Who's buying all the glitter?

[Zaida Gearbox]

Maybe someone is building the Mother Of All Glitter-Bombs?

I told you it's me! I'm going to cover all of the Philadelphia area in glitter. I'm actually enjoying this idea now.

 

[Essence Lumin]

And just so you know, nothing goes to waste from that exotic, rare animal. The non-glittery parts make a nutritious meal.

(if you buy this, shop around. ThinkGeek has it for $7, Amazon for $28)

A search for that on Amazon brings up some other interesting items.

 

[Soen Eber]

OK, serious thoujght. Reflective glitter would make one hell of a paint additive for roadway and other markings. I do remember there was a shortage of reflective paint a couple years back, because China was using so much of it. Not sure on this since mica is probably used in both products.

 

[Soen Eber]

And on a more somber note, the metallic pigments used in glitter are derived from the mineral mica, a great quantity of which is mined by up to 22,000 child laborers in India alone, which exports 25% of the world supply (the other suppliers being Brazil, China, Pakistan, Peru, Sri Lanka and Sudan). The children are as young as six years old. Besides working in harsh conditions, they contract asthma, silicosis (an often fatal lung condition), and TB. Mica is also used in paints, consumer tech, and makeup.

If you look, there are mica-free makeups and glitter.

 

[elvisbirch]

My theory:

Ski resorts for the fake pow pow they blow out. Making it shimmer and shine! It would also break down if using biodegradable glitter. Especially the clear type.
Make the "frost" truly shimmer on trees.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Greeting cards companies?

I was thinking road signs, maybe, but they use tiny aluminum spheres to be reflextive/sparkly or something.

Billboards maybe?

oo oo maybe it gets mixed into concrete for fancy sidewalks or asphalt for better night visibility?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

/me looks at craft shelf

Mrs. Quandry.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I lived in a house when I was in junior high that had gold glitter in the popcorn ceiling. It was actually pretty cool!

 

[Soen Eber]

It's been solved: boat paint. I am too lazy to cite a source however, but it'a an easy web search.

 

[OftenMinimize2892]

Most people say, paint, tiles for computers, phones. But do those things really affect you? What’s something that would cause people to protest, something so crucial that the government cant tell us, Something that I haven’t really seen in comments…I believe its medicine. Im probably wrong but, my theory is that its just a idea that will probably give you only 50% chance of helping you. Is that why natural medicine is significantly better? Is it just to make the government or company’s look good? Is it to give society a sort of closure, or is it for money? If you think about it, medicine like pills, vaccines and etc cost a lot of money, and is somewhat crucial to society. If we were to find out that they put plastic, or glitter in one of our most important products. That would cause a huge problem. It would cause an outbreak and is that why they dont tell us? When your teacher ask “if you were on a stranded island, what’s the first thing you would bring?” You might think Water, food, maybe even weapons. But you can get and find a way to filter water, you can last without food, you can even make your own weapons, but what is one thing that you cant easily get…medicine. A med kit is what one would say. Its not like you know exactly how to make natural medicine, you might even make your infection or situation worst. This shows the importance of medicine, and how its one of the most controversial topics around. one of my familly member has problems with their health and stopped taking her Medicine. They started drinking things like green juices and more natual medicine. She had diabetes and the next time she went to her doctor, they said her diabetes was gone. If it is in medicine and the glitter is plastic, is that why they dont tell us? I’m most likley diving too deep into this, but thats my theory

 

[WolfEyes]

Someone obviously has no clue which plants have medicinal value or where modern medications came from.

 

[Soen Eber]

Counts the hours until the sp*m post.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Counts the hours until the sp*m post.

I wager 1 internet point on it showing up 3hrs after the first post...

 

[Tirellia]

I've read serious posts which make less sense

 

[Free]

Is being on a stranded island anything like being on the lookout for spam islands?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

FWIW in the time since this mystery became "big" I believe it's actually been solved and the answer was marine paint, of all things.

 

[Soen Eber]

Is being on a stranded island anything like being on the lookout for spam islands?

It's a cargo cult. The spam is a lie.

 

[Beebo Brink]

It's a cargo cult.

 

[danielravennest]

one of my familly member has problems with their health and stopped taking her Medicine. They started drinking things like green juices and more natual medicine. She had diabetes and the next time she went to her doctor, they said her diabetes was gone.

As someone who is diabetic myself, and has thus studied quite a bit about how it works, I would need a whole lot more proof to think that statement is anything more than B.S. I assume this is Type 2 Diabetes being talked about (not inherent, but acquired later in life). It can be controlled with drugs, diet, and weight loss/excercise, but it doesn't just disappear. The underlying glucose intolerance is still there. I don't see how you could *tell* if the intolerance (i.e. the disease) was gone. The regular A1C test only tells you your average blood glucose over the last three months, and therefore if the combination of drugs, etc you are doing are keeping blood sugar low enough to not damage the body over time.

You would need a different set of tests, which they don't normally do, to measure the glucose spike that happens after eating sugary stuff. That means hanging around the lab for hours for multiple blood sugar readings, or doing a series of home tests over hours at home after going *off* the prescriptions long enough for their effects to wear off. But in that case you aren't going to the doctor, you are finding out for yourself at home.

I know this was your first post, and you don't know the forum culture, but we have a low tolerance for spammers and B.S. So the onus is on you to back up your statement or we will consider you the type to ignore.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

As someone who is diabetic myself, and has thus studied quite a bit about how it works, I would need a whole lot more proof to think that statement is anything more than B.S. I assume this is Type 2 Diabetes being talked about (not inherent, but acquired later in life). It can be controlled with drugs, diet, and weight loss/excercise, but it doesn't just disappear. The underlying glucose intolerance is still there. I don't see how you could *tell* if the intolerance (i.e. the disease) was gone. The regular A1C test only tells you your average blood glucose over the last three months, and therefore if the combination of drugs, etc you are doing are keeping blood sugar low enough to not damage the body over time.

You would need a different set of tests, which they don't normally do, to measure the glucose spike that happens after eating sugary stuff. That means hanging around the lab for hours for multiple blood sugar readings, or doing a series of home tests over hours at home after going *off* the prescriptions long enough for their effects to wear off. But in that case you aren't going to the doctor, you are finding out for yourself at home.

I know this was your first post, and you don't know the forum culture, but we have a low tolerance for spammers and B.S. So the onus is on you to back up your statement or we will consider you the type to ignore.

It reads like it was spewed by a random paragraph generator... I doubt the poster-bot had any awareness of what they were actually posting.