BS: Urine and its various uses.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:43 PM

"Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: bobad - PM
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:56 AM

Maple syrup urine disease"

I will never look at pancakes the same after today!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:02 PM

SussexCarole is spot on. Urine is the best compost activator there is, and it's free. Urine is rich in nitrogen and potassium, and healthy urine is sterile. Lawrence D. Hills, the pioneering organic gardener, called urine "liquid household activator." So, take a trip to the compost heap when needs must, with just a furtive backward glance, and improve the fertility of the garden, and save water at the same time. Everyone's a winner.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:02 PM

All these alternate uses for urine are great, but when you get right down to it, you just can't beat urine for plain old peeing. Try it. See if you can piss Kona coffee or green tea or Tang. Nope, it's not gonna happen. Every time you take a pee it's gonna be urine.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:06 PM

That's why apple juice and beer go through you so quick. They don't have to stop to change colour.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:06 PM

Micca - just how much is a "god measure"? Do the gods use metric or not?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:07 PM

It is most widely used as a means of eliminating liquid waste and excess water from the body.

It is also highly valued, although this is not widely acknowledged, for its remarkable ability to relieve the painful pressures that periodically develop in the region of the human bladder and urethra.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:10 PM

It can also be used for staining one's slacks.

"No matter how you shake and dance
The last few drops go down your pants."

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Midchuck
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:13 PM

1: Put some in a boot.

2: Type up a set of directions for pouring it out of the boot, and glue the directions on the heel.

3: Give the boot to a person and instruct him/her to pour the urine out of the boot.

4: If he/she is unable to do so, elect him/her to Congress.

I assume that's the process that's now used.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: HouseCat
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:24 PM

My grandmother always said a teaspoon of urine in the ear will cure an earache. My Dad (jokingly) said, "Couldn't you just save a spoon and pee right into the ear?" to which she replied mildly, "Oh yes, that was often done, but usually only if there was a boy around to do it."
Ick.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: heric
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 01:26 PM

Don't forget the ambrosiacal, methanethiolic delight of asparagus. Almost miraculously the fun begins in less than an hour.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 02:02 PM

Ya wanna make your urine go all odorful, eat corned beef. Jaysus . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 02:19 PM

If it's technicolor pee you're looking for, good old Detroit Dark Red beets have no peer.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: john f weldon
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 02:26 PM

I'll simplify a long story down to the basics...

...getting rid of an unwelcome long-term guest by peeing in his prized cowboy boots...

...it worked!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 02:58 PM

A woman's urine, combined with apple cider creates a powerful sedative.

Several legends - one claims it was named for a man's mistress who was a barmaid. Another:

A German chemist, Adolph von Baeyer, founder of what was to become the Bayer Chemical Co., who in 1905 won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, happened in for some celebrating of his own. It was on that day that he had synthesized "malonylurea" from a reaction of urea with malonic acid, a chemical found in apples. No one knows exactly what he was trying to accomplish, but malonylurea became known as "Barbituric acid", making St. Barbara Day even more important!

        
http://www.chemcases.com/pheno/pheno01.htm

A Prussian chemist, Adolf von Baeyer, is credited with inventing and naming barbituric acid in 1863 or 1864. He created the acid out of a compound of malonic acid and urea. On the day of his discovery, Baeyer is said to have gone to a nearby tavern to celebrate. Some sources say it happened to be the feast of St. Barbara that day; others say the barmaid was named Barbara. In any case, he named the compound barbituric acid.

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Sleeping-Pill.html

Sincerely,

Gaargoyle

Somewhere - out there is a REALLY good story about this discovery - funny and shocking both.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:00 PM

Aw, go piss in yer ear!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:27 PM

You can buy several types of pee, as a powder or in the original liquid state. For example:

Predatorpee 100% Wolf Urine is a powerful communicator to animals at the top of the food chain. Coyote, Moose, Bear, Elk & Mule Deer fear the wolf more than any other animal. That is why the scent of WolfPee is so effective. When these large prey believe there is a wolf in the immediate area, they flee. By liberally marking an area with WolfPee, you duplicate the territorial marking habits of wolves in the wild. This illusion triggers an instinctive response in the prey. If wolves are around, these animals want to be far away! Predatorpee is not a pesticidal repellent, but rather it is an extremely effective territorial deception scent. The same territorial marking attributes, also make WolfPee an excellent training aid for giant breed dogs. Dogs react to the illusion of canine territorial encroachment and will instinctively respond by marking over wherever WolfPee has been applied.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:28 PM

I hesitate to say, have one on me....!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:32 PM

Spread the granules and your backyard, too, can smell like a predator pissoire.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:40 PM

Never mind asparagus or corned beef. Just eat a big bowl of sugar puffs for breakfast and, by mid-morning, hey presto - sugar puff-scented wee-wee!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 04:04 PM

At uni, I took a survey engineering course. The Prof, named Gerhart (spg?) Gloss had been a German Airman prisoner of war in WW2. He and his buddies made a makeshift camera and used urine to develop photos of the camp and surrounding countryside and got them smuggled back to the Luftwaffe (spg?).

I live in New Brunswick, Canada. I have had more than one occasion of thawing out a frozen padlock or car door/trunk lock "naturally".

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 04:09 PM

MMario a "god measure should have read a GOOD measure, think about 2 fl.oz to I bottle of Champagne
On The matter of colour, the yellow colour of urine is due to eluted salts from the kidneys, mostly Bilirubin, but if you secrete a samall amount, (1-2 mls)of Methylene Blue into a drink such as coffee or dark beer then it is excreted unchanged and can cause severe panic in the recipient as they find they are pissing bright blue!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 04:32 PM

Some American beers and urine seem to be sufficiently similar in taste--so much so that they may be the key to perpetual motion.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: john f weldon
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 04:38 PM

After travelling, do you ever notice that, for several days, your urine will bring back memories of the place you left? More so even than photos?
From Louisiana, magnolia...
From Brazil, caphirini...

...or am I just screwy?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 04:41 PM

I'd use the term, 'different', John. Definitely different . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:27 PM

"Special" even...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 06:28 PM

Peace - wouldn't that be perpetual motions?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 06:31 PM

"Ya know, Butch, it's not a good idea to lick a fire hydrant at -20 F. Warm water to thaw you off? Really? And you don't care where it comes from? O00kay, Butch...."

You can also fill a sock with sand, wet it, and have a decent blackjack or cosh. If you don't have any water handy, well....

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 07:27 PM

I'm afraid to read the ads below...

... very afraid...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: robomatic
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:36 PM

Inspiration and subject of an award winning Broadway musical.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:49 PM

I can't believe that a thread on urine has attracted so much attention. Of course, it's not every day ya get to tell folks what you know about something as relatively obscure as urine. Neat to see the folklore on it.

(It was used in my youth to help dry up bad acne. I tried it too, and it worked. Of course, ya don't go around telling people that when you are nearing your teens. You wait until you're old enough not to give a rat's ass what folks think, no offense intended.)

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:53 PM

It can kill a small tree over a weekend if enough Boy Scouts work at it.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 12:28 AM

Good point Robomatic.

URINE TOWN

Delightful musical - laughed my face into fractures - Yes they made a musical this bad....when you gotta go, you gotta go.

WEBSITE: http://www.urinetown.com/flash/index.html

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 12:29 AM

Six of us turned an evergreen orange by the end of the summer (at a gymnastic camp). The tree base was about 5" in diameter and the people who ran the camp made the mistake of putting a tent platform about 4' from it. It was a two-ended tent. So, what's it gonna be at 2:00 AM? A walk of about 150' to the latrine or the tree?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 02:42 AM

A lot of interesting uses for urine on this thread but I am so surprised that no-one has come up with the best known use for it.....
It helps people to pee!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 03:35 AM

Actually, GS, Amos said it a while back yesterday.

It seems we're missing so many great recycling and fertilization opportunities now that we no longer 'bucket and chucket' our bodily wastes.

But it sure explains why my rubber plant turned yellow over one weekend when I left it to the tender mercies of a housemate.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 03:44 AM

Was his name Johnny?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rog Peek
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 03:52 AM

Being a Guinness drinker, I've always believed that gnat urine was the main constituent in the production of laget!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 04:44 AM

Well Giok, we were TOLD it was Tim.... but that isn't what was on the warrant that the cops brought round the day after he did a moonlight flit with a stolen TV and the furniture.

We've not yet mentioned the most popular urban use for urine - washing down shop doorways, telephone boxes and dark corners. I'm given to understand that if you aim properly and have a good tank of lager to back it up, you can wash the pools of vomit clear across the pavement into the gutter.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 04:46 AM

Makes a great conductor when ya hit the electric fence . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 04:55 AM

You forgot the lifts in tower blocks Liz, another popular toilet, in the ascendant, but I can't stand de scent.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:08 AM

I've never had the misfortune to live in a tower block...

I am even more glad of that fact now.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:12 AM

It's a good wood stain. It was often used to stain boxwood instruments dark brown (recorders, clarinets, flutes, bagpipes). If you have a darkened boxwood instrument the chances are you're inserting something in your mouth that has been left to soak in pre-antibiotic-era pee for several weeks.

There are of course hundreds of Gaelic songs to accompany pummeling urine-soaked tweed on a table.

Inteh 18th century, a dyeing process was dicovered that used a mixture of urine and a specific seaweed from the west coast of Scotland to produce a strong blue colour. It was done in a factory in Glasgow, under conditions of the greatest secrecy to preserve the inventor's monopoly on the process (the factory had high walls and all the workers were monoglot Gaelic speakers). The urine was collected from the East End of Glasgow. But once the locals figured there was money in it, the urine collectors had to carry hydrometers - the suppliers were watering it down.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 09:06 AM

The index to Hyatt's "Folklore Fromm Adams County, Illinois" lists 77 entries for "Urine," not including those for "bed-wetting" and "kidney trouble." Here are a few more interesting entries of the non-human variety:

4015: A bullfrog wetting on you will give you warts.
4645: If you step on the ground where cows wet, you will get ground itch, that is, your toes will crack.
4557: Drink the urine of a goat for a kidney complaint.
5477: Let a person with weak lungs drink "billy goat" urine.
4250: Let a toad wet on your wart to cure it.

Some human ones:

5012: Treating an ear with urine will cure deafness.
9244: "If you want your man to give you all of his money, take a pinch of salt, a pinch of red pepper, and put it in a cup of chamber lye and sprinkle it around in his room. Do this every day for a week and he will give you all of his money."
5584: If you accidentally take poison, rink urine to cause vomiting.
8778: If a gambler is losing, he will pick up a bay baby and let it wet on hime. He thinks that will change his luck and make him lucky.

You too can pick up a copy of this book and learn even more! And...it's all from the area where I (and Mark Twain) grew up!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rog Peek
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 10:00 AM

As well as tower block lifts, it is also used as an 'air freshener' in telephone boxes, multi story car park stair wells, and pedestrian underpasses.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: maldenny
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 10:21 AM

Followed this thread from the 'Cleaning LPs' thread.

I think SussexCarole is brave to admit to using urine as a compost accelerator. A recent 'Gardeners Question Time' couldn't get any of the ladies present to admit to using it, though about half the men were happy to. Maybe something to do with the differing mechanics or geometry of the procedure.

Also, I've heard that on sailing ships, the crew washed their dungarees by soaking them in a communal urine barrel (apart from those with certain diseases), and then towing them behind the ship for a while.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 03:11 PM

Ah, the common urinal, known in the British Army as the 'Gunners Barrel'... Possibly from the tradition of pissing down the muzzles of muskets to clean the caked on powder during battle when stopping to boil a can of water was too lengthy a process but not cleaning the muzzle was too dangerous. A clogged musket barrel will cause a misfire and the thing will explode in your face or project your ball about 3 feet downwards.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 04:41 PM

It's great for washing that last bit of baby batter out of the tube before you go to sleep so you don't wake up crusty.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:13 PM

We nurses had a great way to get back at difficult male patients. Not on the ones who are actually sick you understand - just the ones in for some minor problem. A sense of humour, on their part, helped too.

1. Place 1 effervescent tablet and a little Mercurochrome in an empty urinal.
2. Present it with a friendly smile to the difficult male.
3. Hide outside the door and wait for the screams.

You could use Gentian Violet but red colouring is more interesting.

Cheers, safely pensioned off, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:29 PM

We once put colorless indicators (for acids and bases) in the high school urinals....

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:38 PM

Ford Pills - Are they still around. Are good for turning urine blue.
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Cheers, Joy