You Cannot Remove Your Fingerprints With Pineapple

http://www.tomscott.com - You Cannot Remove Your Fingerprints With Pineapple. Thanks to Jess and Val on camera, and to QI for the inspiration.

Did you really do this? Yes. Pretty much as you see here.

Did it really hurt that much? Yes, it did.

Wimp. Possibly. Try giving yourself first-degree burns and then scouring them with acidic fruit gunk every day. (Don't actually do this.)

Why didn't you stop earlier? I'm stubborn.

How did you do that final shot? I added the red glow in later. It's the only part of this that isn't genuine.

Hang on, how are you cutting that pineapple on Day 8? Good spot — but if you look closely, I'm holding the knife and pineapple mostly with my palms and the lower parts of my fingers. It's amazing how quickly I adapted to not being able to use my fingertips. Plus, I mentioned in the previous shot that I was only scouring last thing at night, and at that point it was helping — at the time I was cutting that pineapple, it had been about 24 hours since the last scour, so it wasn't too bad.

Is it possible to remove your fingerprints, though, if you maybe spend every hour of the day doing gentle work with pineapple? Possibly, but the only evidence for bromelain actually removing fingerprints so far seems to be anecdotal. If anyone can find any journal articles, though, I'll happily update this. Please don't try it yourself. * Music credit: "A Palo Seco", from Todo lo bueno muere joven by Caminos del Sonido, licensed under CC by 3.0 * Excerpt from QI is © talkbackTHAMES 2007, used for the purposes of criticism and review.

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[HEadshot00001234]

try battery acid worked with me

[montagfire]

you are an idiot - and i love this video. thanks for making a dull day bright.

[evoterry]

I'm just kidding. But good video. This does work though, sorry it didn't work for you but I have read several different articles on it working on people and have had friends with success doing this. I guess it all just depends on the different variables and way of going about doing it. Or maybe it just works on different people who knows. Good video thous.

[evoterry]

Your voice does not match your appearance. You look like you would sound very nerdy with a more of a high pitch voice but instead we hear a stupid accent followed by a disturbingly deep voice that sounds like you are straining yourself to talk so deep (because thats probably not how you really sound) lol

[thunderstring123]

actually it does work...in the 1920s a cat burglar named nigel hubbard baffled scotland yard wirth his burglaries with no fingerprints...it was later discovered he removed his fingerprints by pricking each finger several times then soaking them in the juice of the fruit for several hours a day for several months...its actually the acid "pectin" that makes this work...it is also extreamely painful

[lisaking22]

That was SO unnecessary! That amount of scouring that you did essentially changed the experiment, which was about the ability of pineapple (specifically Bromelain) to remove fingerprints. Even if it'd worked, we wouldn't have been sure if they were gone because of the pineapple or excessive scouring. Are you sure you're not just a masochist? Either way... it was hilarious.

[orpingtondood]

your meant to prick your fingers with a pin first it helps

[tarrn17]

try doing some real work like labouring or actually picking pineapples and see how long ur finger prints last then

[novastyleNL]

this is hilarious! best type of comedy hehe

[memetwo55]

thats some dumb stuff

i mean why would you keep going after you lost a layer of skin???

[tahitiancookie]

i rmember when facebook was that old. =/

xD

[harrisontan]

One question, why do both hands?