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A list of things that will KILL US!!!!!1!!!!!

lord henry strikes back

22:12 / 04.04.07

I read today that eating a lot of read meat doubles your chances of getting breast cancer (I love that they can be so precise as 'double', exactly 200% the chance of someone else, but they don't define 'a lot').

I also heard recently that 'the dust from shredding paper' causes lung cancer. Obviously this particular dust is far worse than the usual stuff.

So, what's the stupidest 'it will kill you' that you've heard of late?

22:31 / 04.04.07

In relation to killing the planet, someone once told me that popping the bubbles in bubble wrap released CFC's into the atmosphere. For years I refrained from doing it because of that, but it wasn't true at all. I think this person just wanted to pop all the bubbles themselves. I still haven't really forgiven them.

22:47 / 04.04.07

Having male skin

Great.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

23:09 / 04.04.07

I heard somewhere that worrying about things that give you cancer will give you cancer.

Oh, and canned tuna. Not sure why I was suprised by that one.

23:12 / 04.04.07

That's why I have mine collected by worker bees, fresh from the aqua-orchards of San Atlantis.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

23:21 / 04.04.07

Becareful, aqua-orchard honey will give you cancer.

00:01 / 05.04.07

Bullets.

Stupid Bullets.

03:45 / 05.04.07

Bees, of course. Not the bumblebees. Killer bees.

Wasps, hornets and scorpions will also kill you. But I spent most of the day writing about killer bees and mysterious bee deaths (as in bees dying, leaving crops unpollinated).

The Ghost of Tom Winter

04:16 / 05.04.07

I heard the bees dying are a supposed natural cycle of bee deaths that happens every so many years. Or am I mixing facts?

If that's the case, then a strange cycle of nature would surely smooth you into daisy pushing.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

04:47 / 05.04.07

Ciggarettes apparently kill you. But really, those bluetooth headsets fuckin' murder me. They're like kryptonite.

05:55 / 05.04.07

Really...swarms of bees dying and leaving whole fields unpollinated...Id love to be educated about that, gotta link by any chance?

Wiki maintains that vegetable shortening (kind of lard found in pretty much every baked foodstuff in the US for those of us not in the know) is banned in Sweden. Apparently its very unhealthy and is thought to lead to things which lead to death. Just as I learn about how to make american cookies I learn that cookies are dangerous...so naturallly I think to share this news, unmake your day as it were

07:12 / 05.04.07

I understand that anything that is charred or browned contains cancer-causing carcinogens - e.g. toast, grilled chicken, roast potatoes, fried bacon, etc. etc. Not to mention the deadly cancer-causing radiation emitted by computers and other electronic equipment.

jentacular dreams

08:16 / 05.04.07

You're not wrong about the charred or browned thing. Also cooking (or even warming) anything can apparently produce acrylamide, which is a very scary neurotoxic carcinogen. Fortunately it only produces it in minute quantities...

Kirin? Who the heck?

09:34 / 05.04.07

The whole computer thing is a joke, I think. Goodness, a source of electromagnetic radiation! Panic! I suspect that these people have never looked up at the sky in the daytime.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:27 / 05.04.07

The toast thing is deadly serious though. That's why Kit-Cat Club and I are both breatharians.

lord henry strikes back

12:37 / 05.04.07

I remember hearing that sneezing with your eyes open makes your eyeballs fly out. It may not kill you but if they come out with enough force they might get someone else.

Clearly we need more research into passive sneezing-with-eyes-open.

12:47 / 05.04.07

NutraSweet/Equal (Aspartame) will kill ya

Really, I'm not making this up (long)

Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death as recently disclosed in a February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report.(1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.

15:36 / 05.04.07

Wikipedia on Colony Collapse Disorder.

Key bits:
In some states the loss of honey bee colonies is estimated as high as 75 percent of the population. The phenomenon is particularly important for crops such as the almond growing in California, where honey bees are the predominant pollinator and the crop value in 2006 was $US 1.5 billion. In 2000, the total U.S. crop value that was wholly dependent on the honey bee pollination was estimated to exceed $US 15 billion.[33]

Honey bees are not native to the Americas, therefore their necessity as pollinators in the US is limited to strictly agricultural uses. They are responsible for pollination of approximately one third of the United States' crop species, including such species as: almonds, peaches, soybeans, apples, pears, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, and strawberries; many but not all of these plants can be (and often are) pollinated by other insects, including other kinds of bees, in the U.S., but typically not on a commercial scale.

15:44 / 05.04.07

I think if this turns into purely a list thread, then Boboss might kill us all....

Kirin? Who the heck?

16:02 / 05.04.07

I seem to recall being told by my mother that if I picked my nose, eventually I'd snag my brain and it'd sort of unravel out like a ball of wool. I was fucking terrified of probing my nasal cavities for a long time after that.