Thread: Read.

I think most parents are normally quick to stop their children from licking off the pictures in books, or eating the pages.

No.

That is just plain ridiculous...

I can see that there are hazards, but I think prohibition of selling pre-'85 books is going too far

Christ.

Bad parents will blame anything and anyone but themselves.

Are they even certain that any harm has been caused by these books in the last 29 years? How much of a problem is this?

Originally Posted by Black_Eagle

Are they even certain that any harm has been caused by these books in the last 29 years? How much of a problem is this?

But....but..but...AUTISM!

Originally Posted by esfx

But....but..but...AUTISM!

BURN THEM! BURN ALL THE EVIL BOOKS!

now that we're burning our books lets just throw in all the math and sciences too ,oh don't forget the medical refrences! they couldn't be important and oh no! your child may get a hold of one and start eating it and get lead poisoning because you didn't store it properly.lets just chuck 'em all in the bonfire and dance around naked, grunting!

I say, fine.
BUT, for every book they want to remove from libraries, I think they should be personally responsible to either place the book on a digital format or republish it at their own expense.
I think this is going much too far- ESPECIALLY if they're to remove the books from libraries.
And they should leave the "collectors" loophole alone.

This is ridiculous...

Let's remove the lead from pencils too. Sure, there's no cases where a child has died of lead poisoning after using one. But, hey! We don't need the little things anyway! We have newer things, called pens! They don't use lead! Never again will we ever be able to look on an old pencil and remember the old things!

Later, we should outlaw fish. Too much mercury. Wouldn't want anyone to get autism.

Air = bad too. Lots of pollution. Same for water. Let's do away with both.

And y'know, matter seems so risky nowdays, we should get together and remove it all for our own safety!

lol
Actually, now-a-days they use graphite or somesuch for pencils and haven't used lead for quite a while. Which is great for my 14 year old son. He's such a idiot sometimes (said most affectionately). He chews pencils to pieces and even chews on the metal tabs from coke cans. I nag him all the time, but the boy is hopeless. I tell him now-a-days to not come crying to me when he has to see a dentist because of the damage he must be doing.

Does mercury poison cause autism? I thought it could lead to psychosis etc but not autism. My hubby worries sometimes because all he eats (no exaggeration) is tuna fish, various types of icecream and Cheerios.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

lol
Actually, now-a-days they use graphite or somesuch for pencils and haven't used lead for quite a while.

My point exactly.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Does mercury poison cause autism? I thought it could lead to psychosis etc but not autism. My hubby worries sometimes because all he eats (no exaggeration) is tuna fish, various types of icecream and Cheerios.

I personally think that the whole mercury in vaccine additives is a load of crap, considering it affects so few and the new study disproving a link, but we don't really know for sure. Mercury = bad one way or another.

Originally Posted by Licity

Let's remove the lead from pencils too. Sure, there's no cases where a child has died of lead poisoning after using one. But, hey! We don't need the little things anyway! We have newer things, called pens! They don't use lead! Never again will we ever be able to look on an old pencil and remember the old things!

Later, we should outlaw fish. Too much mercury. Wouldn't want anyone to get autism.

Air = bad too. Lots of pollution. Same for water. Let's do away with both.

And y'know, matter seems so risky nowdays, we should get together and remove it all for our own safety!

Oh no..they love mercury. Just take a look at the vaccines and their effects. Theyre full of mercury.

Let's make a city fully out of plastic or bubble wrap while we're at it! The world is a dangerous place! WE MUST THINK OF THE CHILDREN!


Morons. The whole lot of them.

Originally Posted by Daniel Danciu

Morons. The whole lot of them.

Unless, of course, the real reason they want to burn books is because the older a book is, the less likely it is to be sympathetic to the dogma of our generation, being that the government takes care of us and that we would all live live cavemen without the giant, benevolent State.

Originally Posted by esfx

Unless, of course, the real reason they want to burn books is because the older a book is, the less likely it is to be sympathetic to the dogma of our generation, being that the government takes care of us and that we would all live live cavemen without the giant, benevolent State.

They're still morons.

Originally Posted by Licity

Let's remove the lead from pencils too. Sure, there's no cases where a child has died of lead poisoning after using one. But, hey! We don't need the little things anyway! We have newer things, called pens! They don't use lead! Never again will we ever be able to look on an old pencil and remember the old things!

There isn't any lead in pencils. They use graphite.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

There isn't any lead in pencils. They use graphite.

I know. I was trying to make a point... sarcasm over an obvious point didn't work as well as I had hoped.

Originally Posted by Licity

I know. I was trying to make a point... sarcasm over an obvious point didn't work as well as I had hoped.

This whole thing is really ridiculous if they have no hard evidence that links these books to any harm done in children.

What I want to know is if they have modern prints of these children's books. Judging from the posts above, you might know something about this, Licity?

Originally Posted by Daniel Danciu

Let's make a city fully out of plastic or bubble wrap while we're at it! The world is a dangerous place! WE MUST THINK OF THE CHILDREN!


Morons. The whole lot of them.

Can't do that. Think of all of those carcinogenic plasticizers that might turn all of our kids into hermaphrodites! Bobby won't have a penis, but at least he can't get hurt!

When will people stop doing this sort of shit? Weldors suck in more heavy metals in an hour on the job than a stupid kid will ever get from licking a book. I know that from experience. The welding part, not the book-licking part.