• Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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    21 hours ago

    Man I don’t know if I could eat out of that canister.

    Its so ingrained as “CHEMICAL, DO! NOT! EAT!” In my mind.

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        5 hours ago

        So are the stickers they put on bananas. And the banana peel itself! Doesn’t mean I’m interested in eating them…

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      19 hours ago

      If you are a REAL lab rat, you don’t really care. The stories I’ve heard of lab rats (including my own accidental stuff), I learned they don’t really care at some point. They often say “Well, I must already have cancer, so what!”.

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        19 hours ago

        I mean… with that attitude and behaviour towards safety rules… probably yes.

        And yeah, nothing worse for teaching students proper and safe handling of chemicals than old technicians. “we never used gloves to pour THF out of this 10L vessel!” “ah just don’t breath in too strongly and if you feel funny, go to the window and get a quick breath of fresh air”.