<< The point is that anyone can make a stupid mistake that they might not otherwise have if given a hint or two.
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It’s that great notion that I am invincible and immortal and that accidents only happen to other people (who are often unthinking morons.)
What? You’re invincible TOO!?!?! I thought that I was the only one.
Looking back it appears that I have begun to turn this into a Great Debate over the merits of slight increases in safety. So I’ll stop in this forum with one final thought…
Is it ironic or hypocritical that I have never actually owned a pop up toaster?
Ironical, defininitly ironical. Especially because I haven’t ever owned one either ;o)
And with that, I’ll quit it too. Before we really hijack this thread and turn it into something it was not meant to be.
Respect, BoringDad That was a class first line in your post. Had me sputtering into my coffee for a full five minutes!
‘You mean we are all invincible!?’
Arleth.
They gave a fairly decent answer with a lot of personal paranoia thrown in…
The way I do the knife trick with my automatic toaster is: When it is cycling a little too long for the toast to come out perfect I stick the knife down directly into the middle of the top of the slice while the toaster is blazing red. I f the slice is fully toasted, the knife does not crush the bread and it slides in easily and with the slightest side pressure I can lift it out of the automatic side of the two-slicer and the machine shuts off and the other piece comes up by itself…Nothing to it …Been doing it for 30 +years… Same with driving,I think only wusses buckle up…Unfortunately lately I have had to sham-buckle the strap to avoid the extortion fee from the deputies in the form of tickets…
If you slide a credit card into the mechanism the belt will not retract and you can lay the strap over your shoulder so it will appear correct,and the gestapo won’t pull you over and ruin your day.
And I thought the only people doing stupid things with credit cards were buying too much with them. :rolleyes:
Learn to use chopsticks, already, folks!!!
I’m just kidding, but I grew up in a family that uses chopsticks regularly and I’ve never been warned about using an iron knife to dig stuff out of a toaster. We just automatically reach for the plastic or wooden chopsticks. If all else fails, I turn the toaster upside down so all sorts of fun things drop out of it (it’s kind of like looking under the sofa cushions). The idea of using an electricity conducting knife is a pretty unsavory idea to me. Geh, metal scraping against metal. Shivers. Chopsticks are a safer, not to mention a more soothing alternative.
Rather than buying toaster tongs, just pick up a pair of wooden chopsticks the next time you go out for some Asian food.
Holy Cow maryyoume! While the coils are still energized? That’s certainly a way to live on the edge.
I like seat belts. They make me feel snug and comfy.
Now do you see why I preferred to err on the side of caution in my report?
Something I’m not understanding here, maryyoume… Why do you do that thing with the seat belt? It sounds like that would be a lot more trouble than just, you know, buckling it. So you prefer to go to more trouble to deliberately make things dangerous for yourself, and in the process make it look like you’re doing the safe, sensible thing so you can’t even brag about machoness? I fail to see what’s in this for you.
I have a cousin who refuses to wear her seat belt. Same goes for her husband. And the more we bug them about it, the more defiant they become. (The really sad thing is that they have three young children. It has apparently never occurred to them that their children won’t have a mommy or daddy if they’re dead due to a foolish habit.)
When asked why they won’t wear a seat belt, they shrug their shoulder and respond, “Because I don’t want to.” I think the real reason is that they think it’s “cool” to not wear one. Whatever. :rolleyes:
<< When asked why they won’t wear a seat belt, they shrug their shoulder and respond, “Because I don’t want to.” I think the real reason is that they think it’s “cool” to not wear one. Whatever >>
Do they make their children wear seatbelts? … just curious.
You might mention to them that a small, no-big-deal fender bender accident can become massively serious if a little kid isn’t wearing a seatbelt and gets thrown against the seat or door.
And, of course, when the kids are teens, they’ll drive the way they see their parents drive, sans seatbelts.
Playing the odds, they are, with their kids’ lives.
Somewhere in a thread on this board, I calculated that in a car going something like 50 MPH (I don’t recall the exact speed) releases the same amount of energy as is in a stick of dynamite in a collision–and you’re in the middle of it.
I’m going to yell at myself, because this discussion is now far afield.
This thread should be about sticking knives into toasters, related to the Staff Report. Any comments about seatbelts, seatbelt laws, helmets, safety as individual choice, etc belong in a different thread and a different forum.
So, everyone – including myself, I went along with the hijack unthinking – needs to get back to the topic. Otherwise, you’re toast.
No, no, no… If we stay on the topic, we’re toast. If we don’t, we’re… um… Something else. (embarassing to run out of ammo in a pun shootout!)