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[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Damn I need to improve my english vocab. I understood nothing from this.

[–] themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

tbf this uses a lot of medical jargon that most people who aren't doctors will never need. put simply, it's a case of a man who put hydrofluoric acid in his ass (owie) while high from snorting cocaine

edit: wrong acid, it's actually way worse than i thought

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 20 points 1 day ago

No, hydrofluoric.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

I know it's not that relevant, but isn't hydrofluoric acid a different and much more reactive acid than hydrochloric acid?

[–] TTimo@lemmy.today 8 points 22 hours ago

It's reactive enough to bond with uranium and make a gas for enrichment. Crazy stuff.

[–] themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

wait that says hydrofluoric acid that seems way worse???

i think my brain just kinda autocorrected it to HCl because it scares me to think that there's someone out there who a) has access to HF and b) is dumb enough to put it in their ass

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was the part I understood, it is the other one that I didn't fully understand and I'm not sure if I want to.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago

Native English speaker. What I got is "His guts were fucked up in these technical ways so we did magical medical stuff. He went home, came back a 5 months later with sad butt symptoms and we did this other medical thing to treat it."

So yeah, I have no desire to understand more details

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Heh, I think things would have been ~~more significantly problematic~~ a bit different if HCl was involved.

Edit: I was ignorant that HF would be worse.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tldr; dont pour acid into your ass cause it'll get wrecked

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

insert spongebob noted gif

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

The dude did cocaine and then put the industrial fluid used to dissolve and mine metal ore in his butt and it melted his flesh inside his butt, yet he survived.