Expert in safety, risk, occupational health, beard-growing, and dad jokes. Enthusiastic amateur in bourbon, home brewing, barbecue, and many other things. My favorites have some weird stuff. This is partially because I favorite a lot of industrial accidents / unsafe stuff that I later use for training and partially because I'm weird.
I’m glad that grandma had a bath and smells good.
Very rural parts of the US use propane, especially those with limited or unreliable electricity. It’s stored in underground or aboveground tanks.
Other places use natural gas (methane) that is piped directly to homes and businesses. Other than for cooking or aesthetics (like fireplaces), I don’t really get it. It can be cheaper to heat a home although I suspect those prices may be artificially low due to subsidies & poorly considered government policies.
#33 I love Rollins, but there wouldn’t be moonlight if we lost the light of the sun.
People used to use surf board wax to clean up scratched vinyl rear windows in convertibles, maybe that would work?
Once and for ALL!
(Also: “Windmills do not work that way!”)
#9 peer review?
If you make oil from that many avocados then the US military will show up, liberate your house, and set up a Chipotle for hungry troops. Once the Chipotle is there, they’ll probably cut down all the trees for parking, and then you won’t have to worry about extra avocados anymore.
What were you thinking “Beach Head” meant?
Just like the Shishkebab in Fallout 4 - cool concept, but not too practical in application.
Most people: is this organic?
Chemist: almost entirely.
Probably just a neurotoxin - seen similar stuff in rabbits and other rodents. Definitely don’t let the cat at it.
Conservation is amazing work. I probably anthropromorphize too much, but it helps me to understand that animals are reacting according to their nature and their perception of the environment- I’m a guest, if not a neighbor, so I should try to be considerate.
Cottonmouths have every right to be as aggressive as they want if I’m in their living room. I’m just sharing my experience and what my dad (who worked his way through college as a rattlesnake milker) taught me. I think knowing how an animal is most likely to respond to perceived danger (freeze, run, get low, bow up, get loud, get quiet, etc.) is good to know. Thankfully I have never had a problem with a snake, just misunderstandings as we both tried to get to different places & crossed paths.
A Seperate Piece or The Doll House. Both awful.
I’m also in Fallout 4, but I really need to know if my “almost everything and everyone is legendary” mod is going to be enabled. That’s really critical as to my survival projections.
Copperheads are disagreeable and stubborn if you come across them, but cottonmouths are downright malicious and may chase you down.
Does this mean gays can’t come in or that they can’t come out?
The blade under the slate results in a lot more concentrated force than the diffused support of a roof structure under the installed tiles. It’s possible that the overhang at the eaves might be more likely to break if unsupported, but slate is typically more fire and hail resistant than asphalt shingles, but also takes more skill to properly install.
In the US this would probably go to MSHA instead of OSHA - the US decided to keep mine safety in a different agency than most other occupational safety.
I heard it as a joke from a lesbian friend “what does a lesbian bring on the second date? A u-haul.” The obverse of the joke was “what does a gay man bring to a second date? What’s a second date?” As a very vanilla straight dude, I have very little insight as to the truth behind these stereotypes, but my gay friends seem to find them more funny than reductive. Your mileage may vary.
In addition to the death of Clapton’s son as others have noted - the person in the photo is RFK Jr. He’s an independent candidate for president in the US who has a history of saying insane things. For example (not actual quotes, but you get the idea) “I found a dead bear and was going to eat it, but carried it around in my trunk for a while before staging a crime scene in Central Park with the bear carcass.” (Which seems relevant) Or “A worm ate some of my brain, but it died and I’m fine now.”
Good point.
Might the due to the leidenfrost effect. The boiling liquid creates a layer that the ball basically floats on, insulating the glass.
Bad news about bull sharks: they can survive in brackish & fresh water and have been found many, many miles upstream from the ocean.
Byssinosis from cotton fibers can be prevalent in textile mills, so it’s possible that tailors could also be affected. Also, I wonder what the prevalence of tetanus was back then? If they’re getting puncture wounds even once a week, that had to be a risk.
You’re correct that fire sprinkler systems are typically metal pipe (traditionally iron or steel). The only application I can think of is a “special” PVC pipe (typically orange in color to prevent mix-ups) that can be used for single-family home sprinkler systems. I don’t pay as much attention to that part of the NFPA as I used to, but I think a lot of it was just to make systems for single family homes financially feasible while still establishing a minimal national code.
That’s calvary. Chivalry is what you feel when you’re cold or scared.