So much for it being quick silver.

Rufus_T_Firefly: BurnShrike: So much for it being quick silver.

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St_Francis_P: BurnShrike: So much for it being quick silver.

That was a good one.

Tip of the hat to BurnStrike.

/mad hat that is

So did this guy kick Putin's Mini giraffe or something?

Just the tip

Jenny McCarthy is busy trying to find out which vaccine it was...

BurnShrike: So much for it being quick silver.

This is why you're a lovely shade of blue.

Look, my ex-Stasi neighbor had a garage sale. I bought a couple of umbrellas, who knew?

I'm sure he was mad as a hatter when it happened.

WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

A) Call someone to have it properly disposed of or.... B) Hang on to it because, hey, you can't get that any more and you have a really awesome jar of liquid metal.



/sorry if you were looking for "C) drink that sumbiatch down, tastes amazing!"

Cue the posters who think elemental mercury is really, really dangerous.

Hint: it's not.

Probably wasn't plain elemental mercury.

I'd bet it was a very, very small amount of something like dimethylmercury.

"He said that he was attacked by a slim stranger with a sticking plaster on his face."

A sticking plaster? Like a cast on his face?? WTF?

FarkinHostile: Cue the posters who think elemental mercury is really, really dangerous.

Hint: it's not.

Repeated exposure ain't good for you though, as far as I recall. Mercury fumes are s'posed to do things to your brain over time, are they not?

M-G: Jenny McCarthy is busy trying to find out which vaccine it was...

tee hee

*golf clap* +1 (whatever +1 means)

Died of the autism?

danielscissorhands: "He said that he was attacked by a slim stranger with a sticking plaster on his face."

A sticking plaster? Like a cast on his face?? WTF?

I've read enough Harry Potter to recognize that as a band-aid.

WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

That reads like a /b post.

inb4 drink it

Does not approve.

/hotlinked

danielscissorhands: A sticking plaster? Like a cast on his face?? WTF?

Plaster is a British term for bandaid. Band-aid, being an American brand, didn't become a generic term across the pond. And by sticking, I think they just mean adhesive. So the guy had an adhesive bandage on his face.

The comments on the article are hillarious too. Trying to refute the idea that a small injection of mercury won't kill you because there's small amounts of mercury in vaccines and fish and you're still alive. I can just about guarantee, if I were to inject half a gram of elemental mercury into your ass, you gonna die. By comparison, even the worst fish only has a level of about 0.0005 mg per pound. You'd have to eat nothing but shark for a year to give yourself acute mercury poisoning.

Beerguy: Here is another cold war era attack that you have probably never heard of.

Superbomb Mystery: The Herrhausen Assassination

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I was stationed in Germany when that happened. We were at threat-con bravo for a month after the attack.

Thank you for my first wiki-distraction of the morning.

So Mercury is put in all the vaccines we all had as kids and we eat it in our fish, is that to kill us slowly?
How much Mercury did the guy get in him with the one stick of the umbrella needle for it to make him sick?? Something is way off, could it have been ricien or the like and the Government is hushing it?

Don't want to panic the public.

WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

ask several scrap metal dealer how much it's worth, you may be surprised!

The prosecutor are now searching for the mysterious assailant, investigating a possible charge of grievous bodily harm resulting in death.

WTF! No murder charge?

Gothnet: WhippingBoy: I have a bottle of mercury that I somehow inherited. What should I do with it?

A) Call someone to have it properly disposed of or.... B) Hang on to it because, hey, you can't get that any more and you have a really awesome jar of liquid metal.



/sorry if you were looking for "C) drink that sumbiatch down, tastes amazing!"

Can't you still collect it from the old school thermometers? If so wounder if that would be enough to kill?

The derp is strong in the article comments. Foolish, are they.

There was an episode of Quincy like that about a million years ago.

BurnShrike: So much for it being quick... *puts on sunglasses* silver.

FTFY

Attention to derail: Does not approve.

/hotlinked

I salute your expertise in umbrella assassinations, good sir.

Gothnet:

Repeated exposure ain't good for you though, as far as I recall. Mercury fumes are s'posed to do things to your brain over time, are they not?

Yeah, sure, chronic exposure is harmful, and yes, vaporized mercury is quite bad, but elemental mercury, the pretty, liquid metal most people think of when they hear about mercury poisoning? You can pretty much drink that shiat with impunity. Elemental mercury is not readily adsorbed by the body, including the GI tract (something like .0003% is absorbed. The rest you shiat out.). There are documented cases of people injecting themselves with Elemental mercury in a suicide attempt, and only after a few years of increasing neurological and pulmonary issues did they see a doctor, who found globs of the stuff spread all around their lungs.

Now, organic mercury compounds, that shiat'll kill ya to death, and badly.

/Don't drink it though
//unless you have worms

KimNorth: Can't you still collect it from the old school thermometers? If so wounder if that would be enough to kill?

If you had enough of it and were to put it on a stove and heat it up until the room filled with mercury fumes, it could. Other than that, you'd be wasting your time.

NewWorldDan: You'd have to eat nothing but shark for a year to give yourself acute mercury poisoning.



begs to differ

Beerguy: RoyBatty: Beerguy: Here is another cold war era attack that you have probably never heard of.

Superbomb Mystery: The Herrhausen Assassination

[www.taz.de image 640x319]

I was stationed in Germany when that happened. We were at threat-con bravo for a month after the attack.

Thank you for my first wiki-distraction of the morning.

So, you and I share the same affliction? Anything that I see on the net that is even remotely interesting must be wikie-d.

Yes. Must.be.wikied. :(

rjakobi: Attention to derail: Does not approve.

/hotlinked

I salute your expertise in umbrella assassinations, good sir.

TFA mentions the Markov assassination. I perhaps ought to have read it before posting.

Anyone else find it odd they didn't mention the victims name?

NewWorldDan: I can just about guarantee, if I were to inject half a gram of elemental mercury into your ass, you gonna die.


No.

Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury

Rest in Peace Mercury Man

NOW theyre looking for the assailant...