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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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@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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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.
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.
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...
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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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.
Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.
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.
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.
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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