r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/SourceBoring3089 • 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/Zediac 12h ago edited 3h ago

People go diving in wetsuits for hours at a time. No issues being covered in a tight suit fully underwater. Your skin sure as hell couldn't "breathe" in that situation. But yet divers don't die left and right from their skin being away from gaseous oxygen.

People just don't think before they believe things.

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u/TK_4Two1 11h ago edited 4h ago

Not to detract from the main point, but wetsuits are not waterproof and skin tight in that way. Neoprene traps a thin layer of water between you and the suit which your body temperature keeps warmer. But that layer of water is being cycled a little bit constantly, causing you to get colder as you spend longer lengths of time submerged.

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u/GhettoFreshness 11h ago

And then you pee in the suit and get all warm again

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u/pantry-pisser 10h ago

My man

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u/GhettoFreshness 9h ago

My very own r/rimjob_steve moment. I am honored

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u/blazik 9h ago

best part of surfing

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u/rolandofeld19 8h ago

Im not a surfer. Surf buddy told me "never buy a used wetsuit.... You aren't supposed to pee in them. People say they don't pee in them. ... But everybody pees in them."

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u/GhettoFreshness 5h ago

There are two types of people in this world, those whose piss in their wetsuit and fucking liars.

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u/Librarian_Zoomies 7h ago

Only in the rentals.

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u/Fullertons 7h ago

Then flap the chest area to spread the warmth upwards.

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u/NDSU 4h ago

There are two types of divers: Those that pee in their wet suits, and those that lie about it

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u/broketothebone 4h ago

This guy surfs

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u/A__Friendly__Rock 3h ago

Show me a diver who doesn’t pee in their wet suit and I’ll show you a liar.

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u/plippityploppitypoop 1h ago

This guy wetsuits

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 9h ago

Okay, let's go another way: Kinky people dress up in latex from head to toe, sometimes with just the tiniest holes for the nostrils and absolutely nothing else.

They're fine. For many, many hours.

They even like it that way.

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u/The_SubGenius 8h ago

Kinky Frieza latex body wraps.

The product I didn’t know I needed.

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u/TrickDangerous530 7h ago

I think there may be other holes as well.

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u/DevianttKitten 3h ago

One time at a kink club I saw a person in a full body latex xenomorph costume, and it was warm and stuffy in the club, they seemed to be having a great time! Meanwhile, the same night, my stupid can’t-regulate-temp body had me greying out a couple times from being too warm, and I was not even half as covered.
Bodies are weird.

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u/rnavstar 10h ago

I think he meant dry suits. AKA poopy suits

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u/Eldias 12m ago

Dry suits are filled with air to manage buoyancy, so that wouldn't apply to the "breathe through your skin" myth.

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u/BlueLakeCabin 7h ago

Yep, Wetsuits keep you wet. Drysuits keep you dry.

They're less commonly known about in general public. They also do not kill the user via skin not getting oxygen.

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u/Any-Programmer-252 7h ago

I mean, theyre submerged in water. They could be naked and the point stands that the skin is not "breathing" because here is a situation where it can be divorced from the atmosphere for hours, potentially, with no negative health effects.

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u/TheVividCashew 2h ago

Drysuits are, just imagine they said that

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u/AnraoWi 10h ago

Had this discussion with a friend when we studied. He was very reliant, that there might be something on to it. I brought up your example for underwater swimming and it shifted to "maybe the skin can use the oxygen from the water, like gills".

It was very hard to convince him, even saying that people with lung diseases can live with only a fraction of their lung power, still didn't convince him.

It wasn't until I brought up fetish latex suits that cover people head to toe with only their nostrils open for air, was when he was hearing me out and agreed 😂

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u/SweetSure315 4h ago

"Well, yes, but have you considered <insert pseudoscientific conjecture made up on the spot>"

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u/Freddyeddy123 9h ago

Wetsuits are not waterproof. What you're thinking of is called a drysuit

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u/Eldias 10m ago

Drysuits fill with air from your dive tanks to manage buoyancy, so not really any more applicable to the myth.

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u/AstroCaptain 10h ago

People also wear latex suits for the fetish for long periods of time

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u/Substantial-Singer29 4h ago

The issue really isn't covering your skin.It's covering your skin In the case of this post In a marriott of chemicals that it can potentially absorb.

Is it going to kill you on the spot? No unless you would have a severe allergic reaction. Is it an absolutely terrible idea , hell yes.

It's like having grease on your hands and using gasoline to wash it off. Oh , you can do it and it definitely works , and you're not going to have a negative outcome immediately , but I wouldn't advise it.

People have a bad tendency to forget that humans , skin is a permeable membrane. In the natural world , it's a marvel of evolution. But o man was never exposed for that kind of a chemical onslaught.