Scuttlebutt Island

Actually I support this cos I'm fed up being asked to admire the ugly little frogs. Good use of reverse psychology here!
 
Why would anyone want to 'coo' over a Winston Churchill look-a-like?

Let's face it, it is only their mothers who think new-borns are beautiful.
 
Another example

As if that was bad enough, there was a couple on the news today, They dropped and broke a traditional thermometer, and then paniced about the small amount of mercury on the floor. Yes it is toxic and especially should not be hoovered up as that would atomise it and make it quite dangerous.

However, this couple called out the Fire Brigade. The spillage was treated as a chemical spillage and environmental hazard units were assigned to deal with it. The family were evacuated from the house, furniture that had come into contact with the mercury was removed to a special disposal site, and they still do not have clearance to return to their home. Costs about £10,000 so far, plus a lot of the furniture in their kitchen has been trashed.

How many of you can remember playing with mercury at school (and normally in considerably larger quantity than is in a thermometer.
 
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I remember it well, I even made alloys of it with lead and cadmium which melted in the palm of your hand. I also have teeth filled with the stuff. Fortunately I have never been on the receiving end of the traditional cure for syphillis. (and before you ask, nor any other treatment!)
 
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Does anyone know the Lat/Long of Scuttlebutt Island ?

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20°N 181°W. To get there from the UK, steer 361°T
 
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Seems to me to be a pretty inventive way to put in an insurance claim to have the house refurnished/decorated. The other options, fire, bit risky could endanger life, could burn the house down. Spill paint, only works on getting a new carpet, can't cover everything without raising suspicion. Self burglary, no cos plod gets involved and he would soon catch you out.

No, a small controled 'dangerous' substance seems to be the way to go, no thats smart!
 
Re: Mercury

My best memory was of a kilo of the stuff getting spilt on the lab floor at school. Said floor had a slope in the middle of it and aluminium non-slip strips.

Mercury dissolves aluminium and the aluminium in amalgam oxidises in air, freeing the mercury to dissovle more aluminium and the aluminium in amalgam oxidises in air, freeing....

The strips grew whiskers of oxide for several weeks afterwards until they were finally treated with acid to dissolve the mercury, but it took several tries.

This is why mercury is such a no-no on aircraft. If you want to see airline staff get REALLY upset, tell them you broke a mercury thermometer on their plane!
 
Sigh.

I spend large parts of my working week arguing with designers and planning supervisors in an effort to deliver projects that actually work and this is just the sort of spurious garbage I constantly have to deal with. The country seems to be full of talentless anally retentive half-wits deluded enough to believe that an NVQ in Human Safety and Welfare confers on them the modicum of native intellect that nature so wisely witheld. A pox on them all.

When we put up a structurally impeccable pirate-y type 12' mast with ratlines, yard arm and a crows nest in a wood once I was asked by H&S woman how we would prevent kids climbing on it. %#^*(=!!. I asked back how we would prevent them climbing the (much taller) trees around it; maybe, I suggested, we could (1) cut all the trees down or (2) surround each tree with a safety fence or (3) install a 150mm deep ring of rubber crumb safety surface around each tree. Her face was scrunched in an effort of intense thought for at least 30 seconds before she responded "No, I think a safety warning notice attached to the trees would be a more practical solution."
 
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Fortunately I have never been on the receiving end of the traditional cure for syphillis. (and before you ask, nor any other treatment!)

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Thankfully the TV AM doctor (Hilary Jones) was sensible enough to poo-poo the whole thing as ridiculous, pointing out that hospitals deal with broken thermometers all the time.

The dick-head at the centre of the whole thing said that he's done some internet research before calling in the SWAT team.

I (me, not dick-head) tried putting "broken mercury thermometer" into Google and got lots of pages telling me to pick it all up in kitchen towel, don't use a vacuum cleaner, and dispose of it safely.

Don't know which internet he was on.

Do the H&SE have their own internet? They seem to have their own logic.
 
[When we put up a structurally impeccable pirate-y type 12' mast with ratlines, yard arm and a crows nest in a wood once I was asked by H&S woman how we would prevent kids climbing on it. %#^*(=!!. I asked back how we would prevent them climbing the (much taller) trees around it; maybe, I suggested, we could (1) cut all the trees down or (2) surround each tree with a safety fence or (3) install a 150mm deep ring of rubber crumb safety surface around each tree. Her face was scrunched in an effort of intense thought for at least 30 seconds before she responded "No, I think a safety warning notice attached to the trees would be a more practical solution." ]

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When I was at dental school, and later in general practice after I first qualified, there was none of this sillyness. There was one study on the mercury content of dental nurses toe nails (they tended to wear open toed shoes and there was often mercury spills on the surgery floor). But nothing was done about it. We even had to boil the needles and they were double-ended because the guy I worked for at the time was a tight ar*e. But to the best of my knowledge there never was a case of infection following injection. Or any problem with mercury. They all smoked so much in those days that mercury was way down the danger list!

Strangely there have been few subsequent studies where the dental staff's health was the main subject! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Still, don't use the stuff hardly at all these days.
 
Who are these people.

I am 35, so my childhood years were the 70's and early 80's. During this era we did climb trees, shimmy up drain pipes to the church roof, jump across the walkways between garages (still makes my stomach turn thinking about that one).

These idiots banning everything from paddling to climbing trees must also have been part of that, or where they the little weaklings who cried a lot and never got picked for the team.

What clicked, we all cringe at these prats who consider no one but they can make a decision and we must be protected from ourselves, but when did this happen. Was it really when the Government closed down legal aid and allowed in this compo culture!

I wonder if they saw this coming. I feel so sorry for this generation, who among everything else, will have no sports day, childhood or school play memories as apparently photographs of kids running in the egg and spoon is pervy. Though, as said before, I am more worried about the Psyche of those who ban parents from photographing their kids, or report a naked baby shot handed into the lab. They must get a kick from it to believe others must do.

Get me off the planet!
 
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