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Default Hiding in plain sight

T i m wrote:
On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:48:38 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:
My SiL on a trip to a glacier near Chamonix, reachable by
mountain train and then cable car (this was 35 years ago or so). Steps
out on the ice and goes arse over. Then says people shouldn't be
allowed on it. Er hello - ice is slippery!


Maybe they should have put a sign out to that effect, they seem to do
so for everything else these days?


At the entrance to our local indoor ski slope, there's an Elfin-Safety
style notice warning of "slippery surfaces". Possibly a legal or
insurance-company requirement.

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Mike Barnes
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