Wi-fi "Threat" to childrens brains
Wi-fi "Threat" to childrens brains
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t84

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6,941 posts

211 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Hahahahaha!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8318...

Phil Hughes, a homeopathist whose nine-year-old daughter attends Woodlands primary, said he was already looking into moving his child to another school...

Edited by t84 on Wednesday 21st October 18:11

t84

Original Poster:

6,941 posts

211 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Also, check out this gem:

"My daughter is allowed to use her mobile phone once a week and we monitor that with a special radiation measure."

Seriously, these mouth breathers exist?!

loltolhurst

1,994 posts

201 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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good luck to him finding a school that isnt already in a wifi zone ffs i can pick up about 15 networks where i am now its too late mr, your daughter is dooooooomed

off_again

13,917 posts

251 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Oh jeez, where do these people come from? What rock did they creep out from under?

I am sure that they don't realise that their home broadband connection is most probably wireless and that their wonderful children are Facebooking, downloading porn by the GB and watching TV via WiFi anyway.

Oh, sorry, its at school so its a 'different kind of wifi'.... bloody idiots.

6655321

73,668 posts

272 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING that is safe anymore, and we will all die a horrible lingering death from Tea, wine, phones, computers, cars, bunnies, cress, sunlight, (and lack of sunlight), heat, cold, pizzas and jam... We need to commit mass suicide just to halt the onslaught of these dangerous things.

EDLT

15,421 posts

223 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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tank slapper

7,949 posts

300 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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t84 said:
Phil Hughes, a homeopathist whose nine-year-old daughter attends Woodlands primary, said he was already looking into moving his child to another school...
This is someone who believes that a solution diluted to the point where nothing of the solute can possibly remain has medicinal effect. It isn't really a surprise that his understanding of technology isn't very good.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

205 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Wait til she hits 13 and thinks daddy is a dick because she can't use a laptop

CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

243 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Honestly, this sort of thing is great.

People actively seek out the media in order to advertise to the nation the fact that they're thick mongs with the critical thinking skills of a Dover sole.

Tell you what, Phil Hughes. Did you know that Sky are beaming television into your children's skulls twenty-four hours a day? Without your permission!

Did you know that Radio 1 are irradiating your entire family, including your own testicles, with the encoded audible bleating of Chris Moyles?

I'd love to see what constitutes this "special radiation measure" he uses to check his child's mobile phone.

Mind you, he is a homeopath. He'll believe just about anything you tell him, as long as it makes no fking sense whatsoever.


Edited by CommanderJameson on Wednesday 21st October 18:54

andy43

11,838 posts

271 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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The Belkin router we have does make the kids glow a bit green like in the Ready Brek adverts since we swapped out the internals for a 500 watt pirate radio jobbie I got from ebay mexico. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
Can get full reception in the garden now tho' thumbup

Lord Flathead

1,288 posts

196 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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6655321 said:
There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING that is safe anymore, and we will all die a horrible lingering death from Tea, wine, phones, computers, cars, bunnies, cress, sunlight, (and lack of sunlight), heat, cold, pizzas and jam... We need to commit mass suicide just to halt the onslaught of these dangerous things.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's...


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day, and we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound, CD's or Ipods! No mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives so much, than for our own good.

And while you are at it, share it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Lefty Guns

18,526 posts

219 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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CommanderJameson said:
Honestly, this sort of thing is great.

People actively seek out the media in order to advertise to the nation the fact that they're thick mongs with the critical thinking skills of a Dover sole.

Tell you what, Phil Hughes. Did you know that Sky are beaming television into your children's skulls twenty-four hours a day? Without your permission!

Did you know that Radio 1 are irradiating your entire family, including your own testicles, with the encoded audible bleating of Chris Moyles?

I'd love to see what constitutes this "special radiation measure" he uses to check his child's mobile phone.

Mind you, he is a homeopath. He'll believe just about anything you tell him, as long as it makes no fking sense whatsoever.


Edited by CommanderJameson on Wednesday 21st October 18:54
I actually laughed out loud. Well said fella.

TheCarpetCleaner

7,294 posts

219 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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In the past when I dealt with blackberry and smartphone installations, I had clients asking to order "radiation shields". This consists of a useless bit of sticky back plastic with just that written on it...

I even had people telling me they could "feel" the radiation going off the phone and it gave them headaches. I once had the customers phone in my hand, and I discreetly turned it off. They told me that whenever anyone made a phone call, it gave them a headache, so I pretended to make a call from it (while still switched off).

On cue, 2 seconds after hitting the dead "send" button and pretending to leave a voicemail for someone, he started to wince, and held his hand to his head saying "Yes, thats it, it really hurts now"

rolleyes

These people do exist, they walk among us. If I were not an honest businessman, I would be stocking up on magnetic bracelets, "radiation shields", those magnetic things that claim you can get more MPG when you stick em in your car, and flogging them in the millions...

Lefty Guns

18,526 posts

219 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Now where's that "I see stupid people" pic when I need it...?

Tiggsy

10,261 posts

269 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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While the wifi man is a tool.....plenty of kids that did stuff in the above post are dead and wouldn't be today. I don't suggest we panic about wifi...but the suggestion that life in the 70's was full of risks and no one was hurt is equally nonsense......or do you let you kids sit in the car with no belt on?

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

234 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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You've got to wonder if this guys neighbours have wireless networks installed, if so does he have his entire house sheilded from radiation / live in a bunker

jmorgan

36,010 posts

301 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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CommanderJameson said:
Tell you what, Phil Hughes. Did you know that Sky are beaming television into your children's skulls twenty-four hours a day? Without your permission!
He would be mortified if he knew there are an awful lot more than Sky.

CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

243 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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Lord Flathead said:
FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: Stuff
Well, that's what it's always looked like every time it's landed in my inbox.

jesta1865

3,452 posts

226 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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AndrewW-G said:
You've got to wonder if this guys neighbours have wireless networks installed, if so does he have his entire house sheilded from radiation / live in a bunker
the mobile phone the kid has generates far more signal than the average access point / router smile

fluffnik

20,156 posts

244 months

Wednesday 21st October 2009
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t84 said:
a homeopathist
Oh dear.