THE LINK BETWEEN SILVER & SMURFS

[SILVERFINGER]

lol sorry I shouldnt laugh

https://www.aol.co.uk/living/2019/05/15/why-this-man-s-skin-turned-blue/

 

[Scuzzle]

I've seen stories about people turning bue through drinking collodial silver (might be the same guy they trot out?) but surely everyone with a silver bracelet or necklace would have a blue mark where they rest against the skin if there was anything in this?

[AlphaBeast]

Papa Smurf! 😯😂

[AlphaBeast]

He needs to join TSF and upload an Avatar...oh wait! 😂🙊

[MickB]

Rubbed silver onto his body and turned blue? We'd all have blue hands after fondling our silver if that was the case. Surely he was drinking colloidal silver to get like that.

[Wackattak924]

It does show in the video him drinking it. 

 

[kimchi]

47 minutes ago, Scuzzle said:

I've seen stories about people turning bue through drinking collodial silver (might be the same guy they trot out?) but surely everyone with a silver bracelet or necklace would have a blue mark where they rest against the skin if there was anything in this?

Mostly scare stories that I have seen. The AMA I think it is has a calculator of how much colloidal silver you can consume on average daily depending on weight, age etc without suffering any skin discoloration. It's conservative imo but if you average it out if you don't take it daily (don't see much point myself, or just have a little e.g. 5ml - a teaspoon, or just use it to disinfect your home, rinse veg etc) then when you get really sick you can safely take loads of the stuff. The only problem is cost to buy, that's why I make my own.

It's only hearsay but one idea is that the royals are 'blue bloods' because of their use of silver cutlery over many years, 'born with a silver spoon in their mouth' etc, giving them pronounced blue veins. I reckon that's partly blood type though as I have the same. But some also say that is why the plague did not get many of them in the 1600s.

Good point about the skin discolouration. A relative used to wear a copper wristband and that area turned pretty green over a number of years, but reversed quickly. There must be something about pure copper compared to silver and gold because folk simply don't get that with gold and silver jewellery etc as far as I've seen.

[MickB]

Apparently his cause of death was by drowning as he failed a specific gravity test.

[999magnum]

ok I'll say it. He looks ridiculous, but he's still gettin' some.

[Draconicus]

Terrible sorry, but the video on the link shows a thin guy and his girlfriend who eats like a Hippo... ...or a Dinosaur lool

Just loved it:) 

[TonyS]

Can Argyria kill you?

Alcohol also kills bacteria, but if you inferred that you could ingest alcohol and killbacterial infections, you'd be eligible for the Darwin award. The concentrations of alcohol that you'd have to ingest to kill an infection would kill you first. The same applies to colloidal silver.

[Goldflinger]

Sorry but just thought of this instantly

 

[TonyS]

I remember dancing to that on the podiums at Gatecrasher.

There’s a lot you don’t know about me  

[Murph]

17 hours ago, TonyS said:

I remember dancing to that on the podiums at Gatecrasher.

There’s a lot you don’t know about me  

Or don't want to know!

[FrozenMojito]

There's a loopy American wannabe-politician called Stan Jones who is also famous for turning himself blue by drinking colloidal silver. Apparently gullible quacky people think that because silver has antibiotic effects, if they drink it then it will miraculously cure all ills.

Perhaps the two of them should have got together and formed a real-life Blue Man Group.

 

[SILVERFINGER]

29 minutes ago, FrozenMojito said:

There's a loopy American wannabe-politician called Stan Jones who is also famous for turning himself blue by drinking colloidal silver. Apparently gullible quacky people think that because silver has antibiotic effects, if they drink it then it will miraculously cure all ills.

Perhaps the two of them should have got together and formed a real-life Blue Man Group.

 

 

And I reckon former UK PM John Major used to drink it too 

 

[TonyS]

I take antibiotics every day, no way am I touching colloidal silver as an alternative.

[Goldflinger]

I was just thinking, if I started knocking back that silver concoction in November, I could set myself up for a ... 😀

 

[PansPurse]

Silver is a heavy metal so, like most heavy metals, is potentially toxic, but is only really dangerous once it's inside your body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver#Precautions

Wikipedia reckons it's less bad than some heavy metals, but there's a world of difference between ingesting something and handling it with your hands/wearing it as jewellery.

[PansPurse]

Actually what can be really interesting is the thinking behind taking silver as a health tonic. Silver does have antibacterial properties, which makes it great for, say, kitchenware/cutlery, and has centuries of associations with purity/cleanness.

[TonyS]

2 hours ago, PansPurse said:

Actually what can be really interesting is the thinking behind taking silver as a health tonic. Silver does have antibacterial properties, which makes it great for, say, kitchenware/cutlery, and has centuries of associations with purity/cleanness.

I think I’ll settle for my copper pans.