So, let me make sure I have this straight… if you just line your house with Asbestos drywall and roofs, and then paint it with lead based paint, you’ll have a beautiful home to raise all those little mutant kids in!
Riiight. Oh, did I forget to mention that this video was filmed in the 1950′s. Yeah, that was a little before we discovered that Asbestos might be durable, but it’s also highly toxic!
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Nice find. I wonder how many jobs were lost as this asbestos empire fell.
@ 1:19 – Children? Children! hehe, that cracked me up!
And Yeah, he was right, how they will ever have children with the Asbestos & Lead is all around them? :)
We once thought the world was flat and that the atom was the smallest object!
How things change!
They say mobile phones are harmless…what about in 30 years time? What about overhead power lines, is it safe to live under them or do they really elevate your risk of cancer?
Who knows! Live live while you’ve got it and never look back!
Probably as many as the fall created…
Asbestos related diseases and law suits for same is a HUGE business now…
Kim:)
And one day you are allowed to drink Coke Light… Next day its poison and you should drink regular Coke in stead…
Then you need to eat this and that… and it never stops…
You are right – live life while you can and enjoy every minute of it…
Kim:)
We had some asbestos to get rid of from an old shed roof. Phone our local council office to find out what to do with it and the genius who answered the phone suggested that “burning it would be as good a way to get rid of it as any…”
Classic :)
I love your blog…really. Did you already hear about water on mars? :)