Nickel causes cancer huh?

[Chistopher]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

I think those excessive warnings are actually becoming dangerous. Too many meaningless ones will make it so that people scoff at them when they are actually put on carcinogens. Kind of like a "boy who cried wolf" scenario.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

So...we should not lick our pickups?? Asking for a friend...

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

I think those excessive warnings are actually becoming dangerous. Too many meaningless ones will make it so that people scoff at them when they are actually put on carcinogens. Kind of like a "boy who cried wolf" scenario.

Absolutely true. I live in Joplin, Missouri. Half the city was destroyed a few years ago by the biggest tornado in recorded history. Everyone ignored the tornado alarms. Know why? Because they would go off all the time during storm season! Every time a tornado "watch" was declared the sirens would wail away.
Now they only go off if there is an actual tornado sighted. New policy nationwide. Know why? FEMA changed the policy after the Joplin tornado after interviewing hundreds of people who all said the same thing: "we ignore the sirens because they go off almost every day all spring every year."
Point being, we do become numb to warnings over time.

 

[Lucius Paisley]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

NickelBACK, maybe.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

I don’t worry at all. I pull everything nickel off my guitars and use them as ashtrays.

 

[Sun King]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

The best warning I saw so far from the Nanny State, was that the new set of blades I bought for my Honda lawnmower, "May cause reproductive harm."
For those that are really into their grooming, do NOT use gas-powered mowers to do your man-scaping! :11:

 

[Sun King]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

I don’t worry at all. I pull everything nickel off my guitars and use them as ashtrays.

LOL! Very subtle two-fer there! :beerchug:

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

The best warning I saw so far from the Nanny State, was that the new set of blades I bought for my Honda lawnmower, "May cause reproductive harm."
For those that are really into their grooming, do NOT use gas-powered mowers to do your man-scaping! :11:

That would make one hell of a tramp stamp.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

I'm generally a fan of warnings. People are stupid enough that they're necessary more often than you would suspect . . . but the nickle warning is goofy. It's only a safety risk if your're grinding it, or melting it. That's something I've rarely found reason to do with pickups.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Nickel causes cancer huh?

California and the FDA have gone absolutely bonkers!

But isn't that true with all of government these days?! Not like it was 100 years ago.

Gov't...keep your nose out of my business, and only warn me about things that I NEED to be warned of. But in any case, don't regulate me so much.