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p@p@hj.9fs.net (2026-09-18 03:51:52)
I feel like people who use the 'once the toothpaste is out of the tub, you can't put it back' metaphor never actually tried to do it - all you have to do is put the toothpaste in your mouth and reverse-suck it back into the tub.
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it's pronounced 'yagoda' @j-g00da@donotsta.re (2026-09-18 03:58:48)
@p i know a person that after breaking a tooth just glued it back into place with a kropelka and kept going
DoomQuakeKeen@doomquakekeen@toot.gnous.eu (2026-09-18 03:59:44)
@p
you can also flush it down the drain, as it should, given what people try to justify using that metaphor.
Shane Celis@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place (2026-09-18 04:05:38)
@p PHYSICS PROF: Nothing sucks in physics. We only reverse-suck here. You may have heard of it. It's called, "pushing."
https://uvachemistry.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/pressure-gradients-no-sucking-involved/
moody@moody@hj.9fs.net (2026-09-18 04:13:21)
Big toothpaste does not want you to know this.
rees@rees@pleroma.ree.social (2026-09-18 04:38:23)
@p >reverse-suck
there's a word for that
Pianosaurus 🕴@pianosaurus@c.im (2026-09-18 08:45:00)
@p Does that also work for cans of worms?