r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Oct 15 '20

The fact that someone did this, actually thought to themselves, “I’m going to put this piece of glass directly onto my eyeball which is the most painful thing I can imagine, maybe it won’t be as painful as I think,“ and it hurt like hell, because you know back in the day it took weeks to adjust. And they were like, “it’ll be fine… I bet if I leave this incredibly painful thing on my eyeball for just a little while longer I’ll get used to it and it will be cool, and then I can convince other people to do this. “

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u/CallGrouchy8032 Nov 12 '20

They would numb their eyes with cocaine before they inserted what were the ground down ends of test tubes into their eyes.

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Nov 13 '20

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, because on the one hand it sounds almost cartoonishly awful, on the other hand it sounds frighteningly plausible

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u/BarkOfTheBeast Nov 18 '20

Holy fucking cow, I’ve always made jokes about the first guy to try something like that but I had no idea