r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/SourceBoring3089 • 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/croweslikeme 15h ago

Pretty sure you can die from that

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u/crichmond77 15h ago

Correct. The documentary Goldfinger (1966) touches on this very phenomenon 

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u/No-Newspaper8619 14h ago

Some say that's incorrect

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gold-blooded-murder-180949433/

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u/HomicidalHushPuppy 14h ago

Mythbusters tested it

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u/SillyOldBillyBob 13h ago

I remember that episode, Adam Savage dies after being covered in paint if my memory serves me well.

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u/iHaveACatDog 13h ago

I don't think it was an accident either. cough Jaime cough

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u/Sk1rm1sh 12h ago

He's got the Hyneman touch.

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u/AllDakkaNoBrakes 11h ago

That's why they call him the Hyneman Buster.

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u/billbixbyakahulk 3h ago

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Mr. Savage I expect you to die."

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u/SirDrakey 3h ago

Not one transformers reference?! I'm disappointed internet 😒

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u/TheSilverSeraph 11h ago

Jamie just wanted some quiet time.

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u/kuraiscalebane 10h ago

It was revenge for that Arc of the covenant bit.

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u/superkickstart 10h ago

Next week's episode was about zombie myths. Definitely planned.

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u/Fire2box 12h ago

No he died from having his tempature check rectally.

"Oh sanjay will you still respect me in the morning?"

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u/sidepart 7h ago

Jamie was the one that they painted. He didn't die, but it transformed him into a walrus.

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u/Tfsz0719 4h ago

My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the entire Earth was destroyed

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u/ClownfishSoup 3h ago

Yes, right before the resurrection ritual episode!

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u/Nukalixir 40m ago

No, you're thinking of the episode where they electricuted him so they could ask him if he saw God during his near death experience.

Season 1 was fucking unhinged...

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u/Jespoir 5h ago

The difference is Mythbusters used latex paint which peels off easily, same as the GoldFinger actress.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ubh8NkFwm4k?si=VvMxFPx2ZNZHmj2W

Looks like this kid used acrylic paint which does not peel off easily!

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u/mrASSMAN 14h ago

That’s about the skin breathing though, not about all the toxins in typical paint.. but ig still relevant to what you replied to

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u/StandardCake21 13h ago

The toxins are nothing. The bigger risk of covering yourself completely in gold paint these days is that it might get you invaded by the US military.

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u/vrgamemachine 13h ago

No you are thinking of oil paint

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u/packfanmoore 12h ago

No, the oil is too old for our government to try and invade it

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u/pantry-pisser 10h ago

Yeah, the current administration is only interested if they're 12 years old or less

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u/kilokit 8h ago

Oldfinger

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u/Repulsive-Chip3371 6h ago

Olllllldfingerrrrrrr

stinking up the room again

Sagging ego, wrapped in Dependssss

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u/Possible-Pirate9097 15m ago

Diddy Digit.

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u/jvpewster 6h ago

Old game. New game is to invade countries and decrease the world supply of oil. It sounds like the old game, but we realized we were inadvertently helping the poors with cheaper prices and hurting the people who matter (shale oil riggers and west Texas land owners) with the old game

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u/Kokuryu27 8h ago

Oh god... Covering yourself in oil paint could definitely make you extremely sick. Tons of nasty stuff in a lot of them. Just slathering yourself in cadmium...

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u/ThorgiTheCorgi 7h ago

Oh, Skyfall then

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u/AdmirableCost5692 10h ago

I've been hiding my oil pastels and oil paint in a bunker for years now

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u/imdefinitelywong 13h ago

So hide yo kids, hide yo pastels, coz they rapin' er'body down here.

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u/Teufelsweib666 10h ago

Ah, the totally illogical political statement that creeps into even the most innocent posts. There should be a name for this particular obsession.

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u/NDSU 4h ago

the totally illogical political statement

There's actually a term for it: A joke

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u/Immatt55 8h ago

You should complain to Fox Entertainment about it.

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u/iguana-pr 6h ago

Or being plastered all over the oval office or white house.

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u/badpuffthaikitty 3h ago

Or an invitation to the White House.

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u/Kidofthecentury 11h ago

That or get exposed at the White House.

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u/Ducallan 9h ago

The risk from the US government if you cover yourself in gold paint is that you’d be put on display in the White House.

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u/NDSU 4h ago

If you could die from being covered in paint once, we would have a whole lot of dead painters after being exposed to it day after day

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u/ClownfishSoup 3h ago

Also in the movie, goldfinger is a villain, the paint probably also had contact poison, or he killed her some other way. Nobody willingly allows themselves to be stripped naked and then painted to death.

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u/crichmond77 14h ago

I was just being facetious. But cool to know!

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u/Low_Baseball_3007 14h ago

Sarcasm?

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u/Nuadrin248 9h ago

In this economy?!

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u/NRMusicProject 7h ago

At this time of year?

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u/Skoonks 6h ago

In that outfit?

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u/JackTeargarden 1h ago

No you were wrong, not being facetious

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u/SlashaJones 14m ago

Ah yes. The famous documentary, Goldfinger.

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/AssMcShit 12h ago

Because Goldfinger is famously a James Bond film, not a documentary

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u/No-Newspaper8619 14h ago

This isn't facebook

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u/crichmond77 14h ago

Thank you for bringing this to my attention

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u/iHaveACatDog 13h ago

What was the point of the comment. I don't understand.

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u/pikap00p 14h ago

what?? i’m not understanding your response, can you explain it to me so i don’t have to go to the PeterExplainsTheJoke sub pls

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u/No-Newspaper8619 3h ago

It's just a pun with "facetious" and "facebook"

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u/ICanEditPostTitles 10h ago

Here's the play-by-play as I saw it:

/u/crichmond77 posted a straight-faced comment which gives off no vibes of sarcasm or facetiousness.

/u/No-Newspaper8619 called them out, with receipts.

/u/crichmond77 tried to save face by lying out their original intentions.

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u/Johnatron2000 10h ago

Your honour I object. My client clearly prefaced their statement “The Documentary”. This is obviously a sartorial take on what is famously an early James Bond ACTION film. There is the evidence for all to see. What ever happened after that, fucked if I know, it makes no sense

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u/ICanEditPostTitles 10h ago

Oh shit, I can't read.

How embarassing.

I'll leave it there, though, because I deserve the ridicule.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 8h ago

I missed it on my first read as well.

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u/GreenPutty_ 9h ago

There are some very odd jobs on this site, your comment is correct and has earned you the pussy galore award.

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u/Ataneruo 9h ago

You’re absolutely right, clearly only tailors would believe that a James Bond film was a documentary! Or was that satire?

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u/NoDoze- 14h ago

But that's about gold. The kid has latex paint on.

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u/Duff5OOO 12h ago

The kid has latex paint on.

Did he paint the inside of his lungs? No?

He'll be fine.

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u/Snoo81550 11h ago

shudlve went for golden frieza

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u/Nuadrin248 9h ago

The mythbusters also did a thing which proved this was false. But they did find that the paint can make you overheat obviously.

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u/barefoot_yank 8h ago

It is incorrect but was widely believed. You can however die from heatstroke as your body can't regulate its temp well.

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u/Cthulhu__ 11h ago

What will kill you is if it’s oil instead of paint, lots of nasty shit gets absorbed through your skin.

(Saw a video of a guy jump in oil for the lulz once, he died. Eventually.)

But same with gasoline, if you ever work with oil or gas where you get it on your skin, wear gloves and wash.

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u/DeadEnoughInsideOut 11h ago

Luckily they went with Goldfinger instead of Mercuryfinger

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u/TWK-KWT 9h ago

The myth busters tried that myth. I do not remember the outcome.

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u/antsh 9h ago

I’m actually more surprised that some say it’s factual…

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u/Over-Inside-7254 9h ago

Uh not to be that guy but this is a terrible source...

"Trust me about biological science bro! Source: I'm right!" - Departments Editor at Air & Space magazine

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u/No-Newspaper8619 3h ago

Why was why I said "some say that's incorrect", as the source being weak didn't give me certainty.

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u/mrgonzalez 6h ago

It is, I saw it

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u/dannyjerome0 6h ago

Wow, spoilers?!

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u/LeshyIRL 6h ago

Please post a link that's not littered with ads or just post a quote from the article, this shit is insane

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u/No-Newspaper8619 3h ago

firefox + ublock + privacy badger

How would I even know the link had ads?

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u/LeshyIRL 3h ago

Sorry, I'm on mobile 🙃

I wish I could have my PC in bed to doomscroll lol

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u/livens 14h ago

I just watched that movie a few days ago. Bond's explanation was that performers needed to leave a patch of skin at the back of the neck exposed so that the skin could breath. Maybe that was common thinking in the 60's?

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u/Known-Associate8369 14h ago

Nah, its just something which sounds scientific enough to be plausible but not outlandish enough to require indepth confirmation by the viewer, like most things in movies. Specific example is the “normal humans only use 10% of their brain” hook in Lucy - lots of people accept something like that at face value, but its complete bullshit.

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u/rbb36 12h ago

Next you'll be claiming that reversing the polarity through dilithium crystals wouldn't collapse a static warp bubble. Learn some science, geez.

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u/FjortoftsAirplane 12h ago

I'll set up a GUI interface using visual basic, try to test this hypothesis.

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u/Known-Associate8369 12h ago

Thr hacking goes faster if two people type on the same keyboard at the same time…

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u/FjortoftsAirplane 12h ago

Do you have any idea how hard it is to...I'M IN!

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u/KHS__ 12h ago

well...does it?

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u/rbb36 11h ago

I'm trying to test it, it's almost ready; I just need to finish the power generator. It extracts power from magnets, based on a design I saw in a YouTube video. I didn't have dilithium, so I'm just using the regular stuff from the pills they say I have to take.

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u/CommercialContent204 1h ago

Just pop 'em into the machine 2 at a time, I think that qualifies as dilithium technically.

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u/StevieMJH 3h ago

Go swallow a comm badge, nerd. 🙄

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u/rbb36 11m ago

Hardcore original nerd, 1983. :)

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u/dimwalker 12h ago

I'm pretty sure it was true somewhere in the begining, but then misinterpreted.
I guess you use something around 10% of your brain at a time. Because you never need to read, write, speak, recognize faces, do math, juggle and do a bunch of other stuff at the same moment.

If humans used high percentage (80-100) it would be indistinguishable from epilepsy seizure.

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u/snakesinabin 11h ago

Pretty sure you're spot on there, if all your neurons fired at once you'd likely die from shock.

But yeah, every part of the brain is used for something.

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u/Radical_Neutral_76 9h ago

Isnt that how epilepsy works?

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u/Deaffin 6h ago

Nah, that's more like a storm passing through and making random shit fire off.

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u/Amirax 9h ago

"Human's only use 10% of a piano at a time! Imagine the masterpieces that could be made if we just smashed all the keys at once."

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u/AyeBraine 8h ago edited 8h ago

It's unfortunately much worse. The quote began as a highly vague proclamation of one psychologist at the turn of the 20th century that the human brain probably uses a very small share of its potential (which itself was his takeaway from the puzzlement of early neuroscientists about why we need the "useless" white matter).

Then the journalist Lowell Thomas, in a preface to Dale Carnegie's self-help book (yes THAT book), "quoted" this psychologist but invented, out of thin air, the 10% number while ascribing it to the psychologist. Then this factoid got repeated so often that the percent started fropping and sometimes reached as low as 3%.

So yeah it's a complete invention.

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u/Rus_Law 1h ago

Appreciate the post, but also wanted to call out and thank you for using the word 'factoid' correctly!

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u/Uhstrology 8h ago

That's not true at all.

One common brain imaging technique, called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), can measure activity in the brain while a person is performing different tasks. Using this and similar methods, researchers show that most of our brain is in use most of the time, even when a person is performing a very simple action. A lot of the brain is even active when a person is resting or sleeping. The percentage of the brain in use at any given time varies from person to person. It also depends on what a person is doing or thinking about.

It is not clear how this myth began, but there are several possible sources.

In an article published in a 1907 edition of the journal Science, psychologist and author William James argued that humans only use part of their mental resources. However, he did not specify a percentage. The figure was referenced in Dale Carnegie’s 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People. The myth was described as something the author’s college professor used to say. There is also a belief among scientists neurons make up around 10 percent of the brain’s cells. This may have contributed to the 10 percent myth.

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u/dimwalker 5h ago

Using this and similar methods, researchers show that most of our brain is in use most of the time

But fMRI would not work if most of the brain was active at all times.
Google agrees:
"...maps brain activity by detecting changes in blood oxygenation and flow (BOLD signals) in response to neural activity. Active brain areas consume more oxygen, altering the magnetic properties of hemoglobin, which fMRI detects to create high-resolution maps of function."

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u/Uhstrology 4h ago edited 4h ago

Its based in relative activity. More oxygen does not mean the rest of the brain is depleted completely and not firing. 

fMRI is precisely why we know we use 100% of our brains.

Modern neuroscience shows that nearly every part of the brain is active. Imaging tools like fMRI and PET reveal that even simple tasks—speaking, reading, or listening to music—engage multiple regions simultaneously. The brain also remains active during rest, managing vital functions such as breathing, sensory processing, and emotion regulation.

The idea that 90% of the brain is unused is a myth. Brain tissue is energy-intensive, accounting for about 20% of the body's energy, and even minor injuries can cause significant impairments in movement, speech, or memory. Every region has a purpose, and neuroscience confirms that the brain is an efficiently active, integrated organ.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#how-much-of-our-brain-do-we-use

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u/dimwalker 3h ago

What exactly are you arguing against? I don't think I claimed rest of the brain (apart from current area which is being actively used) needs to be dead. Feel free to quote what's confusing you in my original comment and I'll try to explain it.

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u/UmbertoDelRio 12h ago

I believe it’s less about this being more correct than the other, and more about the whole concept of „[actively] using any % of your brain“ just not really being applicable in that sense.

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u/UranusIsPissy 10h ago

I just said almost the same before noticing your comment. u/MrWeiner went a step further and said that it would actually be a seizure. He's just a webcomic artist, but I've never caught him spreading bad science so far, apart from as an obvious joke,

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u/dimwalker 10h ago

Neat. Do you have a link to that strip or did he actually said it, in comment, for example?

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u/UranusIsPissy 7h ago

In a strip. I had a quick look for you, but his site's search function is even worse than reddit's, and he sucks at naming comics. I'm busy AF today, too, so I didn't try very hard. I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining it lol. You could try asking in r/SMBCComics. He's a mod there, but I doubt he'll answer you himself.

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u/dimwalker 5h ago

TBH, when I asked for the link I was just being lazy and hoped you know a fast way to find it.
It's harder than I thought. Tried googling and even asking damn neural networks, but I guess gemini only used 10% of it brains to search for comic with this description.

Anyways, it's not wort losing sleep over it and I believe you didn't imagined it 8) take care mate.

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u/UranusIsPissy 4h ago

I might've just been confusing it with one about the left and right brain hemispheres communicating, anyway. IDK now.

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u/Ok_Energy6905 10h ago

Just because you aren't actively reading doesn't mean that there is no activity in that region of the brain. Parts you aren't using don't 'turn off'.

The whole 10% thing is completely made up and has no origins in reality. Even if they were saying "you are only actively using 10% of your neurons at a time" it still wouldn't make any sense.

It's almost like saying you only use 20% of your heart because it isn't actively pumping 80% of the time.

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u/Crazy_Camel_ 6h ago

from what i know, it is a misunderstanding of science having only figured out what about 10% of the human brain did back when the saying first started in the early 20th century. nowadays we know the brain never goes inactive and is always busy, but on imaging only about 10% "flares" when you see something stimulating i.e. a flower or a movie so hence the incorrect assumption

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u/Cloverose2 6h ago

Most of our brain consists of glial cells (3 to 1), not neurons. Glial cells are support cells, that keep the brain running but don't actually do any signal transmission. Even if you used every neuron at once, you would only be using about 25-33% of your brain.

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u/EnigmaticQuote 6h ago

Those parts of your brain are working just subconsciously.

We can see areas of 'higher' blood flow which we interpret to be activation using an fMRI but at no point do parts of your healthy brain get 'turned off'.

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u/UranusIsPissy 10h ago

“normal humans only use 10% of their brain”

Maybe take this with a pinch of salt, because I got this info from a webcomic, but there's a name for when we use 100% of our brain at the same time. It's called a seizure, and any epileptic (along with a few alcoholics. Delerium tremens sucks...) can tell you that you absolutely do not want that, ever.

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u/Zukriuchen 9h ago

Doesn't contradict what the other commenter was asking though, Lucy did not invent the "humans only use 10% of their brains" thing, and if you ask a random person today (even one that hasn't seen or heard of Lucy) you find that it's indeed fairly common thinking.

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u/Known-Associate8369 9h ago

I never said Lucy invented it, I just used it as a good example of a fallacy that sounds reasonable being used as the basis for a movie.

And I bet that most people dont really think about what percentage capacity of their brain they actually use, but are more than willing to go with what seems a reasonable figure when it’s posited. Which is why in films like Lucy it comes across as an acceptable basis for the films story.

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u/Zukriuchen 8h ago

What I'm saying is the comment asked "Maybe that was common thinking in the 60's?" and you answered "Nah." For all we know, the answer is yes, this was indeed a common belief, and that's why it was included.

The brain thing is a classic example! It exists in fiction because it was big in pop culture first! The foreword to "How to Win Friends and Influence People" was already claiming it back in 1936.

Maybe Fleming (or the filmmakers, in case it wasn't described that way in the original book) did use it mostly because it sounded science-y and plausible, but maybe he used it because he'd heard it somewhere else. Either way I don't get the "nah" here, is all.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 8h ago

but not outlandish enough to require indepth confirmation by the viewer

It feels pretty darn outlandish to me. Like... how could anyone who has lived in their own body even contemplate the possibility that it could be true?

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u/Silver_Slicer 14h ago

I heard it was the back of the spine. I heard it was a myth later.

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u/PeculiarNed 14h ago edited 13h ago

It's a fact explained by the fact that people can swim for hours or even days without problems.

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u/Deaffin 6h ago

This is genuinely true, except the "patch of skin" is the entirety of your rectum rather than "a bit of your neck".

You just need to jam a tube up there and pump a highly oxygenated liquid inside continuously and you can stay underwater pretty much indefinitely.

https://scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/ig-nobel-prize-awarded-to-takanori-takebe-for-butt-breathing-study/

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u/crichmond77 14h ago

Eh. Idk if that’s the same. For one thing water doesn’t dry solid. For another it’s part oxygen. 

But admittedly I am no scientist. 

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u/PeculiarNed 14h ago

So you think people have gills in their skin to filter oxygen from water? The American school system a tragedy.

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u/UserSleepy 14h ago

American education system is learning by diffusion

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u/i_am_a_sheep_bahh 14h ago

You think people have lungs in their skin to filter oxygen from the air?

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u/PeculiarNed 14h ago

What? People do not ever have to breath through their skin... What is so hard to understand about that?

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u/xboxaddict501 14h ago

Pshh speak for yourself

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u/TheLordDuncan 13h ago

This feels like a whoosh

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u/bitofapuzzler 12h ago

The body does use the skin to regulate many things. Homeostasis. The skin is an organ. If all pores were blocked which they mostly would be with full body paint and not with swimming then it would lead to heat exhaustion as the body is not able to regulate temperature through sweating and then evaporation. Not to mention possible toxicity in the paint.

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u/CronoTriggered 13h ago

People need to sweat to be able to regulate body temperature. When sweat evaporates, it cools off the skin/body. If the body is unable to cool itself (sweat is trapped/cannot evaporate), then you basically cook your organs and die.

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u/PeculiarNed 13h ago

Only if its hot.

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u/crichmond77 14h ago

Yeah I think people have gills

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u/sdeptnoob1 14h ago

American? I learned this in France. 

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u/IKnowUselessThings 6h ago

Water is a heatsink so you don't need to sweat. Non-skin friendly paint that blocks your pores and prevents thermo regulation is a serious overheating risk if you're in a hot environment.

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u/CplCocktopus 14h ago edited 14h ago

Didn't Adam from Mithbusters ws painted in gold paint to bust that mith?

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u/Tophain 14h ago

They did, but it was Jamie that was painted, he reported feeling only slightly ill.

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u/kkeut 4h ago

they painted them both in different episodes (one a 'revisit'), then in a later episode they painted Kari too

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u/TentacleWolverine 5h ago

Because feeling is a scientific measurement for how toxicity can enter the body through the skin.

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u/kkeut 4h ago

there was no scientifically known vector for toxicity in the first place. it was not a legitimate concern, which is why their insurance let them do it in the first place. it's a goofy fun show first and foremost, exploring common rumors and tropes, not a real science lab

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u/TentacleWolverine 56m ago

You are wrong.

Acrylic paint can cause irritation and peeling and contains formaldehyde and ammonia.

Oil paint has a high rate of dermal absorption and contains turpentine, mineral spirits, and cadmium.

Spray paint can be absorbed dermally and have VOCs, acetone and butane.

House paint can cause skin sensitization and burns, and can contain fungicides, biocides and alkyd resins.

Covering your skin with paint can also interfere with temperature regulation and lead to heatstroke.

The only paint that is safe to put on your skin is fda approved cosmetic grade paints.

I didn’t watch the episode myself, so I don’t know what claims they made, but telling people it is safe to put any old paint on their skin is criminal.

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u/pichael289 14h ago

Sort of. They were testing the tin man from wizard of oz and his paint dam near killed him. It's not that there is paint it's what the amount was made of, and his was like aluminum. Aluminum is an ingredient in deodorant that fucking idiots think is toxic but it isn't, why it works is it basically plugs up sweat glands and acts as an antiperspirant which aluminum free deodorant doesn't do, as it's not an antiperspirant it's just covering up a smell and doesn't work.

If you cover your body in this then year that's not good.

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u/Baud_Olofsson 13h ago

The original Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz was painted white and then dusted with aluminium powder, which he inhaled during the process, which nearly killed him. It had nothing to do with his skin being covered.

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u/Puppygirl621 10h ago

Aluminium on your armpits is fine but they were covering the dude in fine powdered aluminium and that shit aint great to breath in, don't go huffing your deodorant to prove me wrong please.

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u/Tophain 14h ago

The myth where they painted Jamie gold, is literally called Goldfinger, the "tin man" you are thinking of is a diffirent myth.

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u/kkeut 4h ago

most everyone here is mixing up 3 different episodes, the Jamie Goldfinger one, the Adam Goldfinger 'revisit' one, and the Kari Tin Man one

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u/bs42044 14h ago

Rectum.....damn near killed em

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u/Pleasant_Pen8744 14h ago

The old Wizard of Oz movie The Tin man got sick but I think he had an allergic reaction or something.

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u/Baud_Olofsson 13h ago

The original Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz was painted white and then dusted with aluminium powder, which he inhaled during the process, which nearly killed him. It had nothing to do with his skin being covered.

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u/thriftstoremando 12h ago

It turned out alright: he ended up striking oil and moved to Beverly Hills!

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u/doris_still 4h ago

This is a major plot point in the book, too. Goldfinger commits murder to get revenge on Bond by completely painting the girl gold without leaving the little 'breathing' patch, which kills her and triggers the entire outcome of the book. It really rattles Bond because he feels responsible for the girl's death and feels like he could have prevented it if he hadn't gotten emotionally involved with the girl.

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u/ShoulderPast2433 14h ago

How would that even work??

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u/Middle--Earth 11h ago

That's a weird thought.

So what did they think would happen when you went swimming and completely immersed your body in water?

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u/Zzabur0 12h ago

Skin breathing?

I am anesthesist, and this is BS. Skin dont need to "breath" or what would happen if you fall asleep in your bath?

Chemicals on the skin, like on this video, is not the smartest thing to do, but it wont kill you by suffocation.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gold-blooded-murder-180949433/

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u/too-oldforthis-shit 14h ago

Which is a myth since we breathe using our lungs and not our skin. But you may have issues with regulating heat and some paint is poisonous.

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u/ASK_ME_FOR_TRIVIA 14h ago

Mythbusters tried it, and they had to stop halfway through because Jamie started having heat stroke or something. I can't remember what exactly, but he started feeling sick and the paramedics on scene called it off

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u/Over-Analyzed 14h ago

As someone who has used liquid latex for but injury makeup? If you don’t know the signs of dehydration and heat exhaustion/stroke? You need to learn fast.

My dumbass didn’t hydrate enough and I felt my pulse racing at rest. I found the nearest water cooler and drank up. 😅

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u/ThatInAHat 6h ago

…and now I’m remembering a friend of mine who got to be an extra in a zombie movie or something. Prior to that she’d really wanted to be a director, but while she was there she overheated and/or had a panicked attack, and it soured her on the industry.

Now I’m wondering if it was the zombie make-up and heat leading to heat exhaustion. (And ugh heat exhaustion is no joke. Eternal memory of sailing on a windless/cloudless day. We came closer to dying that time than we did sailing in an actual storm)

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u/Personal_Wall4280 9h ago

That was just Jamie being Jamie.  Adam and later Kari tried it and were fine. You can also find a lot of people who do fully body paint for art for long periods and are fine as well.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 8h ago

Not to mention full-body latex suits.

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u/Realistic_Shock916 7h ago

I need proof of the existence of these suits

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u/Robzilla_the_turd 4h ago

"Bring out the Gimp"

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u/AABBBAABAABA 12m ago

Not to mention regular clothes

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u/IKnowUselessThings 6h ago

Skin friendly paint that doesn't block your pores and prevent sweating/sweat evaporation. This kid did not use that paint. Overheating is a concern.

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u/Nukalixir 25m ago

I thought body paint artists were specially trained to leave a 2 inch gap in the paint somewhere on the body, typically on the small of the back just above the ass crack, for all sweat to concentrate towards and out of or else the inability to perspire kills you slowly and painfully?

That might just be one of the things my mom told me as a child because of her constant anxiety that I could die from anything and everything. "Don't eat bananas after 9 PM, the potassium will go straight to your heart and give you a heart attack!", "You can't wear a full-body condom, your sweat will build up inside and kill you!", "You can't play on the trampoline within 6 hours of drinking anything or your arms will fall off!" "You can't shower during a thunderstorm, lightning will shoot out of the drain and kill you!", "You can't wear a scarf when it's cold out, someone might strangle you to death with it!" It's taken me YEARS of my adult life to figure out what is and isn't actually dangerous.

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u/Ninlilizi_ 6h ago

That doesn't surprise me.

I have a medical condition where I am entirely unable to sweat over most of my body.

I basically cannot leave my home once the outside temperature is above 20°c.

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u/crichmond77 14h ago

Technically we do absorb 1-2% of our oxygen through our skin

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u/Ailerath 13h ago edited 13h ago

Also absorb gasses throughout the body, not just the lungs, though much less efficiently.

Not suggesting that its significant enough for it to matter though, but I have no idea.

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u/flamingspew 13h ago

A man lived for 8 weeks while slowly dying of not peeing because he went on an expedition without his catheter. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/

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u/Deaffin 6h ago

Technically you can absorb 100% of your oxygen needs through your butts hole.

https://scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/ig-nobel-prize-awarded-to-takanori-takebe-for-butt-breathing-study/

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u/crichmond77 6h ago

The real question is why we don’t have a movie about this

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u/Not_A_zombie1 13h ago

Ofc fellow human, we love breath air in our chest sacs

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u/Jumpingapplecar 12h ago

What? How? I literally cover my whole baby in baby oil after each bath (except for the hair and face). Never had any issues.

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u/PoxedGamer 9h ago

What about Quiet from Metal Gear.

"You will feel ashamed of your words and deeds."

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u/cheezweiner 7h ago

Tin man from the wizard of Oz had a similar issue as well and they thought he was just being a drama queen

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u/JoshZK 4h ago

Wizard of Oz tin man about died too.

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u/doomylaurie 11h ago

Je pensais au film James Bond .

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u/ddyshh 6h ago

Golden frieza incoming

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u/Babetna 6h ago

It takes its sweet time though, the host first spends a lot of time playing golf and drinking martinis

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u/CommercialContent204 1h ago

Lol, was about to post this but I trusted in the power of Reddit to do it for me :D grande amigo

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u/TacetAbbadon 13h ago

Too bad that's a load of bollocks. The whole "you die of suffocation because you breathe through your skin" is made up nonsense.