# Correction fluid requires safety glasses and rubber gloves **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985 "2023-01-29T13:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/21 "2023-01-29T19:36:40Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > EVERYTHING is a deadly threat to humans, to hear the media tell it, especially here in California. We forage for and eat some mushrooms that we know are safe (chanterelles, chicken of the woods, morels, dryads saddle). When my daughter came with us she found a mushroom and asked me if you could eat it. I told her, “yes, but just once”. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/22 "2023-01-29T19:36:40Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I don’t know why you’re blaming the media. It’s the law, the badly written and nonsensical law The specific California thing is the silly law. But it’s _also_ true that the media want to scare you about everything to up their viewing figures. Even the weather can’t just be factual, it’s all about factoring in windchill and humidity so that temperatures sound more extreme. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/23 "2023-01-29T19:36:55Z")
Huh, my package of Bic Wite-Out just says > [@](#): > > DANGER: EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE > KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN > DO NOT SWALLOW OR INHALE > WARNING: Intentional misuse by deliberately concentrating and inhaling contents can be harmful or fatal All of which seems reasonable. > [@DPRK](#): > > Why do you think those are not legit warnings to not sniff it, pour it in your eyes, or set it on fire? Because the warning to use PPE for a common office supply is clearly ludicrous, and so a reasonable person reading that last warning might reasonably (though incorrectly) conclude that therefore all of the other warnings are probably similarly ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/24 "2023-01-29T19:52:47Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > the [inventor of Liquid Paper](https://www.thoughtco.com/liquid-paper-bette-nesmith-graham-1992092) was the mother of Michael Nesmith of the Monkees. [minor hijack] I either somehow missed that, despite many years on the Dope, or forgot. In any case, that now ties for first place with my other favorite delightfully pointless fact, which is that Richard Dawkins and Tom Baker (Dr. Who) were friends - Baker was briefly married to Lalla Ward (one of his companions on Dr. Who), who after their divorce married Dawkins. I guess they all got along swimmingly and there were no hard feelings. The thought of Dawkins and Baker sitting around having a chummy conversation just charms me, somehow - even better, Douglas Adams was part of their coterie. I can’t imagine a group I’d rather sit around having drinks with. [/minor hijack] ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/25 "2023-01-29T20:10:34Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I can’t imagine a group I’d rather sit around having drinks with. I still lean towards the Inklings who actually met regularly at the The Eagle and Child Pub in Oxford. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis & Charles Wilson being the best known. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/26 "2023-01-29T20:11:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Because the warning to use PPE for a common office supply is clearly ludicrous Ludicrous, unless you have a job that requires regular, borderline continuous, use of the product. In which case, I would be glad to have such a warning. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/27 "2023-01-29T20:45:03Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Even the weather can’t just be factual, it’s all about factoring in windchill and humidity so that temperatures sound more extreme. I don’t dispute that media are generally alarmist as a means of increasing interest and traffic in their stories. However, windchill and humidity are actual useful data that give a better idea to you and me as to how it’s going to feel when we’re outside. If you want weather alarmism, I would point to videos and photos that show the worst 1% to 5% of the area affected by storms or floods or other weather (or earthquakes) as if the entire area looked like that. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/28 "2023-01-29T21:00:25Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > However, windchill and humidity are actual useful data that give a better idea to you and me as to how it’s going to feel when we’re outside. I don’t agree. The windchill-adjusted temperature tells you how you are likely to feel if you’re standing on a bare ridgeline fully exposed to the wind, but not if you are in any way sheltered from the full force of the wind. I think the ordinary temperature and the windspeed are a better way to inform you about this. The motivation is not better information, it’s to make the conditions _sound_ more extreme than they really are. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/29 "2023-01-29T21:18:32Z")
The windspeed is just as misleading as the windchill. Either they tell you the wind you’ll actually experience, in which case the windchill is also accurate, or they’ll tell you the unsheltered wind speed, in which case it’ll be inaccurate if you’re sheltered. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/30 "2023-01-29T21:31:41Z")
Only in a purely theoretical sense, if we had all the algorithms memorized and could any required math in our heads. In practice, I think we have a good intuitive feel for what a given temperature feels like in calm conditions, and telling you this baseline along with windspeed gives you better information to estimate realistic conditions given your planned route. ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/31 "2023-01-29T22:01:38Z")
I only skimmed the posts so this may have been mentioned. It’s called covering your ass. This is what those that will sue because they lack common sense, or more likely, are looking to get something for nothing, has brought us to. In some instances there is a requirement to wear rubber gloves at the same time as operating machinery. The problem is that this is simply not always practical. Nothing would be accomplished if operators had to continually put on & remove gloves. Not to mention the fact that wearing gloves while operating equipment is a far greater hazard than the chemical. The US seems to be the leader in this litigation happy society. Don’t blame the lawyers, they only follow instructions from their clients. Half the time the greatest danger is while trying to break into the packaging to get at the products, using a variety of razor knives etc. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/32 "2023-01-29T22:05:27Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > So far as I can tell, dihydrogen monoxide has to have the Prop. 65 label, or as my husband calls it, “the label that cried wolf”. Direct contact with dihydrogen monoxide kills about 4000 Americans a day. Are you going to pretend that’s OK? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/33 "2023-01-29T23:03:35Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > The motivation is not better information, it’s to make the conditions _sound_ more extreme than they really are. You assume (or else you have direct experience doing that kind of work). ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/34 "2023-01-29T23:06:47Z")
I’m not sure what you mean - I was talking about the information presented in weather forecasts. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/35 "2023-01-29T23:11:07Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > Direct contact with dihydrogen monoxide kills about 4000 Americans a day. This scandalous chemical is not quite that dangerous - I think you mean per year. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/36 "2023-01-29T23:13:38Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I read this entire thread specifically to find mention of Mrs Nesmith. Thanks! How’s this for a cosmic coincidence: I’m reading this thread while listening to Mike’s album [Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings](https://www.bear-family.com/nesmith-michael-different-drum-the-lost-rca-victor-recordings-cd.html) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/37 "2023-01-29T23:40:40Z")
Correction fluid smells so bad, I can’t figure out how anyone could whiff it long enough to get high from it. (Ask me how my friends and I figured that out LOL). We weren’t allowed to have Jarts either, although as kids in the 1970s they looked fun and we wanted them. They were known even then to be very dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/38 "2023-01-29T23:44:28Z")
Jarts were great and somehow we survived. Aye we lived dangerously back in the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/39 "2023-01-29T23:47:21Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Only in a purely theoretical sense, if we had all the algorithms memorized and could any required math in our heads. In practice, I think we have a good intuitive feel for what a given temperature feels like in calm conditions, and telling you this baseline along with windspeed gives you better information to estimate realistic conditions given your planned route. The fact that we don’t have all the algorithms memorized is precisely why the windchill is a better piece of information than the temperature and windspeed. > [@Keith1](#): > > I only skimmed the posts so this may have been mentioned. It’s called covering your ass. This is what those that will sue because they lack common sense, or more likely, are looking to get something for nothing, has brought us to. But the problem is that, with the ludicrous warnings added, their asses are now less covered than they would be without them, because it makes people think that the warnings are useless. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985/40 "2023-01-29T23:48:16Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I don’t know why you’re blaming the media. It’s the law, the badly written and nonsensical law, that makes that stipulation. Is there a survey anywhere about the media’s attitude (if there is one) about this law? In California, something labeled “Proposition” is a ballot measure the voters in this case saw fit to pass, probably due to all the terror-drama in the media (must get those ratings!) about how everything around is horribly dangerous and the entire world is a giant hazard. Media very proudly influences public opinion, which in this case led to the overdramatic overreaction of a law. > [@Riemann](#): > > Continuing to live is known to the State of California to increase your risk of cancer. There should be a pop-up message on your phone each morning warning you. Please don’t give the ones who think we should be provided a chemical-free organic sterile personal bubble with air filtration, scientifically controlled diet, etc., all funded by Great God Government, more ideas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-fluid-requires-safety-glasses-and-rubber-gloves/978985.md?page=3)