The Nanny State

[Top Cat]

THE EU wants us to Drive with our lights on at all times.
More unremitting nannying.
The government is now to ban the performing of wild animals in travelling circuses.
They are also to ban the docking of dogs. (What about all the other animals?, bet that will come later, from the Ban-It brigade).
These measures were announced by the Animal Welfare Minister Ben Bradshaw who is to "Marry" his boy-friend Neal Dalgleish, who is a BBC producer.
Mr. Dalgleish has for years used a spouse's pass giving him access to most parts of the lower house.
Food for thought, what shall we ban next?




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[mart 63]

ok,if u drive a Volvo.

[swifty]

or a young lad that wants to have his fog lights on all the time anyway:wacko:

[col161]

excellent,hope it stays dark all day !
http://www.all-neon-car-lights.com/images/neon-under-car-lights.jpg

[rab_c.]

glad i just fitted a light on mine it was getting to expensive having a guy walkn in front of me with a torch

http://gallery.clocksoft.co.uk/albums/album08/1904_Autocar.jpg

rab_c.

[askimref]

I see you have changed you car for a newer model Rab

[karen]

chell gets a £30 fine every time she gets stopped with her fog lights on.

she will never learn but likes to look the part apparently.:p

[CSI Fan]

She's lucky, Im sure I read somewhere that people could be fined up to 1000 pounds for using fog lights when it wasnt foggy.

Personally I cant see anything clever in blinding the person in front with the unnesseccary use of foglights and think the fine should be double that.

[swifty]

a lot round my way want to have fog lights on all time but do not put headlights on
only use sidelights.
must be a fashion thing.:wacko:

[Mharie]

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were
kids
in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived
because:
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint
which
was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and
fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags -
riding
in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it
tasted
the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with
sugar in
it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside
playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and
no-one
actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts out of

scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we
forgot
the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we
learned to
solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as
we
were back before it got dark.
No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.
No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no
mobile
phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.We had
friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!
We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law
suits.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other
parents.
We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the
owners
catching us.
We walked to friends' homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to
school;
we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just

round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard
of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion
of
innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

[Top Cat]

I just loved playing with my cap revolvers & what kid did-not like singing Ba-Ba Black Sheep.

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[mart 63]

Don't forget spud guns.