We are all used to these new digital thermometer's (I'm referencing the standard oral/armpit/rectal use ones NOT the forehead ones or contactless ones). Depending on the thermometer, it can take anywhere between 8 seconds or so up to a full minute to get a read.
I was curious if anyone knew anything about this, but are there older digital thermometers that take longer? Here is the reason I mention this, and I can swear every bit of this is true and I'm not making it up to be a story for this website:
A while back (way before YouTube was purchased by Google and limited the type of content on the website) I found a video there of a rectal temperature being taken. This WAS NOT a porn video or a video being done for any kind of sexual turn on. It was simply a video of a rectal temperature being taken. Like imagine there was no video, and no one filmed it, and this was just any regular ordinary person who was sick and had their temperature taken rectally. Now imagine it happened to be on video, what it would look like, if someone was sick and there was no sexual drive behind it.
The video is not anywhere to be found anymore but I remember it clear as day. I’m not sure if it was in the US or another country, but both the taker and person having it taken were speaking either a European language or Russian. To me, I’m fairly confident it sounded like Russian. Anyways, the person having their temperature taken was a girl, probably anywhere between the age of 19-27 or 28. She was pretty from what I remember. The person taking it was also female, and a bit older, maybe in their 50’s or 60’s. My guess is that it was her Mother. She was lying down on her back with her legs in the air(diaper position). From the moment the thermometer first went in her butt, until it beeped, was a little over 4 minutes. It was inserted pretty far. Not all the way, but far enough to where a little bit of the digital display was inside, and when the thermometer was taken out later, it had little brown stain on the tip. The girl held still the whole time it was in her, and no one talked. I'm sure it was uncomfortable for her, but she didn't complain or show signs that it was a problem for her. The only talking that occurred in the video was in the beginning and end. When the video first starts, you see the girl laying flat on her back with her legs resting down at the foot of the bed. The (Mother) says a few things while taking the thermometer out of its case and lubricating it. She then turns it on, and a few second later you see her gently tap the girl’s thigh and say something, and the girl raises her legs. She then says something else as she brings the thermometer to her anus, which I’ll assume is something along the lines of “hold still“ or “don’t move”. She then slides it in her bottom. Once the thermometer is in, she says one other thing, possibly reminding her again not to move or to try and relax, and then there is no talking until it beeps over 4 mins later. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP for a story. I literally saw this video and wish I could find it again. I want to say it took 4 mins, 20 seconds if I can remember correctly. The thermometer didn't look new by any means. I can swear to you right now, at no point during the reading, did the taker turn the thermometer off and then turn it back on later. Nor was the thermometer off when they first put it in her, only to turn it on minutes later. You could clearly see the person taking it turn it on beforehand, and you can even hear the beep when it turns on. You then see the girl lift her legs up and watch the thermometer go in her butt and the dashes on the screen immediately turn to numbers and it starts registering. The entire time, you can see the numbers slowly climbing and the camera didn't loose focus. It beeped a bit over 4 minutes later and was pulled out of her bottom.
Can anyone relate or does anyone at least know if there were older digital thermometers that took that long? It looked exactly like any Digital one you'd see now but just took super long. I'd love to own one. This video is not anywhere to be found anymore but I remember it clear as day. Im not sure if it was in the US or another country but the taker and person having it taken were speaking a European language. I would buy one of these thermometers if I could get one lol. Sorry for the long post, I just felt I needed to explain everything so you all understood the exact scenario.