Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[DickMidnight]

@Ninjasquirrel i don’t think it was the fluoride…

 

[Folly's place]

I don't remember sodium, but we had fun with the mercury! And I had aquariums as a kid, with the live plants coming with lead strips holding them together. And the lead sinkers when fishing. Lead paint. Lovely! I do have a measurable lead blood level, too low to need treatment.
The good old days!
Mary

 

[electrycmonk]

I think so! I remember it being very soft. Yet when you cut into it it was shiny metal.

yup, thats the stuff....one of our teachers took our class outside to the actual pond on campus... cut a chunk off and flung it into the pond.

fun times!

 

[Folly's place]

Would have loved to see that!
Mary

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I think so! I remember it being very soft. Yet when you cut into it it was shiny metal.

I remember playing with mercury from a broken thermometer when we were kids. We'd pass it back and forth among us siblings, watching it mysteriously shrink until it disappeared, not realizing our bodies were absorbing it.

Probably explains a lot.

 

[casportpony]

I remember playing with mercury from a broken thermometer when we were kids. We'd pass it back and forth among us siblings, watching it mysteriously shrink until it disappeared, not realizing our bodies were absorbing it.

Probably explains a lot.

I just remember how heavy it was!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I just remember how heavy it was!

Yes. And shiny!

 

[h2oratt]

They let you play with it? Lucky!

We used to play with Mercury. So fun

 

[topochico225]

As a Gen Z’er reading these “mercury was so fun to play with” posts I’m over here like

 

[sourland]

I just remember how heavy it was!

And how felt as it moved in your hands.