Tag Archives: Health and Safety

British Airways ban adult male from sitting next to unaccompanied minor

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Today’s (first) example of the world having gone totally insane is brought to us by the Telegraph. Hedge fund manager Mirko Fischer was on a plane from London to Luxembourg, when he swapped seats with his pregnant wife so that she could be by the window. BA staff then stepped in and told [...]
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Nick Hogan Freed by the Blogosphere

By scrubber | Published: March 11, 2010
Firstly, apologies for the paucity of blogs recently, we have all been unusually busy this week, and not a hope of reading blogs, let alone writing. In catch-up mode, came across this excellent news on Guido’s blog. Nick Hogan, the “controller of a space” where smoking took place has been released from a term of 6 [...]
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Government to ban all glasses in all pubs!

By scrubber | Published: February 6, 2010
Some days, things come across my desk that just make my blood boil. This is one of them… I recently popped into one of our local hostelries with Mrs. Scrubber only to discover that it had replaced all its glasses with awful plastic ones. I can confirm that however good the red wine, it tastes like [...]
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Driver fined for blowing his nose

By scrubber | Published: February 4, 2010
Apologies for the lateness of this one; it’s several days old, but I received an email from a reader in Australia pointing out this article, which although slightly factually incorrect, led me to find several reports on the net, the best of which was here, in the Daily Mail. This must surely be a candidate for [...]
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Bah Humbug! The new Highways Agency motto

By scrubber | Published: December 16, 2009
Thanks to the Telegraph for this one… It appears that elf’n’saftee has gone mad down in Cornwall, and worse, the Christmas Spirit is dead and buried. Local residents got together and put a small (the DT calls it “large” but it doesn’t look very large in the photo), decorated tree in the middle of an otherwise [...]
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Balloons outside shop are health and safety risk!

By scrubber | Published: November 24, 2009
Today’s contribution from the elf-n-safety pool of madness has popped up in the Solihull News. A couple with a shop in Solihull, West Midlands has been told by Solihull Council that the balloons they put outside their shop constitute a health and safety risk and must be removed. When confronted with the obvious stupidity of this position, [...]
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