Reposted by Trip
Your annual reminder that any treats that have black icing are probably using activated charcoal for coloring which neutralizes meds like, say, birth control pills. Ask my cousin. Quint's 6 now.
This also applies to antibiotics and head meds. Be careful, please.
![[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.]
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[She leaves the school gates].
VOICEOVER:
The world today
is full of people.
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You meet lots of them every day.
[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]
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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:
Mind ‘ow you go, love.
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But every time you meet one,
[She gets on a bus]
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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:
That’ll be 40p, please
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[She enters a sweet shop]
You must always think to yourself:
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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]
KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...
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[Voiceover again]:
Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?
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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]
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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]:
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK
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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]
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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:
Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.
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