What an inane response. Perhaps I can counter with Alcohol -> Cancer. Safe amount = 0. Alcohol content of fresh bread > 0
> Because there is no safe level of exposure to asbestos. I think we are getting to the bottom of this :-) The UK Health and Safety Executive state... "The control limit for asbestos is 0.1 asbestos fibres per cubic…
If people could explain why they are down voting honest questions I would appreciate it. I've never heard of claimed talc-cancer links in the UK.
Cyanide occurs naturally in apple cores. It is the dose that makes the poison. The UK links I have cited say the low levels are not an issue. I've genuinely asked what evidence the US courts are using and I appear to…
> sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos And the question I have asked is where is the evidence that such small quantities are a risk? The UK links I have posted suggest otherwise. This is why I am…
Thank you for being the first person to post an informative reply rather than down voting a question. HN is turning into reddit. > I'm not sure how you could believe Though this is unnecessarily insulting. > the people…
> It seems that most talc doesn't cause cancer -- but some talc has "rather high" amounts of asbestos in it -- which we know causes cancer. So no evidence, just suspicion? I must be blunt and say this has left me more…
> Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders I asked this question in another post and did not get a reply. The US links sited state no evidence for talc causing cancer. A…
*sigh* Here we go again. The GDPR has no problem AT ALL with cookies. Use as many as you like with no need for popups. However, if you are using cookies to track or personally identify me (advertisers take a bow), then…
White Tie is formal dress; attending opera, meeting royalty, heads of state and the like. Gentlemen wear tailcoat (with medals), shirt with winged collar and white bow tie, or military dress uniform. Black Tie ("Tuxedo"…
> It took another fifty years for the definition of a gentlemen to change to exclude people who got roaring drunk and pissed in the fireplace in the name of hospitality. On the contrary, providing the above is done with…
> Can you recommend a chair No. I'm going against the grain of most replies here. It isn't a specific chair you need (perfectly good, bog standard office chairs are fully adjustable and ten a penny) but to instead take…
> I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it. The GDPR (very good legislation forming one of our rights to privacy), and a host of…
> It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data breaches and private data exploited that…
> sold talcum powder that caused cancer Ummm Your link contained no evidence for this. A search of the NHS website also suggests no clear evidence [1]. Cancer Research (a respected UK charity) give a layman's summary…
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Last I checked, pantomimes show no sign of becoming unpopular in Britain :-)
> Dunno how english Big Ben is. It was built in a made-up architectural style Ummmm Big Ben is the bell in the Elizabeth Tower. It was made in the Whitechapel bell foundry and could not be more English! > a woman…
> Double-entendres are as English as Big Ben. Undoubtedly. Its probably also worth pointing out to our American audience that the beauty of double entendres is that any "blue" meaning is clearly in the mind of those…
As I said below.... double entendres, very common in Britain, appear to cause those in the West Coast US to panic for fear of being perceived sexist. In Britain (home of the panto [1]), we just smile childishly......…
> whether the name “Miss Shilling’s orifice” is supposed to be a dirty joke or not. You are clearly not British, otherwise you would recognise the rule that no entendre must be left un-doubled. Amusingly, double…
> Nazism is fundamentally evil. Be careful with such statements. Describing something/someone as "fundamentally" evil obscures the fact that things (like extremist politics) happen for reasons. It is these reasons that…
You appear to have casually dismissed research scientists [*wave*], healthcare professionals, teachers, artists and many others who entered their field not for the money, but to do a 'thing' that benefits society. Not…
I confess my first thought was mixing oxygen in a methane environment inside the body isn't ideal. And this isn't a joke..... for example, cyclopropane is an excellent anaesthetic gas but no longer used due to the…
> I am looking forward to the English getting the same treatment What a truly vile statement, unworthy of HN. Roughly half the English population (including myself) voted to remain. We are not gloating, but working hard…
What an inane response. Perhaps I can counter with Alcohol -> Cancer. Safe amount = 0. Alcohol content of fresh bread > 0
> Because there is no safe level of exposure to asbestos. I think we are getting to the bottom of this :-) The UK Health and Safety Executive state... "The control limit for asbestos is 0.1 asbestos fibres per cubic…
If people could explain why they are down voting honest questions I would appreciate it. I've never heard of claimed talc-cancer links in the UK.
Cyanide occurs naturally in apple cores. It is the dose that makes the poison. The UK links I have cited say the low levels are not an issue. I've genuinely asked what evidence the US courts are using and I appear to…
> sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos And the question I have asked is where is the evidence that such small quantities are a risk? The UK links I have posted suggest otherwise. This is why I am…
Thank you for being the first person to post an informative reply rather than down voting a question. HN is turning into reddit. > I'm not sure how you could believe Though this is unnecessarily insulting. > the people…
> It seems that most talc doesn't cause cancer -- but some talc has "rather high" amounts of asbestos in it -- which we know causes cancer. So no evidence, just suspicion? I must be blunt and say this has left me more…
> Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders I asked this question in another post and did not get a reply. The US links sited state no evidence for talc causing cancer. A…
*sigh* Here we go again. The GDPR has no problem AT ALL with cookies. Use as many as you like with no need for popups. However, if you are using cookies to track or personally identify me (advertisers take a bow), then…
White Tie is formal dress; attending opera, meeting royalty, heads of state and the like. Gentlemen wear tailcoat (with medals), shirt with winged collar and white bow tie, or military dress uniform. Black Tie ("Tuxedo"…
> It took another fifty years for the definition of a gentlemen to change to exclude people who got roaring drunk and pissed in the fireplace in the name of hospitality. On the contrary, providing the above is done with…
> Can you recommend a chair No. I'm going against the grain of most replies here. It isn't a specific chair you need (perfectly good, bog standard office chairs are fully adjustable and ten a penny) but to instead take…
> I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it. The GDPR (very good legislation forming one of our rights to privacy), and a host of…
> It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data breaches and private data exploited that…
> sold talcum powder that caused cancer Ummm Your link contained no evidence for this. A search of the NHS website also suggests no clear evidence [1]. Cancer Research (a respected UK charity) give a layman's summary…
*sigh* Here we go again. The GDPR has no problem AT ALL with cookies. Use as many as you like with no need for popups. However, if you are using cookies to track or personally identify me, then you need to ask my…
Last I checked, pantomimes show no sign of becoming unpopular in Britain :-)
> Dunno how english Big Ben is. It was built in a made-up architectural style Ummmm Big Ben is the bell in the Elizabeth Tower. It was made in the Whitechapel bell foundry and could not be more English! > a woman…
> Double-entendres are as English as Big Ben. Undoubtedly. Its probably also worth pointing out to our American audience that the beauty of double entendres is that any "blue" meaning is clearly in the mind of those…
As I said below.... double entendres, very common in Britain, appear to cause those in the West Coast US to panic for fear of being perceived sexist. In Britain (home of the panto [1]), we just smile childishly......…
> whether the name “Miss Shilling’s orifice” is supposed to be a dirty joke or not. You are clearly not British, otherwise you would recognise the rule that no entendre must be left un-doubled. Amusingly, double…
> Nazism is fundamentally evil. Be careful with such statements. Describing something/someone as "fundamentally" evil obscures the fact that things (like extremist politics) happen for reasons. It is these reasons that…
You appear to have casually dismissed research scientists [*wave*], healthcare professionals, teachers, artists and many others who entered their field not for the money, but to do a 'thing' that benefits society. Not…
I confess my first thought was mixing oxygen in a methane environment inside the body isn't ideal. And this isn't a joke..... for example, cyclopropane is an excellent anaesthetic gas but no longer used due to the…
> I am looking forward to the English getting the same treatment What a truly vile statement, unworthy of HN. Roughly half the English population (including myself) voted to remain. We are not gloating, but working hard…