The good old days
The good old days
When your Christmas decorations gave you cancer.
"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu."
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Re: The good old days
There should be a warning on it - "Do Not Snort".
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Bicycle Bill
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Re: The good old days
And don't forget the old lead-foil tinsel, either.
I understand the need to eliminate them, but the aluminized plastic ones never looked as good — or stayed on the tree as well, due to the static electricity attraction between them and a person's clothing.
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I understand the need to eliminate them, but the aluminized plastic ones never looked as good — or stayed on the tree as well, due to the static electricity attraction between them and a person's clothing.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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I remember those!!
"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu."
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Man, I wish I could still get asbestos exhaust wrap...
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My grandfather gave me a cool radium-dial watch for Hanukah when I was 8 or 9. The holidays were just a swell time for all kinds of health hazards.
No you don't. Have you ever seen someone die of mesothelioma?
GAH!
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Bicycle Bill
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Hey, I remember those too!! In fact, back in 6th or 7th grade I had a radium-dial wristwatch AND a radium-dial wrist compass. In retrospect I realize that the compass was next to useless except to indicate north in the most general of terms —
(for actual map-and-compass work in the field I used one of these)
— but for a while there that glow-in-the-dark wrist compass made me the coolest kid in Troop 39.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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Well...yes, I do. Just like my uncle wishes he could still get asbestos welding gear-even 50 years (and probably trillions of dollars of R&D) later, it's STILL better than anything available now.. Since I have no intentions of inhaling it, I'm not especially worried.
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Re: The good old days
Some of us remember these:
It was the best thing about having to buy shoes - a free go on the bone machine
It was the best thing about having to buy shoes - a free go on the bone machine
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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And then there were the radium girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
A friend of Doc's, one of only two B-29 bombers still flying.
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I have. My Grandfather in 1977. Horrific. I still remember the bag draining his lungs. An incredibly vibrant active independent outdoorsy man, confined to a recliner and then hospital bed.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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We had some mercury in a little bottle in my grandparent's junk drawer. Played with that stuff out loose in little balls all the time. Came from a broken thermometer.
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I have an uncle that died from mesothelioma. He was a tough guy and was captain of a ship in the Merchant Marines. After he was diagnosed with it, he continued to smoke cigarettes. I guess that's because it's what all tough sailors do when they're far away at sea....
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They say mercury can affect you in many ways. It affects some people's brain development , memory and hearing abilities.
I said brain development, memory and hearing ability!!....
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We had our annual Hazmat Operations refresher last night and for some reason, thought of this thread.