I wouldn't mind being locked away from children ...
... but I might be locked away with the worst kind - those with personal knowledge of a phallus :-(
Mary
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H & S Gone Mad!
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Ah, but that's not the point. It doesn't matter if you kill them, the only important thing is that you have done the risk assessment (which you have). It can be filed, you can carry on and everyone's happy. This is, to be fair, the fault of the council not risk assessments in general, which can (and should) be applied to everyone's benefit.
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That's what I'd decided.
I'll have to find another way to get out of doing it :-(
Mary
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Turn it round?
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17 years ago
OUCH!
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17 years ago
It is all getting a bit silly...
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"A council has cordoned off pear trees in a public park over fears falling fruit could land on someone's head."
"A city council spokesman said the precaution was cheaper than the potential legal cost if someone was hit on the head with a pear and sued."
When I were a lad if that had happened to me I'd say "Ow", then collect the offending fruit and as many of its relatives that happened to be available at the time.
Are we living in an age of compensation culture? You decide.
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Apparently these pears weighed a pound each (thats almost 550 grams), were rock hard and the highest were 30 feet (thats over nine meters) up the tree. When interviewed on the radio this morning the council representative invited the sceptical journalists to have a one pound weight dropped on their head from thirty feet up. Surprisingly they all declined the offer.
People are regularly killed by falling coconuts and this seems to be a similar situation.
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Yeah, but worse, they did it because some tit complained about it.
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I've never known anyone be killed more than once.
Mary
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17 years ago
Regularly, but not frequently? ;-)
Chris
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Who knows. Perhaps there's a "dying by coconut" monitor who arranges victims to a tidy schedule.
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No it's reasonable. The only killings will occur when the coconuts are ripe = one period per year = regularly. We still don't know if it's a frequent occurrence though :o)
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Could have been juggling with chainsaws or spitting flaming lighter fuel over the crowd...
In fact you should introduce those into your act. Real crown pleasers. Then you'd have something exciting to put on the risk assessment. You could re-use some of your tools - how about juggling angle grinders
- that'd be seriously impressive!
Maybe he'd seen David Copperfield and understood the dangers of the crowd lynching the magician for being so shit. I wonder what David Blaine put on his form before sitting in a box and starving in the name of entertainment.
BTW - How did you learn the close up stuff? Book? Video? Wise old venerable magician passing his trade down the generations? Months and months of repetitive practice in the mirror.
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Nah, lighter fuel's not nice. BBQ lighting fluid doesn't sting so much and doesn't taste /quite/ so bad.
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17 years ago
I find it difficult to tell the differecne once the tonic and lemon are in.
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Books?
Yup!
Videos?
Yup!
Wise old venerable magician passing his trade down the generations?
To some extent. Local magic clubs have teach ins & guest lecturers. I'm off to Lewes tonight to lecture for the Sussex Magic Circle.
Years and years of repetitive practice, but not in front of a mirror. That encourages you to look at your hands, which attracts the spectators attention to them. Also you need to maintain eye contact to misdirect attention and get the timing right.
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Well this woman seems to have mastered the art of misdirection
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something....... Rick... (The other Rick)
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> or
the Desert type act in someones front room...
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Probably not.... Contains nudity
It looks like a capture of a TV show. But not from the UK Rick... (The other Rick)
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For what its worth her technique is terrible! The act is brilliant though.