Prats of The Week - ASA

A wet wind ridden "spring" day, tis time for another "Prats of The Week" Award.

This time it goes to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for their daft decision to ban the TV advert for Premier Inns, in which Lenny Henry parodies "The Shining", from kids' TV.

For why did they ban it?

A staggering 8 people, with nothing better to do in their lives, complained about the advert on the grounds that some kids might be frightened.

Gosh, wouldn't that also mean the banning of many other TV programmes eg Dr Who?

ASA said:

"We also considered that, because young children would not understand the ad's reference to The Shining, they would be unlikely to appreciate the comic context in which the menacing Lenny appeared, and could find him threatening."

Premier Inn are actually rather baffled as to why an advert for their hotel rooms was even being shown on kids' TV.

ASA, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Oh Mr Porter

It never ceases to amaze me how jobsworths blindly follow rules when they can see that a common sense solution, that would save time and trouble for all, would be to ignore the rules under certain circumstances.

Donatella Coppini, who suffers from a spinal condition which means she has to use sticks to walk, found this to her cost recently when she was rushed to Southend A&E with back pains.

Ms Coppini arrived in the hospital car park with her partner, and asked staff if they could help her move the 200 yards into the hospital.

Unfortunately health and safety regulations meant that the staff they asked said no. Ms Coppini was told to ring 999 and summon an ambulance.

Read that bit again...they were in a hospital car park, and were talking to hospital staff.

Seemingly this is standard procedure!

It just sounds daft to me.

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Prats of The Week - Sainsburys

Tis a grey and damp Monday morning.

Tis time methinks to award my prestigious, and internationally renowned, "Prats of The Week" Award.

My thanks to a loyal reader who wishes to nominate Sainsburys, Forest Hill.

For why?

Well, he was looking through a recent receipt from the branch only to see that he is required to have an age check done for "non-alcoholic" lager.

Editor's note: He has profusely apologised to me and all the loyal readers of Nanny Knows Best for purchasing such a product, and says it will never happen again:)

Anyhoo, as he notes, the idea of asking for proof of age to buy a non alcoholic brew seems to be counter intuitive (most especially given Nanny's hatred of booze).

Sainsburys Forest Hill, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Power Corrupts - HMRC

HMRC are to be given powers to secretly open people's private mail.

Read more here HMRC Is Shite.

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Oh So Swedish

Sorry folks, this is a shameless advert on behalf of my partner Eva.

She is setting up a modest Swedish arts and handicrafts business, details of which can be found on her website www.ohsoswedish.com.

If anyone is in the Brighton area this Saturday or Sunday, she will be attending the Brighton Marina Market where she will have a stall selling Swedish arts and handicrafts (some of her own creation), including Swedish Easter Twigs.

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Physician Heal Thyself

Oh dear, I see that a bunch of doctors have decided to have a go at smokers again.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), using Nanny's "child centric" policy as the excuse, wants smoking to be banned in all cars as well as in public places where young people congregate.

RCP claims that passive smoking results in 300,000 extra child visits to GPs in the UK every year, for problems such as asthma and bacterial meningitis.

Irrespective of whether a child is anywhere near a smoker or not, the RCP wants also to ban anyone smoking in a vehicle (even if only the smoker is present).

The RCP wants children to be protected from not just "passive smoke", but also the sight of adults smoking.

Parks, outdoor swimming pools and school gate areas would also be on the banned areas list.

Sad to see that doctors are so keen to interfere in the private lives of others, given that the medical profession is more than prone to abuse its bodies (obesity, booze, fags and other narcotics) more than other sectors of the community.

Once Nanny has banned smoking, on the pretext of "child protection", she will ban drink then fatty foods. After all, these days almost anything that Nanny claims may "harm" children (eg obesity, drinking etc) can be viewed as "child abuse".

Like it or not human beings enjoy abusing their bodies from time time (eg via drinking and smoking), it's how we get through our time on this spinning rock in space without going completely mad.

I would venture to suggest that if doctors are so keen to reduce the number of "wheezing" kids, they may care also to tell the kids' parents to give up their cars (thus reducing the pollution in the atmosphere) and make them walk a bit more.

Better still, why not solve this problem once and for all and ban kids from being around adults?

Problem solved!

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