Lab equipment I will not be using

July 1st, 2010 by excimer

My friend bought an air stirrer for his new lab, and it’s a damn good thing he read the manual beforehand:

Whatever that tool is, KEEP IT THE HELL AWAY FROM ME. And if you have to use it, um, wear a cup.

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Comment by Hap
2010-07-01 16:34:11

Not that it’s relevant, but people presumably use Viagra despite the potential hazard to their valuables (the “if you have an erection for four straight hours, please see a doctor” bit). It just depends what the incentive is.

If I were the advisor (and since my graduate students and their future sexual lives are, of course, disposable), I’d be more worried about the resin bowl included. That could put a damper on the lab productivity (or maybe not – graduate school mnages to survive alcohol, mostly).

 
Comment by Ψ*Ψ
2010-07-01 17:35:48

I’m somewhat disturbed that THE cock will be damaged. I mean, I don’t have a cock. If I use the tool, whose cock will suffer?

Comment by Will
2010-07-01 23:33:15

Are you really cruel enough to find out?

Comment by Ψ*Ψ
2010-07-01 23:49:48

not cruel enough, but probably curious enough. ;)

 
 
Comment by Ph3C+
2010-08-01 22:07:24

As one apparently will suffer, I suggest you not mess with it.
After all, it may be a cock you may wish to meet.

 
 
Comment by OrganicOverdose
2010-07-01 18:30:36

hahahahahaha Please notify male lab companions before use

 
Comment by LiqC
2010-07-01 18:55:04

Also, penis.

 
Comment by Dr. Smalls
2010-07-02 07:01:58

I prefer to wear a codpiece in lab. Not only is it fashionable, but is protective and lets me pretend I work in the days when alchemy was real. Mine was inspired by Oderus Urungus.

Comment by Captain Skellett
2010-07-04 05:18:53

That is AMAZING! Not enough people wear codpieces these days, it’s a damn shame.

 
 
Comment by Uncle Al
2010-07-02 11:06:22

And if you have to use it, um, wear a cup.

Tch, tch – Luddite. It’s all about German engineering, stainless steel, and yet one more freakish screwhead requiring custom drivers. Wasn’t Torx bad enough (hexalobular internal driving feature, ISO 10664)?

http://steelwerksextreme.com/blog/
(Warning! NSFW. Hell, not safe for any mammal including monotremes.)

To Ψ*Ψ: Nightly dap topical application of a cocoa butter, lanolin, white petrolatum vehicle for ~2-5% (8R,9S,10R,13S,14S,17S)- 17-hydroxy-10,13-dimethyl- 1,2,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17- dodecahydrocyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-one (perhaps as the enanthate or cypionate ester) will likely elaborate your nubbin into a tallywhacker. Remember.. biology like economics is largely about apologies.

 
Comment by Pete
2010-07-02 21:18:34

Every now and then, the internetz offers up a find. For a closet organic-chemist fan like me this one’s it! You’re bookmared. ps my fetish is bicyclo kinds of molecules. All that ring strain!

 
 
Comment by Captain Skellett
2010-07-04 05:20:37

Love it, count on you to track down something like this. You find the sex jokes in all things chem.

 
Comment by Chip
2010-07-07 12:52:50

That label looks like it belongs on engrish.com

 
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