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What an inane response. Perhaps I can counter with Alcohol -> Cancer. Safe amount = 0. Alcohol content of fresh bread > 0

> Because there is no safe level of exposure to asbestos. I think we are getting to the bottom of this :-) The UK Health and Safety Executive state... "The control limit for asbest…

If people could explain why they are down voting honest questions I would appreciate it. I've never heard of claimed talc-cancer links in the UK.

Cyanide occurs naturally in apple cores. It is the dose that makes the poison. The UK links I have cited say the low levels are not an issue. I've genuinely asked what evidence the…

> sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos And the question I have asked is where is the evidence that such small quantities are a risk? The UK links I have posted s…

Thank you for being the first person to post an informative reply rather than down voting a question. HN is turning into reddit. > I'm not sure how you could believe Though this is…

> It seems that most talc doesn't cause cancer -- but some talc has "rather high" amounts of asbestos in it -- which we know causes cancer. So no evidence, just suspicion? I must b…

> Johnson and Johnson - which just payed out on a case relating to cancer from baby-powders I asked this question in another post and did not get a reply. The US links sited state …

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White Tie is formal dress; attending opera, meeting royalty, heads of state and the like. Gentlemen wear tailcoat (with medals), shirt with winged collar and white bow tie, or mili…

> It took another fifty years for the definition of a gentlemen to change to exclude people who got roaring drunk and pissed in the fireplace in the name of hospitality. On the con…

> Can you recommend a chair No. I'm going against the grain of most replies here. It isn't a specific chair you need (perfectly good, bog standard office chairs are fully adjustabl…

> I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it. The GDPR (very good legislation forming one of our …

> It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data brea…

> sold talcum powder that caused cancer Ummm Your link contained no evidence for this. A search of the NHS website also suggests no clear evidence [1]. Cancer Research (a respected…

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The censorship you refer to happend 30-40 years ago under Thatcher [1]. Sense prevailed and these were promptly overturned. I'm not sure what mentioning such old events brings to t…

Last I checked, pantomimes show no sign of becoming unpopular in Britain :-)

> Dunno how english Big Ben is. It was built in a made-up architectural style Ummmm Big Ben is the bell in the Elizabeth Tower. It was made in the Whitechapel bell foundry and coul…

> Double-entendres are as English as Big Ben. Undoubtedly. Its probably also worth pointing out to our American audience that the beauty of double entendres is that any "blue" mean…

As I said below.... double entendres, very common in Britain, appear to cause those in the West Coast US to panic for fear of being perceived sexist. In Britain (home of the panto …

> whether the name “Miss Shilling’s orifice” is supposed to be a dirty joke or not. You are clearly not British, otherwise you would recognise the rule that no entendre must be lef…

> Nazism is fundamentally evil. Be careful with such statements. Describing something/someone as "fundamentally" evil obscures the fact that things (like extremist politics) happen…

You appear to have casually dismissed research scientists [*wave*], healthcare professionals, teachers, artists and many others who entered their field not for the money, but to do…

I confess my first thought was mixing oxygen in a methane environment inside the body isn't ideal. And this isn't a joke..... for example, cyclopropane is an excellent anaesthetic …