re: #317 Buster Bunny

Do you guys even realise how GREAT the amounts need to be to achieve toxicity in these products? You’d have to swallow a thermometers worth of Mercury to be poisoned with the stuff .. and you’d have to sit there licking lead pipes for six months before you started showing any detrimental effects !

The point is that with multiple avenues of absorption .. the point you approach for toxicity is substantially more likely. Hence the need for reducing it in most household circumstances.

And even the lead paint on Chinese toys wont kill you. Its just not enough.

Earlier today, I was talking with somebody about how my mom would let us play with the mercury when a thermometer broke. She would sit with us and would make sure we knew not to eat it, but we played with the mercury every time we had a thermometer break.

And I’m OK.
I think.