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I often feel like throwing people off bridges as I walk accross one. Maybe a doper hunter could do a vacuum experiment with a dead deer head?
Kent Brockman: Professor, would you say the time has come for our viewers to crack open each others’ skulls and feast on the goo within?
Professor: Yes I would, Kent.
I’m n ot a hunter but I have a deer carcass stashed away in my bedro…er, on the side of the road. I’ll let you know.
OP: Don’t do it. You might have just the tiniest pinprick in your eyeball that’s not causing you any grief right now, but if you stick the vacuum hose on your eye it will suck all the juice out through that hole. :smack:
My son stuck his finger in a normal room fan last summer (exhaust side.) He didn’t stop the fan but yanked his finger right out. He cried a little but no real damage was done, it broke the skin like a scrape but no blood or anything.
I have stuck my hand in a ceiling fan before (stupid low ceilings) and it hurt like a big thwack on the knuckles but again, no real damage.
If you start an urban legend about somone who sucked their eye out with a vacuum, maybe Mythbusters will do a segment on it.
As Ralphie’s mother, the schoolteacher, and Santa all advised, You’ll suck your eye out!
When I was younger, girls used to do this thing where they would suck on your eyeball. You end up getting a black eye. Why, why would they do this sort of thing and why would we let them?
Oh wait, I remember why. It’s 'cos they were girls.
Does anyone remember The Simpsons’ episode Lard of the Dance where Bart flips the switch of the vacuum, turning the hose suction on. Homer, hose in hand, looks curiously inside, wondering where the suction is, and gets his face sucked inside. Freeing himself from its grip, his appearance startles Bart, as one of his eyeballs is bulging from his skull.
Oh I remember that Simpsons ep.
OP, why not email Mythbusters and ask them to try it on Buster a la “would what happened in an episode of The Simpsons, happen in real life?”… problem solved
According to an interview I read with James Dyson, he of the vacuum cleaners, the normal vacuum cleaner tube at full suck will take out a child’s eyeball.
He said this in response to Hoover or someone slagging his vacuum for not being as strong as theirs, so bear that in mind, but I’m sure he’d done some research at least.
Great.
Now I’ve got these Franklensteinian images of the James Dyson Secret Testing Lab, where the nice engineer with the Scottish accent (or whatever it is) carries out nameless experiments in the name of science.
Come on, Jimmy. You’
re a good dummy, but it’s time for more experiments!
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Why does someone always get to these before I do?
It’s my favorite Poe story.
I’m pretty sure he’s English and has a fairly “upper class” English accent at that…
I’m throwing my Dyson out
I don’t know, as long as it’s not a metal fan and you do it with your hand, not your fingers, I think you should be able to grab the blade without it slicing your hand off. I mean I’ve done it from both front, back, sides, etc. As long as there is no protective mesh or such on the fan to create leverage against your fingers, you should be fine. No?
My sister got her SCUBA certification a few years ago. Apparently the day after her first dive she woke up and her eyes were completely bloodshot. She said that the change in pressure from diving can somehow do that, but it’s mostly harmless.
I’d imagine something similar would happen with the vacuum thing - the pressure of the suction would go to town with all the little blood vessels in and around your eye, resulting in lots of blood. I strongly recommend not doing so.
(On an entirely tangential note, I had to have surgery on one eye when I was a kid. No one warned me that, following the surgery, my eye would look like something rejected from the props department of a B-grade horror movie and I would literally be crying tears of blood. Omitting that information is a very effective way of scarring a child for life.)
Yes, he’s English, but I did him a big disservice by not explaining properly: he was saying his competitors are EVIL and SUCK OUT CHILDREN’S EYEBALLS, but the Dyson vacuum is designed to leave Curious Georgie’s clear and sparkly eye in place.
well I’m definitely chucking my Dyson out, he’s not nearly evil enough…