Willie3
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Pretty soon you can enjoy lead in your Hershey's Chocolate. Yup Chinease bound Hershey!!!
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Willie3 said:Pretty soon you can enjoy lead in your Hershey's Chocolate. Yup Chinease bound Hershey!!!
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Willie3 said:Wow! Not an advocate to using or promoting the use of contaminated product but man, I think our society is so overboard with this stuff. I drank from the hose when I was a kid. I swam in a pool filled from a hose. I ran through sprinklers using water from hoses and wow I am still alive and well!
srm775 said:I love how people use the argument "well, it was fine when we/I was a kid." Just because something was done one way when we were children doesn't mean it was done the right way - just that our parents/society didn't know any better.
It wasn't common practice to have your children in car seats, most people didn't see a problem with smoking around their children either, or to wear a helmet when riding a bicylce, but you can bet that if I can make my child just a little bit healthier or a little bit safer (as small as it might be) with a very simple and inexpensive act, I'm certainly going to.
98EXL said:who wears a helmet on a bicycle?
98EXL said:who wears a helmet on a bicycle?
Ó Flannagáin said:When I say as a child, I'm talking less than 15 years ago. I'm pretty sure they ahven't put MORE lead into hoses int he past 15 years.
cheezydemon said:So I assume that you will smoke around your kids? Hell it didn't kill too many people.
It was OK when some of us were kids.
Listen folks, it has been fun. Half of us see the others as wreckless, the other half see us as anal alarmists. Cool! It takes all kinds and obviously all of us are some kind of right stubborn bastard!
I hope everyone's brews taste good....(even if they are full of little bits of toxic garden hose..lol)
+1 ...Willie3 said:Wow! Not an advocate to using or promoting the use of contaminated product but man, I think our society is so overboard with this stuff. I drank from the hose when I was a kid. I swam in a pool filled from a hose. I ran through sprinklers using water from hoses and wow I am still alive and well!
I can understand flushing the hose from the stagnant water, but c'mon, drinking from hoses is not life threatening!
I wonder what standing water in pipes under basements that have high concentrations of radon might do to your body? Or the water treated from a plant with too high concentrations of chlorine? What about how chocolate causes breast cancer in women?
I know this is a leap but next thing you know everyone is using germ/bacteria killing soaps and sanitizers only to improve the fittest germs and bacteria (MRSA) which is hard to tame with the strongest of antibiotics.
Yes I did eat paint chips as a child.
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Edcculus said:+1 ...
drayman86 said:Just can't resist posting on this topic.....
The entire thread really illustrates the entire concept of "hazard" vs. "risk".
The hazards associated with lead poisoning are immense.
The risk (i.e. probablility) of a significant lead exposure associated with with the occasional drink from a garden hose is very slight indeed.
Considering the concept of hazard vs. risk is always an interesting one whenever discussing topics such as terrorist attacks, driving in a car, or dietary choices.
GaryA said:
cheezydemon said:A recent study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that lead levels in the blood even lower than the current definition of toxicity may adversely affect a childs IQ.
autoferret said:this could explain alot for some people i know.
Cheesefood said:From How To Brew:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Cleaning Brass
Some brewers use brass fittings in conjunction with their wort chillers or other brewing equipment and are concerned about the lead that is present in brass alloys. A solution of two parts white vinegar to one part hydrogen peroxide (common 3% solution) will remove tarnish and surface lead from brass parts when they are soaked for 5-10 minutes at room temperature. The brass will turn a buttery yellow color as it is cleaned. If the solution starts to turn green and the brass darkens, then the parts have been soaking too long and the copper in the brass is beginning to dissolve, exposing more lead. The solution has become contaminated and the part should be re-cleaned in a fresh solution.[/FONT]
Seabee John said:End the argument for yourself... get it tested and then you will know..... you ARE killing everyone with your garden hose lead lined arsenic added double aluminum sludge porter
MikeFlynn74 said:lol we drank and played with hoses all the time when I was a kid. Nothing wrong here.
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cheezydemon said:SORRY! but "an occasional drink from the water hose"??? I thought we were talking about ENTIRE BATCHES OF BEER!
pldoolittle said:I will guarantee that I have consumed so much water from a hose (still do) that my beer consumption may (sadly) never catch up. Having read your posts, I realize that it was probably a bad idea. If I had only abstained from the evil hose, getting a degree in physics would probably have been much easier... As far as beer goes, the garden hose poses a much bigger risk of bacterial infection than lead poisoning.
Now, off to the global warming forum to debate that agore guy...
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