What items are harmful if swallowed? Most nonfood items swallowed by children are coins. Smaller coins (dimes or pennies) usually pass though the body easily. Larger coins (and sometimes the smaller ones) can get hung up at a narrow segment of the esophagus. Dangerous objects are pointed ones such as nails and toothpicks. Swallowed glass, on the other hand, usually passes through the body harmlessly. Button (or disk) batteries are dangerous because they contain acid or alkali, which can erode the lining of the intestines. Everything you need to know, when you need to know it, if you know how to look. I chipped a glass pot we've been using to boil water (since I kind of melted our teapot) and tiny bits flew, one embedded itself in my arm. so i cleaned the floor and counter, self administered minor surgery (i need new tweezers), washed the pot and put it on to boil. smoked a bowl and had some tension tamer, and just as i was finishing my tea i hear/ feel that sickening crunch, either sand or glass being ground between my molars. so of course, not knowing whether or not i swallowed any pieces besides the one i actually felt, i turned to the internet. so, i don't have to worry, or waste money going to the ER. i won't have shredded up insides, i'll probably be fine. but its nice to get that reassurance. Oh! and I learned a new word recently. Didactic. adjective Etymology:Greek didaktikos, from didaskein to teach 1 a: designed or intended to teach b: intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment <didactic poetry>2: making moral observationsI found it in a section of book talking about masturbation, and had no idea what it meant! that doesn't happen often I apologize for being high, but at least you learned something {edited for gross overuse of the enter button, i apologize!}
I agree! The internet is the best. It's always there when you need it. I hate to think what would happen if the internet disappeared. I use it more for research than for anything else.
sometimes you just have to know, and sometimes you have to know NOW! i'm always the one who finds or breaks glasses in this family. and sewing needles. and thumbtacks. and you know those upholstery tacks that are sort of barbed on the end? i tacked my sock to my foot once. it was horrible, and resisted being pulled out. maybe i should wear shoes.
True that. Ouch! How'd you get it out? I once stepped on a sewing pin. It broke off in my big toe and I had to get a doctor to remove it.
before, in the west, christian and jewish monks first started binding papyri into codices, anything that was written down was written on scrolls. if you had a really long text you had a really long scroll, if you wanted to look something up you had to roll out the scroll, because there are no pages for reference. so when they started binding them into codices, or a codex, they basically changed the idea of reference. (which is where i think i'm going with this). anyways, books as reference to other people's knowledge pretty much existed since then. but now, there is the internet, and in that sense is the new "book." which i know sounds terrible, but i also mean that as reference, which is important for, if you will, didactic conversation, or teaching. but the glory is that we still have the books, and we still even have some of of the scrolls. so, we're in there. also, i forgot to mention, dictionary.com's wotd is fastidious. which means hard to please. but i think i like didactic better.
I love internet for many reasons. Free and 24h accesable Information being number 1. Free and 24h accesable Porn being number 1.1
it was the thread titled "Help" http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=344439&f=229 it was pretty funny though, everyone was telling this kid that he needs to get to the ER, but he was just like "noo they'll know i'm high!!!"
well, i hope he went to the er. a thumbtack is not aerodynamic enough to pass easily. and to get the barbed tack out of my foot? i had to pull the sock down, and pry the tack out from in between the sock and my foot. there wasn't enough to grab onto on the outside. i had to use pliers and yank. my mom stepped over a trash bag when she was younger, and looked at her foot to see a piece of glass sticking through her pinkie toe. she still doesn't know how she managed to get it in there at that angle. i love being able to learn so much in one place. i the internet!
