BS: Urine and its various uses.

Subject: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:13 AM

I noticed that this topic has captured the imaginations of many many people on Mudcat. Well, two that I know of, but that's a start. What strange uses do you know about for urine?

eace

(I've gone for a pee.)

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,Keinstein
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:33 AM

Urine was the original source of phosphorus. It was a century before someone discovered that bones are a better source, and another 80 years before mineral phosphates were used.

Urine was also the source of nitrates used in gunpowder. The urine of bishops and abbots was prefeered to that of common folk.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:36 AM

It's excellent for writing your name in the snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:48 AM

Its been used as HRT and Thyroxine in the early days of the medication.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:50 AM

American brewing industry.


Urophagia - that's drinking your own - is quite common in some cultures.

It's also "an old method of teeth-whitening during the Renaissance, though it needn't be, and wasn't always necessarily, that of the user".

Can I just say, at this point...






















Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:51 AM

Cluin - that's all very well, but it's in my daughter's handwriting!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:51 AM

For hair styling... witness the Lemon Swirlie

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: skipy
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:53 AM

For fixing dye.
For making foam to cover runways.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 03:54 AM

But I've never even met your daughter!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 04:03 AM

It's a SPROJ effort Cluin - Society for Preservation of Old Jokes. Leadfingers is the founder member (indeed, he was there at the birth of many of the SPROJ benificiaries).

Assisting with compost.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John O'L
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:17 AM

If you soak your hands in it, your callouses will soften. If your hand-basin is a deep one you might want a few beers first.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: skipy
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:22 AM

Leather tanning
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:25 AM

When you have broken down in the cold weather in somewhere like Jugoslavia in -38C, it can be used direct from the tap with some soap to get the grease off your hands, when there is no hot water available anywhere else.
Giok

[It's true]

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,SussexCarole
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:33 AM

Speeds up the action in a garden composter!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:41 AM

I freeze mine in shapes of little teddybears,and give them out as weeny pops to kids at halloween

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:51 AM

Lye

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 05:52 AM

No it's true!

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

I once used it to defrost my car door lock when it was deep frozen.
My ex-wife wasn't too happy though as we were in the middle of a supermarket car park.(That's not why she's my ex.)

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 06:05 AM

i once pissed on my ex wife in a car park,i was very confused at the time cos my car door was frozen

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: bobad
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 07:34 AM

Birth control pills.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 07:37 AM

Laundries used it to keep togas sparkly white in ancient Rome.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:32 AM

the acid bath murderer Haig drank it trying to convince the people that he was mad.

they hung him anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:33 AM

NOT putting out George Bush if he was on fire.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:35 AM

Ps the judge asked at Haig's trial, did he appear to be enjoying it?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:51 AM

no, he was just taking the piss!!


[yes - always has to be one!!]

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

1. It was collected by the Confederacy during the US Civil War to help the Selma (AL) Nitre Works make gunpowder. Women were urged to save the contents of their chamber pots, which were collected. ("Ladies! Save your pee for the Con-fed-er-acy!" was NOT the slogan used.)

2. Because of its mild antiseptic properties it was long used to wash battle wounds. ("Here, Sir Edmund, let us cleanse your facial gash.")

3. Bees are attracted to the sugar in the urine of people with diabetes. This was used for years as a postitive test for the disease.

4. Doctors used to claim that they could diagnose and cure diseases simply by looking at bottles of urine. ("Hector, you've got measles, your mother-in-law's down with glanders, your wife's pregnant, and your horse has diabetes.")

5. Various diseases DO affect the urine, changing it's color, smell, specific gravity, and what you see in the microscope. Liver dysfunction, for example, can turn urine very dark to black.

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

Maple syrup urine disease

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:59 AM

Didn't he do a version of 'Drahn 'em in the barf' Al?
Giok
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Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bizibod
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:02 AM

Easing the pain of jellyfish stings

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:19 AM

Why, for marking your territory, of course!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:32 AM

Urine can be used to relieve the pain of jellyfish and Portugese Man-of-War stings. (Household ammonia works better, if available.)

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: john f weldon
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:49 AM

hate to bring this up, but it may still be happening...

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Leint%20Ale

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:56 AM

That explains this...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:17 AM

Urine collected from public pissoirs and sold to tanners paid for a number of works projects in ancient Rome. The Baths of Caracalla, from which Grand Central Station was copied, for example.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:32 AM

It was also used in the extracting of Woad from the root of the plant Isatis Tinctoria I assume due to the ammonia or urea present being need to extract and "fix" the dye and Elizabeth I forbade any works producing it within a mile of any of her palaces because of the stench!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:38 AM

actually the use of urine was in the preparation of the dye bath from the dye cakes produced through a rotting/retting process. the concentration of the dyestuff by rotting the leaves was *much* more odiferous then the dye bath itself. REALLY gag-making.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:43 AM

OK
Once again, I will be the one to say it - Golden Shower, an aphrodisiac for some.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:44 AM

A piss-up for others

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:52 AM

Picture of a Golden Shower. I have a catalogue that says I can have Golden Showers up the side of my house if it's suitably sheltered.

















'Golden Showers' is actually the name of Englands' best selling climbing yellow rose.

It has a profusion of golden yellow blooms from May to September, sometimes lasting through to Christmas if it's mild enough.

It's also a cocktail. 1oz banana liqueur to 1oz white rum, mix over ice and top up with Sprite.

Some prefer to use peach liqueur for a deeper colour.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:54 AM

liver disorders will give a deeper colour as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Doktor Doktor
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 10:57 AM

(of barges and smacks) ..... ".... to make a sail more efficient and to prolong its life it was dressed with a mixture of oil (traditionally fish oil), seawater and horse urine .... "

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 11:34 AM

You asked for it, Peace. I guess you knew Mudcatters would know their piss lore and you'd get some weird responses but be careful. Urine over your head.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: heric
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 11:58 AM

To collect and concentrate the muscimol from Amanita muscaria.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:01 PM

Micturating isn't a Scottish surname.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:04 PM

heric, a vast number of other drugs pass through unscathed to the point that even sewerage treatment plants can not remove the hormones and other agents that are flushed down the toilet.

Tap water may have lots of trace prescriptions in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:05 PM

The birth control pill is being blamed for fish changing sex, as traces of it survive the sewage farm.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:06 PM

According to my great grandmother it's good for your skin, too. She talked of applying wet diapers to her face...bleck.

I also heard somewhere that the jellyfish bit was an urban legend...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: heric
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:08 PM

I saw a doctor's wife with a huge box of expired medications of various sorts, which she said she had to destroy by flushing. Problem solved, but I'm not sure who to report it to.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Micca
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:20 PM

Sins. "Golden Shower" is also the name given to a drink made from 1/2 Peach juice
1/2 Champagne(or sparkiling wine)
+ a god measure of Apricot Brandy
all well chilled

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 12:24 PM

There are some seriously different people on Mudcat. Who'd a thunk it?