I love to drink tea. I love tea cups, and tea cans. I recently broke one, but I got a new iron cast teapot. Anyway. I pour tea, and the pot touches the cup. I see a black residue, and think to myself, naah, I don’t want to drink that, and wipe it off.
Wait a second!
Where did it go?
Ever noticed how much material your skin just absorbs? First the stuff sticks to your skin (adsorption), and then it is incorporated. No teeth, no saliva, no stomach acids, no intestines, no gall bladder: It goes straight into your cells, then probably into your lymphatic system, which is collected slowly and pushed up until, at the very end, it joins the bloodstream.
Next time when you wipe something off with your bare hands, and then think you’re wiping your fingers off on your pants or something, think about how much weirdness you’ve just basically injected into your bloodstream.
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I’m sure there’s a superhero origin in there somewhere. After absorbing too much tanin, mild mannered Alex becomes.... Tea Boy! He possesses the power to.... to... err... um.... ok, never mind.
Skin is amazing stuff, indeed.
– GreyWulf 2007-01-16 00:00 UTC
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Hahahaha 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2007-01-16 00:05 UTC