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spankmeister posted:I read somewhere that they used to treat severe constipation with mercury. Just a big ole glug of it to push everything down and clear it out. They used to do a lot of poo poo with mercury
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spankmeister posted:I read somewhere that they used to treat severe constipation with mercury. Just a big ole glug of it to push everything down and clear it out. I have also heard this tale From multiple sources
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Apr 3, 2021 22:41
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I guess it would cure it in a sense
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Apr 3, 2021 22:42
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spankmeister posted:I read somewhere that they used to treat severe constipation with mercury. Just a big ole glug of it to push everything down and clear it out. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-reconstruct-lewis-and-clark-journey-follow-mercury-laden-latrine-pits-180956518/
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Apr 3, 2021 22:57
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spankmeister posted:I read somewhere that they used to treat severe constipation with mercury. Just a big ole glug of it to push everything down and clear it out. I can say with confidence that it would work very well as a laxative. Tastes better than milk of magnesia, too.
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A big slug of mercury pushing stuff out of your intestinal tract will work yes. What mercury concoctions won't do is make you immortal. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article...magic%20potion. quote:Qin Shi Huang drank mercury, thinking it would give him eternal life
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Apr 4, 2021 00:14
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CommonShore posted:They used to do a lot of poo poo with mercury  Pictured: The Black Death.
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Apr 4, 2021 00:55
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 seen on reddit. why this dude gotta put the sushi directly on the wooden bath tub thingy? how does he plan to clean it??
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loving lmao The Australian owned British sausage company making South African sausages Poopelyse posted:
I mean sure but it do look good tho
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Poopelyse posted:
He's got a bath right there!
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Apr 4, 2021 03:58
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Well he clearly does not possess water or soap
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Apr 4, 2021 03:59
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angerbeet posted:Well he clearly does not possess water or soap Who want to get wasoapy when you can get wasabi?
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Brawnfire posted:Who want to get wasoapy when you can get wasabi? don't drop the wasabi
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Apr 4, 2021 04:09
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Brawnfire posted:Who want to get wasoapy when you can get wasabi? and I thought soapdick was bad
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Apr 4, 2021 04:34
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The Bloop posted:and I thought soapdick was bad Some parts you have to give ginger treatment
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MariusLecter posted:What mercury concoctions won't do is make you immortal. One of the funniest things in Chinese history is the sheer number of emperors who killed themselves with mercury-based immortality potions. Dozens and dozens of them. They could not stop.
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Apr 4, 2021 06:39
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Yeah but it looks cool, how can it not be magic?
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Grand Fromage posted:One of the funniest things in Chinese history is the sheer number of emperors who killed themselves with mercury-based immortality potions. Dozens and dozens of them. They could not stop. They must have all went absolutely bonkers.
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TontoCorazon posted:Yeah but it looks cool, how can it not be magic? Sure it's magic. Metal water is obviously magic. Their mistake was thinking it was immortality magic. It is never immortality magic. A canny emperor would have them try the immortality potion on a mouse first. If the mouse is still alive in 5 years then shower the guy in riches. Mouse gets sick and dies? The guy is a quack.
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The thing is tho that the high levels of mercury preserves the corpses from microbial decay. So a different kind of immortality.
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Facebook Aunt posted:A canny emperor would have them try the immortality potion on a mouse first. A canny emperor would think about the 40 previous emperors who drank the immortality potions but are not, in fact, still alive and being emperors.
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Grand Fromage posted:A canny emperor would think about the 40 previous emperors who drank the immortality potions but are not, in fact, still alive and being emperors. they lost the mandate of heaven, immortality doesn't mean poo poo to that
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Apr 4, 2021 07:28
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Grand Fromage posted:A canny emperor would think about the 40 previous emperors who drank the immortality potions but are not, in fact, still alive and being emperors. That shows that those potions didn't work, but not that the next potion won't work. This new guy has some great ideas.
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Grand Fromage posted:One of the funniest things in Chinese history is the sheer number of emperors who killed themselves with mercury-based immortality potions. Dozens and dozens of them. They could not stop. if you drink the first one youre gonna get yourself enough organic brain damage to drink the second one, and a third, and so on
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A while back Quick did a Darth Vader burger like that but with even more black poo poo
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Apr 4, 2021 08:43
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Actually they tend to turn your poo poo lurid green.
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Apr 4, 2021 12:51
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Fitting, the movie turned a bunch of green into a lurid poo poo.
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fizzymercury posted:Actually they tend to turn your poo poo lurid green. Checks out, most black dyes are just high concentrations of green or blue. I bought a New Year's cake from the bakery clearance rack that was supposed to be sprinkled with black-dyed sugar. However, the blue dye the crystals had been saturated with had leached out into the frosting, making it look like the entire cake was covered in mold spots. The cashier had to do a double take.
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https://twitter.com/JackEvans711/status/1378468995590987782?s=20
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I'm torn between how disgusting and pink it looks and the loving SEVERED CHILD HEAD WHAT THE gently caress
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The screaming of cooking eggs is the only thing that drowns out the torturing voice of the demon child's head sent from hell to punish me for my many crimes against God E: What a coincidence that I posted this just after that video, haha
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Apr 4, 2021 19:45
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Well at least she flipped it. That's the most important part.
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People are weirdly desperate to try to get their money's worth out of their waffle iron without ever actually just thinking to make waffles.
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The union of women who don't lift and women on keto is made up entirely of doll part collectors.
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Just drape the bacon on the severed head of the child and put it in the oven until crisp.
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Grunch Worldflower posted:People are weirdly desperate to try to get their money's worth out of their waffle iron without ever actually just thinking to make waffles. It's kind of a pain.
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They also had reusable antimony laxative pillsquote:We have referred in the past to the economy which used to be practiced by our fore-fathers. Thus, for instance, it was customary to use leeches over and over again and there are instances of infection with syphilis by leeches that had been previously used on luetic patients. But we believe that the everlasting cathartic pill beats everything in the line of economy. This pill was a little bullet composed of metallic antimony which had or was believed to have the property of purging as often as it was swallowed. It is not inconceivable that it might have had such property, for it is possible that a minute amount was dissolved by the gastro-intestinal juices and this amount, plus the suggestion, was sufficient to produce cathartic action. Then again the everlasting pill probably aided peristalsis by its mechanical weight and motion. The bullet was passed out, recovered from the feces and used over and over again. This, as Dr. J. A. Paris says, was economy in right earnest, for a single pill would serve a whole family during their lives and might be transmitted as an heirloom to posterity.[2] I'd bold the crazy parts but they're all crazy. That bit about the syphilis leeches is pretty special. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony_pill
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This was your grandfather's poo poo pill, today it is my poo poo pill, and tomorrow, son, it shall be your poo poo pill.
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