I mainly just wanted to see how many characters I could fit in a thread title so I'm now here in front of my laptop typing up as many characters as I

[311boogieman]

can.

Thanks,

 

[Ben Waylin]

151

 

[70 Mach 1]

No one cares

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Nice! I did that with my username. Keeps other members off my row of who is online.

 

[Ben Waylin]

No one cares

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

 

[Baked Bean]

Looks like the magic number is 150.

 

[JohnnyGtar]

 

[Monkey Man]

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I was poisoned by them when I was 2.

Had seizures and ended up in hospital stiff-as-a-board.

Lead. One of 5 heavy metals to have been poisoned by. Wouldn't wish the ramifications on anyone.

 

[VonBonfire]

I was poisoned by them when I was 2.

Had seizures and ended up in hospital stiff-as-a-board.

Lead. One of 5 heavy metals to have been poisoned by. Wouldn't wish the ramifications on anyone.

Lead is completely safe unless it's ingested in fine flakes or breathed as fumes from an overly hot lead pot in an enclosed space. I have cast a couple tons of bullets in my time and enjoy working with lead but outdoors is the best place for it. I still have a hundred pounds of ingots laying around.

 

[Baked Bean]

Didn't Isaac Newton go nuts due to lead fumes exposure?

 

[VonBonfire]

Didn't Isaac Newton go nuts due to lead fumes exposure?

The lead in the paint made Van Gogh paint pretty pictures cause his vision was all messed up. The artists would lick the brush tips to keep them pointed they way they wanted and there was lead in the paint.

There is a theory out there that leaded fuel caused more crime because crime went down when they introduced unleaded fuel.

 

[Ben Waylin]

 

[Stripped Rights]

Lead is completely safe unless it's ingested in fine flakes or breathed as fumes from an overly hot lead pot in an enclosed space. I have cast a couple tons of bullets in my time and enjoy working with lead but outdoors is the best place for it. I still have a hundred pounds of ingots laying around.

Tell that to loons and other wildlife that can get deadly lead poisoning from eating just one sinker.

 

[Ben Waylin]

Tell that to loons and other wildlife that can get deadly lead poisoning from eating just one sinker.

Is that a euphemism ?

 

[Monkey Man]

Lead is completely safe unless it's ingested in fine flakes or breathed as fumes from an overly hot lead pot in an enclosed space.

I can't say how fine the flakes were but I ate a crapload of leaded-paint flakes; that's what did it.

The mercury poisoning was the worst of the 5 heavy metals for me. Probably didn't help that I had 3 major mercury-poisoning events spread over 40 years. Just one of them would've f'd up my life well-enough. 3? Wouldn't wish that shit on anyone.

 

[VonBonfire]

Tell that to loons and other wildlife that can get deadly lead poisoning from eating just one sinker.

You can swallow a bullet, nothing happens. Sort it from the peanuts on the other end and you can reload it back into a shell if it hasn't been fired. Lotta people and places still use and sell lead sinkers because lead is mostly safe. It's the shot you're talking about. Some of the bird shot is real fine. Like I said, fine flakes, particles, whatever is bad news. That's why steel, bismuth, tungsten etc are mandated for use in waterfowl hunting. For a guy who laughs at a lot of people's posts you sure know how to be a killjoy.

 

[VonBonfire]

I can't say how fine the flakes were but I ate a crapload of leaded-paint flakes; that's what did it.

The mercury poisoning was the worst of the 5 heavy metals for me. Probably didn't help that I had 3 major poisoning events spread over 40 years. Just one of them would've f'd up my life well-enough. 3? Wouldn't wish that shit on anyone.

Maybe you should share your story about the other two poisonings. Were you eating a lot of ocean fish or did you get exposed to mercury fumes or something? I take niacin regularly to help expel heavy metals.

 

[Stripped Rights]

You can swallow a bullet, nothing happens. Sort it from the peanuts on the other end and you can reload it back into a shell if it hasn't been fired. Lotta people and places still use and sell lead sinkers because lead is mostly safe. It's the shot you're talking about. Some of the bird shot is real fine. Like I said, fine flakes, particles, whatever is bad news. That's why steel, bismuth, tungsten etc are mandated for use in waterfowl hunting. For a guy who laughs at a lot of people's posts you sure know how to be a killjoy.

No it's the sinkers I'm talking about.

 

[Monkey Man]

Maybe you should share your story about the other two poisonings. Were you eating a lot of ocean fish or did you get exposed to mercury fumes or something? I take niacin regularly to help expel heavy metals.

The mercury was 3 poisonings, 4 if you include the 45 x normal galvanic reaction's gas release in my mouth for 20-odd years.

The other 3 heavy metals were when I copped all 5 that were used in batteries back in the day - lead, mercury, antimony, arsenic and cadmium. That makes me realise that it was lead twice and mercury 4 times. Forgot about that one.

The first mercury was a vial I absorbed through my skin over 2-3 years. Stole it as a kid from the science lab in junior school. Played with it every day in my hands 'till it had all absorbed. Had no idea it was anything more than a bit poisonous.

Second mercury was licking batteries. Did it a lot to test charge (no money). That's when I copped the other metals as well, lead for a 2nd time.

Third mercury was my amalgam fillings. They reacted and released 45 x the normal amount of gas into my system (measured before eventual removal). Took me 20 years to convince a dentist to take the job on. Up until that time (during the '90s) they just laughed at me.

Fourth mercury was when they were finally removed. The dude didn't put a plastic barrier in, exposing just the teeth involved. 4 sessions of drill, rinse and spit. Swallowed a crapload of swarf. 3 months later the chronic fatigue and autoimmune hit me hard.