CO Posioning = "Cooperate Or" Die = Shut Up And Listen!

I’m sitting next to a colleague who is desperately trying to tell someone, who has a carbon monoxide alarm going off in her house, what to do to ensure her, and her friends, safety, she and her friend are both experiencing symptoms that sound very much like the symptoms caused by CO poisoning. She won’t let him complete a single sentence and I can hear her even though my colleague is wearing an ear piece. Politeness aside, there are occasions when we should be able to shout “shut the fu*k up you stupid cu*t I’m trying to save your fu*king life you tw*t” as only something like this will be sufficient to shook them into shutting up and listening! Any fuel burning appliance can create a CO hazard...



My cousin died from CO poisoning when a shower heater blockage pumped CO back into the bathroom – the stuff is insanely lethal but some fools can’t grasp this simple fact. The bloody stuff binds to the haemoglobin in red blood cells more efficiently than oxygen does see below...



You can happily breathe it without respiratory distress right until the moment you drop dead!!!!! If you inhale it in smaller quantities then look out for the following danger signs...



Some people, however, appear determined, whether through stupidity or wilful ignorance, to earn themselves a full Darwin Award (the rest of us would be embarrassed just to receive an Honourable Mention.

In the words of Confucius the Special Dyslexic Window Licker (GCSE Grade A HIstory - Isn't it) shortly after he delivered (in an envelope) the Gettysburg Address to the French farmers collective at the UN General Assembly in Nanking, "you can take a house to water but you can't make it think".

Wise Words, I'm Sure We'd All Agree.