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    Synthetic Estrogen coating your receipts Oh noes.

    http://www.ewg.org/bpa-in-store-receipts/release

    BPA, a plastic hardener and synthetic estrogen linked by researchers to a long list of serious health problems, is used to coat thermal paper used by major retailers, grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations, fast-food restaurants, post offices and automatic teller machines (ATMs). The chemical reacts with dye to form black print on receipts handled by millions of Americans every day.
    WASHINGTON, DC – Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have found high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) on 40 percent of receipts sampled from major U.S. businesses and services, including outlets of McDonald's, CVS, KFC, Whole Foods, WalMart, Safeway and the U.S. Postal Service. Receipts from Target, Starbucks, Bank of America ATMs and other important enterprises were BPA-free or contained only trace amounts.
    The good news is that other well-known outlets, including Target, Starbucks, Bank of America ATMs and the U.S. Senate cafeteria, appear to be using receipt paper without BPA. In another positive development, Appleton Papers Inc. of Appleton, Wisc., the nation’s largest thermal paper maker, removed the chemical from its products in 2006.

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    so its the RECEIPTS that make you fat

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    This is why I shop online.




    lol

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    This topic reads like a thinly veiled ad for Target and Bank of America.

    "THIS SHIT WILL KILL YOU! WE WONT KILL YOU! WE LOVE YOU!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zalius View Post
    so its the RECEIPTS that make you fat
    lol, "See! That bucket of fried chicken I bought at that supercenter didn't make me fat, the goddamn receipt did."

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    Quote Originally Posted by SathFenrir View Post
    This topic reads like a thinly veiled ad for Target and Bank of America.

    "THIS SHIT WILL KILL YOU! WE WONT KILL YOU! WE LOVE YOU!"
    And they won't give you Moobs! They are looking out for you. All their receipts are printed on 150% MOTHER FUCKING TESTOSTERONE PAPER.

    Actually it's not even paper, it's printed on fucking beef jerky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meresgi View Post
    And they won't give you Moobs! They are looking out for you. All their receipts are printed on 150% MOTHER FUCKING TESTOSTERONE PAPER.

    Actually it's not even paper, it's printed on fucking beef jerky.
    I use man paper only, thank you.

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    Nikkei will still get me.

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    There are so many dangerous things in this world. I even have to avoid plastic or it will make me gay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meresgi View Post
    And they won't give you Moobs! They are looking out for you. All their receipts are printed on 150% MOTHER FUCKING TESTOSTERONE PAPER.

    Actually it's not even paper, it's printed on fucking beef jerky.
    Did you ever know that you're my hero?

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    "Would you like the receipt in the bag or with you?"

    "What the FUCK, are you trying to KILL me, get that SHIT away from me, FUCK!?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Not not Mattaru View Post
    "Would you like the receipt in the bag or with you?"

    "What the FUCK, are you trying to KILL me, get that SHIT away from me, FUCK!?"
    Lol going to do that next time. Slap it out of the cashier's hand and be like "WHAT THE FUCK", get her manager and be like "She was trying to kill me!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meresgi View Post
    Lol going to do that next time. Slap it out of the cashier's hand and be like "WHAT THE FUCK", get her manager and be like "She was trying to kill me!"
    I would pay money to see this...

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    The question is: Who the hell touches a receipt longer than it takes to walk to the nearest trash can?

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    It wasn't terrorists that flew planes into the WTC, it was receipts! god, so well played government, what's next?! Obama is really Bigfoot?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by miokomioko View Post
    The question is: Who the hell touches a receipt longer than it takes to walk to the nearest trash can?
    me, when i have to hand them out for eight hours a day...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guitarman View Post
    me, when i have to hand them out for eight hours a day...
    So you are willingly handing us small strips of DEATH PAPER! And you get paid for it?! Oh the huge manatee.

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