BS: Urine and its various uses.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:39 PM

"I know that urine love with him,
'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym."

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:40 PM

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.

Is that where the phrase "Urine luck today!" comes from?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 06:44 PM

Second person singular: Urine

First person singular: Irine

First person plural: Werine

Second person plural (in southern US): Y'allrine

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 07:27 PM

apparently the reason the best urine for sodium nitrate came from Bishops and Abbots - is because they tended to drink more alcohol

My dad remember the public pissoirs in our home town- someone would come around to collect the urine..

it was used in the tanning process too..

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:12 PM

You can't play the game without ammunition!

Am I the only one who remembers this in the 60s?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:15 PM

No, because I am too young; but a ping pong ball in the bowl helps little boys with their aiming technique. I used to live with a bloke whose ping pong ball must have been bouncing around the bathroom, judging by the mess he'd make.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 09:06 PM

Yes, Liz...I am sure. As a male, *I* have seen far too many bathrooms...public AND private... made into unholy messes.

Well...that gives us one more use for urine.....job security for janitors.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: john f weldon
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 02:17 AM

...sigh... ...long since vanished from montreal, the old metal trough in the men's room... ...capable of serving an unlimited number of beer-soaked guys... ...but they still exist in distant corners of the globe... ...very efficient for lanting, no doubt?

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 02:27 AM

I'm glad they're gone now. SOB to get out of them when you've fallen in.

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

"long since vanished from montreal, the old metal trough in the men's room"

I've heard that there is still one extant at Molson Stadium.

Send your friends pee mail

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 07:58 AM

Quote: "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."

The truth is that ladies rarely do it because there's a far greater risk of horseflies hovering around the compost heap rising up and biting your bum during the execution of the process if you're a lady.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 09:12 AM

I just read that some of the ancient Greeks thought that amber was hardened lynx pee.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 10:00 AM

The truth is that ladies rarely do it because there's a far greater risk of horseflies hovering around the compost heap rising up and biting your bum during the execution of the process if you're a lady.

Not to mention the difficulty of straddling the compost heap - especially if your compost is in boxes like mine is. I have no intention of standing in that stuff. And it can be seen from the road.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Tootler
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 10:40 AM

Urine was used in the fulling of woollen cloth.

All those "Waulking" songs from Western Scotland were sung while stamping about in a very large bath of Human Pee. Well, actually, later it got replaced by Fullers Earth.

My surname "Walker" arose because some fairly remote ancestor did something similar.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 12:34 PM

Just makes you wonder which brave soul first mentioned it to his fellow highlanders....

Hey man, I got this idea we could walk around in a bath of piss all day......

A bit like those Native Americans....

No more getting sunburnt for me, its rubbing on the buffalo dung time.....

Did the rest of the village, say wow! what a brilliant idea!

Or did they say, well its an idea......

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 12:46 PM

There are other ways to get the urine to the compost pile other than in one's bladder, ya know. A bucket comes to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: heric
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 01:14 PM

>>...sigh... ...long since vanished from montreal, the old metal trough in the men's room... ...capable of serving an unlimited number of beer-soaked guys... ...but they still exist in distant corners of the globe... ...very efficient for lanting, no doubt? <<

The last one in San Diego, at the Star Bar, was remodelled out of existence a couple of months ago, with no mention and no regard for its historical significance.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 04:15 PM

Only you would find that Bobad.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 04:27 PM

Yeah, like everyone talks about the good stuff to do with urine. Never the bad stuff. Here is a picture of a middle linebacker from Hamilton who started his urine therapy on March 23, 2007. It has definitely fu#ked him up.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 09:25 PM

I believe I read once that there were tribes in which the lower classes would smoke peyote & have visions followed by horrible hangovers. The upper classes would then drink their urine & have the visions without the hangovers. The kidneys of the proletariat had filtered out a lot of the bad stuff. Si non e vero....

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 11:53 PM

I don't know about peyote (which is usually eaten) but I do know that the upper class of certain tribes in Siberia would eat hallucigenic mushrooms (they were quite costly) and the active principle was passed out in the urine, which was drunk by the lower classes, and so everyone had a good time.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 12:07 AM

Happens with the Yanomami, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 01:42 AM

"the active principle was passed out in the urine, which was drunk by the lower classes, and so everyone had a good time."

Ah yes, such a concept existed in Western Europe in the Industrial Revolution. Trade Unions noticed that the bosses did shit upom the workers...

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 04:42 AM

it is good for marking ones territory,i once pissed myself at a party and nobody came near me.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 06:07 AM

The problem with Amanita muscaria is that it contains ibotenic acid. This causes irreversible brain damage but is metabolized in the body into muscimol, which like the other alkaloids in the mushroom, is a heavy-duty hallucinogen but with no long-term physical effects. So the person who eats the mushroom itself is risking a lot more than hangovers, while the pee drinkers just get safely smashed.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Dickey
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 08:31 AM

I have found that plants grow like crazy after I pee around them.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Dickey
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 08:39 AM

During the American Civil War, The confederates were short on gunpowder so the resorted to collecting women's pee to make it with, inspring this poem:

ohn Harrolson! John Harrolson! You are a wretched creature.
You've added to this bloody war a new and awful feature.
You'd have us think while very man is bound to be a fighter,
The ladies, bless the dears, should save their P for nitre.

John Harrolson! John Harrolson! Where did you get the notion
To send your barrel 'round the town to gather up the lotion?
We thought the girls had work enough making shirts and kissing,
But you have put the pretty dears to patriotic pissing.

John Harrolson! John Harrolson! Do pray invent a neater
And somewhat more modest mode of making your saltpetre;
For 'tis an awful idea, John, gunpowdery and cranky,
That when a lady lifts her shift, she's killing off a Yankee.

The poem made it's way to the Union Army, where a Yankee penned the
following addendum:

John Harrolson! John Harrolson! We've read in song and story
How women's tears through all the years have moistened fields of
glory.
But never was it told before amid such scenes of slaughter
Your Southern beauties dried their tears and went to making water.

No wonder that your boys are brave, who wouldn't be a fighter
If every time he fired his gun, he used his sweetheart's nitre;
And vice-versa, what would make a Yankee soldier sadder
Than dodging bullets fired from a pretty woman's bladder?

They say there was a subtle smell that lingered in that powder,
And as the smoke grew thicker and the din of battle louder,
That there was found to this compound one serious objection,
No soldier boy could sniff it without having an erection.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 06:12 PM

Martin Gibson used to make snow cones out of it!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 10:37 PM

I thought 'waulking' involved soaking the woven wool in urine, then 'beating' in over a beater bar or the backs of chairs, NOT wading in the urine...???

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 11:24 PM

The amniotic fluid, in which the fetus develops inside the amniotic sac before birth, consists largely of the fetus' own urine. Here's the Wikipedia page about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Dickey
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 11:41 PM

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 03:53 AM

Wool is coated in natural waterproofing. To soak it properly, it needs to be 'agitated', like the alternating rotations of a washing machine. Before washing machines were invented, feet were perfect for the job of agitating. Kept them nice and clean too.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 09:16 AM

Washing your face in baby pee was supposed to "cure" freckles. And Ye Olde Romans used it as a mouthwash.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 04:05 PM

Ooh yummy....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 04:32 AM

Abbot's and Bishop's pee was best for gunpowder because they were wine drinkers. I think I got that from a Hornblower novel.

James Bond used it for invisible ink....

My dad once used it in his motorbike carbide lamp when nothing else was available. His girlfriend,-later my mum- was not impressed, but she married him anyway.

"Chammily'll poison you, my old man.
Chammily'll poison you, come cuddle me, my Dan."
Fermented urine as bleach.

'Stumbling' Jack Elliot.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 09:20 AM

My mother used it quite a bit. She'd often say, "Urine trouble, young man!"

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 12:14 PM

A former girlfriend's mother swore to this story: semi-literate, semi-intelligent, mother delivers baby in hospital; hasn't decided on a name; sees an interesting word in print, which she pronounces Ureen. Which is how Urine came to be used as a name for a baby girl.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 01:15 PM

My mother went to school with a girl named "Pellegra" -- the girl's mother thought the word was the name of a Greek goddess.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 04:23 PM

My Dad used to call his yougest sister "Placenta".

Until she found out what it meant.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,Phil Garringer
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 05:21 PM

I remember reading in one of the "Sharpe's Rifles" books that the redcoats would pee down the barrel of their muskets to break up the fouling a bit.

I know for a fact that urine will keep deer away from your veggies!

I also know that it is a greatly cathartic act to piss on the grave of your enemy. Not from first hand experience. My Uncle did it.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 05:35 PM

It's also a great way to share a bottle of good whisky with dead friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 12:31 AM

Good way to get the warmth back into your willy while icefishing.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 12:35 AM

Though there's a better way, if she'll go for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: GUEST,Jim Carroll
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 03:08 AM

2 uses not mentioned.
In the manufacture of cloth (tweed) in the Outer Hebrides, the cloth was soaked in urine and then stretched by hand by a group of women (don't they always get the best jobs!).
The process was known as 'waulking' and was done to the accompaniment of singing, (hence 'waulking songs').
Some Travellers, when they wished to marry, would pee into a bucket and when it was swirled round they were considered joined for life.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: bobad
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 10:19 PM

German ingenuity: The Piss Screen

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 11:05 PM

My father used to tell of when he was on searchlights in WW2. Their unit had a 'comedian' who thought it was hilarious to stagger back into the hut and piss on the hot pot-belly stove, then laugh about the complaints about the resultant steam.

They fixed him. The unit sparky wired the stove to a frightening voltage.

I've used it on my wellies/gumboots when fishing on VERY cold days.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Rog Peek
Date: 14 Aug 07 - 06:40 PM

Just returned from Ireland, and Heric, you appearing to be a connoisseurs of urinals, thought you might like to know there is still one of those metal troughs in The Wallis Arms in Millstreet Town, and in Con Lucey's in Knocknagree, both in Co. Cork.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: bobad
Date: 14 Aug 07 - 07:40 PM

For the connoisseur of the pissoir: http://urinal.net/

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Aug 07 - 09:19 PM

Dickey & Rapaire: This song (re?)appeared during W.W. I, under the title "Chamber Lye", with von Hindenburg in the place of John Harrolson. I suspect that the story is apocryphal, but it would be interesting to know when the song actually originated.

Subject: RE: BS: Urine and its various uses.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Aug 07 - 05:52 PM

Heard a guy in Whitby sing a self penned ditty about The Lant Men, apparently they were the ones that took the piss.
G
Lant