ToMI drinking mug
Hi,
So first I love S&M and ToMI games, I own all the seasons.
But like so many others I've been waiting hoping everyday my shipment of ToMI DVD comes, and when I ordered it I threw in ToMI drinking mug(obviously) and S&M season 3.
So my box came in today, YESSSS, and i break it open, Got the DVD and the Mug.
So sweet I now have a favorite Grog mug, I figured I should wash it before I test it out and as I am washing it I flip it over and there is a little sticker on the bottom, I assumed it was a "Made in China" one but.. low and behold... its not, it says:
"State of California
PROP 65
This product may contain
one or more substances
or chemicals
known to the state of
California to cause
birth defects and other
Reproductive harm"
....well I am sure I am probably over reacting a little but, I am getting to the age, well, were I would want kids.
Considering I was planning on drinking from this mug... quite a bit idk how I feel about this...
Other people thoughts?
So first I love S&M and ToMI games, I own all the seasons.
But like so many others I've been waiting hoping everyday my shipment of ToMI DVD comes, and when I ordered it I threw in ToMI drinking mug(obviously) and S&M season 3.
So my box came in today, YESSSS, and i break it open, Got the DVD and the Mug.
So sweet I now have a favorite Grog mug, I figured I should wash it before I test it out and as I am washing it I flip it over and there is a little sticker on the bottom, I assumed it was a "Made in China" one but.. low and behold... its not, it says:
"State of California
PROP 65
This product may contain
one or more substances
or chemicals
known to the state of
California to cause
birth defects and other
Reproductive harm"
....well I am sure I am probably over reacting a little but, I am getting to the age, well, were I would want kids.
Considering I was planning on drinking from this mug... quite a bit idk how I feel about this...
Other people thoughts?
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You can have kids or you can drink from your TOMI mug!
Best case scenario, there may be some trace elements in the decoration on the outside of the mug... if that's the case, you should be safe as long as it isn't painted on the inside.
There's a relevant House M.D. episode about someone getting lead poisoning from a mug painted on the inside with lead-based paint...
“Warning content under pressure” on coke pet bottles is also quite interesting (seen in Canada), as was also “Caution, meat not included” on a single-use portable BBQ grill. Gold medal goes to “Do not use this product while driving”, seen on………a distributor of whisky-flavored condoms in a Scottish bar.
This being said, I will drink without fear from my MI drinking vessel, once I get it (I ordered it with the TOMI DVD which has not yet shipped.)
(*)Well, I must admit that I have seen a warning for allergic people on milk bottles that says: “Contains Milk”.
Hahahahaha! That's hillarious.
What freaked me out was the bathrooms in restaurants in New York, that had signs sayings "employees are required to wash their hands after using the restrooms".
That they have to specify it just grosses me out. But I tell myself they're just legally obligated to put it there or something. Still, that sign could as well be saying "Employees here normally don't wash their hands!" as far as I'm concerned.
From memory, this include things like using the wrong word for fan ("stuff that blows air in your face" instead of "person who really likes something"), sentence that make absolutely no sense whatsoever and a lot of nouns used as verbs or verbs used as nouns.
I should try and fetch one and give some examples. Really though, that just makes me sad, because it's yet another example of people going for automatic translators rather than paying someone to do a proper job.
You can rest easy, because they are legally obligated to have those signs posted. I know for a fact that in my state restaurants are required by law to have them. I would be very surprised if it were different elsewhere in the US, especially NYC.
If you're really worried about it, don't wash the mug in a dishwasher or microwave it or use an abrasive cleaner on it. If there is anything on the mug that will keep it from coming off, and don't forget that biphenol-A has been suspected of having adverse health effects on Humans for years, especially on children ... and they make baby bottles and line soda cans out of it.
Crap.
I've been licking my neighbour's garage door on a bi-daily basis for upwards of six years...
I saw a box of eggs with "allergy warning: contains eggs" written on it.
As for the mug, dont worry about it. every thing causes cancer so it isnt anything to worried about.
Doesn't really matter to me since I never drink bottled water to begin with, but it seems silly that so many people buy the same water they'd get from their tap.
Just need to remember to refill it whenever there is a drinking fountain or something in the area.
I don't think I've ever bought water, and I find soda much too sweet... This being said I'm always up for a smoothie at Orange Julius (do you have that chain? I find them awesome).
So do I, but tap water differs greatly from one place to the next, so that doesn't mean you would like ALL tap waters (or that all of them would be good for you to drink).
Yeah, the tapwater in my area is noticeably tainted. It's perfectly safe, the water company apparently does routine tests on a daily basis, it just has a slight taste to it. A lot of people I know say that they don't like water; I usually tell them that they probably just don't like tap water and throw water at their face saying things like "man up" and "how do you like me now".
That said, my parents have a mini veggie garden in the backyard, where we grow our own cucumbers, lettuce, etc. My father also makes his own bread, practically every day, with his home-cultivated yeast, spelt and whole wheat grain he gets from Kentucky. My family is slightly insane.
But I do feel amazingly healthy and energetic most of the time. That doesn't mean I don't indulge in pastries and packaged snacks from time to time, but I definitely feel healthier when I eat the plain, homemade stuff.
Not so with London tap water - it has a very definite taste to it that is still detectable even though I drink it all the time. It's hard water (high mineral content) so pipes and any appliances that use tap water (kettles, irons, water heaters etc) always have some severe limescale going on.
Plain bottled water seems like such a waste. There's all that plastic, and then it has to be shipped from one place to another - I don't see the point when the tap water is perfectly drinkable. I buy it infrequently, just to have a refillable bottle that I can carry around. The main criterion I have when buying a new handbag/purse is that it has to fit a bottle of water in it.
I don't like having to buy bottled water all the time when travelling in places like Africa and South East Asia, but I've never found water purification tablets to be very workable.
I remember how one African friend was offended about the "not drinking water in Africa" thing, she said it was fine and she always drunk it when she went back home, and she thought it was insulting to refuse to drink it.
I remember explaining to her the water was just different and your digestive system needed to get used to it. I gave her the example of my younger brother... Who always got super-sick if he drank tap water in the US, because he was used to the French one and apparently it was too different for him.
Tap water were I live is amazing.. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaamaaaaazing!
Boiling would be fine, although I'd rather use iodine tablets to avoid a heat-cool-decant-repeat process. I probably just don't care enough to do it regularly. If bottled water wasn't freely available, I'm sure I'd use some other solution, or just drink the tap water and run the risk of being sick for a while.
Boiling the water might work, but then wouldn't you burn your mouth?
Exactly, its just the people who grow up on certain water are used to it. My grandfather (on a business trip to Mexico in the 40's? I think) had to brush his teeth with scotch whiskey, so as not to get the stomach flu from the tap water.
My parents spent their honeymoon traveling to different European cities. They were in Paris for 2 days and my father, the first day, ate some parsley that had been washed with tap water, he got so sick, the hotel doctor had to give him a shot of something and he was in bed, passed out, with a fever and chills for 48 hours. Of course there is nothing wrong with the water, but you just need to get used to it. Although, I wonder how you deal with something like new water gradually, if such a small amount caused him to get that bad of a reaction.
We have rain collection tanks instead.
Maybe he's allergic to parsley?
More seriously, I don't know. My brother always got sick from water in other places. I only drink tap water wherever I am and I don't think I ever got sick from it, so it might also be a immune system or digestive system thing. I think you either adapt right away (your system fights it at first and then gets used to it, but from the start you feel fine) or you're sick at first then you stop being sick, depending.
It would have been an interesting experiment to have him drink some water the week after and see if he was then immune, but I don't think he would have agreed to that.
He has eaten parsley in the US with no effects, but that was the only thing they could think of. My parents both ate the exact same meal for dinner, so the only difference was that my mom didn't eat the parsley.