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Gee, d'you think we've come to a concensus? :wink:
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i have a silver chain with a werewolf ring on it....i love it...but i cannot wear it bc it burns my skin.....yes i am a werewolf.....i do not know why silver hurts me...only that it dose......as for silver bullets ..... well wouldnt you guys be scared if a bullet was comming at you no matter what it was made out of ? i would
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Wolveblade wrote:i have a silver chain with a werewolf ring on it....i love it...but i cannot wear it bc it burns my skin.....yes i am a werewolf.....i do not know why silver hurts me...only that it dose......
Just a friendly word of warning, Wolveblade: there are several people around here who don't take kindly to such claims. So be careful about that kind of thing -- they'll want proof.

By the way, you have the same birthday as my sister (you're exactly one year older than her).
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Eh? Someone says silver burns their skin? Before you know it someone will claim to be allergic to oxygen. Sorry, I couldn't resist :lol:
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Akela wrote:Eh? Someone says silver burns their skin? Before you know it someone will claim to be allergic to oxygen. Sorry, I couldn't resist :lol:
I have an acquaintance that is allergic to water. Just thought I'd add that.


And Vilk is right, Wolveblade. No pretending. If you wanna roleplay, we've got a thread for that.
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Akela wrote:Eh? Someone says silver burns their skin? Before you know it someone will claim to be allergic to oxygen. Sorry, I couldn't resist :lol:
Actually some people do have hypersensitivity to certain metals, usually nickel.
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Wolveblade wrote:i have a silver chain with a werewolf ring on it....i love it...but i cannot wear it bc it burns my skin.....yes i am a werewolf.....i do not know why silver hurts me...only that it dose......as for silver bullets ..... well wouldnt you guys be scared if a bullet was comming at you no matter what it was made out of ? i would

:o You're a werewolf? You know what this means!!!!

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Sorry...I just can't resist tossing duckies at werewolves.


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Also silver is suppose to help cleanse wounds and injuries. Dunno if that this technique actually works, but my Mother when I was little, would put a hard boiled egg into a thin cloth with silver wedged into the egg. And would rub any bruises or injuries with it.

For some reason when you pull the silver out, it becomes dark and tarnished.
Huh :?
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Rwolf wrote:Also silver is suppose to help cleanse wounds and injuries. Dunno if that this technique actually works, but my Mother when I was little, would put a hard boiled egg into a thin cloth with silver wedged into the egg. And would rub any bruises or injuries with it.

For some reason when you pull the silver out, it becomes dark and tarnished.
Huh :?
Silver tarnishes in the presence of sulfur. There is sulfur in eggs (in fact, the smell of rotting eggs is usually hydrogen sulfide.) So it was probably the sulfur in the eggs tarnishing the piece of silver.

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Lupin wrote:
Rwolf wrote:Also silver is suppose to help cleanse wounds and injuries. Dunno if that this technique actually works, but my Mother when I was little, would put a hard boiled egg into a thin cloth with silver wedged into the egg. And would rub any bruises or injuries with it.

For some reason when you pull the silver out, it becomes dark and tarnished.
Huh :?
Silver tarnishes in the presence of sulfur. There is sulfur in eggs (in fact, the smell of rotting eggs is usually hydrogen sulfide.) So it was probably the sulfur in the eggs tarnishing the piece of silver.

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H2S in high doses can kill.

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Lupin wrote:
Akela wrote:Eh? Someone says silver burns their skin? Before you know it someone will claim to be allergic to oxygen. Sorry, I couldn't resist :lol:
Actually some people do have hypersensitivity to certain metals, usually nickel.
I doubt that means their skin bursts into flames when they touch it though.
Excelsia wrote:I have an acquaintance that is allergic to water. Just thought I'd add that.
I know someone who is allergic to wheat.... but water!?! You need it to survive and it's in most drinks to some degree or another.
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Akela wrote:
Excelsia wrote:I have an acquaintance that is allergic to water. Just thought I'd add that.
I know someone who is allergic to wheat.... but water!?! You need it to survive and it's in most drinks to some degree or another.
It's not that if they drink water, they die, they break out into a bad rash when they get wet.
My high school ceramics teacher told me about how one of his students (out of the 3 decades of teaching ceramics) turned out to be allergic to clay, in that, everytime she touched the stuff, she broke out into a rash.
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Actually some people do have hypersensitivity to certain metals, usually nickel
That's me! Evil vile Nickel!
I doubt that means their skin bursts into flames when they touch it though.
I sieriously doubt that's what he meant.
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Figarou wrote: H2S in high doses can kill.

*tosses an egg at Lupin* :D
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Lupin wrote:
Figarou wrote: H2S in high doses can kill.

*tosses an egg at Lupin* :D
Image H2O in high doses can kill.
Do you know how unpleasant it is to drink 2 gallons of water?
(that's the LD50 number of water, fyi)
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Apokryltaros wrote:Do you know how unpleasant it is to drink 2 gallons of water?
(that's the LD50 number of water, fyi)
I was thinking more of inhalation.
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Lupin wrote:
Apokryltaros wrote:Do you know how unpleasant it is to drink 2 gallons of water?
(that's the LD50 number of water, fyi)
I was thinking more of inhalation.
In other words......drowning.
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Figarou wrote:
Lupin wrote:I was thinking more of inhalation.
In other words......drowning.
Well yes, I was trying to be subtle. :duckylook:
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Lupin wrote:
Figarou wrote:
Lupin wrote:I was thinking more of inhalation.
In other words......drowning.
Well yes, I was trying to be subtle. :duckylook:
Funny you mentioned that...
The scientist who found out the LD50 number of water had to keep starting over, as his rats tended to drown before they could be poisoned.
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When I give my dog a bath she looks like a drowned rat... :P
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Most animals do. I know my cat does.
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Vilkacis wrote:
Wolveblade wrote:i have a silver chain with a werewolf ring on it....i love it...but i cannot wear it bc it burns my skin.....yes i am a werewolf.....i do not know why silver hurts me...only that it dose......
Just a friendly word of warning, Wolveblade: there are several people around here who don't take kindly to such claims. So be careful about that kind of thing -- they'll want proof.

By the way, you have the same birthday as my sister (you're exactly one year older than her).
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hey thats really cool sharing a birthday. yeah i know about the proof i was forced to dsay i was role playing bc they were about ready to stone me :( normal human behavior
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silver is also a scottish method of killing a witch who is in animal form. it is also recorded that the beast of le gavaudin(i think that'show you spell it) was killed by aa silver bullet made from the community church's communion goblet. :wink:
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Akela wrote:
Excelsia wrote:I have an acquaintance that is allergic to water. Just thought I'd add that.
I know someone who is allergic to wheat.... but water!?! You need it to survive and it's in most drinks to some degree or another.

Water leaves a rash on his skin. But, he can still drink it. Yeah, I know that's really weird.
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Excelsia wrote:

Water leaves a rash on his skin. But, he can still drink it. Yeah, I know that's really weird.
Are you sure its not something in the water?
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