Where's The Most Painful Place To Get A Tattoo?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Bella are joined by award-winning Biology teacher Miss Wilsher for a lesson all about tattoos!
By looking at how a tattoo works, we'll find out about the different layers of your skin and how pain works; we'll also hear about the chequered history of tattooing and it's ancient origins. Lacrosse-fan Miss Wilsher will share the science behind why a tattoo stays put, how to stop them fading and - at the other end of a tattoo's life - how laser removal works. Otzi the Iceman makes a reappearance, and Greg and Bella will share their own tattoo stories - from embarrassing first tattoos to Greg's blink-and-you'll-miss it wrist tattoo.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:08.0 | where's the most painful place to get a tattoo? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Bella Mackie, and I'm Greg James and this is Teach Meer lesson. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh you did the thing that you didn't want to do. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm making it catch that's great. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | Well this is teach me a lesson |
| 0:31.0 | the podcast where we invite brilliant teachers from across the UK to teach us their favourite lesson. |
| 0:36.5 | And this is our first science lesson of term three. |
| 0:41.1 | But this science lesson could easily be an art lesson or even a history lesson as we're looking at the science and history of tattoos. |
| 0:47.7 | Hmm. Yeah, you've got tattoos, famously. Yeah, and you've got a tattoo, which we can talk about? Not famously. Yeah and you've got a tattoo which we can talk about. Not famously. |
| 0:55.6 | When was your first tattoo? 14. |
| 0:58.1 | 14. 15? But we like knew a place that like just turned a blind eye. |
| 1:02.1 | Which in hindsight was a mistake. |
| 1:04.5 | Bad idea. |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.5 | Did you do belly button rings and stuff? |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah, I had a belly button ring with a big dear Monte in it, but I never showed it to anyone and it was quite uncomfortable and the |
| 1:14.4 | worst thing no one tells you about belly button rings is that you have the whole for the |
| 1:18.6 | rest of your life forever. |
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