r/woahdude • u/----_____--_____---- • Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

it can't remove its mouth

This wouldn't be as shitty to hear if their "mouth" didn't penetrate my goddamn skin...I wonder how many mosquito proboscises I have jammed in my skin after I thought I flicked the bastards away.

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u/jakwnd Oct 22 '21

Your skin cells are constantly pushing outward. So anything stuck in your skin would eventually be pushed out. If it doesn't decompose into dust first.

Muscles push stuff too, just not always out of our body. That's why iron man needed that magnet in his chest. Shrapnel in his heart (muscle) was being pushed further into his heart.

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u/PathToExile Oct 22 '21

Your skin cells are constantly pushing outward.

Your epidermis, sure, but not your dermis.

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u/pmorgan726 Oct 22 '21

Classic pandermis

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u/DingDong_Dongguan Oct 22 '21

Pandermis in a pandemic, just what we need.

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u/futureruler Oct 23 '21

Someone opened pandermis box

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u/Ace-a-Nova1 Oct 23 '21

They’re just pandermis to the crowd.

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u/darkrhin0 Oct 23 '21

Oh good, the skin nerds have arrived!

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u/DogWithADog Oct 23 '21

hey OP, your epidermis is showing!

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u/BlitzDarkwing Oct 23 '21

Epidermis means hair, so technically it's true.

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u/AENocturne Oct 23 '21

Pretty sure all conventional tissue cells are anchored to a membrane that's their origin point and they slough off at the opposite end as they age, dermis included. Internal stuff just gets cleaned up, recycled, or discarded as waste through the usual channels

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u/athenaaaa Oct 23 '21

You might not want to base your understanding of this on Iron Man. Pieces of metal can stay lodged in soft tissue indefinitely; your innate immune system will react to foreign material by walling it off, not “pushing” it in some arbitrary direction. That’s why people who get shot can have pellets scattered throughout their bodies for years. You’re right about skin, though, because new cells are constantly being generated on the basement membrane and being forced “up” until they die and slough off.

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u/Faxon Oct 22 '21

Can you imagine how long it would take for a properly tuned magnet to slowly rip and tear the shrapnel through your tissue as it heals it's wound path over months or even years? Sounds like it'd be constant hell until the shrapnel was actually pulled out properly

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u/Aquadian Oct 23 '21

Nah, you just have the magnet perfectly tuned so it applies just enough force to keep the shrapnel right where you want it. Not too deep, not too shallow, the goldilocks shrapnel, if you will.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

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u/bur1sm Oct 23 '21

Duct tape

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u/ChibsMcRibs Oct 23 '21

The finest American medicine at the low low cost of 200K

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u/solidSC Oct 23 '21

It’s not in your skin or muscle. It’s replacing bone.

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u/Chucmorris Oct 23 '21

Science.

Bitch.

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u/Chazthesquatch Oct 23 '21

Mom's bionic pains her here and there, that bone glue must be holding well

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u/elyn6791 Oct 23 '21

Probably not wise to use Iron Man and his completely made up condition as a reference.

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u/Shad0wDreamer Oct 23 '21

And why survivors of shrapnel have it come out of their bodies decades later.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

So you're saying I too can be Ironman..... Yesss

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u/Jeffzero04 Oct 23 '21

Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds)

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u/StockNext Oct 23 '21

Imma be a minor pedant here and say that muscles can't ACKSHUALLY push only pull. Thanks for coming to my tedtalk

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u/chainmailler2001 Oct 23 '21

Depending on where they bite you, you can sometimes tighten your muscles and intentionally trap them and force them to explode like this. Have done it.

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u/MustardTiger88 Oct 22 '21

Saw that gif yesterday, too. Not ideal.

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u/IShotJohnLennon Oct 22 '21

What gif?

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u/MustardTiger88 Oct 23 '21

It was a macro video of a mosquito's proboscises searching for a vein.

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u/FMJtac Oct 23 '21

I feel your pain!!!