Ahhh, I still recall the intoxicating smell of this stuff, while it was busily bubbling and cooking off...
I'm sure my ADD was just coincidental.
ping
No lawn darts??
no “Bag O’ Glass”?
Asbestos in Toys A 2007 Seattle P-I article explained that one of that year’s “biggest-selling Christmas toys” was found to contain asbestos. The CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit was found to contain traces of this carcinogen, the news source explains. According to the article, that fingerprint kit was a “huge seller,” meaning countless children could have been put at risk for developing an asbestos-related disease later in life.
This Chinese-made kit was just one of several other products licensed by CBS that is based on the popular “CSI” crime series, the Seattle P-I reports. The news source also explains that the science set had “an extensive array of plastic tools, inks and three types of very fine powders -- white, black and glow-in-the-dark.” After analysis, the site reports that “high levels of two types of asbestos” tainted the white and glow powders...
Ahhh, I still recall the intoxicating smell of this stuff, while it was busily bubbling and cooking off...
I'm sure my ADD was just coincidental.
When I was a kid,
WE REALY WERE SMARTER THAN YOU YOUNG SNOTS!
because the stupid people died.
[/old man voice]
I can’t believe they didn’t include the most popular boy kid toy of all...the bb gun. Kids still die from bb guns...four last year in fact. It was my favorite toy growing up.
Hey; they left out the Plumb Boys Axe, which actually wasn’t a toy. I know; I cut completely through my foot with one when 9 years old. Still have the little monster - and my foot, thank God.
Back in my day (the 80s), we had toys that could take off a finger or blow up in your face. We played on rusted steel jungle gyms that could give you tetanus just by looking at them. That’s the way it was and WE LIKED IT!
We really had some neat toys when I was a kid. I had a couple of the Gilbert sets.
We used to cast Tiki heads and put them on a leather thong.
Really cool.
It seems to me the real danger with all of these toys would be a lack of parental supervision.
For example, we lost radium to the nuclear fear-mongers, and even now, tritium is a super controlled substance, allowable only in very small quantities (in my experience, so limited it doesn’t actually generate enough light, when it is used for that purpose with phosphors).
Even the Europeans allow enough tritium to be useful, as there are very cool lighted key chains that use tritium, that are outlawed here (free Americans, funny, hehe, harhar).
I think what changed, was not that children became more blunt in their childhood IQ, but that parents were more interested in things that took them away from their children, even in the environs of their own homes. So bothered in fact, a lot of people just skip having any kids nowadays.
I flew with a pilot who had a mustache. He told me that when he was a little boy, his parents gave him and his brother real bows and arrows for Christmas. They were smaller than adult versions and were made for kids. They ran outside with them and withing five minutes, he said he was running back in the house, holding the arrow that his brother shot at his face. The arrow pierced his gums right above the cupid’s bow and through the skin just beneath his nose. I laughed so hard!!! He has the mustache to hide the scar!!! If you knew this guy, you would have laughed too. He was the best beer drinking, fishing buddy I have ever had.
When I think of all the things I did and walked away unscathed, I am just soooo glad that my sister and I didn’t get bows and arrows, swords or flamethrowers for Christmas when we were kids. We did pillow fight though and it got pretty violent when we threw away the pillow and attacked each other.
Good times.