Why silver?

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:04 pm

Gee, d'you think we've come to a concensus?

Wolveblade · Post by **Wolveblade** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:27 pm

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

Vilkacis · Post by **Vilkacis** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:01 pm

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).

:howl: :oo

-- Vilkacis

Akela · Post by **Akela** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:05 pm

Eh? Someone says silver burns their skin? Before you know it someone will claim to be allergic to oxygen. Sorry, I couldn't resist

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:19 pm

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

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.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:01 am

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

Actually some people do have hypersensitivity to certain metals, usually nickel.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:39 am

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

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

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

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:00 am

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

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:19 am

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.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:46 am

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.

H2S in high doses can kill.

*tosses an egg at Lupin*

Akela · Post by **Akela** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:36 am

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
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.

Apokryltaros · Post by **Apokryltaros** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:52 am

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.

23Jarden · Post by **23Jarden** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:33 pm

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.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:37 pm

Figarou wrote: H2S in high doses can kill.

*tosses an egg at Lupin*

H2O in high doses can kill.

Apokryltaros · Post by **Apokryltaros** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:44 pm

Lupin wrote:
Figarou wrote: H2S in high doses can kill.

*tosses an egg at Lupin*
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)

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:50 pm

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.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:52 pm

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.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:54 pm

Figarou wrote:
Lupin wrote:I was thinking more of inhalation.
In other words......drowning.

Well yes, I was trying to be subtle.

Apokryltaros · Post by **Apokryltaros** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:51 pm

Lupin wrote:
Figarou wrote:
Lupin wrote:I was thinking more of inhalation.
In other words......drowning.
Well yes, I was trying to be subtle.

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.

23Jarden · Post by **23Jarden** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:40 am

When I give my dog a bath she looks like a drowned rat...

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:32 pm

Most animals do. I know my cat does.

Wolveblade · Post by **Wolveblade** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:07 pm

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).
:howl: :oo

-- Vilkacis

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

greniar · Post by **greniar** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:52 pm

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.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:16 pm

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.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:18 pm

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?