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Labes for days posted:It matters because it wasn't phosphorous exposure that crippled and killed them. They were deliberately given misinformation that radium was safe and healthy. There's a good book on the legal battle that resulted from the dial painters' first noticing something was wrong through the medical and legal work that was needed to get their diseases and the unsafe conditions in which they were working recognize by various labour organisations. The book is titled Radium Girls by Kate Moore. It's an approachable read. Buzzfeed has an extract / article by the book author to let you know if you'd like the tone and feel of the book, and the whole thing is really heart-wrenching in places. quote:In September 12, 1922, the strange infection that had plagued Mollie Maggia for less than a year spread to the tissues of her throat. The disease slowly ate its way through her jugular vein. At 5 p.m. that day, her mouth was flooded with blood as she hemorrhaged so fast that her nurse could not staunch it. She died at the age of 24. With her doctors flummoxed as to the cause of death, her death certificate, erroneously, said she’d died of syphilis, something her former company would later use against her. MononcQc fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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From Imgur: quote:My roommate said the handle was making his hand tingle....#wtf #electricity https://i.imgur.com/FO2uSaY.mp4
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Jun 11, 2018 13:32
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Anybody ever had an arcade cabinet shock the gently caress out of them? I have fond memories of that as a kid.
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Vargatron posted:Anybody ever had an arcade cabinet shock the gently caress out of them? I have fond memories of that as a kid. Just the Tron machine at the pool we used to swim. Touching that thing without drying off completely was a harrowing experience.
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Jun 11, 2018 14:04
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Nocheez posted:Just the Tron machine at the pool we used to swim. Touching that thing without drying off completely was a harrowing experience. . . . not the old water park outside Phoenixville I hope? That such a thing could happen in more than one instance frightens me.
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Vargatron posted:Anybody ever had an arcade cabinet shock the gently caress out of them? I have fond memories of that as a kid. Yeah a kid I knew got shocked on the TMNT machine at the bowling alley in my town when I was a kid, hard enough to go down for a minute or two. He only got minor burns, but he got transported because the 21-ish year old guy running the arcade was at med school and insisted the kid got his heart checked out.
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Pepperoneedy posted:. . . not the old water park outside Phoenixville I hope? That such a thing could happen in more than one instance frightens me. No, near Canal Fulton, OH.
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Jet Jaguar posted:This feels like a teaser for that video of a motorcycle cop driving through Jo'burg and firing three magazines from his pistol at a car. (How much property damage did that account for, as he missed a ton.) If he was accidentally hitting black neighborhoods, South Africa doesn't count that as damage.
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Pepperoneedy posted:. . . not the old water park outside Phoenixville I hope? That such a thing could happen in more than one instance frightens me. It was a Ms Pac Man machine for me. My uncle's condo on the beach had a small arcade right next to the pool deck. There were 4 or 5 machines there (Donkey Kong and Burger Time also zapped me a bunch of times) so it was a constant line of kids getting little shocks. Ms Pac Man would really sting though.
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I had a block heater do that to me once. The whole car was energized at 110. Thank God for boots.
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I think it was I-Mockery or Retrocrush that had a mention of some amusement park or water park where the front panel of the drinking fountain had been torn off, exposing the wires just in case you wanted to touch them with wet hands while getting a drink.
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shame on an IGA posted:The radium watch painters' terminal bonitis was caused by the glowing phosphors, incredibly the radium itself was the lesser occupational hazard and that condition had been epidemic in matchstick factories since the 1850s. Radium jaw is different and no phosphorous compounds are necessary to induce it. The patent medicine that Eben Byers consumed in great quantities was just radium dissolved in water and it caused his jaw to necrotize and fall off. Radium jaw's a bit of a misnomer anyway. The bone necrosis caused by deposition of radium in the bone started in the jaw, but the rest of the skeleton was affected as well, with spontaneous fractures of the spine and legs also being common.
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Platystemon posted:
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Not exactly the same thing and I was too young to understand the severity of what was going on..... We had a metal medicine cabinet in our bathroom as a kid. If you touched it while dry you would feel nothing but if your hands were slightly wet you would get a slight shock, very slight. Well one day I get out of th shower and am drying off. I leaned over to dry my legs or whatever and my soaking wet hair touched that thing. Holy gently caress it was like  brought to life.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Speaking of nuclear accidents, apparently some old KGB documents showed up and the Chernobyl plant was knowingly constructed with substandard material and methods, and there were a number of accidents before the one everybody knows about. Was anyone surprised by this? That's basically ussr.txt.
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My only electric shock more severe than static electricity was cleaning out a paper shredder that had gotten horribly jammed with shredding and paper dust. The actual shredder was a small unit about the size of a breadbox that fit on top of a large bin, so I removed it and was cleaning out the guts. I had it plugged in to run it manually and see where the jam was, and I stupidly tried to lift the circuit board without unplugging it. I noticed something was wrong when my hand started vibrating like my phone.
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I used a shower in a hostel in rural China that energized the faucet and showerhead when the hot water heater was turned on. At least it reminded you very emphatically to kill the power before running the water!
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Spime Wrangler posted:I used a shower in a hostel in rural China that energized the faucet and showerhead when the hot water heater was turned on. At least it reminded you very emphatically to kill the power before running the water!
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i've been told that shower head can be an energizing experience
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I'm surprised they're so chill about the steam explosion possibility of the ear of corn getting enveloped. Lava is the worst popcorn flavor.
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Platystemon posted:
work changed their policy from closed toe shoes to shoes around the feet because of poo poo like this
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Who didn't learn as a child not to touch a hot stove?
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Man the page on Mule Spinner's Cancer linked to the one on Chimney sweeps' carcinoma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps%27_carcinoma (  pic at link)quote:It is a disease which always makes it first attack on the inferior part of the scrotum where it produces a superficial, painful ragged ill-looking sore with hard rising edges.....in no great length of time it pervades the skin, dartos and the membranes of the scrotum, and seizes the testicle, which it inlarges, [sic] hardens and renders truly and thoroughly distempered. Whence it makes its way up the spermatic process into the abdomen.[12] Those old-timey medical texts have something distinctly nightmarish about the language. I read a thing on x-ray burns progressing to cancer in technicians that was pretty horrible, and the Chimney sweep Thing doesn't pull any punches either: quote:"The sore occupies the whole of the left side of the scrotum and the inner angle of the thigh, extending from the anus to the posterior inferior spinous process of the ileum, presenting a surface as large as a man's open hand, with hard indurated edges and irregular margins, discharging a thin sanies, which is extremely offensive; the left testicle is entirely denuded, and projects from its centre; in the left groin is a mass of indurated glands, the size of a goose's egg, which appears to suppurate in the right groin: there is likewise an ulceration, of the same malignant nature, about the size of a half-crown (5 cm)..."
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aphid_licker posted:Man the page on Mule Spinner's Cancer linked to the one on Chimney sweeps' carcinoma 
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The house explosion reminded me of something local that happened a year ago, and I don't think I ever posted it. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article174908071.html A couple guys in my town were making explosives out of a run-down lawnmower business. One night, the whole thing went up and completely leveled the building. I live slightly less than a mile away, and the explosion was violent enough that it shook my house. No videos of the actual explosion, but I manged to find one of the resulting fire. https://twitter.com/lilgreenkc/status/816454073071321089 The place is directly across the street from a gas station, so many of us in town thought the gas station went up before the news started reporting what happened. xergm fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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Sagebrush posted:Pure radium would certainly glow if you put enough of it together. Except it would be glowing red from the decay heat, so it would just look like any other hot metal object, and that's not obviously ~radioactive~ enough to attract the average joe. Forbidden gummy.
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Zil posted:Forbidden gummy. The Jujube, the worst mass produced candy of all time.
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aphid_licker posted:Man the page on Mule Spinner's Cancer linked to the one on Chimney sweeps' carcinoma Man Mary Poppins must have been into some kinky poo poo if she liked the looks of that...
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Memento posted:If people are interested in nuclear stuff, @nuclearanthro on twitter is a great follow. We'll play nothing but heavy metal covers. 
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Cursed thread reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1rxsgUuew0
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:The Jujube, the worst mass produced candy of all time. ...but also, oddly enough, the best drag queen of all time.
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My most memorable jolt was when installing new Ethernet in my house a few years ago. I was 8' up a ladder in the garage and I was going to crimp on the RJ45 tail. I cut off the sheathing but didn't want the little wire tips to scatter across the ground, so I held the tips of the wire in my teeth and then gingerly snipped them with my wire cutters. It was at that exact moment that I remembered that this was PoE wire and I had already wired in and powered the injector. A couple unexpected volts through the tongue woke me up quick.
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shame on an IGA posted:The radium watch painters' terminal bonitis was caused by the glowing phosphors, incredibly the radium itself was the lesser occupational hazard and that condition had been epidemic in matchstick factories since the 1850s. getting sold into chimneysweep child slavery also gave you sack cancer
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MononcQc posted:There's a good book on the legal battle that resulted from the dial painters' first noticing something was wrong through the medical and legal work that was needed to get their diseases and the unsafe conditions in which they were working recognize by various labour organisations. The book is titled Radium Girls by Kate Moore. It's an approachable read. Buzzfeed has an extract / article by the book author to let you know if you'd like the tone and feel of the book, and the whole thing is really heart-wrenching in places. It's an excellent book and the fact that people in this very thread think that those women shouldn't have bothered fighting Radium Dial Corp is...special.
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Labes for days posted:It's an excellent book and the fact that people in this very thread think that those women shouldn't have bothered fighting Radium Dial Corp is...special. Who was arguing they shouldn't have fought back? I didn't see that anywhere.
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yeah noone said anything close to that.  
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Like a hotdog in a breezeway.
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