Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses

[Hawkmoon]

Cell phones are dangerous, according to California. Don't sleep with your cell phone and don't carry it in a pocket or near your body, carry it in a purse.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/12/14/california-cellphone-radiation-guidelines/

But, says the State, does the release mean that the state believes cellphones are dangerous?

“Not at all,” said Dr. Karen Smith. “Our position is that the science is evolving.”

The state said one of the main reasons they’ve decided to release these guidelines now, is that there are new numbers out showing that cellphone use is higher than ever, with 95 percent of Americans using them on a regular basis.

Of course, the real reason they're releasing this information now, when they've had it since 2009, couldn't be related to the fact that they just lost a lawsuit over withholding it.

Could it?

[grampster]

Well, if the battery blows up and burns, better to have it in a murse rather than in your pocket.

[Jamisjockey]

It's a satchel.

[MillCreek]

It's a European shoulder bag! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxHSArClCKU

[Ben]

Fancy Boy!

https://youtu.be/YgQDAKsOh-M?t=15

[230RN]

I can't figure out how come some people think that any given property of electromagnetic radiation just suddenly disappears at some given, definite frequency.

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[lee n. field]

Well, if the battery blows up and burns, better to have it in a murse rather than in your pocket.

We had that happen at work this week.   

Our printer guy got trained on cell phones, so we do that now.  He was removing the battery out of an older iphone, when it went "whoosh".  Nasty fumes in the air, and a burn mark where he dropped it on the floor.

[BlueStarLizzard]

*shrug* So take advantage of the situation. Pack it right and you'll have a mini BUG out bag instead of a murse.

On ;quick errands and such into stores, I just have keys and wallet and leave the bag in the car, but I don't leave the house without my bag, which has cell phone and assorted other convenient items that are good to have around, ranging from first aid stuff too a stash of poop bags (yes, poop bags. I figure I just leave them in there instead of emptying out after every dog show and they aren't poopy until you put poop in them so they can multi purpose)

[Nick1911]

Has there been any peer reviewed evidence which shows non ionizing radiation to have any biological effect besides heating?

[RoadKingLarry]

Has there been any peer reviewed evidence which shows non ionizing radiation to have any biological effect besides heating?

 
Of course there has but the evil cell phone companies disappeared the researchers and covered up all the evidence because how could they kill off their entire cusomter base if everyone knew they were evil and trying to kill off their entire customer base.
 

[Ben]

Man don't want a cell phone? Man don't carry a cell phone.

[French G.]

Sure is nice living in a no cell service area. My phone is seldom on me. Of course living near a radio quiet zone has its downsides, people actually land shop based on absence of cell signal, wifi, or powerlines, yes those fun people who claim wifi makes them sick. Then I got to live with them. Plus the giant antenna out here that listens to the aliens has to be high on their list of things to zorch when things go interstellar potato.

[RocketMan]

California, the land where they think damn near everything causes cancer.


edited for spelink.

[just Warren]

You can have my carryall when you pry it from my cold, dead shoulder!

[Fly320s]

You can have my carryall when you pry it from my cold warmed-by-radiation, dead shoulder!

Fixed.

[Kingcreek]

More and more often I find myself powering off and tossing my phone in the desk drawer at work or the console in vehicles. I turn it on and check for messages several times a day. I just get tired of fussing with it or irritated when it chimes me or whatever. It's been a gradual shift for me, started by setting it on silent vibtrate until it was just off more.
I get very few texts and I only do anti-social media.

[230RN]

Man don't want a cell phone? Man don't carry a cell phone.

How does man operate that machine with those gloves on?

Terry

REF (Ancillary):
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=56267.0

[Fly320s]

How does man operate that machine with those gloves on?

That machine is easy to operate.  It has only one lever.

[230RN]

I count two levers.  The larger lever lever, and the trigger little lever.  The former I can see being operated safely with heavy work gloves.  But not the latter little lever, leastways lacking a safety lever.

Me had fun.  Me go now.  Don't forget to leave a tip for your server person.

[Fly320s]

I count two levers. 

I knew you would go there.    

[230RN]

I knew you knew I would go there.

Actually, I do about the same thing as bluestarlizzard.  I keep my wallet and keys on a chain hooked to my belt, and a lot of other goodies in a belly pack I bought six or eight years ago

I leave it in the car when shopping.

Goodies: small first aid kit, checkbook, cell phone (always off anyhow), notebook, pen, small flashlight, 5-shot speedloader for my J-frame, a real camera (not part of cellphone camera), JIC bus schedules, cigarette lighter (even though I quit smoking), &c, &c, &c.

I haven't actually put that belly pack around my waist in years.

Call it a murse, a purse, a man-pack, or anything you care to, even a fag bag.  I don't give a soft steaming turd in the snow as long as my J-frame is in my pocket.

Terry

[French G.]

Imagine California's consternation if we could operate one of those 500 Kw border blaster radio stations from TJ. Maybe just loop "Trump is your president."

[MechAg94]

Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.   
Sort of like the RFID blocking wallets. 

[HeroHog]

Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.   
Sort of like the RFID blocking wallets. 

There's an app for that, engage the "off" app and it won't emit any!thing

[Hawkmoon]

Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.   
Sort of like the RFID blocking wallets. 

A friend of mine has one. Dunno exactly what it's made of. To test it, we were standing a couple of hundred yards from a cell tower. I had five bars. He put the phone in the pouch and told me to call him.

Nada.