Thread: Are we now that dumb...?

First aid kits are typically more available indoors?

Whats the point of a coffee hot enough to burn skin, are you seriously going to put that onto and past your lips?

Maybe they should set a temperature limit on the kettles? 70 degrees?

Originally Posted by rammypluge

First aid kits are typically more available indoors?

Whats the point of a coffee hot enough to burn skin, are you seriously going to put that onto and past your lips?

Maybe they should set a temperature limit on the kettles? 70 degrees?

You can't brew tea at 70 degrees, so no good for me. Like anything, if someone is dumb enough to hurt themselves with it, that's just the gene pool trying to cleanse itself. We have interferred with this for far too long.

Not all that long in terms of the time humans have been about - the slightest preoccupation with safety only goes back about 150 years, humans have been about for possibly 100,000. "Cleansing the gene pool" will take a lot longer than that!

I can't help thinking that the costs of some of these safety measures though are getting a bit ridiculous compared to the risks they remove. And I am not just talking about monetary cost - the environmental cost of a lot of them is quite high, where "safety" demands disposable stuff rather than cleaning and sterilising etc, or replace rather than repair all sorts of equipment.

Yes, disposable coffee cups are a big problem. They do make good planters for seedlings though.

Over Easter I did a quick trip up and back to Mount Isa in a truck and was allowed to travel 95% of the trip at the legal speed of 110 kmph on a single lane highway. On the return trip I noticed that as I drew closer to Brisbane, (within a radius of about 300 ks or so), I was apparently no longer trustworthy enough to maintain this breakneck speed as the allowable limit on the same width of road dropped to 100, and then eventually 80 the closer to Brisbane I got. I was however allowed to travel at 110 where there was a multi lane carriageway.
There are only a couple of conclusions one can come to,
1) We city people are more precious than our country cousins, or
2) City people are dumber and lousier drivers than our country cousins and need outside help to stay within the limitations of a single lane.
I, as a city person nowadays, found this so 'offensive' that I had to go to the "crying room" and have a good cry for about a minute before I could get over it.
Regards
Glen
(Bg DipW QUG)

Originally Posted by zulu Delta 534

Over Easter I did a quick trip up and back to Mount Isa in a truck and was allowed to travel 95% of the trip at the legal speed of 110 kmph on a single lane highway. On the return trip I noticed that as I drew closer to Brisbane, (within a radius of about 300 ks or so), I was apparently no longer trustworthy enough to maintain this breakneck speed as the allowable limit on the same width of road dropped to 100, and then eventually 80 the closer to Brisbane I got. I was however allowed to travel at 110 where there was a multi lane carriageway.
There are only a couple of conclusions one can come to,
1) We city people are more precious than our country cousins, or
2) City people are dumber and lousier drivers than our country cousins and need outside help to stay within the limitations of a single lane.
I, as a city person nowadays, found this so 'offensive' that I had to go to the "crying room" and have a good cry for about a minute before I could get over it.
Regards
Glen
(Bg DipW QUG)

Too expensive to have a crash and subsequent traffic jam near the city

i think they have read your thread on how everting you buy turns to crap

Originally Posted by p38arover

... that we have to be told how to open an envelope?

This is the back of the envelope my rego papers came in this week.

Lift here.

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Fully Insert Finger

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Run Finger Down....

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Gaaaahhhh!

Originally Posted by p38arover

... that we have to be told how to open an envelope?

This is the back of the envelope my rego papers came in this week.

Lift here.

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Fully Insert Finger

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Run Finger Down....

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Gaaaahhhh!

Last time I saw those envelopes was around 15 years ago..