Neil52

Please think hard before coming back....I cannot believe what this place has become since I have been back, I love it and everything seems OK......but the bloody Goverment is doing my head in

Just listened to a Goverment minister on the radio...he said "we have got the population used to drinking skimmd milk, now our next step is to get them on to fully skimmed milk" please just **** off.

Clarkson is spot on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18F9cbIJnPM


http://www.nannystatebritain.co.uk/

Householders are to be visited by officials offering advice on cooking with leftovers, in a Government initiative to reduce the amount of food that gets thrown away. Home cooks will also be told what size portions to prepare, taught to understand “best before” dates and urged to make more use of their freezers. The door-to-door campaign, which starts tomorrow,



A Birmingham mother has been fined £75 for feeding the ducks at her local park - but her toddler son was allowed to carry on as he's too young to prosecute.

Vanessa Kelly, 26, was accosted by a council warden as she and 17-month-old Harry threw the birds scraps of bread in Smethwick, reports the Daily Telegraph.

She said: "The warden walked towards me and asked me to stop feeding the ducks because of complaints about children slipping over on their way to school on duck mess.


UK public broadcaster BBC is under fire for changing the lyrics on classics such as Humpty Dumpty and Little Miss Muffet to remove the negatives.

In the BBC version of Humpty Dumpty, the King's horses “made Humpty happy again” instead of “couldn't put Humpty together again.” In Little Miss Muffet, Miss Muffet makes friends with the spider rather than being frightened away.

quoll

Unfortunately it is one of the "benefits" of living under a socialist government and it seems to be the case the whole world over. If they had their way and we had a socialist world government we would all be banned from eating meat to save the climate.

I agree, it is a joke but seems to be the way the world is going at the moment.

dunroving

I teach, and we have recently been informed we have to complete a risk assessment form for any lecture in which we intend to use a laptop computer (i.e., every lecture!) Bloody stupid waste of time.

Tr1boy

I strongly suggest you don't come to Oz then.

Lionda

I was told in the library I can take my laptop in but can't plug it in because of health and safety

dunroving

Next thing you know, they'll be asking you to sign a liability waiver before reading a book, in the event of getting a paper cut.

ukintexas

Seriously Dunroving, that's not a bad idea. If you have ever seen the damage that can be caused to a finger from an infection originating from a paper cut you would know what I mean.










JOKE

Beedubya

Neil, I do believe this is a world wide thing not just in the UK.

I can remember not all that long ago grinding my teeth at a railway station platform in NSW, Australia as the recorded messages played over and over and over incessantly..........

DO NOT STAND NEAR THE YELLOW LINE AS THE TRAIN APPROACHES

DO NOT RIDE A BIKE ON THE PLATFORM

PLEASE BE CAREFUL AS THE PLATFORM COULD BE WET IF IT RAINS (Really?? I didn't know surfaces could be slippery if wet....)

SMOKING IS PROHIBITED IN ALL AREAS OF THE STATION AND IS LIABLE TO A TEN MILLION DOLLAR FINE

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID TICKET, DO NOT BOARD THE TRAIN AS YOU WILL BE SENT TO SIBERIA TO DO 10 YEARS HARD LABOUR

ON AND BLOODY ON AND BLOODY ON AND BLOODY ON..................

Beedubya

Just the same here of course, now we have some bloody minister who is trying to tell parents to read to their children at bed time, to switch off the telly and have one on one conversations with their kids...............HELLO?

It is really all just bloody pathetic, now I sound like Grumpy Old Women and yes I can relate to them LOL!!

jad n rich

Quite funny reading this from the ultimate nanny state/country

Can remember helping out at kids primary school and woman screamng NOOOOO at me, I was about to put a ice cube on a kids swollen ankle, big NO NO I could have killed them Bandaids were just as dangerous, as was playground equipment heaven forbid they even removed the shade sails that gave some protection from killer levels of UV but they were 'dangerous'......

Ducks, feeding is banned in our part of oz too, the bread pollutes the water I guess it makes sense. One nanny rule I love about OZ well qld is all the smoking bans, found the UK quite cigarette friendly after here.

Tr1boy

At the school where my boss' kids go, they've been told they can bring frisbees to school but they can't throw them. They are allowed to run to each other with the frisbee in hand and pass it to each other.

All contact and ball sports were banned years ago and they have banned games and sports where there is a defined winner or loser.

(Christ on a bloody bike, that's preparing kids for real life isn't it! )

I am in agreement that these things are totally stupid but thinking they are unique to the UK is laughable.

Neil52

errrrrrrrrr dont the ducks eat it first.............and if they miss it the fish

Tr1boy

Bloody hell, what kind of carnivorous ducks are we talking about here! I'd ban my kids from feeding them as well.

Mummy in the foothills

Oh Oh I got one.
You are no longer allowed to send home made biscuits and fairy cakes to the school for your childs birthday celebration (which they encourage all parent to celebrate by sending stuff for snack time) they must be store bought and still in the packets. Cause we all know your kitchen is a bug infested mess unlike the warehouse like factory making cakes that pays minimum wage to teens who dropped out of school.
I'll take my chances with the homemade diseases.

Duck feeding has been a no no here since my 21 year old was a toddler. it pollutes the pond and makes the birds a bit vicious, I found that one out when I had to stick poor Max up on a picnic table to save him from the carnivorous ducks and geese who thought he looked like a tasty morsel (and he was)

quoll

I love the one in our local shopping centre - a loop recording telling people not to walk on the travelator, to stand clear of the yellow line and hold on to the handrail. I want to shove a sock in it!!!