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THE NANNY STATE

We are looking out for
your best interests!

The Nanny State is very concerned about our health and safety, and so, they are so kind to provide us with many warning signs to pay heed to for our own safety. Remember, it's for our own good.

Here are some examples of warning signs from the USA and the UK, the two top Nanny States on the entire planet.

For those living in the Nanny State of California.



It nice to know that they have so graciously provided safety warnings on their state flag.

Here they are kind enough to remind us not to touch the sharp edges of a warning sign.



I believe several people died on this road because they didn't notice that the bridge was out, and when they finally saw the bridge out, it was too late to come to a complete stop. But it's nice to know that nobody cut their hands on the sharp edges of the sign since they were warned not to touch it. I'm so happy to know that the Nanny State cares about my safety.

Here is another good warning sign.



Yeah, it's good to know that the road gets wet during a rain. Like, I didn't know that. Again, thanks for the warning.

Here's another sign in a small shop somewhere.



Thanks for the warning. If it weren't for this sign, I might have burned my fingers on a candle, so I really needed to be reminded that burning candles are hot. I keep forgetting that. YEAH RIGHT! LIKE, NO SHIT!!!

Here is another good warning sign.



At Rugeley Trent Valley railway station. Is the sign a warning in case the steps suddenly attack without warning and throw you off into the path of an oncoming train? I guess that we have really become so stupid that we have to be warned to be careful on steps!

Now we must all be careful when we walk in a park with pear trees.



Watch Out For Falling Pears

The Nanny State Police have put up signs warning people away from fruit trees in a park...in case they're hit by falling PEARS! Worcester City Council employed workmen to bar the way to two trees, and spent more council tax on erecting signs warning the public about the dangers of the soft fleshy pears landing on their heads. The council says the precaution has been taken to stop anyone being hurt.

But people visiting Cripplegate Park, St John's, Worcester, says it is a barmy nanny-state ruling. Red and white tape surrounds the trees and a plastic barrier has been set up to prevent anyone walking directly under the pears. Both trees, which are black-pear trees, the symbol of Worcestershire, have bright orange signs attached to the bark saying "Warning Pears Falling." Barry Cox, of Grenville Road, Dines Green, said "This is total madness. "It seems that people aren't credited with common sense any more. These signs are over the top." Helen Crump,of Bromyard Road, St John's, said she laughed when she saw the signs. "This world has just gone mad. It's the nanny-state ruling. I don't think anybody can be killed by a pear falling!" Graham Lingard, who lives just beside the park in Cripplegate House, said: "What's next? Will they be passing out crash helmets for us to walk through the park?" Worcester's coat of arms on the Cripplegate Park gates, carries three pears.

Melanie Griffiths, a visitor from Swansea, shook her head as she passed the signs. She said: "What is wrong with this country now? This is just stupid." Also visiting was Chris Earl, of Cairns, Australia. He said it was a damning indictment of modern society. "There is a fear that the council could be sued and they think this is the best strategy to deal with this sort of thing. The same thing is going on in Australia." Ian Yates, parks and cemeteries manager for Worcester City Council, said "If we felled the trees or closed the park I would understand the concern, but this is an adequate response. It's a smashing year for very leafy fruits and there are some sizeable pears and not everyone is going to be passing thinking that a pear might fall on them, especially children. These signs divert people away from the danger." However, he did add that the fear about being sued was also at the back of the council's mind. When questioned about litigation, he said "This is a lot cheaper than having a no-win no-fee solicitor taking the council to court." He said he expected the signs would be taken down when autumn weather had brought down the majority of the fruit.

YEAH RIGHT!

I think that the Nanny State, in it's efforts to fight the Great Obesity Epidemic, wants people to stay away from the fruit trees, because, God forbid, people will eat the pears and get fat.

I have never, in my entire life, ever heard of anybody, not even a small child, being injured by a piece of fruit, like an apple, orange, lemon, or a pear falling from a tree.

According to an old legend or folk tale, Sir Isaak Newton was bonked on the head by a falling apple while sitting under a tree, and was inspired to come up with his theories on the laws of gravity. So perhaps if more people got bonked on the head by falling fruit, it might inspire them to come up with new ideas. But the Nanny State does not want us to have any ideas of our own, or eat the fruit.

Now the next sign is even better!



Experience Not Welcome

Nanny, despite her self proclaimed wisdom in all matters, has many prejudices. One of these is an innate hatred of independent schools. This is rather hypocritical, given the fact that many of Nannyâ??s friends and ministers have gone to independent schools themselves; or send their children to independent schools.However, in Nannyâ??s view that is not the issue. She firmly believes that the ordinary members of the British public must send their children to Nannyâ??s state schools; where they can be taught Nannyâ??s special curriculum, by Nannyâ??s specially trained teachers.

Those that go to independent schools are taught to question dogma, independence of thought and to achieve all that is achievable. Nanny abhors these traits in ordinary members of the public. Sometimes, those who have taught in the independent sector seek to join the state sector. This of course would threaten Nannyâ??s precious state system; by exposing children to thoughts and ideas that had not been properly approved of by Nanny and her acolytes.

Initially Nanny did not bother to try to disguise her hatred of independent schools; she placed signs, such as the one above, outside all of her schools. These naturally discouraged anyone with independent experience trying to join Nannyâ??s schools. However, despite attempts to â??dumb downâ? examinations, standards have fallen dramatically in Nannyâ??s schools; primarily as a result of Nannyâ??s obsession with controlling, and regulating, every aspect of the curriculum and day to day management of her schools. The decline in standards has caused many to seek to emulate the independent sector, by trying to bring in teachers from the independents.

Nanny wonâ??t have that, in a splendid display of cunning, she has created a bureaucratic barrier to entry to all of those from the independent sector; who seek employment in her schools. The barrier comes in the form of the state recognized teaching qualification. Nanny pretends that this is to ensure that only teachers of the â??highest calibreâ? teach in her schools. We all know this to be a lie. Those who have spent many successful years teaching in the independent sector, are in fact banned from joining the state sector; as they do not possess this bureaucratic entry slip.

The absurdity of this artificial barrier to entry was highlighted by the story that Tristram Jones-Parry, soon to be retiring head of Westminster School, could not get a teaching position in the state sector; because he does not have this bureaucratic entry slip. The fact that there is a severe shortage of teachers in the state system, eg 3500 maths teachers, seemingly counts for nothing.

Nanny doesnâ??t care; her precious ideals come first, these of course must take precedence over â??education, education, educationâ?.

And now . . . . .

The Nanny State is even policing the public toilets.



I don't know of anybody who is stupid enough to drink from a toilet or a urinal.

And it gets even better!



YEAH RIGHT! like, we need to be shown how to sit on a toilet, as indicated by the first picture.

The second picture is saying NOT to stand up to urinate. Well, most guys do it standing up, except us really fat guys with big bellies hanging down over our male equipment. Some of us have to sit down to pee like a big fat Mama. But that's beside the point!

As for the third picture, is it saying do NOT drink from the toilet, or don't vomit into the toilet? Like, we are so stupid that we need to be told not to drink from a toilet. But what if you're feeling sick to your stomach and have to toss your cookies? Are we expect to puke on the floor instead?

The fourth picture says, not to squat on top of the toilet with your feet up on the seat. Like, who the Hell does that?

The fifth picture says no fishing from the toilet. Does Nanny really think that we are so stupid as to expect to pull live fish out of a toilet with a rod and reel? Do we really need to be told not to fish from a toilet?

And the sixth picture says not to urinate on the toilet doggy style. Like, what human being lifts his leg like a dog?

OK, some of the signs are probably fakes.

But this topic is to show examples of how the state likes to make up stupid rules and regulations and how the "Nanny State" tries to control every aspect opf our lives.

I post this mainly four amusement.

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but as for me, I say . . . . .



NO NANNIES! PLEASE!

I don't need some Government Granny Nanny telling me what to do!

I admit even though i don't like you this is pretty funny!!!!Good job!!

sports rox1234 wrote:I admit even though i don't like you this is pretty funny!!!!Good job!!

Thanks!

Anyway, I don't expect people to like me. Some people here do like me, the ones who created this forum, I'm actually their favorite.

But then, it's because we share a common interest, and that is, we hate sports, because we think that sports suck.

So, most sports fans are going to hate our guts, just like you're a sports fan, and you hate my guts, and that's OK, I'm use to that. You also hate my guts because you're Catholic and I'm in the process of converting to Judaism, and that's also OK because I'm also use to that as well.

But, I'm glad, even though you hate my guts, that you do like this topic.

Now I know some of the signs are obvious fakes, like the one warning about the sharp edges on it, or the California state flag.

Basically, this topic is about freeing ourselves from the Government Granny Nannies who wish to control every aspect of our lives.

This topic makes fun of the ridiculous lengths that regulators will go to, and they also assume that we lack intelligence and common sense and that we need to be reminded, for example: on how to use a bathroom, or how to use a product safely.

For example:

I once bought a kitchen knife and there was a warning on the package label saying "Warning! Sharp edges! Keep away from children." as if I was stupid and lacked common sense to know that a knife has sharp edges and should be kept away from children, and needed a reminder on the package.

Or another all time favorite, a warning label on a can of Tomato Soup saying "Caution: Contents is hot when heated." as if I needed to be reminded that something gets hot when it's heated up. Like, DUH!!!

OK, now sometimes warning labels are need on a product.

For example:

As we know, some people are allergic to nuts, especially peanuts, so some people do need to be cautious about any products containing peanut oil, and it is a good idea to put on the label "this product contains peanut oil" which is good to know if you happen to have an allergy to peanuts.

If it's a product like a candy bar or some canned foods, it might have peanut oil in it, so it should be on the label that the product contains peanut oil for those who happen to be allergic.

But what is really stupid, is a warning label I once saw on a can of nuts that said "Warning, Contains Nuts!" which is to warn people who might be allergic to nuts.

But you don't need a warning label on a can of nuts. Just look at the label, and if it says Planters Peanuts or Blue Diamond Smoke House Almonds (my favorite) then you already know it contains nuts. That should be immediately obvious. We all know that a can of nuts contains nuts. DUH!!!

If you're allergic to nuts, then you just use common sense and you don't buy a can of nuts, because you know it's a can of nuts, and it doesn't need a stupid warning label on it.

Now, some of the signs may have been fake, but they don't have to be, because life is full of ridiculous warnings. So, those fake signs are not far away from the truth - just check your shopping basket.

Anyway, even though you hate my guts, I am thrilled that you like this topic.

It means that somewhere in that little brain of yours, that you do have the capacity to question authoritarian systems, and perhaps, to be able to think for yourself.

We all know that Catholicism and sports are both authoritarian systems telling us how to think, and perhaps someday you will come to question them as well.

OK, I'm getting a little bit off topic here . . . . .

Yes, I'm in the process of converting to Judaism, and sometimes I do question it, because I still like to think for myself. I don't always agree with everything my Rabbi says. But then, during our Torah studies, our Rabbi actually welcomes differing opinions on various subjects in Torah. But that's the way we are. We enjoy a good argument. We thrive on it. That is how we learn and grow to spiritual maturity, by working out our differences. There is an old saying, that anytime you get 2 Jews together, you're going to have 3 different opinions!

Yeah, we even make fun of ourselves, and of our culture, and even of our religion as well, because a little humor injected into every aspect of our lives is a good thing. We even make jokes about our culture, our own religion and about our Rabies, so some Jew Jokes (not all) are actually very funny.

In the other topic (now locked) about religion, I actually thought is was very funny when you called me a "Red Sea Pedestrian" and I nearly split my sides, laughing my big fat ass off!

I have to admit, that was pretty good! I got to remember that one! Yeah, Red Sea Pedestrian, that was good!

Also, I didn't say that I'm Jewish, but only that I'm in the process of converting to Judaism, so I don't know everything about Judaism as of yet. I'm going to make some mistakes along the way, because I'm going through a learning process.

But that is just how life is. We all have to learn along the way, sometimes stumbling and making mistakes along the way. So, neither of us has perfect knowledge. Life itself is like being in school from the womb to the tomb.

Now, back on topic again . . . . . . .

And so, I QUESTION ALL AUTHORITY , whether it be my Government, ALL RELIGIONS INCLUDING MY OWN, the educational institutions, and ALL sports, I question it.

That is why I created this topic, as an example how how Governments, and institutions like to propose more regulations to meddle into our private lives, and lay down a lot of stupid unnecessary rules and regulations, and assuming that we are like children, unable to think for ourselves, and in need of a "Nanny" to watch over us in our "best interests" treating us like children instead of adults.

Now, I'm willing to call a truce between us, and let's just agree to disagree! OK?

So, the fact that you like this topic means that there is still hope for you!

Here is another example of the mass lack of intelligence from the Nanny State

Cadbury warns Dairy Milk eaters about its 'milk and nut ingredients'
Britain's most famous chocolate maker, Cadbury, has decided to warn chocolate lovers that its product contains - milk.

The latest Dairy Milk wrappers feature a logo showing a glass and a half of milk being poured into a chocolate chunk, put milk first in a list of ingredients and explains that there is "The equivalent of three quarters of a pint of milk of fresh liquid milk in every half pound of milk chocolate".

But Cadbury says it is also necessary to print warnings in capital letters in yellow boxes saying "CONTAINS: MILK" in case people who are allergic to milk do not realise that there is milk in Cadbury Dairy Milk bars."

Cadbury is printing similar warnings on bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk Whole Nut.

Those warnings say: "CONTAINS: NUTS, MILK." Wrappers on individual chunks of Cadbury Dairy Milk Whole Nut found in boxes of Cadbury Heroes repeat the warning "CONTAINS: NUTS" four times.

A Cadbury spokesman said the company was complying with the law relating the presence of allergens in food.

"We are meeting legal requirements," he said.

"We want people to know that allergens are listed clearly on a warning on the back of all products."

A support group for people who are allergic to certain foods said Cadbury was going beyond the requirements of the law.

Moira Austin, help line manager for the Anaphylaxis Campaign said she could understand why people would say Cadbury was "stating the blindingly obvious" or think that the "world had gone mad".

But she added: "The law requires manufacture to list allergens if they are an ingredient.

"It does not require these additional warnings.

"I suspect the answer is that Cadbury has a policy of listing allergens clearly on all its products - including chocolate - so that people know where to look."

Three years ago it emerged that Tesco was labelling milk cartons with the warning: "Allergy Advice: Contains Milk" and bags of assorted nuts with the warning: "Allergy Advice: Contains Nuts".

Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ients.html

Killjoy officials accused of 'nanny state' madness as they take children's conkers

It is a traditional autumn pastime that has tested and amused generations of schoolboys.

Climbing trees to pick the perfect conker - hard enough to bring glory in playground battles - is a task requiring commitment, good judgement and more than a little courage.

But such is the nature of today's 'nanny state' that children are now being denied this pleasure - as council workers are despatched to pick horse chestnuts from the trees themselves.

They do so in the supposed interests of health and safety.

Rather than risk children damaging themselves or property by collecting conkers, Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council is responding to residents' requests to get to them first.

Taxpayers are funding the operation by the council's environmental services team to use a cherry picker crane to strip trees bare of conkers before children can get their hands on them.

Officials insist it is a sensible safety request and they are only reacting to public demand. But members of the public have been stunned by the sight of the conker-picking team at work.

Martin Callanan, the north-east's Tory MEP, said: "Words fail me. It's the nanny state gone mad. I used to collect conkers as a lad and I never injured myself and nor did any of my friends.

"Children do get injured climbing trees and it is laudable the council wishes to stop that happening but there must be better things they could do with their time. They could clean the streets for a start. ' "It must be costing a fortune. It's a waste of money and a waste of their limited resources." The council has refused to reveal the cost of the operation - which last year led to more than 10 horse chestnut trees being 'picked' before the children.

The conkers are handed to local schools to be used for conker fighting after being collected by council workers.

Steve Charlton, environmental services delivery manager who is responsible for maintaining trees in public spaces, said: "We look after all the trees and picking conkers and things like cherries and pears is part of the service.

"Around September time we tend to start getting a few phone calls about problem conker trees.

"Someone might ring us because there's a horse chestnut tree near their house or property and there's a risk of damage.

"When kids are trying to get the conkers down they can fall and damage cars, or sometimes children throw them at windows and cause damage.

"This is the sort of thing we try to avoid. And also, by taking the conkers off the problem trees it reduces the chances of kids getting hurt if they try to climb them.

"It's not that we don't want children to play with the conkers, it's just that the trees sometimes cause problems that can easily be avoided by taking them off ourselves.

"We don't do it unless someone contacts us about a tree, then we'll go out and have a look at it and decide from there what to do.

At the moment we are getting a lot of complaints from residents in the city because of the cherries on the trees.

"They cause a lot of mess and they're very slippy. This means we go out and pick the cherries before they fall."

This is only the latest 'nutty' nanny state conker row in recent years.

In 2004 South Tyneside Borough Council has provoked fury after chopping down chestnut trees to stop kids hurting themselves while gathering conkers.

The same year the headteacher of Cummersdale Primary School in Carlisle, demanded kids wear goggles during conker fights to protect them from flying shards.

Months later headteacher of Bookwell Primary in Egremont, Cumbria, banned conkers from the playground believing chestnuts to be a threat to children with nut allergies.

Website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nkers.html

Another product of the Nanny State

Here is another example of how the UK is becoming more and more of a Nanny State.

And of course, here in the USA we are beginning to emulate the UK, and we are also becoming more of a Nanny State.

This is from a web site at:

http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/07 ... ice-state/

Britain: Nanny State Descends into Police State

MORE British Insanity

Mother Needs Criminal Record Check Before
Accompanying Epileptic Son to School



The Brits are entering the terminal stages of The Nanny State. While their streets are awash in criminals, the schools failing, the Health Care system on the respirator, and Islam on the verge of being the new royalty, the Brits have redoubled their efforts to make life more difficult for British families.

From the Daily Mail. (How do they find this stuff? Hotline?)

â??Mother stopped from traveling with son in taxi to school - because she hasnâ??t had a criminal record checkâ?

Yep, in Britain a mother must have a criminal background check to accompany her child in a taxi to school.

And not just any child: an epileptic boy who could die without the assistance of his motherâ??and he would. British law prohibits the cab driver from assisting with the administration of medicine.

From the story:

Accompanying her son to school is no routine family chore for Jayne Jones - it is a matter of life or death.

For 14-year-old Alex is severely epileptic and only his parents know how to operate the specialist equipment to help him if he suffers a life-threatening fit. But that has not stopped Mrs Jones being barred from traveling in the taxi provided by the council to take Alex the five miles to school. Her offense? Not to have had a Criminal Records Bureau check.

But only Mrs Jones and husband Malcolm, 42, who have another son Lucas, aged eight, are trained to use it. And as Mr Jones needs the family car to get to work - and Alexâ??s taxi drivers cannot use the equipment should he need it - Mrs Jones needs to be able to travel with Alex to Greenfield special school in Merthyr Tydfil.

So the authorities were sympathetic, right?

Wrong!!!

They frankly did not give a damn. As in, they did not care. Simply, they could not grasp the fact that the women who cared for this child for 17 years could be trusted for a 15-minute taxi ride. In fact, in the infuriating, idiotic, Nazi-like responses we have come to expect from anyone in Britain who has even a scent of authority we get the following:

â??For the protection of the council and all vulnerable persons in its care itâ??s essential all those endowed with an authority, implicit or explicit, should meet the security requirements within the transport contract provisions.â??

The Daily Mail was no more amused than DBKP. A consulted expert points out:

A recent study has warned that the rapid spread of child protection checks and health and safety rules has â??poisonedâ?? relations between adults and children and left youngsters at greater risk.

It said CRB checks and the rise in other regulation have fueled an atmosphere of suspicion and left adults afraid to intervene or take responsibility.

Yes. We see that. And we see that Britain is turning into a strange Police State where civil servants are neither civil nor servants.

Ah yes!!!

It's good to know that this little boy will die in the loving arms of The Nanny State, and be safely put 6 feet under where no more harm will come to him.

Nanny protects children by killing them, thus sparing them from the inconveniences of living.

Ah! Don't ya just love Nanny!!!

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Oh! And here is some more good news from The Nanny State.

http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/07 ... -toddlers/

UK Government Urges Nursery Schools to Tattle on Racist Toddlers



In what can only be considered as yet another case of political correctness gone amok, a government funded advisory board in the U.K. is urging nursery schools to tattle on â??racistâ? toddlers.

According to the Daily Mail, toddlers as young as three are to be spied on. Any remarks construed as â??racistâ? are to be reported to local town councils.

The group that came up with this idea of spying on 3-yr-olds is the National Childrenâ??s Bureau, or NCB. Funded by tax payers, the NCB issued 366 page guide entitled â??Young Children and Racial Justiceâ?.

The new 366-page guide, Young Children and Racial Justice warned â??that â??racist incidents among children in early years settings-tend to be around name-calling-casual thoughtless comments, and peer group relationshipsâ??.

It said such incidents could include children using words like â??blackieâ??, â??Pakisâ??, â??those peopleâ?? or â??they smellâ??.

Children might also â??react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying â??yukâ?.â?

The guide also claimed that anyone who disagreed with the new plan was also a racist.

DBKP wondered, just who will be making the determination that a toddlerâ??s â??wordsâ? are racist? Will the U.K. build Toddler Re-Education Camps with sugar-free ice cream given out as treats? Will they go into the childâ??s home and seek out the source of where the toddler picked up his â??racistâ? rant? Or will the British people begin to realize that their tax dollars are funding a bureaucracy gone amok?

By LBG

Little children don't know any better. Little kids say dumb things all the time.

For example:

When a little kid uses the "N" word on blacks, it's probably because he learned it from his ignorant parents, and the little kid is not at fault, it's the parents.

But now, the Nanny State wants to charge little children with a felony for making a dumb racist remark.

If a 5 year old kid says "yuk" after trying some Mexican food that is too hot and spicy for him, is he going to be charged a felony because he said "yuk" to an ethnic dish?

How strange, that The Nanny State wants us to abdicate our responsibilities as adults, and turn control of our lives over to them, and yet, the burden of responsibilities is placed on the backs of little children.

Are little children going to be put in a federal penitentiary after saying "yuk" to eating an ethnic dish that is too hot and spicy for them at such a young age?

We all agree that racism is bad, and if I had kids, I would correct them if they made a racist remark. That would be my responsibility as a parent. So, if I had a kid who made a racist remark, he did not learn it from home, but picked it up from somebody else out there.

If kids say dumb things, you correct them. You don't charge them with a felony.

I see a dismal future where kids will get the death penalty if they accidentally break a window while playing baseball.

And of course, in the future, in the name of fighting the childhood "obesity epidemic" sports will be mandatory.

And if your little fatty breaks a window after hitting a baseball, it's the gallows for him!

Ah yes! It's good to know that The Nanny State is going to protect our children!