Pleeeeeze. Serenity now!!!

So how do you, your hubbie and five kids manage to survive living in this
terrible terrible world we live in?


"paghat" wrote in message
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"Cereus-validus" wrote:

I'm being sarcastic, you dim boob.

Weed killers are not toxic to humans.

Herbicides are highly toxic to humans, for which reason many are banned
for use around edible produce, all have restrictions & don't even claim to
be safe unless used within well defined parameters.

Even the allegedly harmless-if-used-correctly herbicides break down in the
environment into components that are frequently carcinogenic, or combine
with molecules in the environment to increase toxicity. They have been
used successfully in suicides; they have accidcentally blinded people
temporarily & permanently; their break-down & combined components are
known cancer agents, so even if the side-effect takes 20 or 30 years to
show itself in the form of carcinomas, that's pretty bad.

If low exposures to some of herbicides really were nearly harmless in
brief & miniscule exposures, this cannot be extended to imply safety to
exposure of the same chemicals periodically & in concert with a multitude
of other garden chemicals such as dumbass ignorant non-organic
planet-poisoning buy-consume-die cretins are addicted to. Herbicides,
fungicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, & lawnmower pollutants, have
unpredictable & accumulative side-effects -- at some point the soup of
pollutants is no longer miniscule -- & what's intentionally used to
pollute the garden is only one part of a larger chemical mix that keeps
cancer, asthma, & other illnesses on the rise in incidence, & afflicts the
larger environment with additional dangerous effects on watersheds & as
air pollution eventually do impact human health.

So no one with a brain bigger than a pea believes these chemicals are
harmless, whether or not they're unconcerned enough or just stupid enough
to use them anyway, whether or not they leave them sitting around for the
children to misuse.

An 11 year old is not an infant nor should one be pampered like it's
some
retarded pet, just because the parents are over reacting like lunatics.

Even IF a pre-teen knew what he or she was messing with (which this one
didn't), even IF the kid had been instructed in safety considerations
(such as her parents in no way followed, so she had bad examples to learn
from), what really are the chances of kids adhering to rules? If kids were
that responsible none of 'em would be pregnant by the seventh grade, &
they'd be issued drivers liscenses at age ten, or sooner if their feet
could reach the pedals. Kids may or may not be responsible when they are
much more mature in years & have sufficient experience & knowledge to no
longer believe in their own immortality. But any parent who would leave
unmarked containers of random containers sitting around, who would lead
any child to believe it was fine for them to handle toxic chemicals
unsupervised, well, those parents should be arrested & charged with child
endangerment.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/