Now THIS is what I call Nannying...

[beet1e]

I always know when it’s time to buy a new car when I see someone sporting earrings/tattoos and a baseball cap driving the same make/model and age of car as what I drive myself. That has now started happening, so…

… I went off to the car dealership today to order my new car. The sales lady wasn’t quite ready when I got there, so I was offered coffee and the complimentary paper – the Daily Mail. I’ll come back to this in a moment, but I’d like to regale you with another anecdote first. It has been decided by TBNG (Tony Blair’s Nanny Government) that the guys in the car dealership workshops are required to wear protective helmets when working underneath the cars. I was thinking about this on the way home – what could possibly fall on their heads – the oil reservoir sump plug, perhaps? So the poor workshop guys are having the piss taken out of them by the sales staff. However, this is piffling stuff compared to my next story.

As you probably know, TBNG is concerned that British schoolchildren are not eating healthily. I’m all for the likes of Jamie Oliver presenting healthier alternatives, but TBNG has started to intervene where parents have responsibility. TBNG has already declared that schools must remove junk food from vending machines – stuff like crisps (potato chips), chocolate and soda pop drinks – all the bad things that our kids like! I think the school’s should decide what to stock in the vending machines, and whether to have vending machines at all. Our children are also fond of eating chips (known in the US as French fries or (if you must) freedom fries).

Well guess what? An agent in TBNG has made the proposal that schoolchildren should be detained on the school premises during the lunch break to PREVENT them from going outside to buy chips!

Daily Mail - full report

So, I want all Americans (except those who live in NH - LOL) to think about this next time you buckle your car seat belt before you drive! The seatbelt laws are small beer compared to the nannying inflicted upon us beleagured Brits by TBNG.

It took me 50 minutes to drive the 7 miles back home from that car dealership. A large part of the problem was road congestion caused by TBNG having narrowed our roads to one lane, and having installed bus lanes where none is needed -doubly annoying when there isn't a bus in sight, triply annoying when the bus lane traffic light gets a 30 second green - but there's no bus.

[lazs2]

the women nannies and effeminate boston dwellers of this country use your country as a model of a socialist paradise... but... you knew that right?

lazs

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by beet1e
It took me 50 minutes to drive the 7 miles back home from that car dealership. A large part of the problem was road congestion caused by TBNG having narrowed our roads to one lane, and having installed bus lanes where none is needed -doubly annoying when there isn't a bus in sight, triply annoying when the bus lane traffic light gets a 30 second green - but there's no bus.

If you had taken the bus instead of driving you would be enjoying a quick commute through the uncluttered bus lanes, doing your part in supporting the Kyoto treaty, unworried about the confusion of driving on the wrong side of the road.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by beet1e

Well guess what? An agent in TBNG has made the proposal that schoolchildren should be detained on the school premises during the lunch break to PREVENT them from going outside to buy chips!

When I was in school, we had a closed campus. We weren't allowed to leave without parental approval.

[Mickey1992]

Originally posted by beet1e
...and having installed bus lanes where none is needed...

5 points for correctly using "none is".

It irks me when people say:
"None of the guns are loaded."

None is singular.  It should be:
"None of the guns IS loaded."

[lazs2]

It irks me when people tell me that a gun isn't loaded.

lazs

[Russian]

Originally posted by lazs2
It irks me when people tell me that a gun isn't loaded.

lazs

Regardless if they say ‘its safe’, always check as a double assurance. Because the only time one does not check, it will be loaded. :-P

[Hangtime]

..something we all check with our own eyeballs the instant we get our paws on it regardless of what we were told.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Hangtime
..something we all check with our own eyeballs the instant we get our paws on it regardless of what we were told.

Anyone that doesn't is an idiot.

[Chairboy]

EVERY gun is loaded.  That's how I was raised.  You get the piece, you clear it before anything else, but it's still loaded.

“Don’t you meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man......A youth who can’t hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time at a hundred.” Mark Twain “Advice to Youth” speech, 1882

[FiLtH]

Well if you want my opinion...oh wait..Im from NH

[midnight Target]

None of them guns BE loaded.

sheesh!

[J_A_B]

"An agent in TBNG has made the proposal that schoolchildren should be detained on the school premises during the lunch break to PREVENT them from going outside to buy chips! "

I don't know of any schools around here that let the kids off school grounds during lunchtime.  Is that a common practice on your side of the pond?

J_A_B

[Gunslinger]

When I was in Highschool Juniors could leave early if they didn't have any classes left in the afternoon.  Seniors had open campus privilages and could leave when they didn't have a class and could leave for lunch.

I

[Edbert]

My High School campus was more than closed...full chain-link fence with a guarded gate. In fact the fence had razor ribbon accross the top...pointed INWARD.

It was not a prison (technically), nor some private institution, you gotta love Houston ISD.