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Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?
If you throw a balloon animal into a ceiling fan, it's pretty funny. (When I was very young we had a family friend who was a clown, and we visited his house once. This is everything I learned.)
Slight related topic: Anyone else BBQ a lot, reach to open a beer bottle, but are missing an opener? Why don't they make every BBQ utensil have a decent bottle opener at the end. Better yet, every utensil in your house? Please take this idea and run with, just tell me where to buy a set.
You can use the flat edge of anything with a little leverage to pry a bottle cap off using your fingers as a fulcrum beneath the cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0ZkABVqjQ
...I have seen someone successfully open a wine bottle with a shoe.
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The whole point of barbecue is indirect cooking with smoke. Unless y'all mean grilling when you say BBQ.
That's just one of the many words that have different meanings in different countries. We Australians take our barbecueing very seriously and it rarely involves indirect cooking. :-) The most common form of barbecueing here involves cooking on a flat hotplate over direct heat.
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That used to be true, these days most newspaper inks are soy based, so its probably safe.
Gotta say, nothing beats the smell of burning newspaper when you first start making a barbecue. I feel better about the ink being soy based now.
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Well there's your problem, iron is fine, it's the iron oxide you want to avoid.
Iron oxide isn't particularly bad for your health, either. Your steak is already filled with rusted iron. Your body is filled with rusted iron. Chrome, on the other hand... that shit is nasty.
Chromium salts (chromates) can cause allergic skin reactions.
It's interesting many countries such as the US, UK and NZ have banned rare earth magnets due to fear of people swallowing them. The data they used to back the banning included all products ingested, and vice wrote up an article here: http://www.vice.com/read/the-consumer-product-safety-commiss... If a product is causing similar health risks, isn't it fair to apply the same ban to it too?
The "many countries" is just US, NZ and Australia (not UK).
The rest of the world still trusts their citizens not to eat stuff that's not good for them.
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I'm not sure I see the comparison. There are plenty of similarly priced alternatives to barbecue scrapers that work just as well while not being as dangerous. What are the alternatives to cars?
Planning that favors alternative modes such as walking, bicycling, and public transit.
I'd love to see high-density, walkable, transitable, low-distance development in more places.
That would mean rebuilding the entire urban landscape, rewrites of layers upon layers of building codes and obligations, a writeoff of a vast amount of equity within the financial system, changing patterns of habits and desires, and more. You're involving every suburban homeowner everywhere, every city, county, state/provincial, and national government. The real estate lobby. Banks. Builders. Building suppliers. Architects.
Good luck with that.
Vs. outlawing a brush.
This is pretty much an exemplar case of the difference between simple and complex problems.