• foofiepie@lemmy.world
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    Water based lube.

    It’d have to be a communal bath though, and I’m inviting you all, even Hairy Steve.

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    Gallium? It’s solid at room temperature, but your own body heat will melt it, so you lie down on a solid block of metal and then slowly sink into a melting puddle in the middle of it. It’s non-toxic and six times denser than water so you’d be really floaty on it too

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      24 days ago

      It might act like a giant heatsink tho, making your body cool out as soon as it starts melting and creating proper surface contact. But chilling in 20°C water is also not really an issue so i guess it depends on the thermal conductivity of the skin/gallium interface.

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      Sounds like something out of a horror film. Your body heat melts you into the material. Then, as heat gets distributed and you have more skin contact, you are no longer generating enough heat to keep the gallium melted.

      You either suffocate as the material solidifies around your abdomen or you freeze to death as the material pulls enough heat from you to kill you.

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          I feel like this is worth uploading to Lemmy. It’s an image, apparently from October 1972’s National Geographic, of a Spanish miner floating on mercury:

          It’s denser than lead, so he’s just sitting on the top of it like a block of styrofoam would on water. The effect of gallium would not be quite so pronounced, but same idea. This is also why you can’t really drown in quicksand unless you work at it (which, if you completely panic, isn’t impossible).

          Meanwhile, you sink straight to the bottom in anything like oil, with no hope of swimming.

    • tetris11@lemmy.mlOP
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      What dilution? 25% makes you sterile and 50% kills you after a week of drinking it

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        You have to have 25% and 50% in your body fluids for it to happen, if you drink a glass of 50% heavy water you won’t drop dead a week later.

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    Maybe coconut water or aloe vera gel, I imagine it’d feel weird but probably not regrettable.

    I guess we’ve got to beat Cleopatra as our baseline with her bath of asp milk.

    Marmite would probably veer into the regrettable category, and I’m saying that as a marmite enjoyer

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      You’ve got two Cleopatra stories mixed up there.

      She was said to bathe in ass’s (donkey’s) milk.

      She killed herself by holding an asp (snake) to her breast.

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      coconut water

      in a heartbeat

      aloe vera

      I can imagine this feeling really tingly after a while, though not sure why.

      asp milk

      what is this? I googled and found nothing

      marmite

      I too partake joyfully in that hellish sludge, and have wondered what depths of depravity I would willingly go to to satisfy that dark craving

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        Wikipedia says donkey milk was used by Cleopatra, not asp milk. Maybe OP meant ass milk and got autocorrected, but that sounds really wrong.

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        what is this? I googled and found nothing

        Ah I got my history slightly wrong, she bathed in donkey milk and just liked asps (a kind of snake)

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    24 days ago

    Alcoholic beverages

    • white wine (but a dip into red would be interesting)
    • beer, for the carbonation
    • champagne, for the bubbles and the decadence of it

    Other liquids

    • sparkling water, a jacuzzi without one
    • rose water (for those who don’t know, it is sickly sweet smelling and very persistent and can be food grade)
    • oil, like sunflower, olive or any other of the like. After, just scrape you body, like the ancient athletes would do
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      I read these to my husband and he said “an oil bath sounds like it would be good for your skin but you’d be all slipping around and unable to get out then you’d drown.” While flailing his arms around as a visual aid.