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weetyskemian44 wrote:When I moved into my flat the floor was bare asbestos tiles

I'll not lie, that doesnt sound healthy.

yes asbestos=bad for you. Is that even legal to rent out an apartment with asbestos?

dsteingass wrote:yes asbestos=bad for you. Is that even legal to rent out an apartment with asbestos?

Yes, it is. You can also sell a home with asbestos in it.

In floor tiles, asbestos isn't dangerous unless you do something to break up the fibers in the tiles. If these are vinyl tiles with some asbestos in them, you would really have to work at it to separate asbestos fibers. Just make sure you aren't the one that removes them from the floor.

ok, so it's legal, that doesn't make it right though IMHO.

dsteingass wrote:ok, so it's legal, that doesn't make it right though IMHO.

If you own a home in America built before the 1990s, there's a good chance you have asbestos somewhere. Most applications of it aren't going to harm you as long as you aren't breaking the fibers loose.

It is still used in many products including some brands of brake shoes for your automobile. Some of the materials used to replace it are getting some of the same criticisms from consumer groups.

My advice is that all kinds of things in the air of your house can hurt you. Lots of modern materials have semi-toxic off-gas that they release over time. That's why its important to air your house out regularly and go outside too.

Yep - going outside is very good for you and easy to forget when you have hobbies and an xbox. Just started fable 2 - hilarious, I just walked into a quaint old town almost naked, made my character fart and then got fined for public indecency!

I have an asbestos inspector who insists on coming round once a year to make sure I haven't started ripping up the floor or anything! Bloody pointless really.

weetyskemian44 wrote:Just started fable 2 - hilarious, I just walked into a quaint old town almost naked, made my character fart and then got fined for public indecency!

Not very lady like to be honest,

Its a great game! Full of rude. You can do all sorts

Yes - Rude-ness has its merit, but worth buying an Xbox for?

Its not mine its my Boyfriend's and he bought it so he could wander the broken post apocalyptic streets of Washington and kill innocent civilians in horrible ways. He just loves killing those innocent civilians - I think his fav game of all time was postal. Nasty.

Caught between your asbestos tiles and your psychopathic boyfriend. I fear for you!

On the plus side with all the asbestos and concrete the flats are basically fire proof - And to be honest sometimes I like to kill the civilians too. Just occasionally to spice up the game!


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Oh dear he's killing defenseless people in fable2 now... Its really quite funny because he is farting at them as well

Before or after he kills them? I'd be very offended if you farted at me then killed me - killed then farted at meh.... im dead do what you like.

.... im dead do what you like.

ohoh.... what darkness is revealing itself here....

Viktor von Domm wrote:

.... im dead do what you like.

ohoh.... what darkness is revealing itself here....

Flatulent tales of civilian murders.

i was more referring to your ideas of a corporal afterlife... that is quite of no importance for you it seems...remember soylent green is only as good as the next guy...

Entertaining article I've been reading on the subject of video game sadism:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCrueltyPotential

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CruelPlayerCharacterGod

does anyone remember the game syndicate? from bullfrog... there was one level/map in alaska...you had to kill a convoi...after that you had won the current objective... after that i begun the killing spree...i remeber a bodycount of way over 200...

and has anyone ever tried to destroy the tigershark in the game wing commander? the first one? you were not supposed to do so... and i did it with the lasers only....^^

yes and yes... Oh dear I guess that makes me old and cruel!

lol....and actually i am not proud about it but certain sandbox games just makes me do cruel things to the surrounding area...in the old...really old 2D version of GTA i just loved the killing spree runs... those were the best ones... if you were nimble you could out run the brownnoses and then begin another one...^^ i am such a creep...^^

It was X-Com for me.

"Alien you say?... we best level the building"

Don't worry vic - everyone does it!!!

Tortured-Robot wrote:Caught between your asbestos tiles and your psychopathic boyfriend. I fear for you!

Spoiler:

dial 999

I thought they changed your UK emergency number?

x-com was so much fun...and i just love games where you are able to strategicaly level buildings...trees or mountains ^^

or does someone still remember
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Lo_Mania


that line: we nuked them...we´ve WON!!! priceless...^^

X-com Apoc was great, I could play it for hours without actually seeing an alien, was more fun taking justice to the street gangs

Megalomania was fun too, was a bit short tho. Biplanes mowing down cavemen was always a laugh.

lol...yep that was sure fun... do you know by the way if that game is somehow available for pc? that would be a cool thing to have.... also... do you remember wings of fury? there were those lil pillboxes you had to bomb first and then mow down the infantry men emerging from those... cruel and in fact very nationalistic game...but nevertheless a nice minigame one would call it nowadays...^^

hehe, yea Wings of Fury was good too - It was the the screams when you shot the little men that made me giggle.

Which game are you after? X-com or Mega lo mania?

mega lo mania... i have almost all x com titles anyway...

and yep, those lil screams where the best part... and the facepalms done by me when yet again the landing or take off of the mothership dídn´t work out as planed^^