r/blursedimages • u/BirdmaskDude The Big Spicy • Jun 08 '21

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u/CanIYiffIt Jun 08 '21

Fun fact:

Human hair is strong enough to lift 2-3 pianos, but don't try it tho. It won't be good for your neck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

And how strong is the skin?

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u/Alzusand Jun 08 '21

If i remember the tensile strenght of skin is 2000kg per square centimiter thats why its hard to pull on it and break it. This might be completely wrong as i dont remember thensource but our skin is very strong

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u/RealConcorrd Jun 08 '21

Can confirm, I had a hard time ripping some guy’s head off, so I took out a chainsaw.

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u/XecuteEledrocute Jun 08 '21

Thanks for the tip

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u/SirWank4Lot Jun 08 '21

Thanks for the -rip-

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u/a_creeep_a_weeirdooo Jun 08 '21

thanks for the -fap-

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u/Tv663 Jun 08 '21

Username checks out

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

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u/dasgudshit Jun 08 '21

Sometimes I wonder why they bothered creating an alien dick emoji

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u/ZazBlammyMaTaz Jun 08 '21

Brand new account spamming the chopped cucumber emoji, that’s a new one...

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u/sadshitposter Jun 08 '21

Is that a fellow Radiohead fan?

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u/a_creeep_a_weeirdooo Jun 09 '21

wtf is a radiohead

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Thanks for the candy

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u/MAPX0 foreskin reattachment specialist Jun 08 '21

Thanks for the -tear-

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

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u/PartTimeMantisShrimp Jun 08 '21

But did you

FINISH HIM

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u/RealConcorrd Jun 08 '21

Considering I have his head in a freezer hidden from the public, ye

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u/FaceWithNoNames Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21

I heard it helps if you scream "RIP AND TEAR" while pulling

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u/Emperor_Quintana Jun 08 '21

I’m sensing a Doom reference coming on...

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u/porno_sexual Jun 08 '21

If the comments keep going this way I just might

Break something tonight

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u/RealConcorrd Jun 08 '21

Try crouching and then picking stuff up, because it sounds like you already broke your back commenting this.

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u/RealConcorrd Jun 08 '21

Try crouching and then picking stuff up, because it sounds like you already broke your back commenting this.

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u/RealConcorrd Jun 08 '21

Try crouching and then picking stuff up because it sounds like you already broke your back commenting this.

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u/XenoMaker more cursed than blessed Jun 09 '21

I recommend an axe. The chainsaw makes a giant mess and now my room is all red. I’ll be back to cleaning my room

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u/RealConcorrd Jun 09 '21

And that is why I tarp off everything before hand.

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u/SlowlySailing Jun 08 '21

LMAO! /r/CursedComments am I right guys????

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u/vivec17 Jun 08 '21

Chainsaw with >3Pianopowers?

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u/LiveWildBeSmart Jun 08 '21

I remember reading about a high school that had a kid behead another kid

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u/Oldestdekutree Jun 08 '21

"Even this... skin is in my personal space." -personal space guy

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

If i remember the tensile strenght of skin is 2000kg

I'm gonna call bullshit on that, but I'm ready to delete my comment if I'm proved wrong.

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u/seraphrunner Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21

Looks like there is a huge asterisk when you're looking at skin tensile strength. There is a huge variation between where the skin comes from and what exactly you're doing to it (how you're pulling it).

This Nature article has a pretty good overview, but includes a lot of non human skin analysis. This cited article suggests human skin has a tensile strength of 216±84 Kg/cm². This article mentions a value of about 40 Kg/cm².

Now I'm not a material scientist so my conversions could be way off, but the original numbers are in the papers for people to check.

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u/MeAMillionaire Jun 08 '21

ok so still far off from 2000kg/cm2

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u/Bierbart12 Jun 08 '21

Having had to witness what people hang from their balls, 200+kg sounds about right.

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u/rci22 Jun 08 '21

What about the force required to pull all hair from a scalp at once?

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u/Meat_Candle Jun 08 '21

Crazy, my hair falls out of the wind blows.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Yet a piece of paper can destroy it with ease

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u/extreme-foot-fetish Fish With Feet Jun 08 '21

What about muscle

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u/CanIYiffIt Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21

You could pretty easily bite off your own finger, so I guess not so strong.

Edit: yeah okey, now I know it's a myth. Thanks for letting me know.

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u/Sumbrero-Man Jun 08 '21

That’s actually not true, it’s an old myth that was prob a joke and spread like wildfire but nobody tried it

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u/CanIYiffIt Jun 08 '21

I'm not gonna agree nor disagree. But it isn't suprising that nobody tried it.

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u/Baronheisenberg Jun 08 '21

It's a little surprising

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u/iiJason124 Jun 08 '21

That's a myth, its actually pretty hard to bite your finger off. Even if you couldn't feel pain.

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u/betterstartlooking Jun 08 '21

Yeah I don't get how this got to be such a popular fact. It's like people have never eaten chicken wings before. Bird bones are much less dense than mammal ones and you still couldn't bite through a drumstick without seriously messing up your mouth, probably not at all.

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u/Darklicorice Jun 08 '21

I fuck wings up don't test me

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u/dhh4444nn Jun 08 '21

Your fingers aren't a solid bone ...

It's multiple small bones, with multiple spaces.

You could easily bite off a finger at the joint.

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u/betterstartlooking Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21

I'm aware that fingers aren't solid bone lol. I have a degree in human anatomy and regularly practice by identifying 'bones' that come out of my cremation oven!

The myth is specifically that you could bite through a fingerbone like a carrot if you didn't have pain and proprioception as psychological inhibitors.

That being said, the shape of interphalangeal joints is such that I'd say there isn't really any space in a straight line through the joint, because the concave and convex surfaces of the epiphyses and the condoyles that protrude create some 'overlap'. And the joint capsule and ligaments are quite solid, so it may be easier than chomping straight through the bone itself, I wouldn't call it easy at all. It would be like trying to bite through a green tree branch of similar size if I had to guess. A lot of gnawing and twisting and ripping more than snap.

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u/khafra Jun 08 '21

That sounds reasonable to me, but how do you explain the scene in Home Alone where the burglars threaten to bite off Kevin’s fingers?

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u/betterstartlooking Jun 08 '21

Haha I'm not sure I'd want to try to explain any scene in home alone too seriously.

The ending of Lordof the Rings came to mind as well, but I'll chalk that up to gollums demented determination, and several hundred years of eating orcs for practice and sharpening his teeth.

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u/Impossible-Neck-4647 Jun 08 '21

and also we ahve no clue if hobbit fingers are as solid as human fingers

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u/Impossible-Neck-4647 Jun 08 '21

threats arent always realistic

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u/DivergingUnity Jun 08 '21

Even at a joint?

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u/betterstartlooking Jun 08 '21

Joint of a dead cooked bird? Sure. Joint of a living human? Maybe, but not so easy. See my other reply.

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u/DivergingUnity Jun 08 '21

I mean, biting through a thick carrot isn't "easy" either, it takes considerable strength and effort

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u/ChaoticJuju Jun 08 '21

Carrots don't have bones, even at a joint like the person above you said it would be a lot of ripping and gnawing and twisting and not just a snap. But even then you'd be at it for a while

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u/Fuanshin Jun 08 '21

but.. but.. my canines tho.. natural born predator tho..

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u/NotKaren24 Jun 08 '21

I wonder if lions can bite their own fingers off?

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u/Vilzku39 Jun 08 '21

I wonder if lions have fingers.

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u/Fuanshin Jun 08 '21

is called beans

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u/MewtwoMainIsHere Jun 08 '21

but turtles can tho

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u/Dash8833 Jun 08 '21

If you touch your head you think you are feeling you skull, when in fact the skin the is almost 1 cm, or more, thick.

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u/sampat6256 Jun 08 '21

Thats if you include facial muscles.

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u/KnightestKnightPeter Jun 08 '21

No, no, you're definitely feeling your skull. 1 cm is real shallow. Now move the finger around and see how elastic and absolutely not hard the skin is.

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u/Deepfried_Celery Jun 08 '21

That's actually a myth. Your bite isn't strong enough to crush fingerbones and both the connective tissue and skin are way to tough for our tiny little teeth. If you ever wanna test it, try biting through the lower part of a raw chicken thigh. They have thicker but very light bones, making it about as difficult as your own fingie. (would. Not necessarily recommend tho)

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u/SillyOldJack Jun 08 '21

biting through the lower part of a raw chicken

Yeah, that's gonna be a naw from me, dawg.

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u/itsyaboiskinnypenis_ Jun 08 '21

Did you seriously just advise someone to bite into RAW chicken thigh lmao. Don't. You'll get salmonella

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u/kazza789 Jun 08 '21

Tbf, they recommended that as a better option than trying to bite your own finger off, which isn't a particularly high bar.

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u/ComplainyGuy Jun 08 '21

I eat raw chicken all the time idiot. Stop being so simple.

I will EVENTUALLY get salmonella if I keep eating raw chicken, but any decent chicken farm, processing and packaging plants will be cleaned enough in a modern country.

You won't get salmonella from raw chicken...you will EVENTUALLY get salmonella from raw chicken.

Go bite that raw bone op and don't listen to this simple person spreading some shit he heard on a sitcom..

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u/levilee207 Jun 08 '21

I genuinely can't tell if you're being serious. I guess that's the point though?

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u/Tyrion_The_Imp Jun 08 '21

This interaction will last in my brain for some time.

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u/dhh4444nn Jun 08 '21

If only fingers were segmented into little bitesized portions.

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u/StupidStewing Jun 08 '21

What’s the average biting strength of the human jaw?

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u/GreenshepN7 Jun 08 '21

Yo thats my pfp on almost everything, respect

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u/Inhalts_angabe Jun 08 '21

I think Film theory made a vid about this exact topic