Monday, June 14, 2010

UK: 'Elf & Safety Madness To End

Story.

Here's some examples:



You can see more recent examples by clicking on the "elf and safety" tag at the bottom of this post.
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8 comments:

wally said...

It's a shame you're not nearly as interested in the hundreds of examples of the same kind of silliness going on right here in the USA. I suppose it's because the culprits are the insurance companies and personal injury attorneys, and not the mean old gummint.

6/14/2010 03:56:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: That's right, Walt. I won't be anywhere near as interested until those insurance companies and lawyers have the power to stick a gun in my face and throw me in jail for failing to comply with their regulations. There's a fundamental difference there that I think eludes you.

6/14/2010 03:59:00 PM
wally said...

Which of the people in your Years of Madness box had a gun stuck in their face and were thrown in jail?

And of course one reason to become mildly interested in such goings-on here is that this is your country, and you have the ability to affect what happens here, whereas you can only function as a smirking bystander to UK follies.

6/14/2010 05:09:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: it's not a matter of were they thrown in jail or a gun stuck in their face, but can they. Yes, a government can do both, especially when they've been careful to disarm the populace out of concern for that very same "'elf and safety."

re: "smirking bystander." *shrugs* whatever. You're just being a dick now.

6/14/2010 05:18:00 PM
wally said...

So "smirking" is an unfair characterization of the tone of your frequent posts about the excesses of the British government? And "bystander" doesn't reflect your inability (as a US citizen) to have an effect on those excesses? If so, I'll withdraw the label. As to my being a "dick", I'll accept that as long as you preface it with "big swinging".

6/14/2010 05:45:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: I think that Sailorcurt in an earlier thread got it right, you try to change the subject. Insulting me serves no purpose other than entertainment on your part, and does nothing to address the substance of the story, which is that stupid, over-the-top regulations put in place by a leftist government will soon face review and probable change by the new government.

6/14/2010 05:58:00 PM
wally said...

Bob, I stated my opinion in my very first comment, and have stuck to that theme ever since. If you felt that was changing the subject, you probably should have said so right then, and saved us both some time.

6/14/2010 07:38:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: actually, you changed the subject to similar regulations here in the US, which was not the point of the story. The point of the story was that those regulations, which have the force of law in the UK, are under review by the new government, which was elected partly on a promise to change such nanny state stupidity. Later you seemed to wander off to whether I should be blogging or actively working to change such regulations.

6/14/2010 11:41:00 PM

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