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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: The official 'The world has gone mad' thread |
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First up, egg advert banned http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6220684.stm
So it's ok to eat sugar infested cereals such as Frosties or Sugar Puffs is it? |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Were are we on "Drinka Pinta Milka Day" now? is that good for you or very bad... |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Just seen the offending ad on Channel 4 news. It is really a slice of history, can't imagine it would persuade anyone to over indulge in eggs, just a bit of nostalgia. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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SantaFefan wrote: | Were are we on "Drinka Pinta Milka Day" now? is that good for you or very bad... |
Good - but only if it's the "pasteurised, homogenised, standardised" skimmed variety - you might as well drink water _________________ Ron |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Nice thread, Toggy- like it!
The PC brigade will ban breathing in and out quickly next... in case it raises your heart rate to a dangerous level _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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No tree climbing then... |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Going to work causes stress, so can we all retire?
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462806&in_page_id=1770
Well, if there's a fire, you'll all be pleased to know the fire engines in Yorkshire won't be causing accidents anymore - the drivers have been told to switch off their 'blues and twos' on non-priority calls. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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childprufe
Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 212 Location: lincolnshire
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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Where are we on "Drinka Pinta Milka Day" now? is that good for you or very bad...
I thought it was "Drink 10 pints of beer a day..." and of course it's good for you _________________ Standing on Ray Moore's shoulders |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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RockitRon
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:29 am Post subject: |
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childprufe wrote: | Where are we on "Drinka Pinta Milka Day" now? is that good for you or very bad...
I thought it was "Drink 10 pints of beer a day..." and of course it's good for you |
Wasn't it "Guinness is Good for you"? _________________ Ron |
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PJ in Kent
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Aye, Toggy... The first word out of my mouth when I heard that was a very, very naughty expletive- followed by a bellowed "Has the world truly gone insane?"
It appears the lunatics really have taken over the asylum _________________ He's not the Messiah- he's a very naughty boy! |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: |
Wasn't it "Guinness is Good for you"? |
Didn't doctors used to prescribe that for certain conditions? _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Health and Safety.... I hate it.
In most cases this is like the government saying "You have no brain so this is what you do"
I had a situation recently whereby one of our cleaners got a little "anti" regarding cleaning the staircases.
"We have to have vacuum cleaners stored on each floor level because we're only allowed to hoover half the stairs at a time....."
"Explain?" I said.
"We've been told we must hoover the top half of the stairs with the first floor vacuum cleaner then put it away and get out the ground floor vacuum cleaner for the lower half. We're not allowed to carry a vacuum cleaner up or down the stairs"
I absolutely refuse to attend any Health & Safety training course held here as a matter of principal. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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We were once informed on a so-called "equality and diversity" course that if any of us decided to go out on a night in the town after work and got into a fight, etc., which led to police involvement, we would be disciplined at work as well because the night out was organised on company premises, therefore our behaviour brought the organisation into disrepute.
I remember the word "bo**ocks" being used several times as a retort, but the po-faced management hack giving the course was adamant. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't doctors used to prescribe that for certain conditions?
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In the early fifties my mother had a few problems with low blood pressure etc and her GP told her to have a bottle of Guinness three times a week.
She kept that up for about 20 years till she tired of it and switched to a glass of sherry most nights, which she maintained till her death at 82 in 2003. I don't know if it improved her condition per se but it certainly made her feel better about it!
Ian. |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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And another thing...
I grew up in a house full of tobacco smoke. Several of my work colleagues smoked until it became frowned on and many of my mates smoked, too, so I must have inhaled more second-hand smoke in the workplace and pubs than many of you have had hot dinners.
But I've never taken up smoking at all and at 58 feel as fit as I did when I was 18.
Am I the only lifelong non-smoker to feel that this smoke-free business from 1 July is a huge over-reaction?
Ian. |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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No, I for one will be over the moon when the smoking ban comes in. |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:10 am Post subject: |
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CHILDREN have been banned from buying rum and raisin ice cream from the 385 shops of confectionery giant Thorntons.
The summer treat is now available to over-18s only, even though youngsters would have to scoff 28 large cones to get the same alcoholic effect as drinking one can of lager. One store demands ID.
Parents branded the ruling “ridiculous” and “completely daft”. Mother Georgina Prince, 32, of Clayton, Staffs, said: “I’ve bought my five-year-old son Javan a rum and raisin in the past, with no ill-effects.” Liver specialist Dr Alison Brind, from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, said: “This is a very weak alcohol content.” |
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Fog on the Tyne
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1096
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:31 am Post subject: |
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The makers of wine gums had better be worried then _________________ The wheel keeps on turning...
This fool made it round. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently Thorntons are only abiding by the letter of the law, because the alcohol content is, at 0.7%, above the 0.5% threshold mark. They could be prosecuted for selling the product for consumption by anyone under 18.
They've obviously got to talk to their supplier to change the recipe. _________________ Ron |
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SCOTS-IAIN
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Hull
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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I know of a local company in my area, where in their staff rest room and kitchen, the new Health and Safety Manager insisted that next to the kettle, a notice had to be placed on the wall saying "When Operating, kettle may contain Boiling Water".
But you can play the system at their own game. In my last place of work, it was a 15 acre site, surrounded on 3 sides by other properties or yards, with public access o through a gate on the remaining 4th side. I had a visit from a joint H & S, and Essex Police Crime Prevention Team. It was pointed out at the end of their Inspection, that though there was barbed wire atop the fences on the 3 non - public access sides, there were no warning notices to that effect.
I offerred one simple solution; if and when the Essex Police force would comply with the laws, and place warning notices on their Barbed Wire topped fences around Police property, then I'd comply too. Strangely enough, the HSE accepted that! In August last year, our company closed down....5 years after the above decision had been made, and I'd never got warning signs erected yet!
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