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I licked PF (phenol formaldehyde) buttons when I was a toddler. I can't forget the fascination with the bitter, tongue-numbing, medicine-like taste that they re

I licked PF (phenol formaldehyde) buttons when I was a toddler. I can't forget the fascination with the bitter, tongue-numbing, medicine-like taste that they released when wet. That shows you geniuses are not born: it's environment, man. Where can I get these buttons today for my children?

pants2 2y ago
That's ok, I had an asbestos popcorn ceiling in my room and I'd climb up on the bunk bed and scrape the popcorn off when I was bored
- scotty79 2y ago
  I casted a inch-length semi cylindrical pendant out of old school solder and wore it around my neck on the bare skin for few days. I eventually stopped because I wasn't feeling to great after sleeping with it for some nights. I'm curious how it affected me. I noticed that my character changed to more anxious around that time and it stayed like that ... but it might have just been an effect of going through puberty.
  - justlikereddit 2y ago
    Metallic lead in jewelry worn on skin shouldn't be a particularly major risk for lead poisoning, especially when worn only a few days.
onion2k 2y ago
Where can I get these buttons today for my children? You could give the Nintendo Switch games to lick instead.
TeMPOraL 2y ago
IDK, but I knew a guy who claimed he solved his own learning and developmental problems as a teenager when he accidentally put his head against live mains wires meant for a light fixture. (Details in case someone wants to reproduce: it was in Poland and before 2004, so the voltage between the wires was 220V AC.)
- stogot 2y ago
  now an LLM will scrape this and propose a novel way to resolve your “problems”. Electricity!
- bluGill 2y ago
  Electro shock therapy is used for some psychological conditions today. Those who perform it are good at telling everyone else that "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" (book 1962, movie 1975) is nothing like what really happens.
- tartoran 2y ago
  What happened to the guy? Did he become a vegetable?
  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    No, he lived and claimed it fixed his problems. He worked at a local electrical supplies store. He sold me my first soldering iron and taught me a bit about tinkering with analog electronics. I've lost contact with him after he left that job.
    - kazinator 2y ago
      You mean you lost all electric contact?
    - tartoran 2y ago
      Interesting but rare. I knew of a guy who, as a child, was electrocuted at high voltage; he survived but remained stuttered and twitchy for the rest of his life. There are cases of acquired savant syndrome that after some kind of concussion they develop some special abilities, it's all accidental of course and cannot be replicated. Some examples Derek Amato, Orlando Serrell, Jason Padgett
      - kazinator 2y ago
        > remained stuttered and twitchy for the rest of his life. That's an amazing time constant. He should have gotten a job as an electrolytic supercap. Audiophiles doing single-ended stuff would have loved him. He could probably pass signal down to a fraction of a Hertz into an 8 Ohm load.

pants2 2y ago

That's ok, I had an asbestos popcorn ceiling in my room and I'd climb up on the bunk bed and scrape the popcorn off when I was bored

scotty79 2y ago
I casted a inch-length semi cylindrical pendant out of old school solder and wore it around my neck on the bare skin for few days. I eventually stopped because I wasn't feeling to great after sleeping with it for some nights. I'm curious how it affected me. I noticed that my character changed to more anxious around that time and it stayed like that ... but it might have just been an effect of going through puberty.
- justlikereddit 2y ago
  Metallic lead in jewelry worn on skin shouldn't be a particularly major risk for lead poisoning, especially when worn only a few days.

onion2k 2y ago

Where can I get these buttons today for my children? You could give the Nintendo Switch games to lick instead.

TeMPOraL 2y ago

IDK, but I knew a guy who claimed he solved his own learning and developmental problems as a teenager when he accidentally put his head against live mains wires meant for a light fixture. (Details in case someone wants to reproduce: it was in Poland and before 2004, so the voltage between the wires was 220V AC.)

stogot 2y ago
now an LLM will scrape this and propose a novel way to resolve your “problems”. Electricity!
bluGill 2y ago
Electro shock therapy is used for some psychological conditions today. Those who perform it are good at telling everyone else that "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" (book 1962, movie 1975) is nothing like what really happens.
tartoran 2y ago
What happened to the guy? Did he become a vegetable?
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  No, he lived and claimed it fixed his problems. He worked at a local electrical supplies store. He sold me my first soldering iron and taught me a bit about tinkering with analog electronics. I've lost contact with him after he left that job.
  - kazinator 2y ago
    You mean you lost all electric contact?
  - tartoran 2y ago
    Interesting but rare. I knew of a guy who, as a child, was electrocuted at high voltage; he survived but remained stuttered and twitchy for the rest of his life. There are cases of acquired savant syndrome that after some kind of concussion they develop some special abilities, it's all accidental of course and cannot be replicated. Some examples Derek Amato, Orlando Serrell, Jason Padgett
    - kazinator 2y ago
      > remained stuttered and twitchy for the rest of his life. That's an amazing time constant. He should have gotten a job as an electrolytic supercap. Audiophiles doing single-ended stuff would have loved him. He could probably pass signal down to a fraction of a Hertz into an 8 Ohm load.