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Re: Is DHMO considered safe to use?

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Fri Apr 01, 2022 3:57 pm

Quint would say no. Brody hated it with a passion, yet lived surrounded by it. Hooper was a DHMO nerd.
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 3:59 pm

I don't think it is good for you. Some people are close to 70% of that stuff, and look at how they act!

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Fri Apr 01, 2022 5:26 pm

It's so dangerous I only shower once a week.
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:53 pm

We had some delivered this afternoon in pellet form. Pretty useless I thought. No benefit to pelleted, you would have to keep it in cold storage and even then, probably stick together and make a useless blob. Otherwise if you don't have cold stored, look out, may as well put it in a bucket.
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Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:11 pm

worth1 wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 5:26 pm It's so dangerous I only shower once a week.
I hear ya.


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Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:04 am

The reality is, much like that Seinfeld episode, my present shower head stinks. My previous one had POWER, but a cheap plastic waterline housing that gave out after but a few glorious shower years. So, I went shopping for shower heads at Home Depot. I had no idea of the sheer number of varieties available. Some had about 2 dozen settings on them. I only want one, FULL FRONTAL ASSAULT. No employee could help with my request (I didn't word it that way, to them). I had a choice between one that looked very good, but had a cheap plastic waterline housing, and another one that looked OK and had a stainless steel waterline housing. OK = stinks.

After a long day in the garden, I am dirty and sore. I want a shower to pummel my muscles like a good masseuse. In all seriousness, the next time I go looking for a shower head, I'm going online to see if any people rate their shower head anything like that Commando 450.

The only other option is to hook up a pressure washer in the shower. The Predator 3100 looks good. :roll:

(And, I'm joking about the Predator 3100. I don't want anyone to think I would attempt that. It would likely exfoliate down to the bone.)
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Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:57 am

Bower wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:53 pm We had some delivered this afternoon in pellet form. Pretty useless I thought. No benefit to pelleted, you would have to keep it in cold storage and even then, probably stick together and make a useless blob. Otherwise if you don't have cold stored, look out, may as well put it in a bucket.
I wonder if some nitrogen hitches a ride to the ground, like with snow?

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Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:37 pm

Tormato wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:57 am
Bower wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:53 pm We had some delivered this afternoon in pellet form. Pretty useless I thought. No benefit to pelleted, you would have to keep it in cold storage and even then, probably stick together and make a useless blob. Otherwise if you don't have cold stored, look out, may as well put it in a bucket.
I wonder if some nitrogen hitches a ride to the ground, like with snow?
Probably. Another thing about snow is the release as it melts of a small amount of 03. Ozone. You can smell it. I believe it helps stubborn 'stratified' seeds to germinate. Pelleted is probably just as good - it's just not as common here, so rarely collected for the purpose, as I have done with snow.
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Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:16 pm

I don't know about the rest of you :roll: but I prefer to use water over that stuff! :lol:
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Tue Jun 28, 2022 10:50 pm

Tormato wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:04 am The reality is, much like that Seinfeld episode, my present shower head stinks. ... Some had about 2 dozen settings on them. I only want one, FULL FRONTAL ASSAULT.
I remember those shower heads but by law all new ones have a restrictor in them to save water. The fact that it is now impossible to get a wake you shower is not considered an issue by the powers that be. SOME shower heads have an easy to remove washer as the restrictor... others it is more complicated. A contractor or store can't remove them but nothing says we can't...
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Sat Apr 01, 2023 9:22 am

Bumping for the newbies.

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Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:40 am

Have you seen the latest? It's called "fursno".
The delivery crew lay it out and it looks like ordinary frozen DHMO, but then it develops a rug like texture. :roll:
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Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:47 pm

Bower wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:40 am Have you seen the latest? It's called "fursno".
The delivery crew lay it out and it looks like ordinary frozen DHMO, but then it develops a rug like texture. :roll:

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Looks like GMO DHMO, to me. :roll:

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Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:08 pm

Tormato wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:47 pm
Bower wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:40 am Have you seen the latest? It's called "fursno".
The delivery crew lay it out and it looks like ordinary frozen DHMO, but then it develops a rug like texture. :roll:

fursnow-766.JPG
Looks like GMO DHMO, to me. :roll:
Eww. Do you think it's animal or plant DNA? I mean, it could be astroturf I mean, some grass thing, as much as fur...???? :shock:
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Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:37 pm

Bower wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:08 pm
Tormato wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:47 pm
Bower wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:40 am Have you seen the latest? It's called "fursno".
The delivery crew lay it out and it looks like ordinary frozen DHMO, but then it develops a rug like texture. :roll:

fursnow-766.JPG
Looks like GMO DHMO, to me. :roll:
Eww. Do you think it's animal or plant DNA? I mean, it could be astroturf I mean, some grass thing, as much as fur...???? :shock:
Looks like it's some sort of cross with lion's mane mushroom.

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Sat Apr 01, 2023 5:45 pm

Tormato wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:37 pm
Bower wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:08 pm
Tormato wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:47 pm
Bower wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:40 am Have you seen the latest? It's called "fursno".
The delivery crew lay it out and it looks like ordinary frozen DHMO, but then it develops a rug like texture. :roll:

fursnow-766.JPG
Looks like GMO DHMO, to me. :roll:
Eww. Do you think it's animal or plant DNA? I mean, it could be astroturf I mean, some grass thing, as much as fur...???? :shock:
Looks like it's some sort of cross with lion's mane mushroom.
Well that's good! I could eat some.. :twisted: 8-)
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Re: Is DHMO considered safe to use?

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Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:27 pm

First check the color. You don't want it crossing with yellow snow.

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Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:14 pm

Yeah yellow is dominant there, real hard to get back out.

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Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:24 pm

You guys are amazing ! You keep me laughing on a daily basis :lol: when I grow up I wanna be just like you ! :P
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Mon Apr 03, 2023 6:24 pm

I bathe in it regularly.
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