The last post is the WINNER!

[Dan From Smithville]

So small you can barely see them. I think they're just a flying tooth.

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I was going to mention no-see-ums, but the article identifies them as the US equivalent. That is a different family than Tabanidae that is represented by the horseflies and deerflies.

We have a number of different species and groups of biting flies, but I don't recall having encountered no-see-ums much. Those damned horseflies land right on the center of your back, often just out of range of where you can reach. But they are slow and clumsy and you can still get a chance to off them. The bite is like having a pencil stabbed into your back.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

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I was thinking more along the lines of the pictures of Ben Franklin in bundles and a neat stack.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I suggest that was avoidable.

Sometimes. According to what I've been training with, proper planning, examination of the potential hazards and an understanding of the chemicals being used can greatly reduce such accidents.

But all that is serious and completely out of place here.

 

[sun rise]

I'm going to take a win and go get din. Fin.

 

[Stevicus]

This win is a great victory worthy of story and song.

 

[Stonetree]

I suggest that was avoidable.

I almost lost my job when I refused to continue until we changed the coolant. The supplier told my boss, "There's always a complainer in the crowd". The president of the company comes running at me,"So you're quitting?"....I answered, "No sir, I'm just waiting until you change the coolant. Sir, I remember you changed a coolant because you didn't like the color. I've been scratching for three weeks".....He told my boss to take me to another supplier and let ME pick a different coolant.....You're correct, It was avoidable.

 

[John53]

I almost lost my job when I refused to continue until we changed the coolant. The supplier told my boss, "There's always a complainer in the crowd". The president of the company comes running at me,"So you're quitting?"....I answered, "No sir, I'm just waiting until you change the coolant. Sir, I remember you changed a coolant because you didn't like the color. I've been scratching for three weeks".....He told my boss to take me to another supplier and let ME pick a different coolant.....You're correct, It was avoidable.

I was correct?

 

[John53]

I almost lost my job when I refused to continue until we changed the coolant. The supplier told my boss, "There's always a complainer in the crowd". The president of the company comes running at me,"So you're quitting?"....I answered, "No sir, I'm just waiting until you change the coolant. Sir, I remember you changed a coolant because you didn't like the color. I've been scratching for three weeks".....He told my boss to take me to another supplier and let ME pick a different coolant.....You're correct, It was avoidable.

So you were a machinist?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I almost lost my job when I refused to continue until we changed the coolant. The supplier told my boss, "There's always a complainer in the crowd". The president of the company comes running at me,"So you're quitting?"....I answered, "No sir, I'm just waiting until you change the coolant. Sir, I remember you changed a coolant because you didn't like the color. I've been scratching for three weeks".....He told my boss to take me to another supplier and let ME pick a different coolant.....You're correct, It was avoidable.

It depends on when this happened as to what laws would apply, if any. These days workers can demand change and if the safety engineer has any salt at all, those conditions and hazardous coolant wouldn't be in use or their would be engineering and PPE in place to abate the risk.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I was correct?

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You've been doing pretty well tonight.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

So you were a machinist?

Metal band?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

This win is a great victory worthy of story and song.

I sing of Stevicus win. It's a great win! A spectacular win! No one can win like he can. This world flies by like wins in the sky. The beautiful wins! The beautiful wins!

 

[Dan From Smithville]

This win is a great victory worthy of story and song.

He's got wins that seem to me. Reminds me of victorious memories. Where everything was as winning as the bright blue sky.

 

[John53]

I was going to mention no-see-ums, but the article identifies them as the US equivalent. That is a different family than Tabanidae that is represented by the horseflies and deerflies.

We have a number of different species and groups of biting flies, but I don't recall having encountered no-see-ums much. Those damned horseflies land right on the center of your back, often just out of range of where you can reach. But they are slow and clumsy and you can still get a chance to off them. The bite is like having a pencil stabbed into your back.

We get march flies. Their bite is like having a read hot 6" nail driven into your flesh but at least I'm not allergic to them as I am with sand flies.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

We get march flies. Their bite is like having a read hot 6" nail driven into your flesh but at least I'm not allergic to them as I am with sand flies.

I get itching, pain, redness and sometimes swelling at the site of the bite, but nothing beyond that. It is enough. The pain is strong, but goes away quickly enough, but the itching can drive you nuts. I'm more concerned with infection from all the scratching.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

We get march flies. Their bite is like having a read hot 6" nail driven into your flesh but at least I'm not allergic to them as I am with sand flies.

I had to look that up. Your march flies are tabanids. The same as our horseflies. Similar size too apparently.

 

[Stonetree]

@John53

We get march flies. Their bite is like having a read hot 6" nail driven into your flesh but at least I'm not allergic to them as I am with sand flies.

Did you try Benedryl ?

 

[Stonetree]

So you were a machinist?

I told you I learned to screw up almost anything.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

@John53

Did you try Benedryl ?

That is good stuff, but it puts me to sleep. Useful for that purpose these days though.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I told you I learned to screw up almost anything.

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