WTF is up with all this health and safety crap in the UK?

That sticker is awesome, i want one.

Theres a similar one on nitto bars too.

Ok Seriously, What is up with health and saftey laws in the UK? It's become completely rediculous, I went to go buy some shelving today and the guy there said "Oh no, we don't cut here, health and safety". I called two other places and they said the same thing. Since when do timber companies not cut timber. Are they afraid of cutting themselves? I mean wha? I was speechless. Ok your saying big saws, danger, possibilitiy of severed limbs, ok fine. But It just reminds me that I was fined by the Edinburgh counsel for having a welcome matt in front of my flat door, because it constituted a tripping hazard and violated the health and safety laws! Oh my F'ing christ! Are you kidding me? They have warning signs in Waitrose about always putting your grapes in a plastic bag because "Loose grapes can be a dangerous tripping hazard". I know I'm not the only one that notices this. Have people become that lame that they cant just toughen up and get on with shit? Just be careful when your doing stuff, even then your going to mess it up and hurt yourself sometimes, deal with it! The list of health and safety rules goes on into infinity, It's comical. Thank god there's no health and safety laws pertaining to Polo, I'd be screwed.

Long paragraphs like this can cause people's eyes to spin out of their sockets. That's £60 FPN, payable to the usual address. Thanks.

but it's not illegal to jay walk

Do we really want any more people to walk like Jay?

Thought not.

Do we really want any more people to walk like Jay?

Thought not.

If walking like Jay gets me some of the things Jay has, then I would gladly walk like him.

I would kill to get a shirt like that.

The way he walks is just a bit Kay.

How Jay is that?

If walking like Jay gets me some of the things Jay has, then I would gladly walk like him.

I would kill to get a shirt like that.

what, long sleeved?

Haha!

so we are entering another phase of evolution,
lets call it devolution, yeah the theory of devolution,
in which the common sense less (made so by persistant lack of expectation)
are so incapable of doing anything that they are becoming more useless,
years of social security, general levels of wealth mean that people asking and getting hand outs are now making humans lose the faculties we developed when hunter gatherers.
if people had been unproductive-useful in ages past they would have been left to fend for themselves--and if they couldnt then they didnt survive.............

Devolution already means something, you know. You can't just go round re-assigning meanings to words. Otherwise where would we be.

Why the fuck are we pandering to American paranoia anyway!?

We're not America!!!

I seem to remember Humpty Dumpty saying that words could mean whatever we wanted them to mean.
But try this instead; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_About_De-Evolution

Devolution already means something, you know. You can't just go round re-assigning meanings to words. Otherwise where would we be.

In Wales?

It's political correctness gone mad [/Stewart Lee Joke Reference]

there are three classic reasons that jobsworths, generally lazy people and condescending public servants give for anything they don't actually want to do:

health & safety
Data protection act
human rights act

almost always there are no health and safety / DPA / HRA breaches by them doing what seems to be sensible and rational. Our wonderful "don't make a scene" english sentiment almost always seems to accept these lies with gratitude.

So next time elguapo, the correct response is "thank you (for protecting me from your stupidity)".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8092228.stm

positively incandescent

HSE sucks balls. Worked on a gas pipeline job last year where there was a blanket PPE policy of Hard Toe Boots, Flame Retardand Orange Boiler Suit, Flame Retardand Gloves, Hard Hat, Safety Glasses, Hi-Viz and probably more things that I've blocked from my memory.

I was an archaeologists, working in an empty field, with nothing overhead and no gas pipes going for another 3 months, and it was the middle of summer. I moaned a lot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8092228.stm

positively incandescent

see my previous post - totally nuts

Just put in an order with Sainsbury home delivery:

Please note our policy on bottled water - due to availability issues and concerns regarding the health and safety of our delivery drivers, water orders are subject to a maximum of 6 units per delivery.

Didn't order any water, but they didn't seem to mind me ordering 40 cans of Kronenbonk either.

so we are entering another phase of evolution,
lets call it devolution, yeah the theory of devolution,
in which the common sense less (made so by persistant lack of expectation)
are so incapable of doing anything that they are becoming more useless,
years of social security, general levels of wealth mean that people asking and getting hand outs are now making humans lose the faculties we developed when hunter gatherers.
if people had been unproductive-useful in ages past they would have been left to fend for themselves--and if they couldnt then they didnt survive.............

Are we not men?!

YouTube - This is Devo-lution

Didn't order any water, but they didn't seem to mind me ordering 40 cans of Kronenbonk either.

That's because only 36 will make it to your door.

HSE sucks balls. Worked on a gas pipeline job last year where there was a blanket PPE policy of Hard Toe Boots, Flame Retardand Orange Boiler Suit, Flame Retardand Gloves, Hard Hat, Safety Glasses, Hi-Viz and probably more things that I've blocked from my memory.

You are Paul-Michel and I claim my £5.