Sad War! Because of the Coast Guard and HSE!

[Foggy]

Just thinking laterally...

As most people die in their sleep, the most dangerous thing you can do is go to sleep...

So when they have done their risk assessment, does anyone say "whatever else you do, DO NOT GO TO SLEEP, ever"?

Just a silly thought, hey ho back to writing risk assessments

-Paul

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by Scubee

FFS... if i trip over a paving slab and break my ankle, is the council to blame for not having a level pavement, or me, for not looking where i am going? Too many people will look for a way to get cash in whatever way they feel they can get away with.

Tell me about it. If I had a quid for every case of slipping/tripping on grapes/paving slabs/flooded public lavs/pigeon shit that we get in Chambers, I could retire to the Bahamas.

The judges don't help, they should chuck the cases out but they don't. They'd rather spend an afternoon nodding off quietly while two barristers stand on their back legs, arguing about whose job it is to put nappies on the pigeons. Kill them all, I say. And the pigeons.

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Finless

YOU or WE do not draw the line. It is up to the person involved and just because some prat back at HQ who has digested the whole bloody rule book (as permitted by the HSE and insurance companies) .................... turning green / can't afford anymore underpants / trying to calm down.

I understand your angst but then we get police men retiring on invalidity pensions because they got a little stressed and people suing their employers following the death of a loved one who no doubt died a hero.

Its a tough call as an employer. The line has to be the safety of the employee above all else. They can not be seen to encourage such behavior.

However a formal reminder as to their responsibilities (boath parties should know the score) and an unofficial celebration pint down the pub should have been the end of it. Thats the proper British way. Which is why i feel there is more to this than we know.

ATB

Mark

[Finless]

Originally Posted by Scubee

It isn't necessarily the government of the UK that is to blame. They have had to react to the people who do sue by blaming someone else for their own stupidity.

Hmmmm, I'm not so sure. They seem intent of creating a law to cover every eventuallity in life so why aren't they to blame. They should never have allowed this state of affairs to come to pass.

[RonProwse]

If you have ever been on the reciving end of the HSE I can tell you its not nice, they treat you like you are the primary person to blame and intimidate you, when all your doing is helping someone in trouble.

There are things in life for which we need the HSE but things in this country have got a little out of hand.

R

[liamm]

Is it not about time that people were tasked with being responsible for their own actions / decisions.
rant rant rant .......... i've been a proper angry git today

[Finless]

Originally Posted by liamm

Is it not about time that people were tasked with being responsible for their own actions / decisions.
rant rant rant .......... i've been a proper angry git today

Aha! According to Time Team; "two bricks are rubble but three bricks make a wall". I too have been feeling cross all day. If we get one other person with the same symptoms then I pronounce a pandemic of grumpiness which is not down to us being grumpy but, probably, some viral infection?

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Finless

I have been feeling cross all day. If we get one other person with the same symptoms then I pronounce a pandemic of grumpiness which is not down to us being grumpy but, probably, some viral infection?

It's already been posted:-

The most depressing day of the year...

Please do try to keep up!

LOL, Paul

[Finless]

Originally Posted by Foggy

It's already been posted:-

The most depressing day of the year...

Please do try to keep up!

LOL, Paul

I'm f*ck*ng grumpy, not depressed, you p*ll*ck!!!!

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Finless

I'm f*ck*ng grumpy, not depressed, you p*ll*ck!!!!

I'M WORKING ON IT!

Maybe you're just grumpy 'cos you're SAD? (As in seasonally affected)

Personally I like seasoning


LOL, Paul