Someone decorated the bridge I cross on the way to work every day, Ribbons all across it.

http://britishexpats.com/photopost/s...php?photo=7277

Brightened my day a little, and no ones thought to nick the ribbons or vandalise them.

Someone decorated our local bridge and it hasn't been removed yet. Mind you Grafitti is difficult to remove i gather.

No, it wouldn't happen in the UK. They'd have to do a risk assessment and fill out hundreds of pages of forms in order to do it. Like the poor bastard who wanted to serve some mince pies in a council car park .

K.

I had lunch the other week in the Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh. None of us could finish and we asked for a doggy bag of the meat to be made up for my father's 2 dogs to enjoy that evening.

They made the bag up and brought it to the table with a page long disclaimer to be signed!! I nearly fell off the chair laughing Is that common? I've never seen that in the UK before.

Re the ribbons, no, thankfully. Bah humbug

The country is in a grip of madness similar to the Salem Witch Trials. If it's not paedophiles, it's US-style (or perceived US-style) litigation madness. "Warning: May Contain Nuts" on a pack of nuts.

I never voted for the nuts. I don't know anyone who did. Quite why they are in charge of Britain is beyond me.

K.

Its OK, the ploughs will soon have them buried.

What was in the disclaimer? Something like "the purchaser acknowledges that this food was prepared for human consumption, the hotel does not claim it to be fit for dogs"?

This is too funny - HB has found a place that sells suet and now he wants to cook with it over Christmas. I think I will have to insist on a risk assessment!

Yeah, the country is going nuts for sure. Check this out: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...555334,00.html

Re other religons being offended, I am sure they don't give a hoot, its our own PC brigade gone into overdrive. They need to get a life!

Because you only need 22% of the votes to get a majority in Parliament... 78% of us didn't vote for Labour but they won anyway.

Nothing about dogs, and they insisted we sign it even though we said the beef was for dogs. The disclaimer (and the staff) assumed humans would reheat the food and should they be too stupid to do it properly and get ill or die as a result, they would please be so kind as not to sue the hotel because they did warn them they didn't look up to operating a microwave safely.

It wasn't a spur of the moment thing cobbled together on the back of a napkin either, it was taken from a huge stack of pre-printed disclaimers under the desk. I began to suspect they had different ones to cover the whole spectrum of dangerous dining behaviour :scared:

I suspect you must be counting those who didn't vote for anyone in that.

If you cant be arsed expressing an opinion at the ballot, then you get no sympathy with me complaining about the government that was elected in your absence.

Politicians on both sides of the pond have been guilty of redrawing the map in order to maximise the impact of their traditional voting support. In the US its getting ludicrous and no one seems able to do anything about it. But the fact remains that the party that the most people expressed a preference for is the one in power.

So, uh, given that only Labour and Tories can win, who should they be voting for if they don't want either?

Certainly where I live their vote would be irrelevant: no matter who I voted for the Tories were going to win; in other areas the same would be true of Labour. The results of the election are actually determined by a few tens of thousands of people in marginal constituencies, the rest might as well stay home for all the difference they make.

And the fact remains that 78% of people didn't want them... how long can democracy continue when the government are elected by a tiny minority?

"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." said Ford.

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

K.

That's because 40% of the 78% didn't vote at all - we only have ourselves to blame!