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The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry. (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the tooth tap, dear fossil?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

If you tap unknown object on your tooth, you can discern stone, pottery, clay, metal, plastic, etc etc, without ingesting possibly contaminated soils so close to your bloodstream.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And I get weird looks for spitting into my hand to texture soil...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's how you do it!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why? Giving soil the ol' hawk tua is way faster than digging out a water bottle from the pack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You're a man (or woman?) of culture, I see. Precisely why I did it that way for years. I eventually got a camel back, and that worked pretty good - squirt a couple drops of water from the mouth piece on the soil and away you go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even the tooth tap is still no longer recommended. Both my undergrad and grad schools refused to teach/allow students to put anything in our mouths due to risks of contaminated soil.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

User caution of course. Not exactly my first point of call on an urban site haha.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This just brought me flash-backs of the absolute nut-bar I used to play DnD with that would tap dice on her teeth before rolling them "to check if they were real."

This is the closest thing to context I may ever have to that experience. I thought she was checking real vs imaginary, maybe she was checking if they were... ummm.. real bones? wait. no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To check if what were real? The dice? Her teeth? Reality itself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think the dice? It definitely made me question reality though...