{"id":2256,"date":"2004-02-19T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T06:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/19\/clumsy-brits\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:23:49","slug":"clumsy-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/19\/clumsy-brits\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11713,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0002%2F20040219%2F1007579972.htm&amp;sc=reodd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050306114754\\\/http:\\\/\\\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com:80\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:43:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:43:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, in 2002&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12,300 people slipped and fell on wood floors.<\/li>\n<li>20,000 people injured themselves while riding microscooters.<\/li>\n<li>5,310 people fell while pulling on trousers.<\/li>\n<li>And 700 people (assumedly men) injured themselves <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0002%2F20040219%2F1007579972.htm&amp;sc=reodd\" title=\"Wooden Floors, Scooters -- and Trouser Zips\">while zipping their trouser zippers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\&lt;cringe&#62;Ow.\\&lt;\/cringe&#62;<\/p>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Golden Dawn&#8221; by Ministry from the album <em>Land of Rape and Honey<\/em> (1988, 5:42).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, in 2002&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}