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So I was assembling my Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun!! and noticed a warning on my zipkicker glue accelerator. To wit, that this stuff contains a chemical that is known to cause cancer in the state of California. Whew, looks like I dodged a bullet.

Lucky you!

Yeah, I hear companies have to put a lot of unnecessary warnings up when it comes to California.
Some how I doubt the other 49 states are letting deadly poisons kill off their citizens. :S

You don't hear about it because they're all dead.

Because in Soviet California... Warhammer glues you!

You can die of nearly anything, given the right circumstances. It's really not worth worrying about. Party on!

I live in a state adjacent to California. Do you think I'm at some risk?

Only if you get a strong Easterly wind.

I have a bowl that will give you cancer in California. It's a nice piece of glass ware. We keep candy in it, but only the kind with the wrapper on it. I don't think I'd leave loose candy out to be eaten by ants anyway.

"Anything can be considered harmful. Applesauce is harmful if you get too much of it." - Helmut Wakeham, Philip Morris VP as quoted in "Death In The West".

Just don't use the yellow paint from the BfSP Paint Set. For those that missed it, the Yellow paint (which was the highest lead content found in the test subjects) was at 2/3 of the proposed maximum safety level of exposure and 1/10 of the then current one in Canada.

I used to live in the land of fairey...... err CALIFORNIA!

We had stickers on all the gas pumps "The state of California has determined that MTBE [a gas additive] causes cancer."

Guess who required MTBE to be in the gas? Here's a hint, you won't find this carcinogen in any of the other 49..... because the STATE of CALIFORNIA requires there be a carcinogen in their gas......

@PP Don't laugh so quick, NOBODY in Oregon is ALLOWED to pump their own gas, under ANY conditions! And this is BEFORE the TERRORIST ruined life as we know it.....

Why is California the but of America's jokes?

Is it because it is a liberal utopia?

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Why is California the but of America's jokes?

Is it because it is a liberal utopia?

California isn't texas. So no, it's not the but of america jokes. Being the seventh largest economy on the planet though (last i checked which admittedly was like 2 years ago) does cause a lot of envy however. Especially when you aren't even a nation.

It is, however, a state with a long list of crazy laws.

Pump shotgun? Normal legal weapon(that takes....hell I don't even know how long it takes to get one anymore).

Same pump shotgun, with with plastic grip added to pump? Horrible, evil child killing, enemy of civilization assault weapon.

Oh lawd, they classify a weapon customized with a grip that enables faster and more accurate chambering into an assault weapon. Thats a mod that is specifically designed with urban combat in mind (as long as its the one that is a vertical second grip, if making the regular pump handle plastic makes it an assault weapon then I dunno, thats kind of inane).

It's basically the idea that an extra grip that makes pumping your shotgun slightly faster is somehow so much more of a threat to society than the same shotgun without it, disregarding the fact that in both cases it is still a deadly weapon, that it has to be made illegal. Silly. If it were a full on auto shotgun, sure. But its simply a modified foregrip, for goodness' sake.

This doesn't even take into account the idea that if one is intending to commit violent crime, then existing gun laws are not a barrier. Just go to your local drug cartel's hideout and pick up some illegally imported, true assault weapons.


Not to turn this into a 2nd amendment debate, but it is a silly law, all things considered.



Edit: I jsut remembered a better one. To combat the spread of stds, a public awareness program was created that involved creating a syphilis sore character, with a costume, whose purpose was to walk around town handing out cartoon syphylis sore plushies to people, children included. Just plain weird

you know if you shoot someone long enough with a lasgun, it will give you cancer.

BigToof wrote:@PP Don't laugh so quick, NOBODY in Oregon is ALLOWED to pump their own gas, under ANY conditions!

Somehow, your use of capital letters for emphasis and your use of an exclamation point leads me to believe that you consider this to be a matter of some great import. I am moved to ask, "So what?"

olympia wrote:So I was assembling my Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun!! and noticed a warning on my zipkicker glue accelerator. To wit, that this stuff contains a chemical that is known to cause cancer in the state of California. Whew, looks like I dodged a bullet.

Wait, wait. So it only causes cancer when you're in California? That's a pretty specific type of cancer.

BYE

Kalifornistan is horrible about crap like that. It's costing me an extra $300 to repair my car thats never been near that state, because of it's lame emission laws.

I'd be fine with giving California back to Mexico.

Just like the infamous message on a packet of peanuts:
Warning,may contain nuts...

djones520 wrote:Kalifornistan is horrible about crap like that. It's costing me an extra $300 to repair my car thats never been near that state, because of it's lame emission laws.

I'd be fine with giving California back to Mexico.

I enjoyed watching the smog roll over the mountains when I visited San Jose. I thought it was the impending Apocalypse, but everyone told me 'nah, that happens every day'. God forbid we have laws that keep us from becoming Beijing. Why is melanine free milk so damn expensive!!!!

Watch out dude, the longer you live, the greater your chances of dying become.

captain.gordino wrote:Watch out dude, the longer you live, the greater your chances of dying become.

Not always true.

In places with high infant mortality, once you get past a certain point I believe your
chances for survival are higher since everyone who didn't have the health to survive has
died off.

California is known for some interesting legislation. Its now also known for something called a "real estate bubble." I believe some ungodly number like 1/3 to 1/2 of all bad real estate loans are out of California.

Mod note: Woops moving to OTT

They used to say the same sort of rubbish about ciggies.

To be safe I switched to the "May cause low birthweight" ones instead. Safe for me then, and I'm sure when push comes to shove ( so to speak) Mrs. Reds8n will appreciate the thought.

People used to say that stopping smoking will save you money. Lies all lies. If I live longer then that's more rent/taxes etc etc I have to pay. Frankly I think we've all been conned.

This calls for a really stiff letter to the Times.

People used to make fun of lead paint and House insolation. Lots of those people are dead now. I'd rather have people get a little Zeal protecting me than not give a rat's ass.

The problem with zeal is that it propagates at an alarming rate and common sense is no barrier. The only thing that can stop it is chaos and bloodshed. Just look at the rise in organized crime that resulted from prohibition. Anyhow, for every thing that might kill the entire Human race that we do see, there are five that we know nothing about. Party on!