Playing again with the
Random Topic
Generator I was surprised to be given the subject Avoiding the
Flue. Yes, Avoiding
the Flue. The Flue. Flue. A
pipe for removing vapours, fumes or smoke from an area, for example a
chimney. Avoiding the Flue. How to spend as little time as possible
interacting with chimneys. Avoiding the Flue. Flues to be avoiding.
Keeping ones distance from flues. It is fortunate for travellers
in the Harry Potter universe that JK Rowling decided to misspell the
word as floo. Flues
are to be avoided; floos are to be travelled via. Important
distinction. Don't be confused.
Most
people have no real worry with regard to avoiding the flue. Chimneys
are often blocked up in old houses and rarely or never installed in
modern houses. Flues, where they are installed, are usually to vent
steam from boilers or to allow oxygen into heaters to prevent the
production of the deadly gas carbon monoxide. Unless you are some
sort of qualified certified gas fitter you shouldn't be messing about
with these. Poorly installing or maintaining this equipment is a
crime punishable with derision and detention. Don't do it. Avoid
the flue like the plague.
If
you're Father Christmas, the Grinch, god or Jack Skellington, then
flues and chimneys are unfortunately an occupational hazard. As you
know Father Christmas uses his magicks to transport him down any
heating-related venting aperture so as to deposit parcels of branded
shop-bought merchandise into the living rooms of the world's
families. The Grinch, god and Jack Skellington are involved in the
periodic imitation of Father Christmas, usually only when the whim
takes hold of them. God also makes the tenuous claim to be
everywhere at all times. So he is both in chimneys and away from
them; having his cake and eating it too. There is no real advise I
can offer these guys. They will just have to tolerate the flue as I
see no way it can be avoided.
It
might have made more sense, and been of more value, had the Random
Topic Generator suggested the subject Avoiding the Flu.
But it didn't, did it. It suggested Avoiding the Flue.
So there we are. No advice about no subject. Be well, and may your
life be happily free from flue/flu, delete as preferred.
