I have squeezed some nuts before, but you have to be a little nutty to want to know what it will take to crush them. Being the holiday season, try nut crackers… yummy
There are not many things I regret doing in my life but opening this thread is one of them. God, now I can’t get that tingling feeling to go away from my crotch.
This thread is a legitimate, if rather gross, General Question, and appropriate for this forum, but peace and Major_Feelgud, your current discussion is not appropriate for this forum. Take this argument elsewhere, or end it now, but do not continue it here.
Major, if you are envious: there are many synonyms, or you can use foreign languages, like pax, paix, or use peace2, twopeace,etc. No hard feelings.
This was arrogant: Trust me. You don’t wanna know.
In God we trust. All others pay cash or give quotes.
I have no idea but is this testical attached or not. I’ve cleaned hog nuts before. Slippery suckers.
justwannano:
Thank you for the new sig. heh…
peace, your posting style is sufficiently, uh, enigmatic that I’m unsure whether you are continuing your insult or not.
But when a moderator on this message board tells you to knock it off, knock it off.
If you keep it up, we’re going to delete your posts. If necessary, we can delete posters, too.
So knock it off.
Man, apparently I was typing when Chronos’s messages was posted (look at the time stamps). I said: “No hard feelings”, Major threatened me and mentioned my father, who died before the Internet was invented. You intervened after I mentioned Cod. Go figure.
Black455
I have no idea why you’d want that but I’ve done a lot of neater things than that.
I’ve also assisted in removing them.Anyone else???
Hmmm. Interesting question. Lemme check…
Thump
GAAAHH!!!
[sup]Nope. Doesn’t totally crush it. Just makes you wish it had.[/sup]
Hang on…
GAH!
pant pant pant
30 PSI to crush mine…
wheeze!
-passes out-
-S
What has happened to this board? Back in the day (1999) a poster would have been laughed off the SDMB for making such a statement and refusing to back it up with a cite.
Just to clarify: I was very surprised to see a presise, not rounded number in relation to anything human. Usually, a range is given. For instance, it is not said: “5 lbs of pressure is needed to stop natural blood flow in the superficial neck veins”. It is said : “4-6 lbs of pressure…”. I do not actually care what the correct testicular figure is. Miser wants to know (is he making a vise?).
But, for whatever reason, Major even is not saying what “crushing” means.
I ain’t the mod here. I mean, I do not make rules. I usually do not back up my own statements (like the one above), but I would if it were in really obscure area and if more then one poster was interested.
That would be some trick! Do you get poisonous gas to come out of his computer.
Alright then it’s 22.36lbs/sq in.
And crush means to apply pressure to a human testicle between 2 solid surfaces until the liquid center bursts out of a break/multiple breaks in the testicular wall and the insides of two diametrically opposed testicular walls come into contact with each other.
OK. We have the technical particulars.
Without getting into the acrimony that has preceded, it would still be of interest to know where that figure was derived.
A little extracurricular experimentation on the cadavers in med school?
Perusal of Dr. Mengele’s notebooks?
C’mon. It’s the Straight Dope. We can take it.
I’d like to avoid acrimony and say that, precise as the answer is, where did it come from? Just citation, s’all.
Yikes!! Next time I get that “free offer” of downloading a “cup-holder” I’ll think twice about opening that file. :eek:
The exactness of the figure, unachievable in any biological experiment, nonwithstanding, the quoted pressure appears to be insufficient to cause any serious injury, other than local hemorrhage (bleeding). The described “crushing” seems physically inpossible to achieve at all, even with greater force applied. There is no “liquid center”, or liquid anything in a human testicle (the correct anatomical term is TESTIS). Its consistency is that of the spleen, in the supermarket terms, between that of the brain (the part with convolutions) and the liver.
For still curious: numerical values similar to “Major’s constant” are very rare in medicine. They have no practical value or/and significance. Trauma experts and police use “mild”, “moderate” and “significant”, “exccesive”, etc. force for description. Neither in cases of personal assault, nor in MVA types of trauma, it is possible or practical to presisely measure the impact. I myself was never interested to know how much force it is necessary to apply to “crush” a human anything. Besides, “crushing” described by Major, could occur in torture, not in usual impact type injuries. Rarely people (miners) are “crushe”, but testicles are usually not involved, nor their injories are studied to any extend, as they are usually compatible with life, I’ll try to do an on line search and publish the findings in where the mods instruct me to (GD, Pit, or whereever).
*Originally posted by peace *
Sorry, but I have to correct your erroneous posts again. Mods, this is not a personal attack, just a refutation of peace’s “facts”.
**The exactness of the figure, unachievable in any biological experiment, nonwithstanding, the quoted pressure appears to be insufficient to cause any serious injury, other than local hemorrhage (bleeding). **
*Reference please.
**The described “crushing” seems physically inpossible to achieve at all, even with greater force applied.
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*Reference please.
There is no “liquid center”, or liquid anything in a human testicle (the correct anatomical term is TESTIS). Its consistency is that of the spleen, in the supermarket terms, between that of the brain (the part with convolutions) and the liver.
I was going to dig up my Gray’s but I can’t find it anymore. It’s probably under a plant pot or something. But have you actually dissected a testicle? Have you looked at the MRI of one? Have you seen a freshly dissected testicle? I have. Uh, let me just say that the human testes do not have the consistency of a human spleen or a human liver, both of which I have dissected in the past. In laymen’s terms, a liquid center is as good as any.
**For still curious: numerical values similar to “Major’s constant” are very rare in medicine. They have no practical value or/and significance. Trauma experts and police use “mild”, “moderate” and “significant”, “exccesive”, etc. force for description.
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This sounds gross, but in many university research departments there are people who all they do is to subject cadaver bones and body parts to abnormal stresses to see how and when they break. Cadavers are strapped onto car seats and accelerated into walls and their necks dissected to see if discs have herniated. There is no way you can argue with me about this. I know this happens, a good friend of mine supervised this in a lab. And these numerical values are very precise. Crack open JAO (J of American Orthopedics), JBJS, Spine, and you see these figures all the time. Don’t even argue with me until you go to your local university library and take a look.
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Neither in cases of personal assault, nor in MVA types of trauma, it is possible or practical to presisely measure the impact. I myself was never interested to know how much force it is necessary to apply to “crush” a human anything. Besides, “crushing” described by Major, could occur in torture, not in usual impact type injuries.
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*I have to admit, some of these experiments seem sick, but they happen.