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What the hell is lye???

DannyBoy

Diamond Member
Just read an email from a friend, said he was in hospital due to a chemical burn when he was messing around with "Lye"... 😕

What the hell is lye? :frown:
 
you can make soap from it. it's sodium hydroxide and has a pH of 14. was your friend watching fight club?
 
It's a very basic chemical that eats through plant and animal matter. It's a main ingredient in drain cleaner because it eats through organic stuff like hair.
 
Originally posted by: white
you can make soap from it. it's sodium hydroxide and has a pH of 14. was your friend watching fight club?

no he was in hospital, what's fight club got to do with this? 😕

Anyways cheers :beer:
 
Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Originally posted by: white
you can make soap from it. it's sodium hydroxide and has a pH of 14. was your friend watching fight club?

no he was in hospital, what's fight club got to do with this? 😕

Anyways cheers :beer:

Have you seen Fight Club? It's got everything to do with it.
 
Originally posted by: InstincT
Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Originally posted by: white
you can make soap from it. it's sodium hydroxide and has a pH of 14. was your friend watching fight club?

no he was in hospital, what's fight club got to do with this? 😕

Anyways cheers :beer:

Have you seen Fight Club? It's got everything to do with it.

saw fight club years ago, don't remember much of it except edward norton imagining brad pitt to be a real person.
 
you generally hear about it together with mass graves, genocide and murder heh...whats ur friend doing eh?😉
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
you generally hear about it together with mass graves, genocide and murder heh...whats ur friend doing eh?😉

He's a landscape Gardener, maybe there's something he's not telling me :Q
 
Lye -- the crucial ingredient.
(adding lye to mix)
Ancient peoples found their clothes
got cleaner if they washed them at a
certain spot in the river. Why?
Because, human sacrifices were once
made on the hills above this river.
Year after year, bodies burnt. Rain
feel. Water seeped through the wood
ashes to become lye. The lye
combined with the melted fat of the
bodies, till a thick white soapy
discharge crept into the river.

Tyler licks his lips until they're gleaming wet. He takes
Jack's hands and KISSES the back of it.

TYLER
The first soap was made from the
ashes of heroes. Like the first
monkeys shot into space.

The saliva shines in the shape of the kiss. Tyler pours a
bit of the flaked lye onto Jack's hand.

TYLER
Without sacrifice, without death, we
would have nothing.

Jack's whole body JERKS. Tyler holds tight to Jack's hand
and arm. Tears well in Jack's eyes; his face tightens.

TYLER
This is a chemical burn. It will
hurt more than you've ever been
burned and you will have a scar. 😀
 
Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Originally posted by: InstincT
Originally posted by: DannyBoy
Originally posted by: white
you can make soap from it. it's sodium hydroxide and has a pH of 14. was your friend watching fight club?

no he was in hospital, what's fight club got to do with this? 😕

Anyways cheers :beer:

Have you seen Fight Club? It's got everything to do with it.

saw fight club years ago, don't remember much of it except edward norton imagining brad pitt to be a real person.
Fight Club reccomends that you wash lye off yourself using some nice clean water! 😀

You don't remember the scene in the kitchen where Tyler plants a big, wet kiss on Jack's hand and then pins it down and pours lye on it? It's followed by screaming, a rant, and then Tyler flicks the cap off a gallon bottle of vinegar... it's pretty cool.

Where did your friend get lye, and what was he trying to do as he was "playing" with it??


edit: Oops, I guess the previous poster already said some of this...
 
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