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[nev]

Tophe, a JMN is a Joyless Modelling Nazi ie those annoying types who like to do nothing better than nit-pick and criticise every part of your work "the green is too dark", "its 2mm too short", "what-ifs are a waste of time" etc etc.  The kind of people who put me off model shows.  I'm only going to the UK Nationals cos all my fellow Englishmen from off this board are going.  If I'd never found What-if I probly would never have gone again.

[Tophe]

Thanks ! All is clear !    Blamed be the JMNs and glory to smiling WIs...  

[Tophe]

We work with radioactive sources at work.....
I've got two healthy kids and all my parts still work.....so I agree with Tophe ! Not so scary !

Dear Toad,
At my work last week, I have been informed that I must ware a protective mask to weigh 5mg of Amphotericin (a chemical killing yeast bad micro-organisms), with the risk of maybe 0.005mg coming in my nose without a mask, while at the hospital in 1999 (after an accident), I was required to drink 20ml containing 50mg of this very drug each day during one month ! Precaution principle can be turned crazy. Chorure de sodium powder in my lab features a danger pictogram - hey this is kitchen salt ! And the Acrilamide (new chemical) level has been declared outlaw very low before new measures prooved that bread and fried potatoes would be outlaw...
If everything whose risk is not zero must be forbidden, let us forbid cars, electricity, bath, hockey, aircraft... This is not the paradise I am dreaming of, as far as I am concerned.
Though, I agree that tiny amounts of bad chemicals everywhere add to one another and this pollution may explain why the rate of cancer is higher now than 200 years ago, but please : let nobody forbid twin-boom models, just forbid real aircraft that may kill passengers and crews, but with my glue and paint, I will wear gloves and mask, I swear...

[NARSES2]

Providing we take Great Care with Nuclear Power it's possibly more enviromentally friendly than pumping out all the CO2 we currently do. I know there's a problem with the waste, but if enough money was put into the research we could deal with it.

Chris

[nev]

I know where you're coming from Tophe - I work in a chemical lab, and there are dangerous chemicals we handle in small quantities and in large quantities on the plant, but there are too many joyless safety nazis who take it to the nth degree, and I do know people who would want me to wear a dusk mask & gloves if I was weighing out Sodium Chloride      

[John Howling Mouse]

At my work, we cannot help but be extremely cautious.
The concentration/amount of H2S that will kill you instantly can barely
be measured reliably by the best LDL detectors on the market.

Better safe than sorry.  Now, where did I put those Pop-Tarts?

[WeeJimmy]

Don't toads have warts?

[Tophe]

H2S that will kill you instantly

Yes, but do you know what makes fart smelly : H2S... (for the noisy ones, it is methan, explosive). If you ever fart, George Bush and Tony Blair may bomb your country as spreading chemical weapons... You will enjoy seeing B-2s and F-117s very close, before being killed instantly as well, but more aeronautically, that is  

[lancer]

And there's me thinking that H2S was the radar on the Lancs.....      

[Ollie]

Isn't Methan MH4??

 

[John Howling Mouse]

H2S that will kill you instantly

Yes, but do you know what makes fart smelly : H2S... (for the noisy ones, it is methan, explosive). If you ever fart, George Bush and Tony Blair may bomb your country as spreading chemical weapons... You will enjoy seeing B-2s and F-117s very close, before being killed instantly as well, but more aeronautically, that is

Ah, you kill me, Tophe (that's actually a good thing).

Actually, the genuine element in my personal farts which makes them worse than global warming, nerve gas, and skunk-spunk put together is a patented family secret but I can reveal part of the chemical mystery in the equation excerpted below:

GAMMA-B5-HECTYL-MECHTYL-CH3C-DIOCHROMITIC-ONIONATE-POPTARTARIC-HCCL-LAMMA-LAMMA-DING-DONG...
 

[nev]

Ahhh, good old Hydrogen Sulphide......am I glad I don't have to handle that stinky stuff any more  

We do have a worse smelling chemical at out place - an intermediate known as C-Racemate Damp, which, to put it bluntly, smells of hyper-concentrated semen.  Its enough to make you retch just opening the lid on a sample bottle, and when you open the oven after doing a loss on drying on it.......................................  

Wheres a puke smilie when you need one?

[Tophe]

If you ever fart, George Bush may bomb your country as spreading chemical weapons...

To a friend, I felt I could not say "the B-2s will bomb your donkey". I respect dear JHM too much for such words...
But it reminded me something : in the 80s after the Lybian bomb that killed many innocent US passengers over Scotland, the F-111s went to bomb Khadafi's home, and the USAF crews in Lackenheath AFB had written on the weapons : "LIBYA= Lackenheath Is Bombing Your donkey"...
Khadafi's killers deserved bombs, not us just heretical modellers   The Joyless Modelling Nazis have no bomber fleet, I hope...