The assignment - do not need the ER this #July4th pic.twitter.com/wUa0Ye9HEX
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) July 1, 2023
After a three-year absence due to the pandemic, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission returned to the National Mall in Washington last week to put on a demonstration of how not to use fireworks. They used styrofoam mannequins to show us the most common ways people get injured during the Fourth of July (and then they picked up all the pieces before they left). Last year, eleven people were killed by fireworks, and 10,200 people were injured badly enough to go to the emergency room. If Elon Musk's latest tweaks to the algorithm prevent you from seeing the video, you can watch the carnage here.
USCPSC coming through solid on this July weekend.
— Kenny_Blankenship (@Blank3nship89) July 1, 2023
Lifehacker has a list of the latest fireworks safety tips, including warnings about how to supervise children and pets. Besides all that, the the USCPSC Twitter feed is a pretty handy reference for the latest product recalls, and they can be quite funny at times, too. -Thanks WTM!
Comments (2)
Then I thought about how many people will turn to firearms as a "safer alternative." But that's ridiculous; people will just ADD firearms to their fireworks.
But of course roid-shrinkage is a well known fact.
We know the amount of photoshop that goes into female swimsuit model pictures, I can only imagine what they make bigger or smaller in a mans swimsuit picture.
Also, bodybuilders are pictured in a way to enhance their muscles and nothing else, whereas pantymodels are supposed to make the underwear look good; and you need "fullness" (artificial or not) to get that.
Unfortunately, the ones we're forced to see are roided out freaks, who DO get serious shrinkage. I assure you the strongmen types do not have that problem.
Even when it's obviously tongue-in-cheek, it's tiresome. This one had a few people fooled, and it's not really all that funny. Steroids shrink things - we know that.
Maybe you need a disclaimer to show people "this is not real" before Neatorama has as much credibility as the Onion.
Fake/ a joke
or
the "Emeritus Professor Sam Shuster" is a closeted gay man.
No other possibilities
Miss C.: If you want anyone to take you seriously in the future, stop posting fake articles.
Neatorama: If you want anyone to take you seriously in the future, you should double check anything Miss C. posts.