderPRnE

The same people think sulfur is "probably okay"

If you can get your tongue inside the machinery they use at Lawrence Livermore to create a split-second instance of some rare Earth actinide, you deserve to lick it.

Pure sulfur is unreactive with water, so I can't imagine it doing meaningful harm with just one lick.

Many can't be "kept" on the time scale of licking. And for some, the confirmed number of atoms ever existing is too low for any sensation or measurable radiation exposure during their violent but tiny decay. But if the particle accelerator beam, the only place they ever existed, crossed your head... we unfortunately know what happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Accident

Ok who gave the goat internet access?

Lick it then chug some vinegar

Did you lick him?

I'm glad someone listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was on the original version of this, pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.

And, dare we hope, never again

You can lick radium for years!

I have nipples, Greg. Can you lick me?

Can I? Yes. Will I?... How much you got?

Good luck finding enough Astatine to lick. It's the rarest naturally-occurring element on earth. It's estimated there is less than 30 grams in earth's crust at any given time.

I appreciate what you are trying to share, so this is just me venting.

I hate you tube!

Having to sign in is annoying. Having the absolute LIE that it has anything to do with protecting the community is infuriating.

I try and never use youtube, then I am reminded why. Yes I know how to use the plethora of alternative front ends, but I simply dont want to play the game.

If it's got a nice oxide layer on the outside, fine. Otherwise it's fairly reactive.

Yeah maybe mixing up medicines and giving 11 year old me iodine tincture to drink wasn't the best move

Technically, Piped is not just a frontend... How about setting up a redirect? I used to provide links to piped.video like the annoying bot but then I realized it's decentralized and everyone using Piped probably has a redirect (or link-handling app) set up to their preferred instance.

BTW, there's an Internet Archive mirror of the video available as a plain file or in their online player The reference is at 9:57 but the whole thing is worth it.

Thank you, I came here to see if it was at least somewhat safe to lick uranium, I don’t have access to it but if I ever did I wouldve tried because that sounds like a badass story to tell at a bar/party

Thanks so much. A solution was far more then expected, thats really nice of you.

Two nipples

Definitely don't do it.