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#Km91# @sh.itjust.works

6d ago

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Am electrician, this is a legit classic. You go on any big job and at least one guy has that on his hard hat.
- Is that guy generally going to be OK or is there no correlation? Cuz so classic

I was talking to my kids about this only this week.
Back when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s in the UK, kids were brought up aware of the dangers of things like electricity, large bodies of water, roads etc, but all that has fallen by the wayside. We even had a rally driver visit our school as some sort of education program around how to drive safely.
I guess it just isn’t profitable to educate any more.
- Do they not do stuff like that anymore? I'd be interested to hear about what's happening in schools nowadays — I don't know any school-age kids, so I'm unaware of what things are like.
  
  I’ve got four kids, youngest 17, and they all seem oblivious to stuff. Maybe it’s because social media has taken over their lives.
  I’ve asked them before and not one of them said that they had any kind of awareness stuff apart from some social media type stranger danger things.
  
  My local school does a drunk driving "skit" every year which involves student actors being pulled out of a junked car donated by a scrapyard using the fire department's real "jaws of life". Hard to tell if it actually gets the message across though since most kids seem to think it's just a cool show.

I love that there’s no “can” or “might”, electricity will kill you and you cannot escape it.
- and it is coming. you can hide, but it will find you.

The cheery face is what makes this. Electricity will kill you, and enjoy it!

That character is from the 20s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt
- That there's still trademark on that character...?
  
  Trademark lasts as long as the owner cares to keep renewing it.

Now it'd be like:
You play with electricity, what happens next is SHOCKING!
- Nowadays it's:
  "Two kids played with this thing and nearly died!"

I'll fuckin' cut you, kid.

I was just thinking recently about the time I got a faceful of strychnine as a small child prowling through the hall closet while my grandma's back was turned. It was just sitting on the shelf, white powder in a little glass jar, no safety cap, no Mr Yuck sticker. It might not have even had a label. I happened to knock it over, and I can still remember the taste nearly sixty years later. We used to live so dangerously.
- Ah the bad old days, when we used generic neurotoxin against rats.

I have this sticker on my toolchest :D

Electric danger noodle!

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