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PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 08:15 AM Jul 2012

Next up: gold bathtub for arthritis therapy...

It has long been 'known' that injections of pure gold are useful in treating osteoarthritis. So, in recognition of the need for good medical health, the Romneys possess and use gold bathtubs for their nightly ablutions. Of course, since this is a medical expense, these six-hundred pound bathtubs fabricated from 18 carat gold are completely tax-deductible. And of course, the return will not be released because they have already released 500 pages.

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Next up: gold bathtub for arthritis therapy... (Original Post) PCIntern Jul 2012 OP
Minor detail - gold is non-reactive. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #1
I think you mean Miner lame54 Jul 2012 #2
Cute. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #4
Gold injections were commonplace... PCIntern Jul 2012 #3
But a gold-lined bathtub won't do shit. Injections are different, that's internal. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #5
what about that booze with flakes of gold leaf? eShirl Jul 2012 #6

PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
3. Gold injections were commonplace...
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 09:19 AM
Jul 2012

it was an empirical treatment...no one knew the mechanism for certain but there were a lot of theories.

WD-40 works too...no lie, it helps arthritis but will give you cancer instead.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
5. But a gold-lined bathtub won't do shit. Injections are different, that's internal.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 11:08 AM
Jul 2012

You aren't going to absorb anything by sitting in a gold-lined bathtub. It won't react with water or damn near anything else. It might be pretty, but epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) are a shitload cheaper and they actually work.

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