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Have you read this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... stick.html

madness!!

Remove the monkey bars and swings from the school playground. Broken bones all the time from those evil things.

And those sharp pencils and pens they use....out with those! Don't want the little ones jabbing themelves. Crayons only!

All games involving running and skipping are also banned. Don't want any of them tripping and breaking a bone.

Barbed wire will be placed around the trees to prevent any dangerous climbing. A barriers will be eracted six feet from the tree so they don;t cut themselves on the wire.

The new shool uniform will conist of cotton wool padding of at least six inches in depth to cover the entire body except the eys and mouth.

Totally insane!

We should just all stay in doors all day......
No, on second thourghts most accidents happen at home!

I'm glad it's not my taxes that's paying for that!!

I was conker champ in our class one year when i was at school!!
I painted a marble brown and was unbeatable!!l

Rob wrote:I was conker champ in our class one year when i was at school!!
I painted a marble brown and was unbeatable!!l

Rob wrote:I was conker champ in our class one year when i was at school!!
I painted a marble brown and was unbeatable!!l

This is a serious discussion Robert!


Wolvie said tonite that you can't give anyone a bad reference these days
or you could be held liable for libel!

I might be able to get a job now!!

Northern Lass wrote:Wolvie said tonite that you can't give anyone a bad reference these days
or you could be held liable for libel!

I might be able to get a job now!!

Not quite sure of the connection to conkers!

It's more about what they don't say in a reference than what they do say!!

So true Snoopy! An interesting point.

Rob wrote:So true Snoopy! An interesting point.

Which point Rob? The dubious connection or the reference to the reference

If little Katie had been wearing a cycle helmet when she was out with her parents, then she would have been fine

It's all this elf n safety gone mad!

gardener wrote:If little Katie had been wearing a cycle helmet when she was out with her parents, then she would have been fine

Totally agree, only last week we had somebody who died after a cycle accident. The person involved rode into another cyclist, fell and hit her head.
Lot's of kids here have helmets, but their parents don't so when the kids are in their teens they stop wearing them ´cos none of the adults do.

We bourght helmets last year, and I haven't been out on my bike without since. Although it took me 14 years of living in a country where there are more bikes than people to get around to it. It should me made a legal requirement!

My son in law took my grandson out searching for conkers on Sunday and came back with 265 (yes they counted them). They are at the moment in various containers "soaking" in the garage - not sure what in. I asked Jonathan why he needed so many and he said he was going to take them to school and sell them - for 50 pence each. When I asked him if he would pay 50 pence for a conker he said - no, of course not, I've already got 265. Do you think I should let Lord Sugar know about him?

Antie Em wrote:My son in law took my grandson out searching for conkers on Sunday and came back with 265 (yes they counted them). They are at the moment in various containers "soaking" in the garage - not sure what in. I asked Jonathan why he needed so many and he said he was going to take them to school and sell them - for 50 pence each. When I asked him if he would pay 50 pence for a conker he said - no, of course not, I've already got 265. Do you think I should let Lord Sugar know about him?

Bicycle helmets are compulsory in Victoria and if you ride without one the Police will fine you.

We were also the first place to make wearing of seat belts compulsory back in the early 1970's.

Sometimes legislation that might be deemed "politial correctness" is in fact good for you.

Our road toll is less that 1/5 it was before we introduced compulsory seatlbelts despite there being twice as many cars.

The incidences of brain damage and death from head injuries on bicycles is less that 30% than it used to be.

So some tules makes sense. Removing conkers froma tree is just silly.