....cont. from p.94: The Death of Common Sense [Archive]

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j4bberw0ck

31-May-07, 16:54

Post your Death of Common Sense links and stories here! :lol:

The Fire Brigade's Furniture Police (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6707509.stm)

MadPict

31-May-07, 17:14

I have two of them in the living room (chairs that is, not firefighters) - better go read the manuals....

Why remove the good old Mk1 bed? Sounds like cost cutting exercise...

Solus

31-May-07, 17:18

I was justing reading that, totally nuts ! some jobs worth no doubt....

I cant see what difference it makes unless they are going down the health and safety road, alarm goes off and some one trips over some one else on the floor ? unlikely i know , but in this day and age anything is possible.

What tickled me was this bit............

"
But firefighters were not allowed to sit or lie on the devices before reading a four-page health and safety manual. "

credit them with some sense !! and some pencil pusher probably spent a fortune on compiling the safety manual !

Lolabelle

31-May-07, 17:55

Why couldn't they just leave them with thier beds. Obviously some bright idea from a pencil pusher, who doesn't have to do the job. [evil]

Angela

31-May-07, 18:43

If they have a spare £400 reclining chair they're not needing, maybe they would send it to me? ;)

What a waste of money. Why didn't someone ask (oops, sorry, consult with) them first?

No doubt there needs to be a manual, in case they should injure themselves getting on or off the chairs? Maybe there's a danger they can accidentally fold themselves up inside them, or maybe these are magic chairs that can project the occupants up to the ceiling? :confused

Heavens above, its scary if you think they are firefighters and their employers are treating them like children. If they're really so dim and clumsy, they won't be much good at their jobs, will they?

j4bberw0ck

06-Jun-07, 12:07

Still dying...................... :lol:
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1567322.ece)

j4bberw0ck

06-Jun-07, 12:09

Another death rattle from the throat of poor old common sense......... :roll: (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=458856&in_page_id=1770)

You couldn't make it up, really. No one would believe it if you did.......

Angela

06-Jun-07, 12:20

j4bberw0ck

06-Jun-07, 15:27

Angela

06-Jun-07, 15:52

Rich pickings today............ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/06/nmercury106.xml)

Another victory for the power-crazed, lunatic, overpaid, corrupt and venal Brussels Spouts.

That's plain ridiculous, but also very sad. It was always such a ritual in our house, giving the baramoter that wee daily tap, in the hope it would move to "fair"!

Now then, Dr j'w0ck, do you pronounce life to be extinct?

Time to give Common Sense a decent burial, I think. :( We can still remember him fondly even though he's gone...:confused

George Brims

06-Jun-07, 17:34

I'm a bit equivocal on that last one. Mercury is dangerous and a huge amount of expense and trouble has already been expended on removing heavy metals from all sorts of products, especially in the electronics field (the RoHS directive). Don't see why the barometer people would think they need to be exempt.

What puzzles me is, the barometer part of a barometer doesn't use mercury, unless it's one of those really tall glass tube style ones. The circular barometer with a needle that settles to its true position when you tap it uses a diaphragm type of mechanism.

j4bberw0ck

07-Jun-07, 06:10

I defer to you on physics generally but seem to remember folded tube designs so you had the relative compactness of the aneroid barometer with the "no need to tap it" accuracy of the tall one (whose proper name escapes me temporarily).

Accepted mercury is dangerous, said the Mad Hatter, but so are lots of things. What a shame if it means that antique instruments can't be repaired and reconditioned.

[later]...... occurs to me also that for years, mercury was put in my teeth as part of dental amalgam. Allegedly, it's completely safe - for the dentist and his / her assistant as well as for me.......... presumably, dental amalgams are now mercury-free?

Cazaa

07-Jun-07, 21:01

[later]...... occurs to me also that for years, mercury was put in my teeth as part of dental amalgam. Allegedly, it's completely safe - for the dentist and his / her assistant as well as for me.......... presumably, dental amalgams are now mercury-free?

Dental amalgams do contain mercury - there is no option to have non-mercury amalgams.

Strange to think that Britain is one of the few remaining countries to offer to fill your mouth with mercury on its NHS.

If it is safe - why do they not allow it to be used/given to pregnant women?

Bill Fernie

07-Jun-07, 21:24

Dental amalgams do contain mercury - there is no option to have non-mercury amalgams.

Strange to think that Britain is one of the few remaining countries to offer to fill your mouth with mercury on its NHS.

If it is safe - why do they not allow it to be used/given to pregnant women?

Hmm I read a book many years ago about Amalgam in fillings and the jury is still out inmy own mind. the trouble is once you have the amalgam in your teeth it seems to be as safe to leave it as to get it taken out and replaced with something more expensive if you can afford it. See http://www.life.ca/nl/53/mercury.html - alot shorter than the book i read som years back. For more just google under toxic time bomb and stand back

j4bberw0ck

07-Jun-07, 22:50

Strange to think that Britain is one of the few remaining countries to offer to fill your mouth with mercury on its NHS.

Perhaps it helps keep waiting lists for other things down?