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jonerik writes "Denver's weekly Westword magazine has this article on titanium and the attempts to break it out of its traditional aerospace/defense industry niche, including its growing use in architecture, computers, jewelry, sports, knives, cars, medicine, and other areas. The upside: It's as strong as steel but weighs half as much, it doesn't rust, and it's fairly plentiful. The downside: It's expensive compared to steel and aluminum and its high melting point makes it difficult to work with under some conditions. Still, it's nice to see it being used in other applications." Heck, I know someone who used it as his wedding ring. Pretty cool, actually.
The greatest thing about my titanium glasses is that some little part of me would survive re-entry should I fall off the space shuttle in the future!
-- I am baseball in Minnesota.
If you haven't been married for long you probably don't know that sometimes, when people gain weight, the rings start to become, uh, constrictive.
With a traditional soft gold alloy you can snip the tight ring with a pair of bolt cutters or even wire cutters for thinner gauge rings.
With titanium, I don't think you'd have such an easy time removing a stuck ring. A cutting torch is not going to leave much of a finger and using a diamond saw, too, could be real tricky with in vivo parts involved.
Get ready for gangreme to set in, unless you lose a bunch of weight in a hurry or find a good lubricant.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
So you're saying I shouldn't get a titanium cockring?
I guess that wouldn't be a good idea... (laugh, you know you want to!)
Karnal
You will have to find something else to choke your chicken with....
... with iron oxide strips on them. Oh wait, it's really just plastic. :)
The clearance system sounds logical. It is not. It is completely arbitrary. -- John Bolton
Isn't your girlfriend SUPPOSED to have a hole?
[ducks]
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
Prehaps the tit in titanium makes it the reason why the marketing people latch on to it - just my tuppence.
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It's probably due to the fact that you have a titanium plate in you wrist.
"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." -Homer Simpson
It might be from the 'exercise' your wrist is getting while you take those looooong baths and showers.
Do a google search before posting.
They're your wolverine claws extending. That wasn't titanium you had implanted in your wrist--it was Adamantium!