Health and Safety Madness

I just have to comment on the recent crop of crazy rules, which local authorities and other responsible bodies have imposed on people, to prevent participants from enjoying themselves.
Butlin's at Bognor Regis, Skegness,and Minehead have banned Dodgem cars from banging into one another.
The East Riding Authority have banned kite flying in Bridlington because a kite might hit someone.
Then at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships 'Murray Mound' was closed on wet days, in case somebody slipped.
On the day of the Royal Wedding, street parties with bunting that hung too low to let fire engines through were not allowed to go ahead.
The Royal British Legion can't use pins to attach poppies in case somebody pricks themself.
Children are not allowed to play on Monkey Bars in Oxfordshire because they might slip and graze themselves.
Drivers of floats in fancy dress processions are forbidden because of concern that they might work too many hours.
In Colchester council workers were forbidden to carry an old lady's tv away in case they hurt themselves.
Sack races at school events banned in case the children fell and twisted their ankle.
And lastly in Merseyside, leather footballs have been banned at school because one might hit a pupil in the face....only sponge footballs now allowed.
I remember when this country had resilient values. There are soldiers risking their lives fighting for these pathetic people in this country, who aren't capable of risk assessment with a view to children having fun, but hide behind their wimpish banner of Health and Safety.
At least this Health and Safety Madness is now being addressed. Chris Grayling is trying to bring common sense to this whole issue. Not before time !!!

Is this the revolution ? The beginning of ?? Unlikely !!!

But the violence on England's streets is alarming! Or is it simply something that has been waiting to be unleashed after years and years of condecension and platitudes from politicians and the 'I'm allright Jacks', who now have to face the fact that there has been such an undercurrent of resentment festering like an unburst boil,or appendix, or any of those other nasty things that exude ..... that it is now snarling and gnashing like the mad Pitbull set free? That now they might have to begin to stop their patronising, and actually improve the the perceived hopelessness that many of the rioters feel. Well it works both ways doesn't it?. You can't live in a maelstrom of 'you owe me my living', if those who are saying this, by throwing whatever they can find at the Police and looting and burning, have not made much, if any effort to achieve, to get out of the life that they find so disgusting. In my experience there has been a pride displayed in the attitude of 'we are what we are' and it is all your fault.
It seems clear that the IQ of at least some of the rioters is lower than the Pitbull that might have taken them for a walk,but they have no concept of working to achieve, and the owners are on the same level. Can I say "but seriously folks ?" It will not get any better until there is hope given to everyone. What do you think ?

Global Warming ?????????? Climate Change hehehehe

Well why not start the new week with one of my favourite bone gnawing subjects, Global Warming, as it was known, until those who are protaganists of this myth realised that we were not convinced anymore, so they changed it to Climate Change.
So there I go walking through the streets of London, when I am approached by someone who asks  "Do you believe Climate Change is happening ?" Well how can one answer in the negative to that ??? Climate change began on the day the Earth was born. Probably the day before that ! The nature of the Earth is change. However her expression conveys more. As she shuffles her collection box closer to my hand,she askes me in such a way to suggest that I am guilty, I am responsible for this impending disaster, which humankind,by its very existence has caused. I am the sinner !!! We are all sinners !!!! And by placing my loose change into her little box, somehow that will absolve me of the guilt I should be feeling. Does this sound familiar?
The phenomenal impact of the ongoing Industrial/Technological Revolution,which began in the eighteenth century cannot be denied. However it is for some reason held aloft as a pariah which has set the earth into downward spiral of global warming, so hot that it might become a veritable Hell !
So if this industrialisation and a vastly increased world population has created a heating of the earth during the past hundred years or so, what caused the Medieval Warm Period from around 900 AD until a sudden cooling around 1300 AD, when there was no industry and a very small world population ? Before that warm period, there was a cold period and during Roman times in England it was warm enough to grow vines in the far north. Sounds like a natural cycle to me, what about you ?
It came to my notice that a great part of all the 'green taxes' we have paid throughout these past years, in other words several hundred billion £££££s, has not been spent on anything green. So why are we paying them ?? Climate change can't be that important then can it ?   What about you? What do you think?

The Age of Discontent

.


There comes a time in the lives of most people when the weight of life experience affects your day to day thinking. Complaints about this and that may become more frequent as we age, until we are seen to have metamorphosed from the younger, hopeful,effervescent person we once were, and have become 'grumpy'. I prefer to use the term 'perceptive people who have much life experience, have realistic views about change and modern attitudes and who can advise us on the futility of change for change's sake', but it does not roll off the tongue like the word 'Grumpy'.
The age of the grumpy old man or grumpy old woman is upon us. We seem to only see the negative in everything as we try to come to terms with new innovation, new ways of saying the same things so that they don't sound like what it being discussed and new terminology for the new technology that has been thrust into our lives.
This blog has been a long time coming. I intend to post on here the subjects and attitudes that irritate me. Such as:- Political Correctness (with examples) that is always worth a shy at (verbal coconut
shy) ; Destroying the identity of Britain. I think immigration into this country has made a great country even greater, but the wimps in certain positions would sacrifice our identity and customs to please those who really should be adapting, just as we adapt to change. For instance,where would we be without Curries and Poppadoms and all the other fabulous cuisine that has reached our shores during the last two hundred years ? However I also believe that the identity of the UK is not what it appears to be. The veneer of political rhetoric which musters patriotism, when deemed necessary that is, as far as I am concerned only motivates the masses who, by energetically repeating a popular political statement show themselves to be willing to maintain the status quo of what I perceive to be basic inequality in the UK. The masses are here to maintain the classes; fed crumbs of comfort instead of cake! Plus ca change!
Please post your moans and groans and anyone is invited to comment. But Wheots is monitored and I shall delete offensive or illegal material. You can make your point, have your say without being nasty