Conkers, buns and Go Karting...

[Wiz]

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:

 

[Wolfie]

How feckin stupid is that????

little darling climbed a tree fell out of said tree , tree gets cut down!!! feckin hell.

teach the little darling how to climb a tree better, and that if he does not hold on he will fall.

just think little darling will driving on the roads soon


go kart lessons they is the F1 boys trying to find a decent english driver.

hot cross buns, tell the kids to peel the cross off first then.

 

[Jaws]

The conker thing is, I am afraid, a Norfolk inspired load of crap !
2 years ago the council in Norwich cut down a line of conker trees that were close to a road as they were considered a safety hazard :bang:
Looks like the idea is spreading...

Might as well get this off MY chest while I am here.. Last weekend saw the UK take yet another step towards total comunism.

First off it is announced that civil servants cannot belong to a certain political party.. Dont get me wrong, I have NO affiliation with said party, but it has given me the raging hump that govt is dictating to people what political preference they can have..

Next the 'right to roam' bill gets the nod and suddenly the prols are allowed to wander around on land owned by anyone.. anyone except the govt that is !

Whilst under the conservatives we suffer nanny state syndrom. whilst under King Blair and his mafia following cohorts we suffer a Nanny State AND have everything painted a nice shiney red colour :rant:

 

[osprey03]

Communism - Wait until the Civil Containment Bill becomes law, you ain't seen nothing yet !! This allows this shower of sh*t to ban political parties, arrest opponents, ( nothing new there if your a BNP member), take your property without compensation and numerous other acts. All in the name of security.

 

[Allan1]

Well how about this..

In reply to Wiz’s comment on naughty kids, a fellow officer was given the task of accompanying a group of young reprobates who for their sins were to be taken on an ‘adventure holiday’ at an outward bounds centre somewhere in Wales were they would do canoeing, rock climbing, mountain walking, camping etc..

His young son turned to him and asked “Dad can I come on this with you’ to which he was told no. He then asked, “why not, I been good all year, been to school, done my homework, helped around the house, so why not”?

Imagine the despair on my mates face when he had to tell his very disappointed son that ‘ This trip is only for kids who are naughty’

WTF message does that send out to the kids of today eh?. It beggars belief. And we wonder why kids behave they way they do.

Buzz.

 

[Bainzer]

Birch

w;;v Buzz whatever happened to the birch ?

Bainzer 8ree! Birch Drive North of Inverness

 

[Allan1]

Guess what?

w;;v Buzz whatever happened to the birch ?

Bainzer 8ree! Birch Drive North of Inverness

They cut off all the branches, the same as the conker trees.
Buzz

 

[Bubba]

In reply to Wiz?s comment on naughty kids, a fellow officer was given the task of accompanying a group of young reprobates who for their sins were to be taken on an ?adventure holiday? at an outward bounds centre somewhere in Wales were they would do canoeing, rock climbing, mountain walking, camping etc..

His young son turned to him and asked ?Dad can I come on this with you? to which he was told no. He then asked, ?why not, I been good all year, been to school, done my homework, helped around the house, so why not??

Imagine the despair on my mates face when he had to tell his very disappointed son that ? This trip is only for kids who are naughty?

WTF message does that send out to the kids of today eh?. It beggars belief. And we wonder why kids behave they way they do.

Buzz.

And the "Little darlings" would have torn him apart for being a coppers son!

 

[Punchy]

I can't believe the article about Hot Cross Buns...

What are the numb fuck faced twats going to ban next crossbars, crossbeams, crosscut saws, crosshatching, crossovers, crossroads, cross sections, cross-stitches, crossword puzzles and as for getting crossed with the kids..... :bang: :bang: :bang:

We're doomed

 

[derek kelly]

I can't believe the article about Hot Cross Buns...

What are the numb fuck faced twats going to ban next, crossroads,

I think the Television people banned that already

 

[derek kelly]

A couple of months back my daughter was on a course, during one of the breaks she said "it's a nice day we could have a picnic" one of the instructors said "you can't say that" when my daughter asked why she was told that the word picnic stems from the days of slavery and it means pick a nigger, now I don't know if it is just me being thick but I fail to see how a word that is widely understood to mean a meal outdoors, can be mistaken for something else.

 

[Punchy]

Its getting... no its got to the stage where we all ought to start and fight back strongly against this shite. Mind you the article about the Horse Chestnut trees could prove useful to some way round a tree preservation order.... I was just cutting it down M'lud so little Tommy next door wouldn't fall out of it....

 

[derek kelly]

Several years ago when we rented a farmers field for our horses, we discovered that a girl on home leave from an approved school was going into the field and riding one of our horses round the field, so we went round to the house, parents were totally useless, so we called the police, we were informed that there was nothing they could do and if the girl fell off and injured herself then we would be liable, the law is shite.

 

[XXLarge]

They cut off all the branches, the same as the conker trees.
Buzz

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!