• umbraroze
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    311 year ago

    That’s right! However, remember that bananas have potassium-40 in it, which is radioactive. Not much, though. So be very very mildly careful around bananaphones! /old joke

    • @isthingoneventhis
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      201 year ago

      Back in the early 00s there was this wave of “phones give you cancer” panic and my friends father made them put on this stupid sticker on the back of their phone to “stop the radiation”. Anyways it was stupid and your comment reminded me of it xD

      • @Shard
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        71 year ago

        You take that back!

        I had a sticker that had flashing LEDs powered solely on the radiation coming from the phone. It was awesome.

        • @Noodle07
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          21 year ago

          OK now THAT is cool

        • Flying Squid
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          11 year ago

          RFK Jr. is still making that crazy claim.

        • @isthingoneventhis
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          01 year ago

          I thiiiiiiink this was fear mongering in line with the whole uh… Hannity? Whatever that maniacs name was who has/had the AM station. Basically the pre-fox republican mouthpiece.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Are you thinking of Rush Limbaugh? Who later actually died of (lung) cancer because he wouldn’t stop smoking?

            • @isthingoneventhis
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              11 year ago

              Uhhhhhhh I’ve mostly blocked it out, but maybe? It was just some dude that yelled a lot and I vividly remember being in the car when the soliders or whatever had recently been beheaded (it was on the news cycle?), and he was like “hrrr drrr people are trying to keep the truth away from 'mericans!” so he aired part of the audio clip of them being beheaded???!?!

              idk it was fucked.

            • @isthingoneventhis
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              11 year ago

              No this was on AM radio 0: my mom specifically listened to him on AM because idk he was too radical or whatever for FM? lol idk how it works, but they have been at it for a long while.

                • @isthingoneventhis
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                  11 year ago

                  Someone else suggested Rush Limbaugh in a different comment and it is ringing a bell, I’m thinking it was him?

                  • @Capricorny90210
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                    11 year ago

                    Ah ok I see. I just remembered he had the coast to coast AM radio station, and he got into some wacky stuff.

      • Kobrah
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        11 year ago

        My grandad still only uses his phone on loud speaker because of this

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Also remember that plants have been around before humans and that we evolved to resist natural radiations. We haven’t evolved yet to be around devices that produces more radiations than the limit agreed by scientists

      • @Buddahriffic
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        21 year ago

        Radioactive bananas is a relatively new thing resulting from all the nuclear bomb testing that went on from the 40s in to the 90s.

    • Flying Squid
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      01 year ago

      Great, now I have to go listen to the fucking song. Thanks.