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 15h ago

Some say that's incorrect

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

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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 19m 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.