As we’re getting into the colder months people will be using hot water bottles more frequently here’s just a little reminder you shouldn’t be using hot water bottles if they’re more than 2 years old as over time plastic disintergrats and the chances of the hot water bottle bursting rises each hot water bottle comes with a daisy wheel on the neck to tell you when they were made and here’s a little picture to help you read it
three types of reaction on this post:
“Well ive had my hot water bottle for years and im fine”
“Yeah this is how I/ someone I know got burnt”
“why the fuck would they use a daisy wheel??!?”
The daisy wheel is so they only have to replace the injection molds once a year! Injection molds are extremely expensive to produce, and it would be both financially and ecologically wasteful to make 52 per year instead of 1 per year.
Every week, a technician can use a sharp stick to add another dot to the daisy wheel. Since the mold is the negative, these recessed divots become raised dots on the wheel.
You see a similar principle at play with book printings - often you’ll see a line of numbers at the bottom of the copyright page, with some crossed out. E.g. 123 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
That indicates the 4th printing. They didn’t have to redo the expensive printing plates, they could just use a chisel or other sharp implement to put a scratch in the numbers 1, 2, and 3.
Came back wrong but the wrongness is that you’re no longer as awful as you used to be. You’re not mean anymore. You don’t lose your temper as quickly, you don’t say awful things, lash out, or hurt people on purpose just to prove that you can, not since you came back. It’s the same face, the same voice, the same superficial tendencies, but all the rough edges have been smoothed away so thoroughly that it feels like something else is wearing you as a mask. Yet it’s impossible to get anyone else to see the problem, because you’re less of a problem than you’ve ever been before.
Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it
ALT