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Hay

 

Don't knock the above extending plug picture.!

 

I had a new cooker installed, AND that plug went to a extension cord to reach the nearest socket. Not bad for a $70 ripoff.

 

My Grandson, Now he is LICENSED. put in a nice lead from the cooker, then made the single socket a double with a switch for the ceiling fan. Only lived with that setup for 35 years.

 

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Also wanted a "split-system AC" installed. quoted $1,000 without the electrical connection for that job.

 

I bought an "in wall unit" instead, the split-system went to the tip.

 

Also wanted a "Water-Hammer arrester" in the water supply, cold water washing. the Plumber insisted I have a pressure reducer in the HOT water intake, which keeps letting streams of water out, then I turn-off water to reset that junk thing & still have "water-hammer"

 

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My son, holidaying in the US, posted this photo from Williams AZ., on Facebook. His reflection is on the glass

 

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He's lost his licence.. Now he can only eat British food and drink bad wine..(of the three things life is too short to do) .He's had a pretty good innings though and Betty's mum lived to an old age .Nev

 

 

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My son, holidaying in the US, posted this photo from Williams AZ., on Facebook. His reflection is on the glass

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Is that the local Psychopaths are US store?

 

 

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OOO! I can see Phil's sense of humour!

 

It's warped.

Given that this is an Actual Sign. . .In an actual Council run Kids play area,. . .I question the mentality of the planner and indeed the signmaker who produced this . . . .Gotta be even more warped than wot I am. . .

 

 

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Partially sighted people also use braille.

 

I did a search on this and found this posting on a forum

 

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Leoninus Fate 1 year ago

 

Saying us that are blind cant use a mirror? I have only one eye, I can see faces, I can not read words perfectly, thus is why there is braille, for people that are like me, hell I would have loved this when I was 8 I guess cause you can see, this means you never have to touch braille, I know a lot of people that just touch it and go "wow this is how the blind see" But you dont need it, I imagine you touching it and saying " Im too stupid to understand this"

 

During my time as a musician in the RAAF we used to do educational concerts at schools including on one occasion a school for deaf kids. This might sound stupid but is not. Deafness is not necessarily total and even totally deaf can feel vibrations. We had kids gathered around to feel the vibrations straight from the instrument.

 

I would imagine a partially sighted kid would get some pleasure from this. I could also imagine explaining to fully sighted child what these dots are and what braille is for. I don't really see a downside.

 

 

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That's like when I got into a lift in a car park and each button for each floor was also in braille...a car park?????

 

My guess would be that almost every application of elevator buttons would be usable by blind or sight impaired folks. Since having braille poses no imposition on sighted people I would imagine that when a lift is installed they just buy one and don't bother to say hey can you leave the braille off.

 

 

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During my time as a musician in the RAAF we used to do educational concerts at schools including on one occasion a school for deaf kids. This might sound stupid but is not. Deafness is not necessarily total and even totally deaf can feel vibrations. We had kids gathered around to feel the vibrations straight from the instrument.

 

totally agree octave back when I used to go dancing I would dance with a girl who was deaf and she could feel music if the band was off key she could feel it and get cross at the band

 

im not talking about this so called modern dancing its old time ballroom dancing yes I am old neil

 

 

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back when I used to go dancing I would dance with a girl who was deaf and she could feel music if the band was off key she could feel it and get cross at the band

Napoleon said that there was a Field Marshall's baton in every Private's knapsack. I suppose one could say there's a Conductor's baton for every dancer. How did she react to your baton?

 

 

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But you wouldn't expect a new cooker to have a "Tapped together" extension plug.spacesailor

Recently changed mine, found a hammer cut hole behind it and twisted and taped connections.

 

 

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