tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80569860872913965232011-06-02T18:57:00.880ZLooking beyond the headlines. Safety, Health and Environmental Issues, Frustrations, Niggles, Gripes and Comments.Alexis Barretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01050975894760433021noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056986087291396523.post-35112177066178008962007-02-21T14:14:00.000Z2007-11-29T19:18:31.763Z

The government is spending £29.5 million training local authority enforcement officers how to police the imminent smoking ban. We are generally a law-abiding lot. We grumble, turn a few shades of purple, then get on with it. Businesses have had to create smoke-free rest rooms for a number of years and I know many smokers feel a total ban would help them give up. Since employers and pub landlords

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We are now being told to put cleaning cloths in the microwave to kill the germs.A team of environmental engineers in Florida soaked cloths in faecal contaminated water (like you do) then cooked them in a microwave. Between 4-10 minutes is required to kill everything, but most bacteria, including E.coli and salmonella, are zapped in 2 minutes. Cloths need to be damp and 'cooked' until steaming to

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I kept being asked my opinion (that's my excuse) so switched onto Big Brother last night - helping to boost the ratings to 5 million. Damn. We're all voyeurs to some extent it's being manipulated I hate.Anyway, I saw this massively insecure child-woman intent on humiliating and scoring points over an attractive, successful Indian woman, for precisely those reasons. Shilpa Shetty was sharp

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'Fatuous euphoria,' a deliciously lyrical turn of phrase, was introduced this week as the condition suffered by Stephen Tame following a head injury at work. It describes his sexual disinhibition in using pornography, having affairs, visiting prostitutes and generally misbehaving in the presence of females. Much sniggering muttering "not much suffering there" and the like, was followed by

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