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Author Topic: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)  (Read 28836 times)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #150 on: 10 Aug 2018, 10:03 »

Strange that Jim wouldn’t have a stronger gag reflex working around food.  Mold and vermin go with the territory.
Well I worked in the food trade for several years in my youth, and don't ever remember seeing mould or vermin.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #151 on: 10 Aug 2018, 14:33 »

I've only worked briefly in the food industry, but I would think that if your seeing/smelling mold and vermin, either you or your employer are doing something wrong.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #152 on: 10 Aug 2018, 17:47 »

Strange that Jim wouldn’t have a stronger gag reflex working around food.  Mold and vermin go with the territory.

A lot of people can handle one disgusting thing, but show them something else and their stomach will do loops.

My first job was as a stockboy in a supermarket. Where we worked had a compactor that was removed and emptied four times a year. Which meant that someone had to go down and clean out the area of anything that fell through the gaps. Which meant the stockboys. We'd have to go do and clear out the likes of fruit that was so decomposed it left a slight ether like scent. Or it could have been meat. And the smell of rancid meat lingers, it hangs in the air. The smell sticks to your tongue and for a few days afterwards, no matter how much you wash your mouth out, everything has the tinge of rancid meat. And then there was the summer.

Over the years, I've had to clean up blood, urine, vomit and excrement. Its not a problem for me. I don't like it, but I'll do it. Thanks to that first job, I even catch a hint of a smell that meat has gone off, I'm about ready to retch.

Long story short, people react differently to different things.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #153 on: 10 Aug 2018, 18:26 »

Oh boy, does it ever. I accidentally unplugged my meat filled deep freeze while sweeping and didn't notice.
Then I left for a week, during a heatwave.
I had missed garbage day, which is on alternating weeks here to encourage recycling.

It was a rough two weeks, once I got back. Like an oil slick in the back of my throat, and my husband had taken his gas mask on tour. I consider the cleaning out of, and the bleaching of the freezer without vomiting to be a crowning achievement.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #154 on: 10 Aug 2018, 22:05 »

Strange that Jim wouldn’t have a stronger gag reflex working around food.  Mold and vermin go with the territory.

Or just being a parent—especially of a child like Sam who is bound to have had many childhood injuries.

It's like I said earlier - it's different when it's your kid

I'm sure Jim was strong for Sam when he needed to be - probably has bandaged many a grossity, or gotten her to the emergency room, all the while holding back his urge to toss his cookies, until that one noodle incident...


I have to say that, as a dad, the best line in this whole sequence of events is the last one in today's strip.  It sums up the father-tomboy relationship so well! 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #155 on: 11 Aug 2018, 08:36 »

I think I rather quickly disabused my parents of the notion that protecting their offspring from bodily harm was possible - or even advisable - so baby sis' reaped the benefits of that. They settled on hiding the knives and plugging the electrical sockets, which was probably wise.

Not that I was a wild child, or a disobedient one - I was a little ADHD dreamer kid (and a horrible klutz) and parental advice tended to have ... unforeseen consequences. Like the one time I found out that spring mattresses made excellent trampolines, and got it into my head that mine should be just as excellently suited to simulate a skydiver's jump out an airplane door - Mom is standing right in front of me, trying not to smirk, sterning "If you boink your head on the corner of the bed, you'll get a good thrashing, you know that, right?"

Guess what happened. That's how we learned that "the body will follow the eye". Forty years later, I still got a one-inch scar on my forehead (three stitches).

Mom never made good on the promised thrashing. I got a front-row view of how parents look when they try their best to suppress a panic attack while hustling their screaming, blood-covered offspring to the ER. It wouldn't be the last time. Aaaaaand it laid the foundation for my abiding hatred of hospitals. I decided to maybe pay a little more attention to parental advice, so I never tested whether putting my little mitts on the oven would really hurt. Ditto on on putting knitting needles into the electrical sockets.

Compounding the danger was my budding engineering/science aptitude, which was rapidly evolving due to a series of "well-intentioned" gifts (especially various Fischertechnik construction sets). I think at some point, Mom must have realized that warning her little scientist of the dangers of anything even remotely techy could be unwise, especially when he got 'that look' on his face.

We lived next door to Mom's sister, and the younger of my two cousins was a prodigy with anything mechanical (He's turned out a car mechanic, me a physicist). From age ten onwards, young Case started advising the grown-ups, e.g. on the proper way to start NYE-rocketry. The resulting mockery soon subsided when Uncle Yogi discovered that the little loudmouth was actually right, and ignoring him could lead to burned mitts (who'd get the idea that starting NYE-rocketry out of their hands was a good idea? My uncle, that's who. Grownups ...). My cousin took apart-, and re-assembled his first bicycle before we enrolled in elementary school (today, he scratches that itch by buying esoteric wreckage and selling it on ebay as soon as it is in perfect condition).

Warning us lot of dangers could be ... dangerous. And our two sets of parents were far too busy keeping up with the disasters resulting from ideas they wouldn't have dreamed warning us about, so they soon settled on a combination of loving mockery in less serious cases ("Rotting flesh. Good it's gone" - an inquisitive, excellently schooled child tends to take parental fears as inspiration for experimentation. Parental mockery, on the other hand ...), impromptu emergency-room skills in more serious ones (Uncle Yogi once peeled a cupload of gravel out of my knees & elbows. Turns out that pitiful wailing didn't impress Uncle Yogi to the same degree it impressed Mom - that is to say: At all - so I was forced to learn to drive more carefully), and exploiting our unsettling skillset as soon as we hit puberty and became actually useful.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #156 on: 11 Aug 2018, 09:51 »

I'm actually guessing a lot of these statements have a huge cultural influence in-bedded in them.
I'm quite surprised by the extend of some of the reactions here. Suing someone for this?
In my European country (the Netherlands) that would be unheard of.
There is a large believe in "don't be stupid". And this level of supervision is in general seen as adequate.
Moreover, similar treatments are standard in our education system.
Although i did a mostly academic oriented education, we had quite some basic wood/acrylic work in school; handling of hammers, basic sawing use etc was handled at 10-11. We had some basic training in using machine saws and drills at 14-15 with similar instruction level STANDARD.

It's similar in Germany, though I think that the self-reliance/DIY-attitude is more pronounced in the Netherlands and Belgium. We did e.g. use basic tools like saws in practical classes in elementary school, also knitting etc. (no powertools, though - but Gramps & Uncle had plenty, and they were absolutely verboten until we were old enough to hold them up for more than 5 seconds. That was before rechargeable batteries became widespread, so powertools tended to be heavy), and all four classes of each year went through a thorough "road-safety/bicycle use in traffic" course together (until age 8, German kids are permitted to ride on the sidewalk. Parents are invited to participate in the course as observers, and grade children's performance. Being initiated into one part of the adult world has a bit of an coming-of-age aspect).

I didn't need a powertool to lose a fingernail - prying a stone lose from under another works just fine in that regard - and yes, it hurts plenty, and regrowing it isn't fun, either. I think it's best to help children acquire a 'feel' for the forces involved in tools as early as possible.

Concerning liability: What about liability in the opposite case? One thing that impressed me as a kid were the ubiquitous signs on construction sites "Betreten verboten - Eltern haften für ihre Kinder". "No Trespassing - Parents are liable for the actions of their children". So from an early age on, I was aware of the fact that my parents might be legally liable for dumb shit I did (and of course we trespassed as soon as we hit puberty ...)

In that context, I'm rather ... astonished about this NYT-article: "Can Parents Be Charged for Failing to Keep Their Guns Locked Up?". Like ... how is this even a question?

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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #157 on: 11 Aug 2018, 11:08 »

you waited until you hit puberty to trespass?  German kids really *are* rule-abiding.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #158 on: 11 Aug 2018, 13:55 »

A doctor's still probably a good idea - this seems like something you'd want a tetanus booster for.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #159 on: 11 Aug 2018, 15:41 »

Was I the only one who read Sam's dad in the third panel in Hank Hill's voice? 

I tell you hwat!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #161 on: 11 Aug 2018, 18:11 »

Was I the only one who read Sam's dad in the third panel in Hank Hill's voice? 

I tell you hwat!

"Dangit Sam! That girl ain't right..."
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #162 on: 11 Aug 2018, 20:23 »

Was I the only one who read Sam's dad in the third panel in Hank Hill's voice? 

I tell you hwat!

"Dangit Sam! That girl ain't right..."

Next thing we know Jim will start selling propane and propane accessories.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
« Reply #163 on: 12 Aug 2018, 11:01 »

How do you think "Ol' smokey" is fired up? 


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