The future.

Unfortunately the proliferation of Nukes is going to create a dangerous world. MAD will no longer prevent lunatics from Nuclear blackmail, or a first strike scenario. Our best defence is a Nuclear missile shield, probably using Lasers and Missiles, then take out the offending Country. There are going to have to be some tough decisions, made in the coming years. Lets hope we never have to do it.
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The Asylum..

In the hands of a career jobsworth, however, it can indeed be a recipe for madness. But this isn’t unique to H&S legislation, is it?

If you couple H&S, with the payout claims culture, you have a recipy for madness. Councils and schools are paralyzed with fear of being prosecuted, under the H&S law. So they go to rediculous lengths to minimise any possiible chance of accidents. Where is the sense, if a burglar hurts himself breaking into your property, and then claims damages against you. Not forgetting his Human rights, to be able to go about his business of breaking into your home. Perhaps we should teach burglars H&S and provide them with hard hats, and other safety gear. Then we will have done our part for that other stupid law of human rights. In my book if somebody is criminally in the wrong , they lose their human rights. But of course soft old Britain wouldn’t dream of going along that route. We are the laughing stock of the world now, thanks to soft liberal attitudes. Yes folks, it’s true, the loonies are running the Asylum. 😀 :diablo: 😉 :p Oh and don’t forget the Graffiti artist, he is exercising his free expression, also covered by human rights…. 😀 😀 😀 Oh yes and finally, why not let all the prisoners out, so they can make space for loads more . I just cannot understand how Britain has got here, but it has.
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Let’s look at this from another angle, the UK has one of the best industrial safety records in the world. Now is anybody going to tell me that is a bad thing? We should be proud of our achievements in safety at work, not villifying the HSE and other agencies that were a huge part of bringing this happy state about. Grey Area makes a good comparison with the factories act. I think it’s very easy to look on the past as some halcyon golden era but have people looked at accident statistics, life expectancies etc. in the 19th. and first half of the 20th. centuries?
I’ve worked in hazardous industries all my life, from the air force, via jet engine commissioning and service work and the offshore oil industry to working in the nuclear industry, and I can tell you in all of that (AF excepted as it was then outside much of the regulatory framework, although in practice most guidelines were followed anyway) I’ve had a lot more positive impressions of UK safety law than negative, and having worked around the world I can tell you an aweful lot of people in other countries would love our safety regulations. I have never found safety regs an undue burden, use reasonable risk assessment and good method statements, work plans, system failure analysis etc. and it’s something you can plan into your work with really not that much additional effort. However, it’s much easier to look at examples of people who don’t have proper training in what the regs mean and then printing stories to make safety inspectors, who have saved a hell of a lot of lives, into villains.

Yes I understand H&S have made working conditions in Britain much safer, however to do a simple job on a commercial or domestic property needs rediculous levels of safety management. This makes a simple job undertaken, unnesessarily complicated. A safe working environment can be achieved without all this added burden. Problem is we don’t teach common sense anymore, so I guess like it or not, we all have to be treated as if we are idiots. I suppose I can’t argue with, I guess not everyone thinks like I do. :rolleyes:
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My Spirit Guide( it’s no secret).

Who knows what the answer is.
And I must say you are right that there are certainly some things that deserve explanation which we are yet to get an answer, and I do keep an open mind when it comes to the paranormal.

There are plenty of paranormal websites with many stories of strange happenings, so the evidence is there. Problem is, these happenings are spontaneous, and not in a laboratory, so it is difficult to prove their reality. Would we like to know of an invisible world around us? I guess some people would prefer not to. Anyhow, as I am sure a lot of people know, at the quantum atomic level, sub particles take on a ghost like appearence. So our knowledge of the universe is limited by our present knowledge of science. Paranormal activity may be associated with the parallel universe theory, which is weird,

It was when i was still at my first school, about 8 years old. I had just been to the bathroom and was heading back to class. On the way i had to pass a staircase, and something caught my eye. I stood transfixed in the gaze of a monk who was standing further up the stairs. His hood was up, but did not cover his face, and yet where his face should have been was nothing but blackness. I also recall hearing singing, monastical hymns or something similar. I turned away and walked back to class.

I met a Psychic a few years ago, who told me that I had a brown monk as a spirit guide. I was rather surprised by his comments, because I always thought, that sort of thing was made up. Interestingly, he told me that he was born with his psychic ability, and when he was a child, he would see visions of plane crashes etc. So from what he told me, I have no reason to disbelieve him, after all, why would he make up something like that. He also told me, he could tell what was wrong with an ill person, even if he saw them on TV. Whoever he met at work, or elsewhere, he would be able to read that persons personal details, such as names in the family etc. He eventually left the job in the hotel where I met him, and went into healing sick people. Quite a story as I am sure you’ll agree.
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Easy Rider..

Yes indeed, easy rider was an Icon of America at that time. Without doubt another classic film which was in a time of it’s own. Got to say it again, the sixties was a great era of our times. :diablo:
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Defence strategy.

We could save a whole lot of money by adopting a high-risk stragegy, we move civillians and NATO forces from an area, then nuke it. Bye bye Taliban.

Or we could play safe and get out of there, which do you think is the best option? Going Nuclear is a very dangerous strategy, who knows what it would lead to. The chances of a Nuclear device being planted in this country is a worrying scenario, which is one reason why we need the Army here.
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Strange things…

You know Roscoria, an awful lot of wierd things happen to you. You ever think about beinig exorcised? 😉

Well I guess I have been lucky in my life to have witnessed these events. I don’t think exorcising me is the answer, as I don’t consider myself to be possessed. Although I came fairly close to it at one time. In my opinion there are many weird examples, which easily demonstrate an existence of a Paranormal world within ours. Just think, our senses to the outside world are rather limited in what they pick up, so it’s likely that there are other things we don’t see. These things may be energy life forms, on a different plane of existence. :diablo:
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