Useful uses for Urine

[Brian S]

When I was a Brickie (many years ago) always told it was good for healing "birds eyes" small areas of worn away skin, you pee over your fingers, never tried it so don't know if it's true

[Peasgood]

Call yourself Goaty and ask questions about peeing on yourself?

Is this a fetish with you or summat?

[edwood]

Jellyfish stings, acid counters the alkali or the alkali counters the acid? Can never remember which way round it goes!

 

 

 

 

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[aspenarb]

De-icer , good on padlocks

 

Bob

[wildflowerbill]

Bit a bizzare one I know.

 

I do know the following and have proved them to myself

 

1. Pee on a conifer (leylandii) that part will go brown and die off.

 

2. Pee on daisies in the lawn and the will die out, may need repeat doses.

Put it in a watering can first if your neighbours can see you!

 

The following Ive heard but not proven by experimentation

 

Male human urine applied at your boundaries is said to keep foxes away.I have not had success with this but a friend in town cured the visits from Mr fox with this.

 

 

Weeing on your hands if you have dermatitis will get rid of it. Applications unknown.

 

Applying it to the compost bin the nitrogen is said to be beneficial to decomposing the high carbon materials.

 

 

I would prefer to keep this thread intelligent. But no doubt the " Are you taking the pee!" comments will follow, but I just wondered how useful is this stuff. After all the addblue exhaust additive now used in modern clean burn diesels is urea based I understand.

 

Wow. I wonder if it's a coincidence that all my clients have a compost heap now. I have built them for somewhere to take a piss and mark my territory.

 

No dermatitis either.

[spudulike]

The gunpowder thing and tanning leather are all to do with the nitrate in the pee.

 

In medieval times, they used to scrape the white potassium nitrate from ye olde shyte heap to make gunpowder with and it is the same nitrate that is used by tanners to soften leather!

[Peasgood]

I have some potassium nitrate in my shed. Is that where it came from?

[spudulike]

I have some potassium nitrate in my shed. Is that where it came from?

 

Probably not but if you mix it with carbon and sulphur - don't smoke near it:lol:

[openspaceman]

The gunpowder thing and tanning leather are all to do with the nitrate in the pee.

 

In medieval times, they used to scrape the white potassium nitrate from ye olde shyte heap to make gunpowder with and it is the same nitrate that is used by tanners to soften leather!

 

It was a requiremnt in some cases to preserve "nightwater" as this once allowed to go stale was used to filter through fresh dry wood ash would react with potasium carbonate to give potassium nitrate, saltpetre. Not only was this the oxidant in gunpowder but also the ingredient to preserve and flavour ham.

 

Oestrogen from urine collected at convents was original ingredient in the contraceptive pill

[MATTMOSS]

Didn't the Vikings or Saxons get there mrs to eat something or other then drink the resulting pee before going into battle?

It made them a bit more crazy??

 

Sure ive heard that?