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obligatory xkcd.
I'd rather be phishing!
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This is lots of bananas before you die.
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I don't doubt that people will believe that they'll glow green or grow an extra arm when they eat too many banana's after reading this.
However, by the time the radioactivity becomes dangerous you'll have died from eating waaaaaaay too many banana's 
I once had a coworker who was convinced she could drink ALL the water she wanted because it's just water and you'll just pee a lot.
Newsflash, drinking too much water will kill you and it was even used as a torture method.
People like her actually die from it too, because they hear that water is healthy and they drink 8 liters in one go.
I also once had a friend who believed Bailey's (the liquor) and coke (e.g. Coca Cola) would form actual cement in your stomach.
The drinks don't mix and I believe you can get a pretty bad stomach ache from drinking the two, but for cement you'll need other ingredients
The confusion was caused by the fact that the chemical reaction Bailey's and coke cause is called "cementing" in Dutch (and maybe also in English, I don't know).
If she thought it I don't doubt there are plenty of others who do so too 
I've heard people say the craziest things about food, like if it doesn't contain fat it's healthy (or vice versa).
It really makes you wonder how we survived for this long
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The reason we survived so long, is that all this nonsense about what to eat and what not to eat is a fairly recent phenomenon. When I was growing up we would eat what my mother could afford to buy: beef, pork, lamb, potatoes, vegetables, white bread, rice, eggs, butter, full fat (extra fat) milk etc. No one cared about this or that content. We just needed to assuage our hunger.
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That's crazy!
Think of all the gluten and fat you ate!
Not to mention the meat, which causes heart problems and is very bad for the environment (and pathetic for the animals that suffered and died)!
And rice you say!? RICE!? That's cultural appropriation!!!
I think potatoes are originally from South-America, so that would be cultural appropriation too, maybe I can even play the racism card here, but I'll need to find some questionable sources for this first (or write one myself if I can't find it).
Needless to say, I will come back to haunt you and every white male potato eater.
The world is coming to an end and it's all because of your diet!
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Happy to do my bit ...
But back in the 50s and 60s there was no climate change, obesity, identity politics, "wokery", ... and also not much money. 
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Quote: and also not much money
Maybe they had to work harder to survive and did not have the time to think all the cr@p we see today.
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Black and white TV with only one channel that did not start transmitting until about 1630 each evening, and closed down at 2300. And on Sundays did not start till about 1830 - to allow people to go to evensong. And if you wanted a telephone (land line only) you had to fill in a form that proved you needed one.
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Quote: Black and white TV with only one channel
You were fortunate! Where I grew up in South Africa we did not get TV until 1975.
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Strangely enough I was working in Turkey in 1975 and one of our team was from SA, and I recall talking about that.
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Cp-Coder wrote: in South Africa we did not get TV until 1975
Consider yourself fortunate - think of all the cr*p shows that you missed between 1948 and 1975!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I believe the word is "disingenuous" for you know damn well that just because no one mentioned something or it hadn't yet been discovered it wasn't there or was harmless. The implicit (explicit?) ridiculing of serious problems.
Black Lung Disease? PSD (Shell Shock in WW I)? Hey - air pollution in general. I recall all the redlining of "acid rain" . . . that is until their fishing hole became crystal clear and dead, or more probably, the paint on their pickups was blistering. Asbestos didn't cause cancer, either, in them good ol' days. They used to x-ray feet (in shoe stores) for fittings.
[edit] Don't you miss the days when cigarettes weren't deadly? [/edit]
It's times like these that I find, on a relative basis, a reason to respect flat-earthers.
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modified 16-Mar-21 14:13pm.
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My point was that we did not know about these things then. And in truth the climate was changing far more slowly than in the past 20-30 years.
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So - just to clarify - I took the intent your post backwards?
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Er 
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I seriously think we should take the warning labels off everything and let nature work it out. sometimes.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I remember a documentary item that said that worrying about detrimental effects from your food is far worse for you than the actual detrimental effects in the food!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I can think of various plants which are not really considered food that can terminate your life ASAP. No radio active activity required whatsoever. In my father's "ornamental" garden I know of at least three species ( I will not mention their names ) which will kill you in a very short timespan.
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And this statement of yours is supposed to prove . . . what?
That things besides radiation can kill you? Is that, somehow, supposed to assuage the problem of radiation in the environment?
I'd say their are radio-active nuclides of most elements. If one wanted to be paranoid, remember that we're a carbon-base life form and C14 is radioactive.
Basically, worrying about bananas may be silly but ridiculing background radiation and/or contamination is just plain stupid. As people who found out they've too much radon in their home and now have lung cancer. Or people who got sheet-rock from china containing Sr90. Or the same isotope in European cheeses after Chernobyl. Mmmmm. Yummmy !
I worked with radioactive materials for years - and one thing we all had was a healthy respect because you can't see it, smell it, feel it or, to a degree, get rid of it. You don't even have to close your eyes to pretend it's not there. That, however, doesn't make it go away.
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People really like to treat floating-point quantities as boolean: present or not. Easier to think about, even if it's wrong.
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If that scares you, consider this; oxygen is a poison, and causes cancer. The reason we age, is due to DNA copying errors caused by oxygen.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As I put elsewhere in the thread:
Your body (and all know life on earth) is carbon-based and a tiny fraction of all carbon is radioactive C14 isotope. That is probably awaiting the next release of these exposes.
And perhaps underscores my peeve that almost all persons leave school scientifically "illiterate"
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Quote: that almost all persons leave school scientifically "illiterate"
Not always totally illiterate. Some of them know just enough to be dangerous!
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How else are you meant to eat a banana in the dark if it isn't glowing? Sheesh.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In the dark I find my bananas with my geiger counter. Surely you do have a geiger counter?
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