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Jake250ex
10-20-2005, 06:31 PM
I liked one of their songs, "everything turns grey", and I am always curious what the band members look like while I am listening to their music, so I did a google image on it. :eek: What I found was horrid! Deformed babies with crazy growths. I won't post pics becuase I don't feel like being banned, but if your curious try it yourself. Can anyone tell me what this is? To my knowledge it was some form of pesticide used during a war... I have a very vague idea (thats probably wrong) of what it is.
Pappy
10-20-2005, 06:35 PM
Agent orange was a defoliant used to kill the undergrowth in Vietnam during the war. It was used so that enemy troop movements and weapon caches could be more easily seen and destroyed.

My dad told me that they were informed to cover themselves when it was being sprayed, but eventually it was of no use. Thousnads of our soldiers were covered with it, it got in thier food and the drinking water. Years later, cancer and other health issues are blamed on the soldiers exposure to this chemical.

Personally, my dad had cancer, and I lost a sister that they directly blamed on health issues arising from my fathers exposure to agent orange.
Jake250ex
10-20-2005, 06:41 PM
Im sorry to hear that :(


They never tested it before they used it?
Ralph
10-20-2005, 06:48 PM
nope, no tests, they just used it to wipe out all of the leaves on trees so the native vietnamise didnt have an advantage knowing the jungle and being able to hide.

not a bad idea on paper, just a terrible and irresponsible outcome
4punksdad
10-20-2005, 07:04 PM
on a lighter note..............this is my cat. He likes orange :D
Jake250ex
10-20-2005, 07:19 PM
that cat looks pissed! :eek:
4punksdad
10-20-2005, 07:27 PM
Originally posted by Jake250ex
that cat looks pissed! :eek:

!!!!!!!!!! maybe he doesn't like orange??????:p
Jersey450R
10-20-2005, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by Jake250ex
that cat looks pissed! :eek:
thats because hes on a kawasaki and not a honda. heck, i'de be pissed too.
4punksdad
10-20-2005, 08:00 PM
Originally posted by Jersey450R
thats because hes on a kawasaki and not a honda. heck, i'de be pissed too.

I had to sell my Honda...............he kept using it as a litter box.:o
Jersey450R
10-20-2005, 09:19 PM
Originally posted by 4punksdad
I had to sell my Honda...............he kept using it as a litter box.:o
aww i'm sorry you had to sell your 200sx :D
Blysster
10-21-2005, 09:09 AM
See the article bellow, very troubling.

This training base is very close to where I live. The cancer numbers in this region are way over the national average and our government is saying that agent orange/purple has nothing to do with it. They are covering up many things they have done on this base in the 60s-70s.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/agentorange/
4punksdad
10-21-2005, 10:09 AM
Originally posted by Jersey450R
aww i'm sorry you had to sell your 200sx :D

ATC 125M :p
Jersey450R
10-21-2005, 11:37 AM
hahaha, fourtrax 50
4punksdad
10-23-2005, 09:37 PM
Originally posted by Jersey450R
hahaha, fourtrax 50

no such thing...........but I did sell an ATC70 :o
Mxjunkie
10-23-2005, 09:47 PM
Originally posted by Jake250ex
I liked one of their songs, "everything turns grey", and I am always curious what the band members look like while I am listening to their music, so I did a google image on it. :eek: What I found was horrid! Deformed babies with crazy growths. I won't post pics becuase I don't feel like being banned, but if your curious try it yourself. Can anyone tell me what this is? To my knowledge it was some form of pesticide used during a war... I have a very vague idea (thats probably wrong) of what it is.


Wow... Thats pretty sad specially most of the babies that were attached and all..