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Breaking news boys!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html

This is going to make a lot of people very happy.

And by "people" I mean "lawyers."

And by "happy" I mean "rich."

So is this why I have seen people talking on a Cell Phone like it is a CB radio?

Why does this remind me of this man

This is what speakerphone is for, right?

Besides, if you are living in modern civilisation, you are exposed to much more intense magnetic fields every day of your life.

Also, it takes more power to SEND a signal than receive it (it's easier for the network to hold onto a call you are receiving, than one you are sending (origin) especially when moving).

Just wait, they'll backflip again. They do this every few years - especially since no actual studies involving human subjects have been made.

............................. What?

I knew I was being smart when I refused to start using cell phones.

Hats 1-Cancer 0

I call BS...
They didn't do their own research they reviewed other studies that may or may not be incorrect or biased.
I would be more convinced if they had done their own studies but i'm not right now.

What we really have to worry about is when they start putting phones in our heads... that's a bad idea if i ever knew one...

HAHA I was right not to have a mobile phone

Excuse me while I tuck into my cucumber sarnies

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:HAHA I was right not to have a mobile phone

Excuse me while I tuck into my cucumber sarnies

Cucumbers killed 14 people in Germany...

Didn't they do one of these studies last year and find that there's probably no relation? (As opposed to this time, where there's apparently potential for a possible link.)

Also note that the category mobile phones are listed in is the same one that holds pickled veg, dry cleaning and coffee as other possible carcinogens.

There's also been no change to the current "Use with precaution" and general 'don't be a wally' outlook on mobile phones.

Yet more money has been spent on telling us absolutely nothing new.

purplefood wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:HAHA I was right not to have a mobile phone

Excuse me while I tuck into my cucumber sarnies

Cucumbers killed 14 people in Germany...

That has not been proven true

NVM, misinterpreted.

So mobile phones possibly might maybe cause cancer in humans, perhaps?

SCIENCE IS DONE.

I'll add it to the list. I read a while back that oral sex gives you cancer. Tea, apparently, both prevents and causes cancer, so go tea.

Quick! Everyone commit suicide now so we don't die from something!

But Silver we'll die of suicide and super smartness, I'm afraid it's too late to avoid.

In the words of Joe Jackson ( singer in the 80s):

"Everything gives you cancer,
There's no cure and there's no answer."

n0t_u wrote:But Silver we'll die of suicide and super smartness, I'm afraid it's too late to avoid.

That may be what you all die of, I plan to die after eating a vat of chocolate after sending the human race to its doom

Live long enough and your body will start to turn itself into tumours anyway. I suppose at least you could survive all those artificial cancer to go for the organic, homegrown cancer.

@SilverMk2: Are the two related?

htj wrote:@SilverMk2: Are the two related?

Only in that by sending the human race to its doom, I will be free to do whatever I want, ultimately culminating in chocolate vat death.

Hmm, yes, that is the natural progression. Best of luck with your chocolatey ragnarok, sir.

Of course, as there would be no humans left to work on it and it would be pretty easy for it to become contaminated. Assuming the orphans live long enough to gather all the cocoa beans needed.

Perhaps it will lead to the zombie apocalypse.

chromedog wrote:This is what speakerphone is for, right?

yes but not everyone in a 5 mile radius wants to listen to your gakky convo just because you need the volume at maximum to hear anything resembeling a word.

I'd rather someone die of phone cancer than hear the rubbish they talk about on phones.

Some kind of choco-zombie?

Well, instantly ending the human race means plenty of packaged food left to fuel me for several years (I would probably get bored after that and so heat up a vat of chocolate).

Stella Cadente wrote:

chromedog wrote:This is what speakerphone is for, right?

yes but not everyone in a 5 mile radius wants to listen to your gakky convo just because you need the volume at maximum to hear anything resembeling a word.

I'd rather someone die of phone cancer than hear the rubbish they talk about on phones.

Hey man, not cool. My last phone died of phone cancer. The one before that had a simcard-attack. Too many texts from Pizza Hut.

Steu wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:HAHA I was right not to have a mobile phone

Excuse me while I tuck into my cucumber sarnies

Cucumbers killed 14 people in Germany...

That has not been proven true

I was joking.

purplefood wrote:

Steu wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:HAHA I was right not to have a mobile phone

Excuse me while I tuck into my cucumber sarnies

Cucumbers killed 14 people in Germany...

That has not been proven true

I was joking.

Oh great, now you're joking! i just took all mine out back and shot them.
and now i come back and find out you're joking.....

alarmingrick wrote:Oh great, now you're joking! i just took all mine out back and shot them.
and now i come back and find out you're joking.....

At least guns aren't dangerous in any way...

Guns don't kill people. People kill cucumbers.