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Title: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 16, 2017, 10:52:37 AM
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?

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“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?
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: grampster on December 16, 2017, 03:18:25 PM
Well, if the battery blows up and burns, better to have it in a murse rather than in your pocket.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Jamisjockey on December 16, 2017, 03:22:21 PM
It's a satchel.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: MillCreek on December 16, 2017, 03:28:13 PM
It's a European shoulder bag! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxHSArClCKU
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Ben on December 16, 2017, 03:42:44 PM
Fancy Boy!

https://youtu.be/YgQDAKsOh-M?t=15
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: 230RN on December 16, 2017, 03:48:40 PM
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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Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: lee n. field on December 16, 2017, 05:17:37 PM
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.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on December 16, 2017, 06:05:31 PM
*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)
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Nick1911 on December 16, 2017, 06:08:22 PM
Has there been any peer reviewed evidence which shows non ionizing radiation to have any biological effect besides heating?
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: RoadKingLarry on December 16, 2017, 06:11:28 PM
Has there been any peer reviewed evidence which shows non ionizing radiation to have any biological effect besides heating?

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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.
 [tinfoil]
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Ben on December 16, 2017, 06:14:15 PM
Man don't want a cell phone? Man don't carry a cell phone.

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Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: French G. on December 16, 2017, 06:41:54 PM
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.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: RocketMan on December 16, 2017, 11:00:04 PM
California, the land where they think damn near everything causes cancer.


edited for spelink.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: just Warren on December 16, 2017, 11:01:16 PM
You can have my carryall when you pry it from my cold, dead shoulder!
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Fly320s on December 17, 2017, 07:45:30 AM
You can have my carryall when you pry it from my cold warmed-by-radiation, dead shoulder!

Fixed.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Kingcreek on December 17, 2017, 10:26:15 AM
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.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: 230RN on December 17, 2017, 12:30:21 PM
Man don't want a cell phone? Man don't carry a cell phone.

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How does man operate that machine with those gloves on?

Terry

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

Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Fly320s on December 17, 2017, 12:54:46 PM
How does man operate that machine with those gloves on?

That machine is easy to operate.  It has only one lever.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: 230RN on December 17, 2017, 01:26:10 PM
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.

Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Fly320s on December 17, 2017, 01:33:53 PM
I count two levers. 

I knew you would go there.   =D 
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: 230RN on December 17, 2017, 01:41:16 PM
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
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: French G. on December 17, 2017, 03:36:38 PM
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."
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: MechAg94 on December 17, 2017, 04:32:43 PM
Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.   =D
Sort of like the RFID blocking wallets. 
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: HeroHog on December 17, 2017, 09:24:46 PM
Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.   =D
Sort of like the RFID blocking wallets. 

There's an app for that, engage the "off" app and it won't emit any!thing
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Hawkmoon on December 17, 2017, 09:43:37 PM
Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.   =D
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.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Firethorn on December 17, 2017, 11:47:01 PM
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Maybe someone will come up with a cell phone case that will block all harmful radiation from the cell phone.

First, somebody would need to come up with a cellphone that emits harmful radiation.  The closest they have was the old analog phones that emitted about 100X the power of modern ones.

Even then the link is iffy.

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.

Simple enough, you just need a faraday cage.  A foil or knit metal mesh that has an insulator on the inside and outside so there's no physical electrical contact.  The tricky part is having an opening to put the phone inside of it.  A plastic zipper, for example, would provide an opening. 
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: 230RN on December 18, 2017, 10:25:18 AM

...

Simple enough, you just need a faraday cage.  A foil or knit metal mesh that has an insulator on the inside and outside so there's no physical electrical contact.  The tricky part is having an opening to put the phone inside of it.  A plastic zipper, for example, would provide an opening.  

How about a chain mail helmet, instead?

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledosword.com%2Fim%2Fchainmail_hood.jpg&hash=779f1fdba015ba03a2fc8dd46703ab67d05f2742)

Don't think you'd even need a grounding strap.  Impinging energy would probably be dissipated in eddy currents.

:rofl:10

Terry

Pic credit in Properties
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Firethorn on December 18, 2017, 11:00:42 AM
How about a chain mail helmet, instead?

You'd need one that covered your face as well.  Of course, in your case it'd probably stop all the screaming anytime somebody looked at you, so bonus there.
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: 230RN on December 18, 2017, 11:22:52 AM
You'd need one that covered your face as well.  Of course, in your case it'd probably stop all the screaming anytime somebody looked at you, so bonus there.

Nah, I don't have a problem with that any more:

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/48/d7/c5/48d7c58cbbb5411312849a3a555d83b9--medieval-helmets-medieval-armor.jpg)

Terry
Pic credit Pinterest in Properties
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: Mannlicher on December 18, 2017, 11:40:16 AM
"murse" is a term invented by women.  Real men disregard that stupid appellation.  :)

I carry my stuff in a Maxpedition Versa Fatboy.   
Title: Re: Looks like us males are going to need to start carrying murses
Post by: HeroHog on December 19, 2017, 04:32:53 AM
I use a Messenger Bag and am secure enough in my manhood enough not to give a darn what anyone else thinks. I used a bag even before I was forced into the wheelchair. I can put my bag in my scooter's basket now though I guess...


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