This MUST be a Joke!! ...Nope!

[Matt S]

40 minutes ago, hwinbermuda said:

I soooo miss toluene based glues. (Oh happy days...)

DUI just on the way home from a normal working day

Howstik 441 from Abbey should keep you pretty happy then Harry  It works great on waxy leathers and is more economical than Evostik.

[bermudahwin]

Cheers Matt,

I sense another Abbey order coming on.

H

[YinTx]

2 hours ago, Tugadude said:

In the end, I realized that messaging is difficult and it is easy for the target audience to tune out.  Some messages were "read" for 0.17 seconds.  The recipient, opened and closed the email immediately just so that it appeared to have been read.  Shame.

This was my issue when I said " If everything is a warning, then nothing becomes important."  From now on, every time I see a Prop 65 warning, I just think to myself "oh, its that crappy law that makes people put stickers on everything" and I promptly ignore it.  And if I think that, what is everyone else thinking?  I can see it serving a future purpose then, in which they decide that everything with a Prop 65 warning should be made unavailable since everyone agreed it is hazardous enough to warrant a sticker.  If it sounds unlikely, try and find some glues and dyes in CA.

YinTx

[Tugadude]

2 hours ago, YinTx said:

This was my issue when I said " If everything is a warning, then nothing becomes important."  From now on, every time I see a Prop 65 warning, I just think to myself "oh, its that crappy law that makes people put stickers on everything" and I promptly ignore it.  And if I think that, what is everyone else thinking?  I can see it serving a future purpose then, in which they decide that everything with a Prop 65 warning should be made unavailable since everyone agreed it is hazardous enough to warrant a sticker.  If it sounds unlikely, try and find some glues and dyes in CA.

YinTx

Yes, you said it very well.  But hey, at least somebody is profiting off of it!......

 

[Samalan]

17 hours ago, NVLeatherWorx said:

This is not someone trying to be funny; it is a requirement in your State that ANYTHING that contains any material or substance that is on the CA hit list of items is required to have this warning.  In fact, I have come to the conclusion that living in the State of California is known to cause cancer or any other type of serious medical condition.  This is the only State that has a restriction that restricts another restriction just because they can't do anything worthwhile in Sacramento aside from create wasteful legislation that has no other purpose than to stifle an economy.

Well said and thank you for your service .

[Tugadude]

21 hours ago, hwinbermuda said:

Not just for us, but for farmers around the world too; I have been using RoundUp for years and years and years, but then I soooo miss toluene based glues. (Oh happy days...)

DUI just on the way home from a normal working day

H

Speaking of which, I just saw this today on Linked In...

Bayer’s stock was jolted for a second time in less than a year after a jury in San Francisco determined the company’s Roundup weed killer caused a man’s cancer. Bayer lost a similar case in August that resulted in a $289 million verdict, which a judge reduced to $78.5 million. The German company acquired Roundup last year by purchasing Monsanto, an acquisition that “has now become its biggest potential liability,” says The Wall Street Journal, as it faces 11,200 lawsuits.

[bermudahwin]

7 minutes ago, Tugadude said:

Speaking of which, I just saw this today on Linked In...

Bayer’s stock was jolted for a second time in less than a year after a jury in San Francisco determined the company’s Roundup weed killer caused a man’s cancer. Bayer lost a similar case in August that resulted in a $289 million verdict, which a judge reduced to $78.5 million. The German company acquired Roundup last year by purchasing Monsanto, an acquisition that “has now become its biggest potential liability,” says The Wall Street Journal, as it faces 11,200 lawsuits.

Yup, that's the bunny I was referencing

[Tugadude]

I'm in St. Louis, where Monsanto is headquartered and news like this isn't good for the locals.  

[bermudahwin]

They're huge employers in my family's hometown too, bad news all round.

[JazzBass]

On 3/19/2019 at 6:50 PM, timesofplenty said:

On 3/19/2019 at 1:06 AM, JazzBass said:

That should be the warning for the California State legislature.

how about leaving lame political comments off the forum  

First of all, it was a joke that was just too tempting.
Second...
This stuff effects all of us. Unless we want to have what we do eventually regulated or even outlawed based upon some inane, extremest policies, we had better pay attention to what we are paying for.

Maybe I should have put this in "off topic", since the warning is not really part of leather work per se - but beyond that...ease up a bit, my friend. Realistically, my "lame political comment" could only bother the indoctrinated.

Back to the bench...with my new knife

 

Edited March 21, 2019 by JazzBass