Posted on 04/22/2013 11:55:58 AM PDT by Gamecock
Or inhaling gas from a whipped cream cannister to make your voice sound funny. Also works well with helium balloons.
Or inhaling gas from a whipped cream cannister to make your voice sound funny. Also works well with helium balloons.
Yeah, my mom thought she was smart. Taking my temp with that ol’ thermometer. No temp, no staying home. I used the lamp to heat the thermometer so it showed I had a fever. Until I got it too hot and the end broke off the thermometer.
That glob of mercury was a blast to play with! Chased it on the hardwood floor for days before I got tired of it and picked it up to throw away in the trash. Maybe somebody else found it and played with it after I did. No EPA back then.
I was transferring a couple hundred gallons of red dye off-road diesel that I had in 275 & 55 gallon poly tanks for four years now, into a single metal tank. Had alot of small pump and siphon problems. I got a good deal on my hands (no gloves) too. Won’t do it again.
I now wheeze almost always, day and night. The wife’s really pissed. It’s been two weeks now that I’ve had no contact with the stuff. Never sought medical attention.
Thanks for any input you might have.
People huff the gas from whipped cream to get high. It’s nitrous oxide, AKA “laughing gas”.
Here’s a challenge:
Eat a McDonalds breakfast biscuit, without drinking anything.
LOL! Umm... You won’t talk funny after doing that. You’ll just think you are funny. That’s Nitrous Oxide (NO2), not Helium. Being of similar density to oxygen (O2), it won’t change your voice. It is, however, laughing gas.
And smeared Mercury on our teeth to make them shiny.
In Europe they used to put radium in toothpaste, apparently to make their teeth glow.
“I think this fad played itself out about 2 years ago.”
I think the new one is sniffing a condom up your nose and pulling it out of your mouth. Somebody posted a video but it had been taken down.
My husband’s friend could put 3 big macs in his mouth at one time. I guess there’s nothing new under the sun. Kids are still stupid and easily swayed by peer pressure.
At one time they also used urine to clean their teeth.
I once contracted asthmatic bronchitis. I’ve never wheezed so much in my entire life. It took quite a few weeks for the symptoms to disappear. I had a breathing treatment and was put on Ventolin inhaler.
I would urge you to go to the Doc, no need to suffer.
Call the poison center.
Good post.
Unfortunately there is no lack of fools or of foolishness. There is the game that some genius youth pastors thought up where kids tried to see how many cotton balls they could stuff in their mouths at once (until someone choked to death), the challenge on a radio station to see how much water one could drink at once (woman died of internal drowning), and the recent internet craze called the salt challenge - holding salt and ice in the hand until the pain is so intense you have to quit. It leads to frostbite and could result in permanent nerve damage to the hands. Oh, and the kids who inhale helium to make their voices sound funny until the helium displaces the oxygen in their blood and the kids die.
Why do people do this stupid stuff?
I have vivid recollections of my grandfather putting a drop of mercury on a dime and seeing how extremely shiny that dime became.
I do not remember ever touching the mercury myself, though.
We had natural gas brought into the house when I was a wee lad. The meter was in the basement close to the furnace and the installer was finishing up the installation which involved putting mercury into the meter casing to act as seal around the rotating gizmo that metered the gas as it passed from inlet to outlet. He kept his mercury in a short length of pipe with a cap screwed on both ends. He had the cap off of one end when he fumbled the container and dropped about a pound of mercury on the dusty basement floor. My two older brothers and I had a great time rounding up little puddles of the stuff and chasing it on to a stiff piece of paper folded over to trap it. I don't think we got even half of it. Didn't seem to have any effect on our health although both parents and my oldest brother died of cancer, while the middle brother and I have both had cancer and survived. I don't think mercury is related to cancer but it seems like an odd coincidence.
Regards,
GtG
Another danger might be a flash fire if there is contact with an open flame. Silo explosions are not rare. I seem to recall my grandmother describing an explosion in a plant making powdered eggs during the war.
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