"I lost thirty pounds off my arse thanks to a pair of copper socks"

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

I'll be 58 in January. I wear the same size cloths I wore in 1976.
I have a secret work out that I have proven works.
It's called work!

And that is the only scientifically proven method I reckons

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by limkol

Isn't copper poisonous? That's why they've stopped using it in some countries as anti-fouling paint on the hulls of ships. So if that's the case, I can understand why it will help you lose weight.

But still it's been used in jewelry and water pipes for centuries. They say copper bracelets should help arthritis sufferers.

Very useful in the moonshine business, so I've heard

Not really. Copper is a much needed mineral in our bodies and is essential in out metabolic processes and without it we'd die.
Too much of it can destroy our liver though.

Apart from that, copper is injested by eating.
Wearing copper socks has the same effect as wearing cotton socks. Or poliester socks. Or wool socks.
The only difference is, when you wear, cotton, polyester or wool you know you weren't screwed over.

[Eichhörnchen]

I ought to admit to a slight "massaging" of the facts here, in that what I actually saw advertised were copper insoles for your shoes; I just thought copper socks sounded funnier.

[Betonov]

I found this

Copper In Medicine

Copper has been used as a medicine for thousands of years including the treatment of chest wounds and the purifying of drinking water. More recently, research has indicated that copper helps prevent inflammation in arthritis and similar diseases. Research is going on into anti-ulcer and anti-inflammatory medicines containing copper, and its use in radiology and for treating convulsions and epilepsy. Although there is no epidemiological evidence that copper can prevent arthritis, there have been claims that the wearing of copper bangles does alleviate the symptoms.

Copper Toxicity

Acute copper poisoning is a rare event, largely restricted to the accidental drinking of solutions of copper nitrate or copper sulphate which should be kept out of easy access in the home. These and organic copper salts are powerful emetics and inadvertent large doses are normally rejected by vomiting. Chronic copper poisoning is also very rare and the few reports refer to patients with liver disease. The capacity for healthy human livers to excrete copper is considerable and it is primarily for this reason that no cases of chronic copper poisoning have been reported.

That's the problem there. There have been claims.
I also claim central Europe but that won't make it happen

[Buddahaid]

[QUOTE=Betonov;2352799....I also claim central Europe but that won't make it happen[/QUOTE]

Too late! I claimed it first.......

[Stealhead]

The copper that jackets a bullet works wonders. The idea is when the bullet hits your body and breaks apart you get some copper deposited. In this way the little fragments mean that you won't need to buy copper insoles or socks.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

The copper that jackets a bullet works wonders. The idea is when the bullet hits your body and breaks apart you get some copper deposited. In this way the little fragments mean that you won't need to buy copper insoles or socks.

Ballistics can really 'sock' it to ya BBY!Just so happens I've three chunks of a .380 round jacket... and a lovely surgical grade wire-twist filigree around a shattered femur to give credence to your insight! I'm still givin' 'em fits at airport security metal detectors after 35 years!

[Buddahaid]

Can't see the image but I can't wait to hear....... Did you lose weight?

[Aktungbby]

Actually in the first year/one month in traction...45 lbs down to 135; 3 lbs below my college wrestling weight!...as for my sense of humor...

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Too late! I claimed it first.......

But do you have a lost document that would show your lineage to a member of the Habsburg family putting you in a legal postition to be the 125 584th in line for the Austrian throne

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Just so happens I've three chunks of a .380 round jacket... and a lovely surgical grade wire-twist filigree around a shattered femur...

Alright, then... how did it happen?

[Betonov]

If we're going to bet on Aktungs missfortune, I'll put 10 euros on he was shot during his police career.

[u crank]

He went hunting with Dick Cheney.

[Betonov]

He wasn't shot in Europe, we still use lead musket balls

Would explain the shattered femur, those things are capable of blowing bones out of the body

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I'll put 10 euros on he was shot during his police career

U lose! A long tale of woe, stupidity and a silver-cloud involving my Maltese landlord's war-relic Beretta; he claimed he recovered as a lad from a crashed WWII ME 109's pilot who 'no longer needed it' on Malta. Short version: in ejecting a known round, the weapon discharged, ricocheting into my thigh at the hip; A partially open slide(reduced velocity), close range and a direct impact with the bone saved the day, along with my own sudden-recall (broomhandle&belt splint) Boy Scout training. The round did not go through nor hit the femoral artery as with a police friend of mine-deceased- and a resident of one of my housing facilities who had his leg amputated just below the hip from similar friendly (.45) fire incidents. The landlord's homeowner insurance and my own just-acquired-on-a-whim credit-card hospital coverage handled my finances for a year; my landlord never raised my rent in ten years! In debriding the wound, surgeons try not to carve up good quadriceps muscle, so the round frags are left in to encapsulate naturally. This ended my rugby days which turned out to be a blessing...All my mates played well into their forties/fifties: and are in walkers, wheelchairs, or boxes. I'm still working, truckin', hiking, biking-and know when it's going to rain. I and my firearm instructor-certification guy, who's hand is pictured with a round from an his Marine M-16 through his palm, advise the new trainees, somewhat gleefully: "do not learn from your mistakes; learn from ours-it saves energy and body parts." Practically everyone I know who works with a weapon has or has been present at an accidental discharge. My cousin, a mighty outdoorsman/hunter/sailor, mocked me for years until, pulling out a birdshott'd shotgun from the rear of his jeep, put it into his own foot; begged the EMT's not to report it and limped to the hospital!!! His first thought, as he confessed over dinner, "Oh God! I'll have to tell Aktung"...there is a god and he's a righteous comedian! NOW The second fracture story: some six months later of the same leg with the full-length steel pin (since removed) from a fall off my Civil War reenacting horse, a noble steed that was not harmed, requires a lot of Hamm's....