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I hear mercuy is really effective when you use it to fill the hole in hollow point bullets, then cap it off with a wax coating.
Of course I have never tried it, and I don’t condone it…

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Gee, where did I put that sample of Uranium ore at anyway?

Hey, Sodium is good fun too!

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The EPA nitwits have banned mercury in the tiny hearing aid batteries. The replacement non mercury batteries do not last as long and have other issues. This same bunch of nitwits now requires the use of CFL curly light bulbs even though they contain greater amounts of mercury and shatter when dropped spewing the mercury across the room.

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THIS…is government OVER REACH! Pure and simple.

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I’d tell y’all about the mercury and gunpowder stockpile my father had but it leads directly to The Incident with my circa 1970 home made rocket launcher, a yard fire, and the accident with Senator Willey’s car.

So yeah let’s not go there.

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“Can’t we do something else?”

“Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick?”

“Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Thermometers not good enough for you eh? Well I’ll tell you something my lad. When you’re walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a thermometer, don’t come crying to me!”

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Mercury is just quicksilver. TSA should be more concerned with it, as it will eat through an aluminum airplane. I’m sure Big Sis is on it though.

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Have common sense….will travel

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Why did you go and tell them it is Hg? They never would have known

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As a young’un, I played with mercury, swam in a polluted river, bathed once a week, drank raw milk, smoked unfiltered cigs and a dinoble cigar behind the garage,got drunk on white lightning, and here I am…unbelievable.
I’ll probably die after being slammed by a bus.

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Never buy or take from your city a free fluorescent light bulb, first of all they are crappy light.
I know of a older woman who dropped one on the floor and as light bulbs do it broke, so she call the city to ask what to do, as that is what they recommend in the city flyer for your free light blubs if you broke one, well the next thing you know the haz-mat team is there and for one light bulb clean up it cost her $ 2,000.00 for a dust pan and a broom.
Buy all of the light bulbs that you can that fit you fixtures right now before they are gone, starting with 100 watt incandescent blubs. This is no joke light bulbs are going to be one of the first things that the EPA outlaws. Now look up the cost of LED replacement bulbs for your house, that is what you will have to replace them with.

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LEDs are cheap. You need a 12v direct power source. It’s the transforming for them LEDs that cost the bucks. So you go off the grid and wire your house off a car battery.

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I remember rubbing the tip of the mercury thermometer on the sheet in the nurse’s office at school to try to make it look like I had a temperature so I could go home.

My biggest worry was the nurse catching me doing it.

I guess today it brings Hazmat.

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It was libs who first thought of putting mercury in their ass, everyone else used the thermometer orally.

These are the same jackweeds 20 years later telling me I should eat nuts and berries.

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I wonder how many times from this point forward, the school will be in hazmat lockdown after someone “finds” some mercury on the hall floor?

Wanna bet the kids figure it out fast and get a few days off of school “for free?” Then, what happens when the school cries “wolf” too many times to the mercury police?

Brain dead, knuckle-dragging, morons.

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(911 call) “He came at me brandishing a CFL. I was terrified! I had to shoot in self-defense… No, I caught the CFL before it hit the floor; no need to call the Hazmat team. Just the coroner.”

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If you eat healthy and stick to the three major food groups, you’ll survive anything. Beans, Caffeine, and Nicotine.

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Six kids in our family. We never seemed to have a working thermometer in the house. We were always playing with the mercury in them. My poor mother.

How is it that conservatives can’t just scare the ever loving crap out of a bunch of people who are deathly afraid of less than an eighth of a teaspoon of mercury? Hells bells! These idiots are afraid of guns, sugary soft drinks, trans fats, fracking and the elastic in their underwear!

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@abigail,
and don’t forget vinyl siding.

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When I was a kid we played outside all day and came home with scratches and cuts. My mother would apply mercury to our open cuts with Mecurechrome.

With these present day goobers they would have had to lock down my whole neighborhood on any given day.

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I’ll tell you what really scares me – dihydrogen monoxide. Hundreds, if not thousands of people die every year because of dihydrogen monoxide, and nothing is done about it even though it is found in our lakes, streams, rivers, and even in our houses and schools. Not only hazmat, but Homeland Security should look into banning dihydrogen monoxide.

(One of my favorite Penn & Teller episodes.)

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Dont give them any ideas Wyatt.

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That reminds me–
You know what is the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal themometer?

The taste.

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Is there no limit to the stupidity?

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what a frigging joke!!! i wish they would have thrown a lockdown on me for bringing a thermometer into school. the same thing that powers the tubes in the classroom would have been my first comment in a serious rampage

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With people this stupid in charge of “educating” our kids, is it any wonder they don’t learn much except how to hate Republicans and behave like good little sheep?

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