Eurocoins cause skin disease

[KillerMuffin]

Hey, it's true! I'm not making it up just to poke sharp sticks into ppman's cage. Though it is strenously fun to do it. I think I pulled something laughing my ass off about Mr. EU Superior and here comes the euro causing eczema.

Here's the link:

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=400992

Here's the brief:

Two of the eight eurocoins scheduled to be released pretty gosh darn soon are so loaded with nickel that anyone allergic could develop hand eczema, which is a totally unfun thing to have.

Fifteen percent of all women and two to five percent of all men in the industrialized world are allergic to eurocoins.

Let's hear it for the EU!

 

[pabloback]

there are only two good things to come out of europe.
the channel tunnel and pizza
[and skiing in the alps]

 

[Lost Cause]

Also it is a known fact that anyone in possession, or holding a eurodollar, has an immediate decrease in mental ability. Decreased reasoning, and a docile characteristic, lends these minions to be easily herded, and will believe what their "masters" tell them without question.
Only known cure is to rub the palms with American currency! They may also have to relocate to an area roughly between Mexico, and Canada.

 

[p_p_man]

Just a small blip on the way to World Domination.

As ordinary consumers do not handle coins long enough for any irritation to occur, people who are at risk are shop assistants, cashiers in shops, banks and post offices and any other group (amusement park cashiers?) that handle coins during large parts of their working day.

So we are calculating 30-40 percent of a tiny part of the working population and who are nickel sensitive, and who tend to develop hand eczema.

I've known well known brands of perfumed soap to have a more devestating affect.

Still thanks for the heads up Killer. I'll e-mail Tony later.

 

[Emeraldtryst]

Re: Just a small blip on the way to World Domination.

So we are calculating 30-40 percent of a tiny part of the working population and who are nickel sensitive, and who tend to develop hand eczema.

I've known well known brands of perfumed soap to have a more devestating affect.

So...it's okay to let THOSE people die. It's not anyone wants them around anyway.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Hey, it's true! I'm not making it up just to poke sharp sticks into ppman's cage. Though it is strenously fun to do it. I think I pulled something laughing my ass off about Mr. EU Superior and here comes the euro causing eczema.

Here's the link:

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=400992

Here's the brief:

Two of the eight eurocoins scheduled to be released pretty gosh darn soon are so loaded with nickel that anyone allergic could develop hand eczema, which is a totally unfun thing to have.

Fifteen percent of all women and two to five percent of all men in the industrialized world are allergic to eurocoins.

Let's hear it for the EU!

Their evil I tell's ya............EVIIIIIIIIIIL !!!!!

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Re: Just a small blip on the way to World Domination.

So...it's okay to let THOSE people die. It's not anyone wants them around anyway.

DIE? DIE?

Who said anything about dying for Chrissake...

A skin rash is all...

Easily cured...

 

[mig]

It's just another nail in the coffin of Eurocrap.

Sterling is healthy.

 

[p_p_man]

It's just another nail in the coffin of Eurocrap.

Sterling is healthy.

Only because it's building its strength up to join the Euro in a dominating position.

 

[April]

I don't find it funny at all. I am sensitive to nickel, and I will be handling these damn coins come January 2. The Euro commission had damn well consider redoing those coins or there will be massive complaints. Stupid motherfuckers.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I don't find it funny at all either. Eczema is a seriously problem that just doesn't "go away" easily.

What I find so utterly hysterical is the man who sits high on his horse and lords his imagined political superiorty over the rest of us who roll our eyes at him is now forced to defend the indefensible. A disease causing coin that was not only manufactured despite the fact that medical science has known for years that high concentrations of nickel cause reactions in sensitive people, and that there are quite a number of those people, is still going to be released in January to do its harm because it's not cost effective to re-mint the two coins in question based on the findings of one doctor when plenty more can be bought, I mean found to disagree with him.

European Union. I still don't understand why anyone would want to give up their sovereignty to be run by a conglomerate of nations that don't have the same political ties or agenda. How does ppman know the EU will do what's best for the UK?

 

[Jean Val Jean]

Ahm wid chew p_p_

I say buck up and sacrifice for the greater good of the European hemogeny. That's probably why the Frenchies kiss and don't shake hands. After all, you never know where it's been do you?

I like the Mexican coins my self with the two-color metal scheme. Better than the quarters honoring the states!

 

[p_p_man]

OK. I took this as a lighthearted thread...

but I went a-searching and came up with this:

Nickel Allergy

I. Definition:

Nickel allergy is a skin rash caused by an allergic reaction to jewelry, but may also be produced by contact with such things as brassiere hooks, zippers, or the metal in eyeglass frames.



II. Causes:

Like other allergies, nickel allergy is acquired. Ear piercing sometimes initiates nickel allergy.
Nickel allergy may develop at any age. Once you become allergic to nickel, you're likely to have the allergy for many years.
Some persons are highly allergic to nickel and may get a rash from even brief contact with nickel-containing metals, while others break out only after a long period of skin contact with nickel.
Nickel allergy is especially common in women. It often prevents them from wearing jewelry. All jewelry contains nickel; however, there's less nickel in 14- or 18-karat gold jewelry than in inexpensive costume jewelry.


III. Treatment:

Nickel-allergy rashes usually clear up once contact with nickel-containing metal is stopped and a cortisone medicine is applied to the rash.
Preventing nickel-contact rashes means avoiding skin contact with nickel-containing metals. If you feel you must wear jewelry that has a nickel-content, compromise: wear the jewelry for only short periods of time, applying a cortisone cream to your skin before putting your jewelry on.

Then I thought: KillerMuffin has a point so I've e-mailed one of the London Members of the European Parliament:

Baroness Sarah Ludford
(Liberal Democrat)
London Liberal Democrat
European Office
36 St Peter's Street
London N1 8JT

sending her the text of the Reuters Report and asking what steps the European Parliament is intending to take to rectify the matter.

Once I get a reply I'll post it on Lit.

And who said we can't co-operate with each other.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Wow, ppman, you're engaging in sheer republicanism. Are you sure you're anti-Dubya?

 

[kotori]

European Union. I still don't understand why anyone would want to give up their sovereignty to be run by a conglomerate of nations that don't have the same political ties or agenda. How does ppman know the EU will do what's best for the UK?

This is a question that 13 independent states on the eastern edge of North American asked themselves two hundred plus years ago.
The thing is that they do have the same agenda--to be a bigger unified market (300million+) than even the U.S.
Of course it's slightly unfair to make p_p_man defend the euro coins, since Britain isn't even adopting the euro (yet).

 

[p_p_man]

No. No KM...

Wow, ppman, you're engaging in sheer republicanism. Are you sure you're anti-Dubya?

This is what us Socialists like to get our teeth into...

Keeping a lookout for the injustices and just plain idiocy of our "leaders".

As you started all this, and who knows you may find yourself the instigator of a change in European Law with regards to the nickel content in Euro coins, I'll e-mail you a copy of my mail to Baroness Ludford if you like.

Then you can keep an eye on me to make sure I don't forget about it.

 

[April]

Actually, I am very interested in the outcome of your letter, p_p_man. I'm not a citizen of the EU, yet I will be impacted in my daily life, and have had no real choice in the matter.

Maybe we can start a little pocket of NATO within the EU. All work after 1400 is banned, drinking is encouraged, and there's lots of loafing. Sound good? LOL

 

[Myrrdin]

Blame it on vending machines

It took a long time to agree on the design of the euro coins. The winning design - by the Belgian artist Luc Luycx - was eventually unveiled in June 1997.
One problem was the question which metals should go into the coins. Sweden pointed to studies that up to 20% of women may suffer from nickel allergies and insisted on a replacement alloy called Nordic gold. But in February 1998 it turned out that Europe's 7 million vending machines and countless payphones and parking meters could not distinguish between the new 20 and 50 cent coins containing Nordic gold.

The European Blind Union also complained that all eight euro coins varied only slightly in size and weight.

After a long to-and-fro, and more forceful protests from the European Blind Union, ministers approved a different design in July 1998.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/business/2001/euro_cash/5_2_1c.stm

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Blame it on vending machines

But in February 1998 it turned out that Europe's 7 million vending machines and countless payphones and parking meters could not distinguish between the new 20 and 50 cent coins containing Nordic gold.

See KillerMuffin. It can all be blamed on the monied corporations of the Right. Those well known bastions of collective protectiionism against the proletariat!