One of the most unbelievably stupid things I’ve ever heard.

Try this one, Daz. Chap on the BBC this morning said you shouldn’t try to clear the snow and ice from the footpath in front of your house, because if you do you’re effectively saying it’s now safe to walk there, and so if someone still slipped they could then sue you. Christ on a bike, we spent centuries building up this country, fighting tyrants at home and abroad, only to throw it all away on home-grown insanity like this.

Over the Christmas break I was tasked with putting up new curtain rails, and (not unnaturally) my two year old son wanted to get involved. Didn’t think this was a good idea, considering ladders, screwdrivers, saws, sharp-edged tape rules etc were involved. My options, apparently, were-

(A) Let him carry on until he gets hurt. Get rollocking.

(B) Let him carry on until I got hurt. That would have been my own fault, but I’d still get a rollocking.

(C) Stop him playing with things and be branded grumpy old git with no time for his son. Get rollocking.

(D) Let him carry on playing with things until we lost a fitting or something, and have to abandon job and buy new ones after the holidays. Get rollocking.

(E) Put off long-standing job again until he was in bed or something. Get rollocking.

Location, location, location!:D

Well I’ve had nothing… 😉

My son clutching a friend’s lad to his “bosom” and calling him “Son of mine!” like Agnes Fairchild in that brilliant old TV comedy “Brass” My son is all of two years old, and the other lad has just turned one. 😀

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=907110

Qantas, Heathrow to Bangkok a few years ago. Never seen such a surly, bad tempered cabin crew. I remember a little lad in the seat in front of me, all of 5 years old, and excited at what seemed to be his first flight on a plane. At least until they came round with the soft drinks, and he wasn’t sure which to take off the tray. “Look,” the stewardess berated him, “It’s juice or water. Just GO for it, yeah? Thank you…” Barely a peep out of the poor little fella after that. If that’s the “Spirit of Australia” they know what they can do with it…

Merry Christmas Mr Creosote (from the equator, no ice rinks here, come to think of it, no ice here :D)

Cheers, mate. Hope you had a good un.

“When it did go off, he himself was seriously injured. He has third degree burns. …

Not all bad news then.