Elemental mercury isn’t very bioavailable so licking the surface of a pool of mercury isn’t going to hurt you much if at all. (Assuming you just do it once). Plus the density of mercury is going make it hard for you to slurp up a significant quantity the stuff anyway.
If you want to know about the horrible potential for mercury to mess you up look for stories about dimethyl mercury exposure. Its the fat soluble varieties that give mercury it’s reputation.
This really feels like we’re going to descend into an “is water wet”-style debate. Those are always fun.
I think I’d still consider it a lick even if you just contact one atom of a substance to your tongue. You could even fire it at your tongue with the LHC and I’d still be willing to go along with calling that a lick, using the term very loosely.
I’m less sure on the gas, but fuck it, sure, sticking your tongue into a gas can be a lick between friends. Alternately you could condense/freeze it and lick that form, but that might be worse.
There’s no getting away from the idea that it would be very difficult to lick an atom with sub-millisecond half life. Unless… you create it already inside your tongue! I’m sure we could do that somehow. Probably involving magnets.
I watch court videos on YouTube. It seems that many judges are cluing in to the best methods to respond to the sovereign citizen nonsense. If you’re, “the authorized representative of [name]” then [name] has failed to appear and they issue a bench warrant, have the person thrown in jail until they can be positively identified. I’ve seen judges throw them in jail for up to 30 days for contempt for refusing to answer basic questions and I’ve seen judges withdraw their permission to represent themselves because they keep saying that they “don’t understand” anything that’s going on. You can’t represent yourself if you don’t understand.
Why? Bismuth is pretty harmless from what I can find. It’s not great but it’s way better than lead (which it replaced in a lot of applications). Based on what I read, bismuth probably wouldn’t hurt you if you gave it a lick.
This makes me think of the TV series The Neighbors with an alien family living in a gated suburbia calling themselves “Larry Bird” and “Jackie Joyner-Kersee” - real human names to be inconspicuous.
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