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Well shit!

It would appear that with the heightened alert on terror in the U.S. this week, everyone here in the greater metropolitan District of Columbia area has gone out and bought up all the Duct Tape.

It was suggested, by the local news of all sources, that tenants of the area here duct tape all the seals on their house's windows and doors so that no bacterial, viral, or radiation could get into their homes.

Alls I can say is, holy mother of God, do the people here honestly believe that they will turn off their heaters in time to not let the outside air be distributed into their homes? and if they have hot water contained systems, will they not be outside enough at times to become a carrier for whatever?

Why must people be so dumb. I work in construction, and these shit-heads just more than tripled the cost of duct tape! How am I supposed to make any money now?

Any other areas of the world get these type of crack-pot warnings/suggestions from their news sources?

har aye mes tought dat was funny also...

Now why do they need those elaborate lead lined suits for radioactive areas, when obviously all they need is DUCT TAPE!

Fuck me the media is so smart! Red Green pwnz all with the DUCT TAPE!

This ranks right up there with the drills for school kids to duck under their desks in case of nuclear attack.

American's know what to do! You canadians are all going to fry!

I just watched Connie Chung tell people to stock up on duct tape while keeping a straight face the whole time. I wouldn't want to face her in a poker game.

duck and cover!

A tin foil hat is the only protection you need!

the Bush administration advised Americans to keep tape and plastic sheeting available so they can seal off a "safe room" against radiation, deadly germs or chemical gas

roofle

I have a Lego bunker in my backyard, I am not worried at all. PM Aranuil for sekret kode.

I'rl just hide inside Miirs mom, thats fat bitch~

Duct Tape Gone!!! Now that pisses me off My wife can break the Scotch tape with her wrist

Only your AFDB offers true protection.

http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

i'm waiting for some housing project to go up in flames because of duct tape catching fire on some sort of heating register.

how fucking stupid.

Suffocation from carbon monoxide build up too. Gas appliances or wood/kerosene heat coupled with a parainod idiot who puts the plastic and tape on "just in case".

There was a guy in the paper who gave himself cadmium/zinc poisoning using dryer ductwork and sheetmetal to make a fireplace. Can't remember what the treated lumber he was burning did, added to the problem though

Lumber is pressure treated with an arsenic compound. Lets just say it is unhealthy to burn. Always make sure to wash your hands after dealing with it....

Do the sames after being withs two dollar whores~

yeah i just realized that the retaining wall on one side of the lot i just purchased is aresenic treated wood. not that i would not have made the purchase...but it does give me some reservations with kids (well dont have them yet, but will) to have that basically right where they are going to be playing a lot.

though i presume that after a few years, there won't be as much arsenic on the outer surfaces of the wood, due to weathering, etc.

Kguku wrote:Red Green pwnz all with the DUCT TAPE!

LOL! I forgot all about that show.

Voronwë wrote:though i presume that after a few years, there won't be as much arsenic on the outer surfaces of the wood, due to weathering, etc.

Someone went out and did soil samples and such in the playgrounds made with it here. Pretty sure it was Hillsborough county, can't remember.

They found small amounts in the soil at the base of the big supports and trace amounts elsewhere. Unless you have prolonged skin contact with freshly treated lumber, it's not supposed to be an issue.

That's assuming your smart enough not to eat all the dirt from around the base of the poles after every rainstorm.

Interesting tidbit for you here:

"Virtually all of the lumber sold for outdoor use in the U.S. is pressure-treated and injected with toxins to preserve the wood and prevent bugs. The most common wood preservative and pesticide used for this purpose is chromated copper arsenate (CCA), which is 22 percent pure arsenic. A 12-foot section of pressure-treated lumber contains about an ounce of arsenic, or enough to kill 250 people. The U.S. wood products industry is the world's largest consumer of the poison, using half of all arsenic produced worldwide. Arsenic is banned for all agricultural and food uses, but it has a specific exemption for use in wood under the federal pesticide law."


People really have no idea what treated lumber is or what it is treated against. Most assume that treated lumber is weather resistant lumber. This is completely false. It is actually just treated with poison to keep insects from damaging it. They take wood and stick it into a big tub of a compound that is mostly copper and arsenic. They then pressurize it so that the compound is deeply penetrated into the wood. They let it dry a bit and then ship it to lumber yards. Unsuspecting people then use it to build playground equipment and picnic tables. Picnic tables! Your best bet for dealing with anything that is an existing structure from that crap is to use a deck wash and power sprayer to strip as much of it as you can, and then use a good stain and polyurethane to cover the wood.

The moisture that has been pressurized and is in the wood will act almost like a water repellant until the wood starts to lose the moisture content. This gives the impression that the wood is treated against water.

Another fine example of why we paint/seal our wood furniture with paints and polyurethane coatings and such.

Learn something new everyday.