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‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’ Warning For Laptop Users
Associated Press ^
| 10/4/10
| CBS2/AP
Posted on 10/04/2010 9:42:54 PM PDT by Lmo56
Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit.
Doing it a lot can lead to toasted skin syndrome, an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure, according to medical reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: burns; laptop
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I've always thought that a laptop could be used as a grilled cheese cooker in a pinch - or maybe a George Foreman Grill ...
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:42:58 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
To: Lmo56
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:45:10 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
To: Lmo56
Twelve-year-old boy's left thigh showing signs of toasted skin syndrome
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:47:34 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: dfwgator
Ahhhh good ole DFW - was stationed at Carswell AFB ....
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:47:46 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(</i><p>)
To: Lmo56
So it was my laptop that ended my swimsuit modeling career?!?
Whom do I sue?
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:50:42 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: dfwgator
Anyone who sits with a laptop on their, uhhh, lap all the time would know that the darn things tend to get rather HOT after a while .. and anyone using a laptop which is getting HOT should have the good sense to .. ummm, well, take the damn thing OFF their lap !!!
Why is it that common sense seems so uncommon nowadays?
To: Mr_Moonlight
Yeah, but there isn’t a warning label on the laptops with a lap and a red circle slash over it - how are we suppose to know laptops get hot?/huge sarc.
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:56:10 PM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: Lmo56
There may be fertility consequences from close proximity electromagnetic radiation. Not to worry, however, my radar-tuning days taught me that fertility problems go away in time.
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:56:43 PM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
To: Mr_Moonlight
Especially if they spend the whole time watching videos, if I’m just on FR, the laptop stays cool, but start watching videos, and you can fry an egg on it.
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:57:08 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
To: Lmo56
So what's up with these?
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posted on
10/04/2010 9:57:48 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Lmo56
If your laptop gets really hot, you might want to open it up and clean out the fan. I just did that, and boy does my laptop run cooler.
To: dfwgator
Especially if they spend the whole time watching videos,And the picture is of a 12 year old BOY.
Not too hard to put 2 and 2 together.
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posted on
10/04/2010 10:01:38 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(lame and ill-informed post)
To: OldNavyVet
Worked for NEC [the Nips] in the 80’s in the fiber optics division - other side of the shop worked microwaves.
Japanese boss of microwaves [20+ years experience] said microwave guys suffer the ultimate fate children-wise [all girls] ...
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posted on
10/04/2010 10:02:47 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(</i><p>)
To: libertarian27
how are we suppose to know laptops get hot? Those EVIL(!) corporate laptop makers never told us any of this :( Even if they did, we would ignore the warning anyway, and sue nonetheless ... or else commission a government 'study' about 'mottled knees' ...
Now then .. where is my overly hot McDonalds coffee cup ???
/sarc off
To: mylife
Is that a MacIntosh? Where's the display screen?
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posted on
10/04/2010 10:05:25 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(lame and ill-informed post)
To: Lmo56
Puts a whole new spin on computer nerds having a weenie roast
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posted on
10/04/2010 10:11:19 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
To: JoeProBono
A twelve-year-old boy showing signs of not owning a Red Ryder BB gun, or knowing how to build a tree fort or fish for bluegill. The pussification of our next generation is just about complete. We could win every election for the next twenty years, but this who we bestow the spoils of victory upon - the Nintendo and Hot Pockets generation. We are doomed.
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
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posted on
10/04/2010 11:12:38 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(2010 - NO PRISONERS! NO QUARTER!)
To: libertarian27
Actually, my new laptop does have a warning label to tell you not to roast yourself!
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posted on
10/04/2010 11:42:44 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
To: Lmo56
So now we have to be told that the laptop gets hot?????????????
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posted on
10/05/2010 1:44:15 AM PDT
by
Carley
(For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: UCANSEE2
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posted on
10/05/2010 2:53:36 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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