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[Porcelain]

Just a little laugh.

It's from the Guardian. There is no political content or spin in the story at all. It's a British newspaper, but the story is about an Australian astrophysicist who was bored working from home and had to go to the ER when he got ultra powerful magnets stuck up his nose. If you want to read the whole thing, just copy and Google the title of this thread.

He was trying to invent a necklace that buzzed whenever you got your hand too close to your face, to help you notice and avoid touching it. But it worked the exact opposite and buzzed unless you got your hand close to your face. Then he got bored...

“I have some electronic equipment but really no experience or expertise in building circuits or things,” he told Guardian Australia.

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“I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.

“After scrapping that idea, I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

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Reardon said he placed two magnets inside his nostrils, and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. Unfortunately, the researcher then attempted to use his remaining magnets to remove them.

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“As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on to each other and I lost my grip. And those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. At this point I ran out of magnets.”

Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose.

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At the hospital, a team of two doctors applied an anaesthetic spray and manually removed the magnets from Reardon’s nose.

[GingerPeach]

Boys and their toys, @Porcelain 

Thanks for sharing!

[Desertdi]

Not so unusual.    I was once married to an engineer who didn't know how to use a hammer..............

[Drythe]

@Porcelain   @GingerPeach 

”It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears.”

Oh, yea, really, I use that logic all the time.  Not. 🙃

[Porcelain]

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@Drythe wrote:

@Porcelain   @GingerPeach 

”It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears.”

Oh, yea, really, I use that logic all the time.  Not. 🙃

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I tried a chip clip on my ear...ONCE. 

[GingerPeach]

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@Drythe wrote:

@Porcelain   @GingerPeach 

”It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears.”

Oh, yea, really, I use that logic all the time.  Not. 🙃

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Glad you focused on that, @Drythe 

I think I skipped right over it, but now I have verified that British "pegs" means "clothespins."  Ouch!  

[Whosits]

Thanks for the laugh today!