PICA - Compulsive Craving/Consumption of Objects Not Intended to be Consumed

[UltraBudgie]

i approve of this moderation action. the op alone certainly warrants its own thread.

you know you should lubricate locks with powered graphite, not metal oil. perhaps then your keys wouldn't taste the way they do.

does it matter if the piercings are titanium? tasting like metal would imply potentially undesirable bioreactivity.

let's follow best-practices people!

[andy06shake]

Maybe wanting to taste metal is more common that I think it is, kids putting their tongues on metal poles (I did that once in the Winter to see if it would stick, it did), fetishes where people lick doorknobs, and as you point out kids exploring their world including tasting.

Possibly, i dont like the sensation myself.

Weans eat Tide Pods these days.

For kicks and hoots.

Which i can't quite comprehend, same as TikTok. 

As to licking doorknobs, that's just plain manky.

I can only imagine the associated issues that could arise, considering the variety of harmful bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens commonly found on the likes of doorknobs.

[quintessentone]

i approve of this moderation action. the op alone certainly warrants its own thread.

you know you should lubricate locks with powered graphite, not metal oil. perhaps then your keys wouldn't taste the way they do.

does it matter if the piercings are titanium? tasting like metal would imply potentially undesirable bioreactivity.

let's follow best-practices people!

Inside pencils is a mix of graphite and clay, so I am sure most of us know that taste already.

lol best practices.

[andy06shake]

Inside pencils is a mix of graphite and clay, so I am sure most of us know that taste already.

lol best practices.

 
With the kicker being that the paint used on the outside of pencils.

Which people often chewed, sometimes contained lead until around the 1960s.

That couldnt have been good for some poor sods.
 
I went to school in the 80s/90s, so it was just Asbestos we had to contend with on the roofs and swimming pool.

[quintessentone]

 
With the kicker being that the paint used on the outside of pencils.

Which people often chewed, sometimes contained lead until around the 1960s.

That couldnt have been good for some poor sods.
 
I went to school in the 80s/90s, so it was just Asbestos we had to contend with on the roofs and swimming pool.

Now we have to contend with microplastics everywhere and forever chemicals, we've come so far.

[andy06shake]

Now we have to contend with microplastics everywhere and forever chemicals, we've come so far.

That's where i was going next.

I mean, compare how much we use today in just about everything to the likes of the 1960s or 1980s.

It's not that we haven't come far through.

But that we refuse to see what's on the horizon of our own creation.

A lot of that's down to our limited longevity and the fact that we refuse to learn from history, i suppose.

[quintessentone]

That's where i was going next.

I mean, compare how much we use today in just about everything to the likes of the 1960s or 1980s.

It's not that we haven't come far through.

But that we refuse to see what's on the horizon of our own creation.

A lot of that's down to our limited longevity and the fact that we refuse to learn from history, i suppose.

That 'we've come so far' you must have known /sarc right?

True and when we realize, it's usually too late to make any real beneficial healthful changes.

[Encia22]

 
With the kicker being that the paint used on the outside of pencils.

Which people often chewed, sometimes contained lead until around the 1960s.

That couldnt have been good for some poor sods.
 
I went to school in the 80s/90s, so it was just Asbestos we had to contend with on the roofs and swimming pool.

My mum told me that, as a toddler, late 1960s, I chewed through the top rail of my crib, which was wooden and painted white.

A few years later, when I was tall enough to reach the window sill, again, wooden and white paint, I chewed a four-inch half crescent out of it.

I admit to having eaten pencils, toothpicks, chewed on wood and I love metal, but that I have only licked, never eaten.

Chewing gum just doesn’t do it for me, needs to be more ligneous, more like liquorice root. 

Oh, and BIC pen caps, the blue ones are the best.

[David64]

Now we have to contend with microplastics everywhere and forever chemicals, we've come so far.

 

A study published in Nature Medicine found that human brain tissue contains microplastics, with the average amount being roughly equivalent to a plastic spoon's worth. This equates to about 4,800 micrograms per gram of brain tissue, according to the University of New Mexico. The study also found that microplastic concentrations were higher in brain tissue than in other organs like the liver and kidneys. 

I wonder if this has anything to do with the rising autism rates. Testing and identification has gotten better over the years, but micro plastics in  the brain can't be good.

[UltraBudgie]

Chewing gum just doesn’t do it for me, needs to be more ligneous, more like liquorice root. 

try electrical tape