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DM new outrage target - Loom Bands
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2686823/Loom-bands-health-risk-says-GP-Parents-told-craze-damage-childrens-circulation-schools-introduce-bans.html
Another DM non story with a ridiculously over dramatic headline
Maybe we should all just lock our kids away until they're 18 just in case something terrible happens to them - or maybe we can realise that just being alive means risk and get on with letting them be kids
Another DM non story with a ridiculously over dramatic headline
Maybe we should all just lock our kids away until they're 18 just in case something terrible happens to them - or maybe we can realise that just being alive means risk and get on with letting them be kids
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8458526/Schools-banning-conkers-and-leapfrog-over-safety-fears.html
there .. that should do it
Was the death rate of children through accidents any better 30 years ago than it is now? Of course it wasnt, we dont need this crap H&S in our lives, kids will be kids, after all they learn by their mistakes.
One dislikes living on this planet anymore.
They should also ban the accident book because it once gave the teacher a paper cut. Unfortunately I was too young to appreciate the irony.
playing with conkers
climbing trees
eating chocolate
going to McDonalds
are, I believe, part of a normal childhood.
Aren't kids allowed to be kids anymore?
Rap conkers over each others knuckles
Climb trees and swing off branches like a monkey
Jump off swings to see who could jump the furthest
Go down the slide backwards
Tie a rubber band round my finger to make it change colour then enjoy the sensation of blood flowing back into it after taking the rubber band off
Jump through shucks and streams getting mucked to the eyeballs.
There are other things but that is all I can think of right now.
We should.
In most cases H&S is more to do with insurance than safety.
No, I blame Muslims.
Actually, I blame Facebook.
Surely they must be banned these days?
I blame you.
I blame career women who put off becoming mothers >:(
I really don't mean to be rude or condascending, however you have fallen right into the Daily Mail trap..this is not a case of 'elf & safety' or 'PC gwan mad' or any other made up DM phrase. This is a typical made up non-story, to get you all outraged about H&S and a percieved litigous society, and judging by the comments, it's worked.
The 'journalist' knows that these bands are popular therefore digs out the usual DM rent-a-gob (so called) experts, to go through a scenario on what 'might' happen if these bands were used for anything other than their original purpose. This is not a H&S issue, it's the usual Daily Mail goading, that I'm sure will be repeated as 'Have you seen, they're going to ban Loom Bands now cos of 'elf & safety!! it's PC gawwwn mad I tell ya!" ...well done DM
They look like the sort of thing the picaninnies with their watermelon smiles would wear.
Especially as the DM didn't even use the photo or have pictures of them and their poor child doing sad faces >:(
Sadface picture holding up the finger - what an opportunity missed by the DM