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  #3325066 27-Dec-2024 15:00
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neb:

 

It's OK, pretty soon all vehicles will be required to travel at no more 4mph and have someone walking out the front with a red flag to warn people of their approach.  #RoadToZero.  #ThinkOfTheChildren.

 

 

That's a great idea! Just make sure they all are wearing helmets!

 

 





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  #3325080 27-Dec-2024 16:38
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  #3325159 27-Dec-2024 20:52
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@Tinkerisk That’s not a red flag - it’s grey - so that kid’s clearly breaking the law.

 





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  #3325161 27-Dec-2024 20:57
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eracode:

 

@Tinkerisk That’s not a red flag - it’s grey - so that kid’s clearly breaking the law.

 

 

 

“Ten years after the abolition of the “Red Flag Act”, The Illustrated London News published a humorous drawing celebrating the famous action of a Mr Harry Heweston. The “Red Flag Act”, as the Locomotive Act of 1865 was known, set speed limits of 4 mph (6 km/h) in the country and 2 mph (3 km/h) in towns. It also stipulated a man with a red flag should walk 60 yards (55 meters) ahead of each vehicle to warn horse riders and horse drawn traffic of the approach of a self-propelled machine.

 

After buying a 3 hp Benz in Germany, Heweston went out in the motor car in his home town of Catford with a small boy and upon receiving a report of a policeman ahead, set the boy out of the car to carry out the letter of the law. Ironically the flag was a tiny scrap of red ribbon on a lead pencil!“

 

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  #3325165 27-Dec-2024 21:16
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If you're aiming for malicious compliance today you'd really want to use this sort of red flag:

 

 

It specifically says "a man with a red flag", doesn't say it can't have a hammer and sickle on it.


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  #3325166 27-Dec-2024 21:22
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In @Tinkerisk ‘s case, not only is it not a red flag - it’s not even a man! It’s some random kid!





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  #3325172 27-Dec-2024 21:29
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The actual text said that "Secondly, one of such persons, while any locomotive is in motion, shall precede such locomotive on foot by not less than sixty yards, and shall carry a red flag constantly displayed", no gender mentioned.  However "man" was implied since women were such frail creatures that they would never have been able to drive a locomotive or possibly even go near one without smelling salts at hand to ward off the fainting fits.


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  #3325576 28-Dec-2024 19:34
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I'm pretty sure Netflix is going to be pulling / editing this video

One of the comedians plays the ghost of the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was gunned down in Manhattan.

"Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year"


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  #3326345 30-Dec-2024 20:39
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Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Musinex to help clear it.

 

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...


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  #3326347 30-Dec-2024 21:06
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sir1963:

 

Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Musinex to help clear it.

 

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...

 

 

What?





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  #3326397 31-Dec-2024 00:17
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sir1963:

 

Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Mucinex to help clear it.

 

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...

 

 

That’s appalling - assuming it wasn’t someone from your household, after you’d bought them.

 

Where did you buy them? Did you notice that the box wasn’t still sealed when you went to open it? Did you go back to the retailer? - not just because you got less than you paid for - but because there are safety and security issues here.





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  #3326401 31-Dec-2024 04:54
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Cardboard medication boxes aren't usually even tape sealed, just folded.

The tamper-evidentness is in the actual blister pouches.

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  #3326404 31-Dec-2024 06:46
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SomeoneSomewhere: Cardboard medication boxes aren't usually even tape sealed, just folded.

The tamper-evidentness is in the actual blister pouches.

 

Tried getting into a Nurofen or Panadol box lately? 

 

Without some sort of sharp instrument, you have to more or less destroy the box to get pas the tamper seal.





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  #3326409 31-Dec-2024 07:21
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sir1963:

 

Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Musinex to help clear it.

 

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...

 

 

Without checking local packaging a search on Mucinex packaging suggests that the cardboard box initially has the flaps glued.

 

What was the format of the blister pack? One post on Reddit was about 12 packs supplied as 14 blisters with 2 unfilled.


  #3326512 31-Dec-2024 12:38
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sir1963:

 

Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Musinex to help clear it.

 

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...

 

 

It's not uncommon to have empty blisters in a pack. Just means the manufacturer doesn't have to carry multiple sets of tooling to produce both 8 tablet blisters and 10 table blisters for example.


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