I wonder if it had glowing user reviews on Bed Bath & Beyond's website.

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I lol'd.

yeah IF you only spend 30 minutes per day next to one...but what if, likemost people, the tissue holder is on your desk at work, or nighstand in bedroom..or both... no worries thats only like 32 or more xrays per year. its all good

IronTom: It might be time to measure the metal stuff now again. start manufacturing these goods in the US.

In unrelated news, The Geiger Counter Gazette reports that Iran opens 80 new Bed Bath and Beyond stores during the cold and sniffles season.

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I'd be more convinced if in the after picture there was a zombie pushing a baby stroller with a little baby zombie in it, who wants to suck on your brains.

Bed, bath One step beyond!

Madness

Radioactive Silver Tissue Holders?

Wow. Just wow.

Off to eat a banana

Approves:

Geez, the only dirty bomb I thought I had in my bathroom was the result of eating at Taco Bell yesterday.

Here, use this instead



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ktybear: Here, use this instead

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Wow. Just wow.

jingks: Radioactive Silver Tissue Holders?

Wow. Just wow.

grrr, beat me to it!

kvinesknows: yeah IF you only spend 30 minutes per day next to one...but what if, likemost people, the tissue holder is on your desk at work, or nighstand in bedroom..or both... no worries thats only like 32 or more xrays per year. its all good

That's just what I was thinking. Plus, even though chest X-rays aren't nearly as significant as, say, CAT scans, physicians tend to avoid unnecessarily performing them.

ktybear: jingks: Radioactive Silver Tissue Holders?

Wow. Just wow.

grrr, beat me to it!

D'oh, I didn't see that. Just the modified wooden toilet roller above.

interesting tidbit at the end of the story about the cobalt-60 being man-made, medical-grade material. tinfoil hatters will have a field day.

that's some sloppy smelting there, third-world metallurgy guy.

Enigmamf: ktybear: jingks: Radioactive Silver Tissue Holders?

Wow. Just wow.

grrr, beat me to it!

D'oh, I didn't see that. Just the modified wooden toilet roller above.

This one and Quinn are my new favorites

just google quinn piano fark and see what comes up

hehehe

kvinesknows: yeah IF you only spend 30 minutes per day next to one...but what if, likemost people, the tissue holder is on your desk at work, or nighstand in bedroom..or both... no worries thats only like 32 or more xrays per year. its all good

Even that level of exposure isn't enough to cause you a problem. A random physics department on the internet says that a chest x-ray gives a dose of 3 mrem, so 32 chest x-rays would be less than 100 mrem. For comparison, the average yearly background dose you receive from nature is 360mrem.

For a sense of scale, a nuclear worker is allowed to absorb 5000 rem per year, and even that is considered insignificant enough to pose essentially no threat to human health (less than 1 percent increased lifetime risk of developing cancer, if you got that exposure every year for your working years).

The principle of least exposure says that if you can avoid it, you should (which is what they're doing here), but these things aren't going to pose any threat to human health unless you buy a crate of them and fondle them all day.

But remember, those pesky health,environmental and workplace rules take jobs from Americans..

Hey, guise! Am I in the right thread?

jingks: Radioactive Silver Tissue Holders?

Wow. Just wow.

Here here to say this, slinking away

Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.

If you get cancer from an object designed to dispense shiat tickets, well, that's just sad.

IronTom: get a Geiger counter.

There was a scare a while back in Ohio where they had metal tables made out of radioactive metal. You're probably not gonna wipe yourself on the table though. It might be time to measure the metal stuff now again.


I think these were actually school desks. Imagine the cancer cluster that would have been caused by children sitting at these desks for six hours a day, every day.

Article about how a small rod of Cobalt-60 can mess up your year -- Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?

Basically, wads of scrap metal change hands a bunch of times, unknown materials get mixed in such as from discarded or stolen hospital equipment, and if you don't catch it from radiation detectors at random points in the shipping, the metal is recycled into tissue holder boxes.

*If you get cancer from an object designed to dispense shiat tickets, well, that's just sad.*

Beer out nose.

Fubini:
For a sense of scale, a nuclear worker is allowed to absorb 5000 rem per year

Ummm. Millirem.

/yeah, I know it's a typo, but...

Bed Bath & Beyond pulls tissue holders from market because of glowing reviews. And by glowing, they mean they're made with Cobalt 60 (news.yahoo.com)

One more reason not to send manufacturing offshore.

sethstorm: Bed Bath & Beyond pulls tissue holders from market because of glowing reviews. And by glowing, they mean they're made with Cobalt 60 (news.yahoo.com)

One more reason not to send manufacturing offshore.

Given the widespread usage of high-sensitivity geiger-counters used at all international ports, and given that Cobalt-60 is widely-used in the medical industry, I'd put a wager that actually this was caused within the US, from recycled medical equipment. Some metal-recycling shop screwed up. If it had been China, it would have gotten caught at Portland or the like....

brap: I had this old-timey alarm clock that I loved because it was all Deco looking and groovy. Well I loved it until I found out that it glowed in the dark because it was illuminated by Radium.

WHOOPSIE!

Good morning CANCER NAM!


As long as you don't open it you're probably ok. I've seen a couple of threads on clocks at WatchUSeek that have radium.

Wizard Drongo: sethstorm: Bed Bath & Beyond pulls tissue holders from market because of glowing reviews. And by glowing, they mean they're made with Cobalt 60 (news.yahoo.com)

One more reason not to send manufacturing offshore.

Given the widespread usage of high-sensitivity geiger-counters used at all international ports, and given that Cobalt-60 is widely-used in the medical industry, I'd put a wager that actually this was caused within the US, from recycled medical equipment. Some metal-recycling shop screwed up. If it had been China, it would have gotten caught at Portland or the like....

They came from India..

FTFA

"The products were shipped from India through the port of Newark, N.J., the report said. The tissue holders are distributed by Tatara Group of Piscataway, N.J."

I found an bottle of this stuff in a cupboard last week.

Recycling! If we just threw out our old, shoddy metals and mined nice fresh new ones this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

Mr. Shabooboo: Wizard Drongo: sethstorm: Bed Bath & Beyond pulls tissue holders from market because of glowing reviews. And by glowing, they mean they're made with Cobalt 60 (news.yahoo.com)

One more reason not to send manufacturing offshore.

Given the widespread usage of high-sensitivity geiger-counters used at all international ports, and given that Cobalt-60 is widely-used in the medical industry, I'd put a wager that actually this was caused within the US, from recycled medical equipment. Some metal-recycling shop screwed up. If it had been China, it would have gotten caught at Portland or the like....

They came from India..

FTFA

"The products were shipped from India through the port of Newark, N.J., the report said. The tissue holders are distributed by Tatara Group of Piscataway, N.J."

It's early morning here in Scotland. I farked up.
Not as badly as the Port Authority in Newark, clearly...

And this was not picked up by the radiation detectors at the port of entry?
Great.

Would it have been too much to ask the author to maybe include a picture of said radioactive item? Now, I have to go to their site and scroll through just to make sure my boss didn't pick one of these up. He loves BB&B and is always dragging something in from there. Just damn

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What am I going to do with a wooden dild... oh. Nevermind.

Doctor Jan Itor: What am I going to do with a wooden dild... oh. Nevermind.

You used the indefinite article to not imply ownership, so there would have been no problem in finishing the sentence.