Coming soon to the USA...

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

It'll never be as bad as in the UK.

Kids not allowed to play conkers - or climb trees to get them, no chasing a round cheese down a hill contests, no jumble sales in case the village hall burns down.

The list is inexhaustible.

ian field Inscribed thus:

Ian. I agree with you ! Its political correctness gone mad. Even more so when parents are afraid to cuddle their children, as discussed on the news this morning.

Ian, a Massachusetts school stopped using jump ropes! They still jump, they just don't use the rope, you see if little Mary or Billy catch the rope with a foot as it goes round it could hurt there self esteem.

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I believe that taking away the rope hurts their self-esteem more, as it symbolizes that they are too stupid to jump with the rope.

Like the 'Everyone gets a Trophie' Trophies. Some will see that as a means of getting everyone not to try as hard as they can.

Bill

I only try as hard as I can to hold in a bong load for a really long time... every time. Failures do occur.

At work, I usually know IT. If not, I try as hard as I need to to find IT out, then DO it with as little or as much try as is required to efficaciously perform the task.

What do you see when you turn out the lights?

That's what God said about the entire Universe. :-)

In message , ian field writes

With respect Ian, bollocks. Kids in the bit of the UK where I live are still happily playing conkers and climbing trees to get them, I should know, my kids were with them.

The cheese rolling was cancelled because the organisers couldn't provide enough parking spaces or spectator seating, nothing to do with the rolling itself.

Oooh, I'll tell the vicar she better cancel the one in the local church/village hall next weekend.

Alternatively, you could just stop believing all the bollocks the papers print and lead a much more normal life without getting all stressy and foaming at the mouth with righteous but misplaced indignation.