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Ok, I've got to get this off my chest:
Tyneside council have decided that horse chestnut trees are dangerous. They feel that kids will be drawn to throwing sticks into the trees to try and get the conkers (you don't say) and the potential injures to said kids are not acceptable. Their solution is to cut all the branches off the trees so that there is nothing to aim at, thereby reducing them to mere stumps. Now I don't know about you, but when I went to school the solution was to teach kids that if you throw something up into a tree, look out, because it's likely to come down again. And with those insightful pearls of wisdom, I managed to escape being killed or maimed by any killer conkers. How the arseholes who destroyed those beautiful trees came up with their brain wave is beyond my comprehension.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1310408,00.html
And, schools across Britain have been ordered by local authorities to abandon the ancient tradition of serving hot cross buns at Easter so as not to offend children of non-Christian faiths. WTF, I am speechless.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...uns16.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/16/ixhome.html
Finally, the Lib Dems have at last come up with a policy for actually doing something, rather than merely telling everyone else that they're doing it wrong. I'm afraid that it isn't what I call an "inspired" idea, but I suppose that you have to start somewhere. They have decided that the answer to the problem of kids stealing cars and joy-riding in them, is to give them all go-karting lessons. I kid you not. The logic behind this brain-wave is, and I quote: "young thieves would be put off stealing more cars if they could look forward to some other stimulating activity related to motor vehicles."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma...ib123.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/23/ixhome.html
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :bang: :bang: :bang:
Tyneside council have decided that horse chestnut trees are dangerous. They feel that kids will be drawn to throwing sticks into the trees to try and get the conkers (you don't say) and the potential injures to said kids are not acceptable. Their solution is to cut all the branches off the trees so that there is nothing to aim at, thereby reducing them to mere stumps. Now I don't know about you, but when I went to school the solution was to teach kids that if you throw something up into a tree, look out, because it's likely to come down again. And with those insightful pearls of wisdom, I managed to escape being killed or maimed by any killer conkers. How the arseholes who destroyed those beautiful trees came up with their brain wave is beyond my comprehension.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1310408,00.html
And, schools across Britain have been ordered by local authorities to abandon the ancient tradition of serving hot cross buns at Easter so as not to offend children of non-Christian faiths. WTF, I am speechless.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...uns16.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/16/ixhome.html
Finally, the Lib Dems have at last come up with a policy for actually doing something, rather than merely telling everyone else that they're doing it wrong. I'm afraid that it isn't what I call an "inspired" idea, but I suppose that you have to start somewhere. They have decided that the answer to the problem of kids stealing cars and joy-riding in them, is to give them all go-karting lessons. I kid you not. The logic behind this brain-wave is, and I quote: "young thieves would be put off stealing more cars if they could look forward to some other stimulating activity related to motor vehicles."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma...ib123.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/23/ixhome.html
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :bang: :bang: :bang: