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Today I saw a fire extinguisher that had the equivalent of this NFPA diamond:

This is a standard code to tell firefighters about the risks of specific substances. The areas covered are health hazards, flammability, and reactivity.

Now, what is ironic is that, when fighting a fire, the last thing I would worry about is the hazardous (?) substances contained in the fire extinguiser itself (and I would certainly not expect them to be flammable!). But don’t worry, the 1/0/0 diamond above means “may cause irritation", and is the same as the one assigned to substances such as sodium chloride. So, in the end, this is almost like looking at the nutritional information label on a water bottle…

Disclaimer: fire extinguishers can be hardazous if misused–always use the appropriate fire extinguiser according to the fire source and conditions! (And while we are at it, don’t try this at home, eat fruits and vegetables, and talk to your doctor.)

Yes, that’s right, thanks to the Moronic UK Justice System when it comes to Computer Security.

Coming up next: man gets convicted of trying to rotate the knob of a locked door by using his hand…

If any Scholar shall be absent from any lecture, recitation, disputation, or other classical exercise duly appointed, he may be fined three cents.

If any Scholar shall play at hand or foot-ball in the College-yard, or throw any thing against the College-buildings or fence, by which they may be in danger of damage, he shall be fined eight cents.

If any Scholar shall frequently neglect the public exercises of religion and instruction, or if he shall spend the hours of study in idleness and manifest a prevailing inclination to wickedness and a dissolute behaviour, or if he entices others from their studies and draws them into bad practices, he shall be dismissed from the College, or rusticated for a year and put back into the next Class.

Laws of Yale College, 1795

(Taken from the cover of the 2003-2004 regulations.)

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