Crapped my pants when I saw this

[adidasguy]

[Bullfrog]

I don't get it. 

[codajastal]

Bugger

[adidasguy]

Everything causes cancer in California. I even saw a tag on a leather jacket!
Solution: You won't get cancer if you don't live in California.

WARNING: Being alive has been known to result in death in the state of California. If you are alive, you will eventually die.

[Bullfrog]

thanx 

And I always thought that breathing leads to death as all dead people had been breathing before. 

[Phil B]

Warning: crapping your pants has been known to lead to death by dehydration in california. Please refrain from doing so in CA.

[The Buddha]

Wood that has been treated with CCR (not the band, Chromium copper arsenate) is pretty toxic. That's why in 2004 or so they banned CCR and replaced it with borate. However in china they still use CCR as is the stock piled from before 05 wood.

That is my inner geek+conspiracy theorist speaking here and my son keeps testing high for arsenic, many playgrounds and other places have had dangerous levels and have had to be closed and replaced. Any city/town that has had a railroad tie factory there is one in east texas that I know of ... has a huge incidence of birth defects and some really gruesome cancers. Anyway I wont say stop breathing but I would say if you live by a saw mill, move.

Anyway fire retardant clothing has antimony, and arsenic and antimony have an effect of making each other more toxic, copper is not too bad, but hexavalent chromium is awful ... even wonder what the difference between the chrome on your forks vs the chrome on your handlebar is ? yes forks are hexavalent chromium and handlebars are bivalent. Bivalent is good actually, that chromium picolinate has bivalent chromium, and hexa is bad, its what erin brockavich movie was about.

Cool.
Buddha.

[adidasguy]

This is plain, bare interior pine!

[ojstinson]

The bad news is that saliva causes cancer---the good news is that it's only dangerous if swallowed in small quantities over a long period of time.

[slipperymongoose]

Didn't you people know that everything causes cancer and will kill you?

[adidasguy]

Ever wonder why these days skin cancer is such a risk? Why don't starving children in under-developed countries all die from skin cancer? They don't put all the crap on their skin that we in the "developed world" do. Stumbled on this when someone posted a question on this board about mineral oil.

mates you think. Why I avoid the sun-screens and my skin is fine. Look up "mineral oil" in the world wide WIKI

"Potential medical risks

The application of four popular moisturizers increased the incidence of skin cancer in mice who were irradiated twice a week for 20 weeks.[7] A fifth moisturizer, specially prepared without mineral oil and sodium lauryl sulphate, had no such effect.[8] This study may not directly translate to humans as mice have a thin skin and live in the dark, unlike humans whose bodies are accustomed to sun exposure."

People in Europe aren't as fat because growth hormones aren't allowed in meat. And I love it when some government agency regulating a chemical says "Poses no significant risk..." So there IS a risk?You just don't think it is important? What is the "insignificant risk"?

[zute72]

It said WOOD!!!

Hahahahahaha. 

[Shaddow]

Nature is just sick of humans living to long so its finding new ways to help us die quicker. That is all.

[adidasguy]

It said WOOD!!!

So...... why no warning label on wooden toothpicks? Chopsticks?
Have people been snorting saw dust?

Anyone here from California that can explain what's up with the California mentality? It wasn't this way 30 years ago when I lived in LA.


As for mineral oil - I was thread-jacking. Sorry.

[Bullfrog]

Warning label on trees! 

[yamahonkawazuki]

Didn't you people know that everything causes cancer and will kill you?

in california especially.

[Big Rich]

Adidas, I don't think it's possible to hijack your own thread.

And on that basis, has anybody heard Lewis Black's opinion on sunscreen?

[The Buddha]

Pine trees need to be cut and kiln dried if I recall and somewhere they treat it ... a pine tree isn't loaded with CCR. But almost any hunk of finished wood is. Or its treated with borate if its made after 2005.

Toothpicks and chopsticks - well I dont use either, I therefore dont care and better yet, I eat with forks and pick teeth with plastic floss sticks.

Sunscreen - weirdly light skin will take in more sun than dark skin. Call it natures sunscreen, indians from the south india are considerably darker than their northern counterparts. But yea chemicals cause all sorts of health problems, me and a large number of people believe mercury in vaccines cause autism. To cover up the truth, vaccine company executives funded a "autism research group" called autism speaks. The charity's founder was a president of a pharmaceutical/vaccine company, and his grandson was the one who had autism, and his daughter the baby's mother basically ostracized her father for his obfuscation work via autism speaks.

Long story that I have paraphrased, but seriously we are shooting ourselves in the foot on a routine basis ...
Cancer from wood, autism from vaccines ... what next death from cars ...
Cool.
Buddha.

[ke7syv]

Ever wonder why these days skin cancer is such a risk? Why don't starving children in under-developed countries all die from skin cancer?

Because the starving children in under-developed countries starved to death. 

[tt_four]

This is plain, bare interior pine!

I don't think anything is plain/bare anymore. I know when I go to home depot I stop and check every board to see how straight it is, all those extra warped boards get sent back somewhere, probably turned into cheap furniture? who knows, but I'd be really surprised if lumber companies didn't try all kinds of stupid things, including random chemicals they don't consider 'treated' to try to keep the board from bending.

and I in no way mean this to sound racist, but a good majority of 3rd world countries don't have little white kids running around that are so susceptible to harm from the sun. The more fair your skin, the more at risk you(naturally, that doesn't mean the more you go to the tanning booth the less likely you are to get cancer). Also, with the lack of doctors and medical equipment hanging out in 3rd world countries, I'm sure a lot of cancer goes undiagnosed, and when an average lifespan may only be 30 years old, chances are some parasite is gonna get you before the sun does.