STASI – Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry for State Security), common abbreviation Staatssicherheit (State Security), the infamous official secret police of the former East Germany. Not much liked. CLOUD COMPUTING: A paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on client hardware. Very much liked. GLOBAL NETWORK INITIATIVE: A global code of conduct which …
A glimmer of hope?
This one just about takes the cake, biscuit or any other edible substance. Poetic, even. The chief executive of one of Britain’s biggest health and safety watchdogs, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, has pleaded for a return to ‘basic common sense’. And his name…Tom Mullarkey. Which about sums up what ‘elf ‘n shifty’ have been up to …
Don’t tell the kids!
So, what could a sixteen year old lad do? Join the army? Maybe kill or be killed in the service of his country. Pass. Get married? No, not yet. How about a part-time job, the money would come in handy while studying. Sounds good. There’s a local cleaning job available, worth a try. Enter Government Health and Safety Guidelines.
More loony bins
Binmen refused to empty rubbish bins because the wheels were standing on gravel at the edge of his driveway citing that to pull them over gravel, even a couple of inches, contravenes health and safety regulations. Mark Birkett thought it was a joke, but West Wlitshire Council informed him that his bins would not be emptied unless they were fully …
First ones return from their break
They are beginning to trickle back! Teachers at Ashburton Junior School in Croydon, south London, have upset parents by banning the kids from playing during the fifteen minutes before classes start….on the grounds of ‘health and safety’. The ruling is apparently to prevent either children or parents getting hurt!
Where will it all end?
‘Hello, is that the…’
An exceedingly cunning plan…
So exactly what is this ‘elf and safety’ lark which seems to be so dominating society these days, invading almost every facet of normal everyday life?
At least you can have a game of cards…
Well, at least you would have thought so.