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Is it the train crash in China?  I can't find any other reason it might be.

Lord Denning wrote:

Is it the train crash in China?  I can't find any other reason it might be.

You can see boats well enough from where you are to determine that they are flying flags at half mast ? Ohhh you meant half staff. I understand now.

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Does Zymry, the murderer of his master have peace ? (Jezebel 2 kings 9:31)
Not yet. You wanna help with that ? (me, 24:7)
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I hate people that flaunt the very rules they hide behind

A$$hole. You know what I meant.

Someone just told me it's some national day for those killed in the workplace.

Ya know even before I read what you wrote (and if there hadn't been a reply I was going to edit my post) I was planning on saying  Yeah I'm a bit of a "glute toque" today. Of course why signal today out.

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Does Zymry, the murderer of his master have peace ? (Jezebel 2 kings 9:31)
Not yet. You wanna help with that ? (me, 24:7)
faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
I hate people that flaunt the very rules they hide behind

Actually, my vocabulary is correct.  One definition of a mast is "any sturdy upright pole".

Also:

Half-staff or half-mast describes a flag flying approximately halfway up a flagpole.

I picked that info off www.dictionary.com.

I would expect nothing less.

Lord Denning wrote:

I would expect nothing less.

Oh yeah well I bet you expected this like the Spanish Inquisition (and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition)

Well played sir I stand corrected

/bow deeply and humbly

Someone looked something up, did research, rebutted with fact, and cited a source. I think I just cried a single solitary tear of joy 8)

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Does Zymry, the murderer of his master have peace ? (Jezebel 2 kings 9:31)
Not yet. You wanna help with that ? (me, 24:7)
faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
I hate people that flaunt the very rules they hide behind

Don't bow.  You're embarrassing me.

Back in England we always used the term 'half mast' but I do recollect seeing 'half staff' in the paper here.

from: http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/berne-halfmasting/index_e.cfm

April 28, 2008

Day of Mourning for Persons Killed or Injured in the Workplace

The Flag on the Peace Tower in Ottawa and on all Government of Canada buildings and establishments across Canada will be flown at half-mast from sunrise to sunset Monday, April 28, 2008, to mark this day of mourning.
(Posted on April 22, 2008)

I read in the paper today that NB had 8 workplace fatalities last year.

Out of interest, I googled. The UK has a population 80 times the size of NB yet workplace fatalities outnumbered NB by only 30 times.

I can't say I'm surprised although I'm sure some of the deaths may be down to extreme weather conditions that just wouldn't exist in the UK.

But yesterday I saw two men working on a house. Their raised platform consisted of a few wooden supports fixed to the house and a SINGLE plank for them to walk on.

Apart from the obvious danger of that, how can they do a good job when they are trying to maintain balance on such a narrow strip? Or is that part of the problem; that they can't if the pressures to complete the job are too demanding?