The area where you create is known as your workplace, or if
you are a bloody foreigner, a work station.
The room in which you work is known as your workplace or shed. So the subject what I would like to approach
next is safety in the workplace. You are
dealing with Vinamold at 160c, boiling wax, live flames, Butane gas, cocaine
and alcohol. The more experienced apprentice
master candle makers among you will be dealing with all these dangerous
products, and all at the same time, while wearing six inch stilettoes.
Being the Ninja’s of the manufacturing world, health and
safety has no place in our workplaces.
Health and safety is for soldiers in the army or formula one drivers,
health and safety has no place in the life of a master candle maker. We laugh in the face of danger and it is that
determination, that thick headedness that allows our creative processes to
flourish. Remember, great sailors do not
learn on a calm sea.
Alexander Fleming would never have discovered penicillin if
health and safety had their way, Mount Everest would never have been conquered
by an Irishman if health and safety had their way. And before any of you start arguing that some
fellow called Hillary and his servant Tenzing were the first to conquer Everest
who do you think built the fecking road for Hillary to walk up? Anyway, you don’t really think that a fellow
with a girl’s name was first up a big mountain, now do you?
You may say that how do I know such things? Where is the proof that an Irishman was the
first person to conquer Everest? Well,
the time has come to reveal that my master was that very Irishman who conquered
Everest. It was during his descent, when
he was putting out a line of cones for Hillary to follow that he caught a dose
of snow blindness. Hillary thought that
because my master couldn’t read the newspapers that he would claim to be first
and as they say in Warrenpoint, the rest is history.
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