Star Trek is poisoning my uterus!!
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It seems that just about *everything* is known () to the state of California to cause cancer. I bought some plywood recently here in Alabama that had that stupid warning label printed on it.
I can't believe people are seriously bitching about this. It's not like the warning label forces you to do anything. It just lets you know that "Hey, there might be more lead in this than in Dr. Doom's codpiece. Beware."
If you want to drink from a cadmium filled mug full of flaming water from where they're fracking natural gas while swimming in toxic waste wearing lead-lined boots, be my guest. I'd rather have a warning label so I can decide for myself.
The stupid shit people complain about astounds me sometimes. It's like they're so afraid of PC that they'll flip over to the opposite extreme and whine about perfectly reasonable legislation that forces them to do nothing and gives them a choice in determining their own level of personal safety.
I'd agree with you if the only available option was to machine wash them. If you simply hand wash it when you use it, then chipping should not be a problem.
Hand wash?! Sure, and while we're at it, maybe we should start bleeding people to cure their headaches, you savage!
Some of us still have to hand wash everything! It's so hard!
Can't you just get a Wooly Mammoth to spray the dishes clean with its trunk like the other people in Flintstones times?
Nah, in order to be a savage, you have to prepare your coffee over an open flame. My automatic drip coffeemaker argues against that...
If there's enough lead in it for a warning to be needed why is it allowed at all? It's hard to take seriously when lead is already highly regulated as I understand it.
I'm drinking my morning coffee out of this mug right now, a mug I got at a supermarket several years ago that is no doubt made in China. Is there going to be the same levels of lead in it?
I'm drinking my morning coffee out of this mug right now, a mug I got at a supermarket several years ago that is no doubt made in China. Is there going to be the same levels of lead in it?
Chlorine in its elemental form is a highly reactive, corrosive, extremely toxic gas. It was used as a chemical weapon in World War I. Yet small amounts of it in your tap water kill germs and prevent the spread of nasty diseases.
Hey, for all we know, trace amounts of lead might actually be good for you.
If there's enough lead in it for a warning to be needed why is it allowed at all? It's hard to take seriously when lead is already highly regulated as I understand it.
I'm drinking my morning coffee out of this mug right now, a mug I got at a supermarket several years ago that is no doubt made in China. Is there going to be the same levels of lead in it?
That looks like ceramic glaze, so yeah, there's probably lead in it. As long as it doesn't chip off, you should be fine. Just be cognizant of the mug taking any damage and stop using it if it does.
Don't eat the mug.
But cups do chip and people do keep using them. If we can't have lead in paint why can we have it in cups, something you drink out of?
Until just a couple of years ago, there was lead in the paint on kids' toys. What's the first thing a small child does with something new? They put it in their mouth. Companies put lead based paint on kids toys until we told them to stop. Basically, there's lead in the glaze on the cup only because we haven't stopped companies from using it. Stop buying the cups with the lead based ceramic glaze and companies will stop making them.
Okay I am now living dangerously..
I want to know though, the people in this thread who said they would never drink from this cup, what do you drink hot drinks from? Since apparently most mugs with glaze have the same components though not everything has a label?
I want to know though, the people in this thread who said they would never drink from this cup, what do you drink hot drinks from? Since apparently most mugs with glaze have the same components though not everything has a label?
Okay I am now living dangerously..
I want to know though, the people in this thread who said they would never drink from this cup, what do you drink hot drinks from? Since apparently most mugs with glaze have the same components though not everything has a label?
Typically for anything hot I use a stainless steel "travel" mug. If I do use a ceramic mug, I go for one without a coloring.
To keep Superman from knowing what you're drinking.
It seems that just about *everything* is known (
I can't believe people are seriously bitching about this. It's not like the warning label forces you to do anything. It just lets you know that "Hey, there might be more lead in this than in Dr. Doom's codpiece. Beware."
If you want to drink from a cadmium filled mug full of flaming water from where they're fracking natural gas while swimming in toxic waste wearing lead-lined boots, be my guest. I'd rather have a warning label so I can decide for myself.
The stupid shit people complain about astounds me sometimes. It's like they're so afraid of PC that they'll flip over to the opposite extreme and whine about perfectly reasonable legislation that forces them to do nothing and gives them a choice in determining their own level of personal safety.
How dare these fucking socialists in California do something as crazy as....provide factual information on what a product is made out of!! Bunch of tree-hugging druids running things....
No wonder we're the laughingstock of the civilized world. It's 1984, Animal Farm, and A Clockwork Orange all wrapped into one around here...
There are facts, and then there are alarmist half-truths. For example, you may hear that “X number of children are reported missing in the U.S. every day.” What the fearmongers don't tell you is that 90 percent of kids “reported” missing are found within 48 hours, and that only about 100 children are kidnapped by strangers each year -- less than one in a million.. . . How dare these fucking socialists in California do something as crazy as....provide factual information on what a product is made out of!! Bunch of tree-hugging druids running things....
Lots of things contain chemicals that may cause cancer or reproductive harm -- if you consume them in impossibly huge quantities. Like giving rats a dose of artificial sweetener equivalent to 1000 bottles of Coca-Cola every day.
Anyway, tonight I feel like living dangerously. I'm going to have a nice, big, juicy slice of cantaloupe.
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I use a stainless steel coffee mug at work. Don't know if that's bad for me but there's apparently nothing I can safely drink out of, so fuck it. 
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