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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
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In article , Ivan wrote:
Well Charles I was in the trade for 50 years man and boy before I
retired,
I'd hate to imagine the amount of solder fumes I have inhaled in confined
spaces over those years, how much asbestos inhaled from blowing out the
dust
from electric irons and other pieces of equipment when changing elements
as
an apprentice, and also the amount of blue asbestos I must have inhaled
from
broken pipe lagging when crawling through ducts in the boiler rooms of
early
1960's tower blocks were our (Rediffusion) distribution equipment used to
be
housed.
Although it has to be said that I still keep my fingers crossed, as I
hear
that these things can catch up with one more than 60 years after the
event!

I don't know about lead, but asbestos definitely can. I watched my father
die
from the effects of this and it wasn't pleasant. If you are diagnosed with
mesothelioma, you've probably got about a year and you should endeavour to
get
your affairs in order during the first few months of this because you
won't be
much use For The rest of it. They say it only takes one fibre of the stuff
in the
wrong place, so the fact that I worked for a number of years in television
studios lined with it does not cheer me at all. If you've been working
with
asbestos in any way that involves disturbing it enough to kick up dust,
then,
seriously, I hope you turn out to be one of the lucky ones.

I remember a case from a few years back about a woman in her mid eighties
who had died of mesothelioma, it turned out that her last contact with any
serious amounts of asbestos was when she was 16 years old, working in a
factory which manufactured gas masks. And that's another thing, I dread to
think how many of those things we smashed open as kids to see what all that
powder and stuff was in the green aluminium filter!

kids

Rod.

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In article [email protected], Owain wrote:
A brick on a string hanging over the line from a bridge is fairly normal.

Obviously the government should ban people from buying or owning balls*
of string without having a good reason.

You may jest, but there appears to be an age limit in DIY shops for buying a
tube of glue. Whether it's a legal requirement or the shop's own public image
related paranoia I couldn't say, but they usually have the stuff locked away
so you have to take a card to the checkout. Luckily I'm over 21 by a
considerable margin so I don't have to show my passport or driving licence.

Rod.

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"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
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Well, freezing something that is otherwise relatively harmless when
used as a projectile was proven to have potentially fatal
consequences
by BR when they loaded the test cannon with a frozen chicken to
verify
that the driver's screen on the HST was bird strike proof. They got
rather a shock when they managed to prove the screen wasn't
_frozen_bird_ strike proof!

Nor was the bulkhead behind were the driver would have been sitting
either IIRC!

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:57:47 +0100, Johnny B Good
wrote:

Of course, when they realised their mistake and thawed the ammunition
out to more accurately simulate a "real life" scenario (it's extremely
unlikely that a high speed vehicle will ever encounter a frozen bird
[1]), they got the hoped for results.

[1] Not impossible, just extremely unlikely. I'm not suggesting that a
certain species of goose, famous for being able to fly at heights in
excess of 30,000 feet, couldn't expire in flight and end up in a frozen
state by the time it dropped to ground level during the winter months
whilst the air temperatures right down to ground level were at or below
freezing.

The bar-headed goose. But it would never fall anything remotely like
30k ft. They only climb to that level to cross mountains
(http://audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html), so would fall onto
the mountain, not to sea level. Even if they got down as far as base
camp, that's still 18k ft.
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The message
from Robin Faichney contains these words:

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:57:47 +0100, Johnny B Good
wrote:

Of course, when they realised their mistake and thawed the ammunition
out to more accurately simulate a "real life" scenario (it's extremely
unlikely that a high speed vehicle will ever encounter a frozen bird
[1]), they got the hoped for results.

[1] Not impossible, just extremely unlikely. I'm not suggesting that a
certain species of goose, famous for being able to fly at heights in
excess of 30,000 feet, couldn't expire in flight and end up in a frozen
state by the time it dropped to ground level during the winter months
whilst the air temperatures right down to ground level were at or below
freezing.

The bar-headed goose. But it would never fall anything remotely like
30k ft. They only climb to that level to cross mountains
(http://audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html), so would fall onto
the mountain, not to sea level. Even if they got down as far as base
camp, that's still 18k ft.

Yes, that's the one! I agree, hence my use of the phrase "extremely
unlikely" :-). However, I thought I'd mention this one 'possibility' to
head off any "Smart Alec" responses.

Whilst we're on the subject, do you think it's worth the effort to
point out the fallacy in Bill's posting regarding air friction heating
of the deceased Bar-headed Goose? :-)

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Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:24:50 +0100, Johnny B Good
wrote:

The message
from Robin Faichney contains these words:

The bar-headed goose. But it would never fall anything remotely like
30k ft. They only climb to that level to cross mountains
(http://audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html), so would fall onto
the mountain, not to sea level. Even if they got down as far as base
camp, that's still 18k ft.

Yes, that's the one! I agree, hence my use of the phrase "extremely
unlikely" :-). However, I thought I'd mention this one 'possibility' to
head off any "Smart Alec" responses.

Fairy nuff.

Whilst we're on the subject, do you think it's worth the effort to
point out the fallacy in Bill's posting regarding air friction heating
of the deceased Bar-headed Goose? :-)

I'll let you tell it, you'll do it so much better than me. :-)
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"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
.. .
Whilst we're on the subject, do you think it's worth the effort to
point out the fallacy in Bill's posting regarding air friction heating
of the deceased Bar-headed Goose? :-)

Could we do a practical experiment? Next time I'm working on a tower block
I'll drop a frozen turkey on a traffic warden's head and see if it arrives
cooked.

Bill

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
.. .
Whilst we're on the subject, do you think it's worth the effort to
point out the fallacy in Bill's posting regarding air friction heating
of the deceased Bar-headed Goose? :-)

Could we do a practical experiment? Next time I'm working on a tower block
I'll drop a frozen turkey on a traffic warden's head and see if it arrives
cooked.

Bill

YOUR goose will be cooked if you try that................

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"Vic" wrote in message
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YOUR goose will be cooked if you try that................

Me and my mate got into some right bother at school for dropping a crate of
milk from the fourth floor. It landed right next to the history teacher. He
never did like playground duty.

When I left I had a job for a bit as a stop-go man and it was on his route
home. I used to give him a cheery wave and he used to give me the fingers.
Right old mysery he was.

Bill

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Vic" wrote in message
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YOUR goose will be cooked if you try that................

Me and my mate got into some right bother at school for dropping a
crate of milk from the fourth floor. It landed right next to the
history teacher. He never did like playground duty.
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Bet you didn't sit down for the rest of the day (or two) Bill, those
were the days, kids knew what discipline was!