Posts by David Black

Thank Goodness!

I was starting to get worried that I may have to get my high-octane thrills by going out onto the street with a rocket launcher I found the other day...!

@Jolyon Ralph

I agree that the endemic use of 'traditional' words in new situations can raise the heckles a little, but that is the price we pay for living in a high-tec (tech? tek? teck?) society where new inventions demand and create a need for new words, or the bastardisation of existing ones.

Interestingly, the wiki article on sharps_container (the same article as sharps_bin) doesn't mention the word "sharps" at all.

But in reference to airports, the best I can come up with is "No sharp objects allowed", which would inevitably lead to husbands asking for their wives' tongues to be confiscated.

It seems to be ambiguous enough to allow the government/CAA etc to make up their own decisions on what is covered by the word 'a sharp' - are nailclippers exempt? What about tweezers? Sharpened 5H and above pencils? Who knows? The key here is that you probably don't.

Anyway, good point, well made.