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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
During one of the many first aid/CPR courses I've endured I picked up this little gem for stopping serious bleeding: maxi pads. Designed to soak up huge amounts of blood? Check. OK let's roll!
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Tampons for nosebleeds. Cut the string off, though, because you'll look stupid otherwise.
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For lesser cuts? That's why they invented super glue. (true fact)
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Superglue was invented so construction workers could hang from girders by their hard hats. Everybody knows that.
The medical use was an afterthought.
I remember when the ERs started using "dermabond." Up until that point the appearnce of superglue in the ER was confined to the need to unsuperglue unfaithful husbands' dicks from their legs.
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
But I always imagined the medical glue was somehow more magical than your basic consumer superglue. You're saying it's the exact same stuff?
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Yep. Well, there is a difference. It's like the difference between tea and zen tea. The tea will cost you around a buck. The zen tea will cost you $50, but the enlightenment is thrown in.
And that little packet of the stuff that the ER squeezes out onto your head or whereever started out sterile.