Genital warts don't appear as blisters.

Don't ask how I know.

What's the difference?

Subby, that headline would be funny, if only it was 2007

Mustard Man abides.

phlegmmo: 7of7:
dj_bigbird: You know who else was exposed to mustard gas?

Colonel Mustard?

His wife.

Lemme guess ... in the dining room?

Awwww....wittle boyee got an oweee. Jeez.



/the pussification of America

Came here to say: that headline is full of stupid. Sheesh, submitter.

Not impressed

/If you don't know the video, get off my lawn

"Unusual Blister" would be a good name for a band.

My grandfather was gassed in the trenches of the First World War, survived and was invalided home. I don't know if it was mustard, phosgene, chlorine or any other noxious substance, but I am told he often would wake up screaming in the night. Nasty stuff. The sooner it's destroyed the better.

Subby is in dangerous water with that headline, Lindsay Lohan is suing for a Super Bowl advertiser for $100 million because one of the ad's characters mentioned her first name. Hopefully, Subby has $100 million bucks.

thisispete: I don't know if it was mustard, phosgene, chlorine or any other noxious substance, but I am told he often would wake up screaming in the night.

More likely it was the horrors of fighting in that war. I doubt it was due to the gas, that was probably just one thing on a list of atrocities he witnessed. I'd bet he had PTSD.

Who the hell is Lindsay Lohan, and how do you even pronounce that name? Lind Say Low Han? What ever happened to "Sue" and "Mary"?

Nah, PP, gas had its own suite of cognitive and behavioral implications. Not that the casual elements mentioned can be unmixed. Gassed guys were pretty commonly around before the second half of the European conflict, and they were weirdos in their own special way. My ma's old mailman was a gas victim.

Many years ago, when they were making the stuff, which at the time was just poured into artillery rounds, one of them burst, blowing blister agent all over the face of a woman working the production line.

She knew that she was good as dead, so she agreed to let them photograph her face during the process. It went from near normal, to "Mr. Toad", with the last picture postmortem, after the blisters broke. Not pretty.

A good description of the World War I casualties can be found in the sequel to "All Quiet On The Western Front", by Erich Maria Remarque. It is titled "The Road Back", and is about the veterans in Germany after the war. It is a good read, if you can find a copy. Very sympathetic to the tragic veterans of that war.

brushwad: phlegmmo: 7of7:
dj_bigbird: You know who else was exposed to mustard gas?

Colonel Mustard?

His wife.

Lemme guess ... in the dining room?

Nono .. in the bedroom.

When I saw the call letters of the station, I figured this was from Umatilla. I get creeped out everytime I drive by the long rows of "igloos" where they keep the stuff. I also pay attention to the wind socks, just in case....

Sulfer Mustard (new window), (ClCH₂CH₂)₂S, one of the most vile substances invented by man.
-- It is an insidious poison. Its effects are not immediate, and other than its sulfur- or garlic-like odor, it's not easily detectable by the senses.
-- Its effects on the body are horrific. Sulfur mustard acts by destroying individual cells, causing the same sort of cellular damage as heat. The body is fooled into thinking it has received a thermal burn, and reacts accordingly: redness, blisters, sloughing off flesh. It particularly affects the mucous membranes--the eyes, mouth and lungs.
-- There is no antidote. If you get hit by the stuff, all you can do is treat the symptoms and pray you didn't receive a lethal dose.
-- Even if you survive the exposure, you're not out of the woods, because the stuff is believed to be carcinogenic as well as toxic.
-- Sulfur mustard does not degrade quickly in the environment. Exposure to heat, air and sunlight speeds up the breakdown process, but in the absence of that the stuff will remain potent for years. There are reports of people in France getting mustard burns from contact with buried gas munitions or contaminated objects for decades after they were used in WWI.

I've got a blistah on me fingahs.

Mustar-wha??

/someone had to

Came here for the "Milk-a-what??" quote, leaving mostly satisfied

dj_bigbird: You know who else was exposed to mustard gas?

My father.
He was with the Army, in Germany, in WW2.