reminds me of that scene in The Jerk where the guy is begging for assistance because the leather seats in his airplane are all dried and cracked. "I have tp put a towel over them whenever I take someone up! boo hoo hoo.."GaijinPunch wrote:My friend that lives here in Santa Cruz says there's a fund to help the boat owners in Santa Cruz whose boats were damaged by teh 3 inch tsunami that made it all the way to the west coast.
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RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
It's really too bad, I'd really love to read positive news now and then.Blackbird wrote:The news is only interested if it's getting worse =P. "Oh, you mean it's not going to be Chernobyl 2? Booooring. Oh, hey, Libya's getting bombed! Sweet guys, let's go check it out!"
Bloody vultures.
SHMUP sale page.Randorama wrote:ban CMoon for being a closet Jerry Falwell cockmonster/Ann Coulter fan, Nijska a bronie (ack! The horror!), and Ed Oscuro being unable to post 100-word arguments without writing 3-pages posts.
Eugenics: you know it's right!
our brains are hard wired for fear - unfortunately this is why news programming now is little more than a series of horror/scare stories.It's really too bad, I'd really love to read positive news now and then.
Nah... well, not directly at least. It's probably from all the venting, eventually it's going to rain and get dumped on a water supply somewhere. If it was reaching the water supply directly, it would be a lot more than 200Bq/kg.maxlords wrote:So I'm assuming some radiation made it into the water table to cause this?
Yeah I was wondering who would drink tap water let alone give it to their baby, but then I realised a lot of people must boil it after they run out of bottled water. Kind of funny when you read the following quote, given it was false even before the crisis began:GaijinPunch wrote:in Tokyo drinks tap water. If they do, they've probably got a whole host of other issues that will kill them before any radiation-sickness would.
The official added that it was safe for adults to drink the tap water.
Yeah, it's pretty nasty. For the general population, it's either filtered (rare, I think) or boiled for cooking. Nobody boils water to drink that I know of. Too easy to just buy bottled.austere wrote: Yeah I was wondering who would drink tap water let alone give it to their baby, but then I realised a lot of people must boil it after they run out of bottled water. Kind of funny when you read the following quote, given it was false even before the crisis began:
The official added that it was safe for adults to drink the tap water.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
You're in luck. Read here about this hero who saved his family and goes out to the flood area to save others every day.CMoon wrote:It's really too bad, I'd really love to read positive news now and then.
formula + boiled then cooled to 70C water = baby milkYeah I was wondering who would drink tap water let alone give it to their baby
Your parents in law not into yu-zamashi? My wife's parents seem to think that boiling water and letting it cool instills it with magical properties that are great for babiesGaijinPunch wrote:Yeah, it's pretty nasty. For the general population, it's either filtered (rare, I think) or boiled for cooking. Nobody boils water to drink that I know of. Too easy to just buy bottled.austere wrote: Yeah I was wondering who would drink tap water let alone give it to their baby, but then I realised a lot of people must boil it after they run out of bottled water. Kind of funny when you read the following quote, given it was false even before the crisis began:
The official added that it was safe for adults to drink the tap water.
They live in Sapporo, where the water's a lot better, but I think they'd probably do the same in Tokyo... RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
i think this was already debunked - the "yellow residue" is pollen!If someone in Tokyo has a Geiger counter and encounters some of this yellow residue, can you please check it against a background reading? I find it hard to believe that Uranium (very heavy) would land that far away, but hey, you never know...
Absolute trust in authority is a serious mental illness. They are probably right in this case but until someone tests it (which they said they haven't so far) we won't know for sure.Thinking back to 20 years ago, it’s the splashing in yellow rainwater that Antonina Sergieff vividly recalls.
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“We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. ... You don’t see (it in) the air, it doesn’t materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation,” Sergieff said.
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It was not long after that residents in her hometown knew it wasn’t simply “pollen” – which is what government officials assured them, she said.
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Abrazhevich told her daughter that the government’s explanation was given in such a "calm voice" that no one recognized the danger.
“They told us not to worry. Not to go nuts. But then a very popular English radio station started broadcasting about the radiation. (The government) told us not to worry, that it was American propaganda to undermine our spirit,” Sergieff said.
This, and for people who think that "it only happens in autocratic and communist countries", most european government claimed that Chernobyl's cloud stopped at the boarder.austere wrote:That's the problem though:
http://dailybruin.detroitsoftworks.com/ ... -chernobyl
Absolute trust in authority is a serious mental illness. They are probably right in this case but until someone tests it (which they said they haven't so far) we won't know for sure.Thinking back to 20 years ago, it’s the splashing in yellow rainwater that Antonina Sergieff vividly recalls.
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“We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. ... You don’t see (it in) the air, it doesn’t materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation,” Sergieff said.
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It was not long after that residents in her hometown knew it wasn’t simply “pollen” – which is what government officials assured them, she said.
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Abrazhevich told her daughter that the government’s explanation was given in such a "calm voice" that no one recognized the danger.
“They told us not to worry. Not to go nuts. But then a very popular English radio station started broadcasting about the radiation. (The government) told us not to worry, that it was American propaganda to undermine our spirit,” Sergieff said.
radiation aside, doesn't boiling water kill most bacterias in there and make it safe? that's what i always thought.kyuzo wrote:My wife's parents seem to think that boiling water and letting it cool instills it with magical properties that are great for babies
My missus does the same. Don't get it myself, I think boiled/warm water tastes like crap, but she reckons it's a lot better for the gut than the cold stuff.GaijinPunch wrote:No idea, really.
Actually, wife does drink "boiled water" but it's mainly b/c she wants something hot to drink w/o caffeine... or sometimes flavor, as it were. I don't think this is common though. I would hope not.
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ALso, this is how SKykid usually posts
It kills bacteria, but it won't remove contaminates. A water purifier will be necessary for that. I use a Zero Water pitcher that I got at Target, and I love it. It removes the calcium, limestone, heavy metals, and fluoride (nasty evil stuff) from the water. They even give you an electronic measuring stick to test water quality. I wonder if they sell anything like that in Japan. There are other water filters in the US, like Brita and Pur, but they don't come close to Zero Water.ryu wrote:radiation aside, doesn't boiling water kill most bacterias in there and make it safe? that's what i always thought.
but then tap water over here is considered safe anyways, so i've never read much into it.
