These are good things to know. Thank you both. It occurs to me that if you had the wit to work out the meaning, you probably wouldn't need the warning😕
Or is it - use a long thingy [correct technical term] for lighting it? You're probably right about the need for the warning though @B3. I'm reminded of a sign my daughter has- 'I'm not saying let's kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem sort itself out'
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A scenario.. I have a 'friend' in another town, known them for years. It turned out a few months back that they had been burgling (with menaces) little old people and taking stuff that he then peddled around the area. As I was his friend, suspicion fell upon me for peddling the goods. As soon as I found out about his nefarious activities, I stopped our friendship. But I knew absolutely nothing about his criminal activities - I just knew him as he was part of the same club - we got on well. Am I expected to apologise to all of his victims for something I have no involvement in? Am I not the victim for being wrongly accused of something I never did?
I'm really finding it difficult to get my head around who is the victim here and where apologies/acknowledgement of wrongdoing apply. I could be lying of course - and I may have been totally complicit in my friends actions - but at this point my standpoint, and the 'truth' - is that I've done nothing wrong, AND there is no judgement to say otherwise.
OK - some of you may read this and think I'm guilty as hell, but should your opinion on my guilt affect how I should behave? Should the emotive nature of my friend's crime be reflected in how you think I should behave? I have done nothing wrong. Nothing.
Cos he lives in a virtual world with no sense of normality? It is perfectly normal for enquiries to check the msicreant's known associates for complicity. It is not normal to apologise for knowing a criminal and not being aware they were such.
Unfortunately, it is also human nature for the general populace to find you guilty by association. I'd keep quiet and just deny knowledge for said crimes. Nothing to apologise about.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Is it warning me that I could cut myself on glass? Peanut butter may contain nuts -that kind of thing?
You're probably right about the need for the warning though @B3.
I'm reminded of a sign my daughter has- 'I'm not saying let's kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem sort itself out'
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Unfortunately, it is also human nature for the general populace to find you guilty by association. I'd keep quiet and just deny knowledge for said crimes. Nothing to apologise about.