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When your Christmas decorations gave you cancer.

There should be a warning on it - "Do Not Snort".

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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-"BB"-

I remember those!!

Man, I wish I could still get asbestos exhaust wrap...

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.

Jarlaxle wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:26 pm

Man, I wish I could still get asbestos exhaust wrap...

No you don't. Have you ever seen someone die of mesothelioma?

Sue U wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:35 pm

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.

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.

-"BB"-

Sue U wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:35 pm

No you don't. Have you ever seen someone die of mesothelioma?

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.

Some of us remember these:



It was the best thing about having to buy shoes - a free go on the bone machine

And then there were the radium girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

Sue U wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:35 pm

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.

Jarlaxle wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:26 pm

Man, I wish I could still get asbestos exhaust wrap...

No you don't. Have you ever seen someone die of mesothelioma?

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.

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.

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....

TPFKA@W wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:17 am

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.

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!!....

TPFKA@W wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:17 am

We had some mercury

If it was me, I would cruise it up and down the road.

We had our annual Hazmat Operations refresher last night and for some reason, thought of this thread.