Firefighters: Banned from climbing ladders

Play it out

Burning kid:Help!!!!

Firefighter:I'm coming for ya, lad! *Grabs ladder*

Health and Safety:I hope you aren't planning on climbing that!

FF:There's a wee kid burning up there i have to save him!

BK:AAAARGH!

H+S:Did you know that the average taxpayer pays £1,000,000,000 extra each year for firefighters who risk the safety of themselves and others.

BK:*dies*

FF:You M****rF****r *Hits health and safety guy with ladder*


Innocent lives put at risk to save a few quid and buy PM Brown a few new Jags, nothing is worth that price!

Gordon brown will be booted out next election.

But, we'll have to put up with him until then, David Cameron FTW!!

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Originally Posted by iSuck

It's at times like this that I really hate being in the UK. Sure we have good(ish) services but the god damned red tape streaming from London is driving me mad. If I want to climb a tree I'm going to go climb a tree. There are limits to how for these stupid health and safety know nothings can go, sure maybe sometimes they are useful. If I was a fire fighter I would bloody use my ladder and do my job instead of letting a bunch of idiots tell me that what firefighters have done for the past 500 years is now suddenly unsafe.

*angry*

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Exactly, the UK is a stupid country now. I am amazed other countries aren't mocking us as much as they should do.

If you broke your leg, it is your fault and if you don't want to do it again, you won't. Why prevent someone from climbing a tree when if they are mentally scarred from it, they won't do it again anyway? In schools, did you know that you cannot blow up your own balloons using a helium cannister, because it is against health and safety? Did you know that you can't do fun charity events like tying each to each other or making a slippery ground surface for people to wrestle on, because of H and S? It's rediculous, and doesn't solve anything. If you try to sue a park because you climbed a tree and fell from it, it is your fault and you should probably be sued for wasting their time.

I hope you didn't mind me using your tree climbing example, iSucks :P

waits for them to ban firefighters from going near fires......

is it only in a certain place? because they still use them in my area.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Exactly, the UK is a stupid country now. I am amazed other countries aren't mocking us as much as they should do.

If you broke your leg, it is your fault and if you don't want to do it again, you won't. Why prevent someone from climbing a tree when if they are mentally scarred from it, they won't do it again anyway? In schools, did you know that you cannot blow up your own balloons using a helium cannister, because it is against health and safety? Did you know that you can't do fun charity events like tying each to each other or making a slippery ground surface for people to wrestle on, because of H and S? It's rediculous, and doesn't solve anything. If you try to sue a park because you climbed a tree and fell from it, it is your fault and you should probably be sued for wasting their time.

I hope you didn't mind me using your tree climbing example, iSucks :P

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Not at all, I feel honoured :)

Back on topic to above, yes that will happen. Unfortunatly there is one place where al lthis H&S crap came from, usually where we get all our fads from, the US. I am in no way blaming the US but for the stereotype amercians usually sue anything that moves. So people over here begin doing at and we end up in the god awful mess we are in now. I've been hurt before and you learn from it. Wrap children in cotton wool, not only do they miss out on important skills and joys of life but they are more prone to disease and problems later in life. Let kids be kids. however we shouldn't go to the complete opposite side of the scale though.We still need some important health and safety for just that. Health and safety. But, THEY SHOULD STOP WRAPPING THE WHOLE COUNTRY IN THE COTTON WOOL THAT THEY USE EQUALLY AS MUCH IN IMMIGRATION MATTERS.

It's all the ***** adults, they're like "i fell over =[ NOW I GT £1328389 COMPENSATION >=]!!!!"

That is just totally rediculous!

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Originally Posted by iSuck

Not at all, I feel honoured :)

Back on topic to above, yes that will happen. Unfortunatly there is one place where al lthis H&S crap came from, usually where we get all our fads from, the US. I am in no way blaming the US but for the stereotype amercians usually sue anything that moves. So people over here begin doing at and we end up in the god awful mess we are in now. I've been hurt before and you learn from it. Wrap children in cotton wool, not only do they miss out on important skills and joys of life but they are more prone to disease and problems later in life. Let kids be kids. however we shouldn't go to the complete opposite side of the scale though.We still need some important health and safety for just that. Health and safety. But, THEY SHOULD STOP WRAPPING THE WHOLE COUNTRY IN THE COTTON WOOL THAT THEY USE EQUALLY AS MUCH IN IMMIGRATION MATTERS.

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Americanisms are dreadful, they should be kept in that country so that we can have a enjoyable life again. Another thing which I find stupid is bacteria killers like detol that kill 99.9% of all germs... Don't people realise that getting ill from most of those germs builds up your immune system?! Kids are healthier, true, but when they are older they're going to seriously get ill when they forget to use their precious Dettol. When I was little, people only got slightly ill, a sniffle there etc, now you see children who have to stay at home because they're burning up, all because of their crappy immune system which has Dettol etc to blame.

ANYWAY, back on topic about Health and Safety...

Did you know you can't cook your own biscuits and cakes for college/school charity events? They have to be strictly from a super market/baker.