• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    How do you go through life with nails that long. Really asking, it’s always baffled me how they don’t constantly get in the way of anything you’re trying to do. Seriously, it seems like they’re only useful for clawing things out, rending flesh and making defiantly dramatic gestur–

    ohhhh…

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      How did I never know that 666 in Roman numerals was just descending letter values starting with D? That’s very cool, and makes me wonder if that is part of its origin.

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        TIL, too, but it makes sense. Romans used 5 a lot so with 6 being just one number higher, you get that cascading one removed in the digit.

        DCLXVI also sounds pretty cool. Middle school me would have loved to go by \666DCLXVI666// or some such nonsense, lol.

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      Ashamed to say I had to look that up. I can usually figure Roman numerals pretty quick. :( I’m losing it as I age. Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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      I mean… seems like you just need to poke a hole in each finger of a tight rubber glove and then dip your hand in dye. You might try something like henna or India ink rather than clothing dye though.

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        Also whatever dye you use, just do a test patch on your skin and watch it for couple days before dipping your whole hand in it. That’s a pretty shitty way to discover if it causes some sort of skin reaction

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      Most of the dye will be in the dead layer of skin and will naturally come off in a few days. Scrubbing will accelerate it but can also make the skin raw.

      Source: got silver nitrate on my hand when I was in high school chemistry.

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    If clothing dye got on my skin like that, I’d be having a massive reaction on my hands and it’s gonna be itchy and inflamed.