Carbon dioxide posted:

Dutch town police is going to put this high-vis police figure in pedestrian-only shopping streets 'at random times' in order to scare cyclists off their bikes.

Deteriorata posted:

No, it's a sewage leak at a movie theater. It's just wet.

Lurking Haro posted:

Reverse image search says it's sewage in a cinema.

Lurking Haro posted:

Wouldn't the reflection on mercury be brighter since it's essentially a mirror?

Epsilon Moonshade posted:

I've never seen that much mercury in bulk, and quite frankly, never want to unless it's in a video. Hosted in a server on the other side of the world, just in case.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

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I grew up in [location deleted] and my father worked in the high power tube division of [company name deleted]. They would periodically have open house tours. I remember well one at about age 7.

The plant where large [product name deleted] tubes were assembled was a large barn with a hard packed oily dirt floor. Some of these tubes were larger than 55 gallon drums; control rectifiers for pumped storage power plants, etc. There were open 55 gallon drums of mercury around to fill them. One of the tour demos was to see if you were able to completely immerse your arm in a drum of mercury. I remember the feeling of almost being lifted off the ground by the buoyancy of my arm deep in the barrel.

The floor was covered with puddles of mercury. People worked there 8-10 hours a day. I never heard of anyone being poisoned. Of course one wouldn't, would one.

My father occasionally brought home small amounts of mercury for me to play with. I had a couple of pounds at one time but gradually lost most of it. That was fifty years ago. I'm still here. - source

Raskolnikov38 posted:

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Yeah, I think metallic Mercury isn't terribly bad for you (I mean, I wouldn't drink gallons or whatever), it's really the oxides when they're inhaled that do you in.

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Yeah, I think metallic Mercury isn't terribly bad for you (I mean, I wouldn't drink gallons or whatever), it's really the oxides when they're inhaled that do you in.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

didn’t people use to drink it as a laxative

Carbon dioxide posted:

Dutch town police is going to put this high-vis police figure in pedestrian-only shopping streets 'at random times' in order to scare cyclists off their bikes.

Potrzebie posted:

Well actually it seems milk causes brittle bones. And death. Source in English. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6003968

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Yeah, I think metallic Mercury isn't terribly bad for you (I mean, I wouldn't drink gallons or whatever), it's really the oxides when they're inhaled that do you in.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

didn’t people use to drink it as a laxative

Piggy Smalls posted:

My mom would get the mercury from thermometers and let us play with it. She told us if we put a penny in mercury it would turn silver in time. I would have fun rolling the mercury in a pill bottle over my penny. It never changed color.

Deteriorata posted:

It has to be a brand new, or newly cleaned, penny. A layer of oxide will keep the mercury from amalgamating with the copper underneath.

I was really bummed when I found out the silver would turn back into copper over time as the mercury evaporated out of it (because that meant it wasn't really silver and it was just a dumb trick).

Yawgmoth posted:

Spinning the earth at 200rpm sounds like a great solution to that whole "using fuel to reach escape velocity" problem!

Proteus Jones posted:

I thought inhaling elemental Hg vapor was super bad. But skin contact (as long as you don't have any cuts) or even ingesting tiny amounts in its raw, elemental state wasn't that harmful.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Lactating women.

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The boy who smoked the mercury-dipped cigarette began coughing up blood. 

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Adverse reactions:
Hypersensitivity reactions have occurred. Effects on the eyes. Ocular and periorbital angioedema occurring within 4 hours of use of a contact lens cleansing solution containing papain has been reported.1 Extensive destruction of the oesophageal wall, with perforation, resulted from the use of a papain suspension given to treat an obstruction caused by impacted meat.1 The patient had been given 1.2 g of papain over a 12-hour period. Ten days after a thoracotomy, the descending thoracic aorta ruptured, and she died from haemorrhage.

Dillbag posted:

Maybe about time to link this again.

Choice quote:

Synthbuttrange posted:

Decided to see if my itch cream was any good. https://www.epharmapedia.com/medicine/profile/206403/Stop-Itch.html?lang=en&tab=druginfo

BattleMaster posted:

when someone does something inexplicably stupid I wish I could peer into their mind and take a look at the thought process that resulted in it

Like how do you arrive at lacing a cigarette with mercury and smoking it

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In June 2004, 25 Russian soldiers earned Honorable Mentions in the Darwin Awards after becoming ill from thallium exposure when they found a can of mysterious white powder in a rubbish dump on their base at Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. Oblivious to the danger of misusing an unidentified white powder from a military dump site, the conscripts added it to tobacco, and used it as a substitute for talcum powder on their feet

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Industrial accidents are common in China, and have prompted growing calls for better safety standards.

The government says it has been tightening site inspections and toughening punishments for safety lapses.

But while the number of workplace deaths in 2017 is reported to have fallen by more than 25% on 2016 - industrial fatalities still number at least 29,000 in the year to date.

verbal enema posted:

Your grandpa is going to kill himself and his wife

Lurking Haro posted:

Reverse image search says it's sewage in a cinema.

Some say it's from an Emoji movie screening

BattleMaster posted:

when someone does something inexplicably stupid I wish I could peer into their mind and take a look at the thought process that resulted in it

Like how do you arrive at lacing a cigarette with mercury and smoking it

Gorilla Salad posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZnypfngbt4&t=570s

verbal enema posted:

Your grandpa is going to kill himself and his wife

Facebook Aunt posted:

Wasn't there a thing 20 years ago where people were dipping cigarettes in formaldehyde to get high? Who was the first guy to think of that? Apparently folks will dip anything in anything to see if it lets them get high.

Power Bottom posted:

I know. The whole family is waiting for it to happen. The best we can do right now is hope that whatever happens takes him and leaves my grandmother alone.