https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/17/what-happens-if-i-swallow-gum/ Wed, 18 May 2016 15:04:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/17/what-happens-if-i-swallow-gum/#comment-469712 Wed, 18 May 2016 15:04:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22525#comment-469712 And if you swallow a bunch of nails, you get a case of irony.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/17/what-happens-if-i-swallow-gum/#comment-469711 Wed, 18 May 2016 11:18:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22525#comment-469711 ?? In logic known as a sillygism.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/17/what-happens-if-i-swallow-gum/#comment-469710 Wed, 18 May 2016 11:00:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22525#comment-469710 Constipated? No! As it has a rubber base, if you swallow too much you bounce. But you have to swallow an awful lot.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/17/what-happens-if-i-swallow-gum/#comment-469709 Tue, 17 May 2016 15:54:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22525#comment-469709 I could have done with this video twenty years ago when a student in the hall I helped supervise was convinced he has gum stuck in his throat and was going to die. He ended up taking himself off to A&E where the staff were not sympathetic.

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