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I think we've lost the plot

  • 12-07-2008 2:45am
    #1
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭


    A mother prohibited from accompanying her child to school until she undergoes a background check for criminality.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7500376.stm

    Forms for pregnacy/parenting permits can be obtained at your local police station.


Comments

  • #2
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    /sigh

    Yet another Mr. / Ms. Jobsworth who is too busy brandishing the rulebook to actually think about why the rules were put there in the first place, or what they were meant to achieve ... :rolleyes:

    This is really nothing new, Dickens wrote some of his best work caricaturing this kind of lunacy.

    It does seem to be on the increase, though, if that is possible.


  • #3
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    There seems to me to be a lot of radical new rules, a new approach. Beats the way it was for a long time, with the secrecy, the abuse of power and authority by those "caring" for children. Suppose it will take a few years to settle down, for common sense to be allowed to work alongside the new rules once they are seen to be working. Hope so.

    Esther Rantzen, founder of Childline in the UK, regrets it now.

    "The irony is that, to an extent, I blame myself for this rubbish. By revealing the extent of child abuse in the BBC TV programme Childwatch in the Eighties, I was part of the revolution in child protection which created these insidious jobsworths.

    But I had no idea the result would be senseless over-protection which pretends to see danger where there is none."


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1033483/I-launched-Childline-protect-vulnerable--unleashed-politically-correct-monster.html


  • #4
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    More nonsence. This world of ours is getting more stupid as the weeks go on.


  • #5
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    I fail to see how we can blame foreigners for this, it doesn't belong in AH.


  • #6
    keen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭keen


    I think the English have lost the plot.


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  • #7
    nevaeh-2die-4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭nevaeh-2die-4


    shayser wrote: »
    A mother prohibited from accompanying her child to school until she undergoes a background check for criminality.


    Forms for pregnacy/parenting permits can be obtained at your local police station.


    PROPER ORDER


  • #8
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Wait I know what happened.
    They were on the island, but like 6 of them got off of the island.
    But they werent allowed say anything about the island, and now they have to go back to the island, cos there are still lots of people on the island?
    Nope.
    I lost the plot too, midway through season 4.


  • #9
    Carrigart Exile
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Carrigart Exile


    The scourge of humanity are council 'experts' who are expert because they attended a one day training course


  • #10
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Robbo wrote: »
    I fail to see how we can blame foreigners for this, it doesn't belong in AH.
    The english are foreigners... :D

    =-=

    If the child has a fit, and injures himself, hope the council is brought to court.

    Oh, and if the family has a criminal record, would the council send a specialist in the cab with the child? I doubt it.


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