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#3205566 12-Mar-2024 11:09

That seems to define the packaging size. Having limited general sale packs to 10gm/20 capsules where is the limit on the number of packs that can be sold?

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#3205570 12-Mar-2024 11:27

Probably comes from the definition of pack and container in the Medicines Act. Putting more than one container together creates a pack that is larger than 10 grams.

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#3205684 12-Mar-2024 14:35

You usually put a sign [on the dashboard of your car] with the family name so you can swing by at [school] pickup time and a teacher calls the family name. It helps with traffic jams and not having parents get out of the car just makes things safer around young kids school zones at pickup.

Zimbabwe? Somalia? Yemen?

No, it's Australia.

What's wrong with having them walk to the bus?

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#3205687 12-Mar-2024 14:40

neb:
You usually put a sign [on the dashboard of your car] with the family name so you can swing by at [school] pickup time and a teacher calls the family name. It helps with traffic jams and not having parents get out of the car just makes things safer around young kids school zones at pickup.
Zimbabwe? Somalia? Yemen? No, it's Australia. What's wrong with having them walk to the bus?

Potentially lots of things. Bus services keep getting worse, so your area may not be served and perhaps your kid is too young or has needs that mean it's not appropriate to go unaccompanied on a bus.

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#3205692 12-Mar-2024 14:47

mkissin:
Potentially lots of things. Bus services keep getting worse, so your area may not be served and perhaps your kid is too young or has needs that mean it's not appropriate to go unaccompanied on a bus.

These are older, non-special-needs children, it seems to be purely parental paranoia.

Actually NZ is just as bad, there's a small school close to where mother Neb used to live where the surrounding streets were totally gridlocked every weekday around 3pm, despite most of the school population living within maybe ten minutes walking distance, in a quiet, very safe residential area with almost no traffic apart from at 3pm.

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#3205694 12-Mar-2024 14:53

neb:
mkissin:

Potentially lots of things. Bus services keep getting worse, so your area may not be served and perhaps your kid is too young or has needs that mean it's not appropriate to go unaccompanied on a bus.

These are older, non-special-needs children, it seems to be purely parental paranoia. Actually NZ is just as bad, there's a small school close to where mother Neb used to live where the surrounding streets were totally gridlocked every weekday around 3pm, despite most of the school population living within maybe ten minutes walking distance, in a quiet, very safe residential area with almost no traffic apart from at 3pm.

Special needs encompasses a lot of things.

Either way, the primary school nearby us specifies a 15-minute window where the child must arrive; no earlier or later. It doesn't take much for that to turn roads into a total disaster zone. If even 10% of a school roll needs to drive for whatever reason, that's a ton of cars arriving basically simultaneously, and yes, having people not exit their vehicle does make a big difference. The school near us implemented a similar (but more relaxed) system for that, and it was a big improvement.

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#3205695 12-Mar-2024 15:00

neb
Actually NZ is just as bad, there's a small school close to where mother Neb used to live where the surrounding streets were totally gridlocked every weekday around 3pm, despite most of the school population living within maybe ten minutes walking distance, in a quiet, very safe residential area with almost no traffic apart from at 3pm.

Mother Neb will appreciate school kid climate strikes when the traffic disappears. I guess Irony is no longer taught in schools.

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#3205915 13-Mar-2024 09:10

Why does the shape of the lower case 'a' change when you switch to italics in Calibri font?

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3205918 13-Mar-2024 09:18

floydbloke:

Why does the shape of the lower case 'a' change when you switch to italics in Calibri font?

Because Italics imitates handwriting and some fonts have this approach.

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#3206050 13-Mar-2024 17:46

I'm guessing this can't happen here in New Zealand.

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#3206057 13-Mar-2024 18:03

kingdragonfly: I'm guessing this can't happen here in New Zealand.

The class action lawsuit targets LG and Kenmore refrigerator makers, specifically the LG linear compressors.

Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box

Nope, you can NOT contact your way out of the CGA, you would also get done under the fair trade act.

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#3206067 13-Mar-2024 18:14

Lufthansa, the railroads, doctors, farmers and security staff are all on strike here since two weeks - at the same time!

No problem for me, but for salaried employees and foreign travellers?

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#3206806 15-Mar-2024 17:16

There's an article in the latest Consumer where someone is complaining that the bearings on their F&P washing machine have failed after a bit under five years, probably four years nine months given the publication lead. In that time it's done 2,279 wash cycles.

That means they've done between one and two loads of washing every single day, 365 days a year, since the day they bought it. Admittedly there may have been breaks, maybe they ran it all day long on the 24th to do five or six loads that day and then had a break Christmas day and Boxing day, but W/T/F? I'm sure there are large industrial-strength commercial machines in the local laundromat that have had less use than that.

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#3206818 15-Mar-2024 18:25

That number does not surprise me. Families with a few young children will find that number familiar and unremarkable.

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#3206821 15-Mar-2024 18:35

neb: There's an article in the latest Consumer where someone is complaining that the bearings on their F&P washing machine have failed after a bit under five years, probably four years nine months given the publication lead. In that time it's done 2,279 wash cycles. That means they've done between one and two loads of washing every single day, 365 days a year, since the day they bought it. Admittedly there may have been breaks, maybe they ran it all day long on the 24th to do five or six loads that day and then had a break Christmas day and Boxing day, but W/T/F? I'm sure there are large industrial-strength commercial machines in the local laundromat that have had less use than that.

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