[JLS]

Steyn comments on the nanny state in the UK

[JLS]

Steyn strikes again.

[aquila48]

““You can’t just pick up the coffin and take it in!” he huffed. It was now the undertakers’ turn to confer. Inside the church, the organist was vamping the old Toccata & Fugue and wondering where everyone was. I had a vague feeling we were on the brink of the more raucous moments of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral, with rival mobs tugging his corpse back and forth.”

Steyn rocks!

[SmokingJoe]

““It’s ‘Elf ‘n’ Safety, mate, innit?”

Love that bit.
Just reminds me of my years in Britain.
Haven't heard too many “mate”s and “innit”s recently.

[dead]

Meanwhile, back at the headquarters of the Health & Safety Executive itself, it was reported in 2007 that staff are forbidden to move chairs lest they do themselves an injury. Instead, a porter has to be booked 48 hours in advance, which makes last-minute seating adjustments at staff meetings somewhat problematic. “Pull up a chair”? Don’t even think about it.

During a recent re-org, I got transferred into a different department. I'm still sitting with my old group, who I no longer work with. My new boss wanted to move me up to her area, but Elf n Services says no. It would cost too much at this time to have facilities make the move.

I have a laptop that I carry home every night. That's the extent of my "equipment" that facilities would have to move. The rest of my stuff could fit in a box, but I'm not allowed to move myself. It will be at least until April, before they'd even consider absorbing the costs to the department of having facilities move my location.

In the meantime, I enjoy being a lone outpost of my new department, free of the daily interraction with anybody who I actually have to answer to.

[listenhillary]

Unreal. Just unreal.

[RicocheT]

All the Brits with balls were killed off in the two world wars. Those left seem to be the product of the stay at homes and immigrants. The grand buildings are still in the U.K. but the inhabitants are just hollow husks compared to those who used to live there.

It seems much the same in Australia & N.Z.

[Gritty]

Wonderful Steyn!

[thefactor]

This maddness is due to trial lawyers. Pure and simple.

[GOPJ]

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

bump

[colorado tanker]

During WWII Londoners would bed down in the subway stations inches from speeding trains. What would Elf 'n Safety say about that??? Spend the night under the bombs? My how far and fast we're falling.

[irv]

a licensed pallbearer is explicitly licensed not to bear palls

This is both hilarious and terrifying. Are we going to follow the brits and become a nation of sheep, willing to suffer any idiocy just because some bureaucrat says we must?

The tea parties are a good sign that we won't. But the tea parties haven't won yet.