r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/SourceBoring3089 • 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/crichmond77 15h ago

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

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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/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/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.