PC Pantomime madness

[jumpy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7196104.stm




We're doomed I tells ya, DOOOOOMED!



What a world we live in.... where teenagers charged and released on police bail kick people to death in the street
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7176471.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/7130871.stm

She said: "I asked him why did he do it, and he told me he tried walking away but the man was ranting and raving and 'so I punched him in the face'.

Where politicians endlessly and needlessly debate the need to ban everything, where rigorous enforcement of existing laws to the fullest extent possible for those who break them, would more than suffice:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7193075.stm

Where the social climate I grew up in with its values and common sense decency seem to have flown out of the window in a frenzy of limp wristed do-goodery, to leave behind something that resembles nothing less than a steaming pile of ****e that I would happily cross the road in order to avoid soiling my boot in...

And now we have to HSE register props for a pantomime?!
Has this country gone totally insane?
Where all the things that truely matter are ignored and trifling nonsense matters are poured over with a fine tooth comb in order to 'make them safe'?

Originally Posted by HSE idiot

"We do not want to stop people putting on pantos or having fun as long as the risks are sensible managed."

What is that guy smoking? Every iota of that statement casts a lasting and indelible shadow on what we used to call 'fun'. Come on! Can you think of anything less threatening than pantomime? (well ok, there's men wearing dresses...) Yet someone seems to have spent a great deal of time and effort to bring these clearly hazardous practices and items to our immediate notice.
How one can sleep at night knowing that there are real people out there who have to put up with the very worst that life can throw at them and yet they still roll out this utter nonsense with aplomb and gravitas more suited to a genuine issue, is beyond my reckoning.

What has happened to us?



Those were the days...

Late 70's school versus the school of the new millennia.



Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.

1970's - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and remain mates.
2007 - Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight
confiscated as evidence.
They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it.
Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.



Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.

1970's - Jeffrey is sent to the principal's office and given 6 of the best.
Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death.
Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability.
Drops out of school.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his dad gives him the slipper.

1970's- Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang.
Psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.
Billy's mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.


Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school.

1970's - Mark shares a smoke with the school principal out on the smoking area.
2007 - Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug possession. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English.

1970's - Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes to college.
2007 - Mohammed's cause is taken up by local human rights group.
Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist.
Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school system and his English teacher.
English is banned from core curriculum.
Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.

1970's - Ants die.
2007 - MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with perpetrating acts of terrorism.
Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.

1970's - Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.
She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy…Becomes gay.

I seriously dread to think how some of you older guys feel about the changing world around you and its steady decline into the mire. It's bad enough now, what's it going to be like when I hit 40, or 50?
If things continue as they are doing it doesn't bear thinking about.

/rant