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Environmentally friendly light bulbs 'can damage your skin', doctors warn
The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 4th January 2008 | Staff

Posted on 01/04/2008 7:41:31 AM PST by fanfan

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1 posted on 01/04/2008 7:41:34 AM PST by fanfan
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To: fanfan

Skin Cancer will no longer be covered by Socialized Medicine. It’s for the planet.


2 posted on 01/04/2008 7:42:44 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: fanfan

Do not taunt “environmentally friendly light bulb”.


3 posted on 01/04/2008 7:43:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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Why just this morning I heard a doc indicate that these bulbs also cause migraines and epilepsy. You’re gonna need a doc’s note to be able to have the “regular” bulbs in your home.


4 posted on 01/04/2008 7:46:08 AM PST by sarasota
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To: fanfan

I hate flourescent light. I’ll shift to candelabras maybe for my morning reading. Would be kind of classy. How’s that for the environment?


5 posted on 01/04/2008 7:47:21 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: fanfan

I can see it now.
You’ll have to get a doctors note giving you permission to purchase the old type lightbulbs.
Then you’ll have to purchase them at the pharmacist desk where restricted items are sold.
You’ll have to sign the book so they can track you in case you’re buying too many for nefarious reasons.


6 posted on 01/04/2008 7:50:09 AM PST by katnip ( Embittered Nativist)
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To: fanfan

What about all the existing straight-tube fluorescent bulbs in our homes and businesses now?


7 posted on 01/04/2008 7:50:28 AM PST by polymuser (Happy New Year)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Do not taunt “environmentally friendly light bulb”.

Why not? Will they taunt me back?

8 posted on 01/04/2008 7:50:37 AM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Greg F
I think that when all the information is in, the media and scientists will come to the overwhelming conclusion that while the new bulbs are needed to save the planet without delay, everyone will have to smoke medicinal weed to endure them.
9 posted on 01/04/2008 7:51:16 AM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: fanfan

Subject: Happy Fun Ball

(kids)
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(announcer)
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(background voice)
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children should avoid
prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.

Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.

Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which if exposed due to rupture
should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.

Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.

Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:

* Itching

* Vertigo

* Dizziness

* Tingling in extremities

* Loss of balance or coordination

* Slurred speech

* Temporary blindness

* Profuse Sweating

or

* Heart palpitations

If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter
and cover head.

Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.

When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container
and kept under refrigeration.

Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products
Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of
any and all liability.

Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which
fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is
also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee.

(announcer)
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10 posted on 01/04/2008 7:54:23 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: sarasota; fanfan

I am stocking up on the regular lightbulbs while I can. Maybe I can save up enough to last until I shuffle off this mortal coil! What was it that Charleton Heston said, “From my cold, dead hands!” Guns and lightbulbs!


11 posted on 01/04/2008 7:55:56 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: fanfan
Wait till all the women in this country wake up to the fact that fluorescent lighting makes them look ghastly, really ghastly......including totally accentuating even minor bags under the eyes.

This is why you'll never find fluorescent lights in beauty shops, photographers' studios, theatrical dressing rooms and the like.

Say "cheese", ladies.

Leni

12 posted on 01/04/2008 7:59:55 AM PST by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !!!)
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To: fanfan

“environmentally friendly light bulb” providers should have
to obtain INFORMED CONSENT from those to whom they give this
mutagenic, toxic, structurally labile, irradiating devices.


13 posted on 01/04/2008 8:00:03 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: fanfan

This is just too beautiful. Another wonderful idea of the eco-fascists that causes more harm than good. Too bad most people will never know it because of the MSM’s continuous propogandizing for the left.

PF


14 posted on 01/04/2008 8:01:58 AM PST by PresidentFelon
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To: fanfan

Why is it I can’t buy a mercury thermometer, but will be forced to fill my home with mercury lights? I was told the planet would melt if I had a mercury thermometer break, but I am now forced to handle mercury 100 times more for the rest of my shortened life.


15 posted on 01/04/2008 8:03:45 AM PST by chuckles
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To: Polyxene

I am stocking up on the regular lightbulbs while I can.
______________________________________

That’s a great flipping idea. I’m in South Florida so maybe I will be able to boat out to a free nation, say Cuba, that still allows incandescent bulbs to keep up the supply also.


16 posted on 01/04/2008 8:08:12 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: sarasota

Hey, let’s all call James Sokolov and start a class action suit!


17 posted on 01/04/2008 8:08:19 AM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: fanfan

It might be profitable to stock up on the bulbs while they are still dirt cheap and available (96 Cents for a 4 pack at the local dollar store). You could probably make a fortune on ebay in about 10 years...


18 posted on 01/04/2008 8:09:50 AM PST by apillar
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To: polymuser
What about all the existing straight-tube fluorescent bulbs in our homes and businesses now?

Those of us who are sensitive to them (and have the option) turn them off and bring lamps from home to light our offices. Some of the worst years of my life were high school. White desk tops, blue or gray walls, white linoleum floors, and tons of fluorescent bulbs. I had a head ache every day by the end of second period. I finally got a doctor's permission to wear my sunglasses in class.

19 posted on 01/04/2008 8:11:18 AM PST by Hoffer Rand
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Congress really screwed up this time.

The political carnage on this issue will be fun to watch, particularly if the Republicans have the courage to parade victims of the new lighting policies around Capitol Hill.
20 posted on 01/04/2008 8:13:11 AM PST by cgbg (Advice to Obama--Announce if he is killed Hillary did it and it was not suicide.)
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