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Smart phones severely impair your ability to sit quietly and pay attention to whatever it is you are supposed to be paying attention to.


Seriously, does it bounce, chafe or knock against your leg.

Wait until 5G is really prevalent. I bet the outcome will not be good

They screw up the brain's ability to think critically when used by the young.

When at desk chair it is pushed fairly hard against the thigh, same when in vehicle.
Those 2 account for 5-6 hours five days a week.

"Agent orange was safe."

It wasn't safe in Agent Orange when it was sprayed in Vietnam and it's still not safe today in anything. Dioxin is a carcinogen no matter what you put it in. It might get you yet.

That's probably enough.
I have had sore spots from stuff in poorly designed located cargo pockets. I rarely use them now or save for soft stuff...
If you have been doing a lot of game stalking maybe your thigh muscle got a little bigger, enough to increase the pressure the phone puts on it....

"Cell Phones-harmful effects?"
Was this done with tongue in cheek or sincere?
Generally when this is asked it isn't actually sincere. The preferred answers are what must fit the movie we have playing in our head. Anything outside of that is BS or Conspiracy Theory.

Remember a few years back, and the reports of a rash of cancers among the Highway Patrol Officers, caused by resting the radar gun in their lap while it was not in use?

While the EM radiation from a cell phone is far less powerful than a radar gun and a different frequency, I ain't laying it up against the boys for any length of time.

TV transmitters...anecdotal only.

My son is in HVAC and they maintain the local transmitting facilty. He says that every time he goes into the area of the transmitters, it makes his skin crawl and gives him severe headaches and nausea.

He said they used to keep a caretaker housed on sight near the base of the antennas, but he gradually went nuts over several years and ended up in suicide.


again...anecdotal only

The dude we know of, One-Leg Pete he shot his leg off but it was a blessing. He had leg cancer. Not sure what type cell phone he toted.

Ima try to avoid that scenario!

After not carrying it in the pocket for 24 hours the soreness is noticeably reduced.

When they have to cut your leg off Reaford.
Are you gonna change your username to IHOP???
LOL!!!

If'n I have to-I think 'one leg frank' will work.

[spoiler][/spoiler]Just go with OLF....
Then you can be aka:"Outdoor Life Frequenter"

Annoying when something like that screws up your daily routine/system....

Might just be repeated exposure to the heat from the battery.

If you're cruising on you hog on a pleasant day w/o a helmet and an oncoming like style rider hits a deer, and flips, and the phone in his pocket flips out and smacks you in the face with a closure rate of 110 mph it's gonna hurt.

Otherwise I ain't worried. And I don't ride motorcycles. And I already won the Agent Orange lottery.

Phfffft-

With the number of TV transmitters in the world that's quite a pile of anecdotal.

Actually very little RF energy gets loose at the transmitter. Engineers go to great lengths to make sure every bit of energy gets chased up to the antenna. And the FCC has strict limits for human exposure. Everybody thought the limits were rediculously low when they were announced.

I would still worry more about background radiation if I wanted to worry. it has a very much stronger ionizing potential.

So do I. I suspect that after a few more years my left man boob will be a girl boob.

Kind of along this line. I have a card that opens an automatic gate at the airport. The card quit working so i got another one from the airport manager. He said don't put it in your pocket with your cellphone. The cellphone will kill the card. Probably what happened.