Nanny Bans Paint - On Health and Safety Grounds

I was gemused to read in my local rag that Nanny has banned people from carrying tins of paint on buses, as they appear to be a hazard.

Ken Adams (a civil servant in his 50's) recently attempted to board the 5B with a tin of white emulsion.

The driver told him he couldn’t come on, so he had to walk home two miles.

Following a complaint in writing, he received a refreshing email response from Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company:

"I am very sorry and you have my heartfelt apologies. They are not fun things to carry long distances and I hope you made it home safely. 

It is policy because tins of paint are usually heavy and if the bus braked suddenly then they can open quite easily and do damage to the bus. They also have a habit of popping open in direct sunlight.

I know this is another ridiculous sign-of-the-times health and safety policy and not all our drivers adhere to this.” 

At least they admit that the health and safety policy is ridiculous!

Sounds like a whitewash to me! (HAHAHAHAHA).

Anyhoo, there is further irony.

Brighton and Hove Council is more than happy to accept paint at its two recycling centres.

So how can one get to these centres?

Oh that's easy, the council recommends that you go by bus!

Aha!

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Nanny Bans Trampolines

I am gemused to read that American Nanny has become a tad vexed about the dangers of trampolines, specifically children bouncing on trampolines in their back gardens.

According to the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) children are at high risk of breaking or fracturing a bone or receiving a joint dislocation.

Really!!

I find that astonishing!

The AAP then go on to warn that most injuries result from children falling off the trampolines and from collisions when more than one child is bouncing.

Even more astonishing!

The Telegraph quotes Dr Michele LaBotz, who co-authored a new AAP policy statement on their dangers:

“Paediatricians need to actively discourage recreational trampoline use. 

Families need to know that many injuries occur on the mat itself, and current data do not appear to demonstrate that netting or padding significantly decrease the risk of injury.”

British Nanny issued a similar warning three years ago (evidently to no avail!):

"Inadequate adult supervision, several people using the trampoline simultaneously and insufficient safety equipment seems inextricably linked with injury."

Yes but kids fall over and injure themselves all the time, it's part of growing up. This is how they learn how to handle risk and failure etc.

 

However, to the rescue comes Professor Mark Batt, president of the Society for Sports and Exercise Medicine, who said that parents should also consider the health benefits of trampolines, and that the evidence from AAP was "weak" (another example of Nanny using poorly researched data to back up her prejudices):

"As a doctor who is very concerned about physical activity levels in young people, I’d be very concerned about putting off a group of children from trampolining, who otherwise wouldn’t be very active."

As ever, with anything one does (even standing up), there is a risk. However, short of lying in a cocoon wrapped in cotton wool there is little one can do to eliminate risk from our lives. Nor should we do it; as a life without risk is, in effect, a living death.

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The Dangers of Deckchairs

Why has Nanny not issued a safety alert wrt the hazards from deckchairs, as experienced by the hapless swimmer in the article below?

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The Snoopers' Charter

It being a remarkably wet and windy day in Brighton, those of you wishing to shelter in a warm building on the seafront could do worse than pop along to Grand Hotel this evening.

For why?

I understand that the Open Rights Group at the Liberal Democrats party conference and Big Brother Watch will be at that venue and will be discussing the draft Communications Data Bill.

They have dubbed it the "Snoopers' Charter".

They will be discussing what's wrong with the draft Bill, and what to do about it.

Where and when:

The Grand Hotel (Alexandra suite)

97-99 King's Road,

Brighton,

BN1 2FW.

1815 - 1930. 

Speakers:

Nick Pickles, director, Big Brother Watch (Chair)

Jim Killock, executive director, the Open Rights Group

Mark Pack (Editor, LibDem Voice)

Dr Jenny Woods

I wonder if they have heard of Project Stellar Wind (going live in 2013)?

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Stoptober Cometh

I see we are but days away from Nanny's "Stoptober" campaign to encourage smokers to quit smoking en masse for 28 days.

In theory, if Nanny is to believed, those who manage to stop for 28 days have a greater chance of breaking their "addiction" (Nanny's word) than those who don't.

I predict that whilst the usage of fags may diminish temporarily during the 28 day period, the consumption of other "Nanny disapproved" substance (eg booze, illegal drugs, sugar and chocolate) will increase.

Like it or not, the brain is programmed to seek pleasure; deprive it of one "vice", and it will look for a substitute.

In the meantime Nanny may care to consider what she will do do supplement her ever dwindling tax revenue, if she ever does succeed in weaning large numbers of people of her much hated "weed".

FYI, my granddad used to smoke a robust substance called "Diggers' Shag" (I dare say the name would be banned now); one day he simply decided to stop smoking (of his own free will, not because the state lectured him to stop), and did just that. He had a strong will, and never suffered from withdrawal symptoms.

He died in the early 1970's, not from the effects of smoking but from complications caused by the piece of shrapnel that was still in him from when his ship HMS Pegasus was sunk by the Konigsberg in 1914.

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Meat Is Good For You!

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