http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6915463/Peanut-butter-brand-withdrawn-shelves-jar-doesnt-warn-contains-nuts.html
Not gone mad, just nuts :rofl2:
beam me up Scotty :)
OMG! That is just mind moggling fecken dumb! Rules are rules, but for god sake, it says 3 nut butter. Come on world, anyone who has an allergy to nuts, of any sort, would be very foolish to be eating peanut butter of any sort. Now if they are allergic & they do wish to eat this product & can not see the big words on the front of the jar, then how would they see the small print on the reverse?
PC Bullshit IMO. H & S fecken madness 2c worth from down under.
Spot on Col.
FFS, it is Peanut butter & says Peanut, Pecan & Walnuts in big print on the front.
The issue will be, that they will have to have it on the contents section, because some Scumbags will notice it missing and use it to sue them for millions. There should be a Stupiditty clause.
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although it is 3-nut butter and it's really dumb so...
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Health and Safety has gone mad...
Signs have been put up next to each wash hand basin at work stating..."Caution Hot Water"..Really!! No sh*t Sherlock :rolleyes:
Quote from: froudy on Sunday, 14 April 2019, 06:12 PM
Health and Safety has gone mad...
Signs have been put up next to each wash hand basin at work stating..."Caution Hot Water"..Really!! No sh*t Sherlock :rolleyes:
You mean to tell me that Hot water is Hot. Imagine that.
How did we ever get through uninjured before the OH&S team came along :whatever:
I know Sweaty, it's a bloody joke.
The drinks machine even has H&S stickers on it stating that drinks could be hot and "May contain milk"...WTF is that all about?????
I'm not saying let's go kill all the stupid people...
I'm just saying let's remove all warning labels and let the problem sort itself out.
Technically any one born and raised prior to the 70/80 when all the signs made us safe shouldn't have survived!
Raise your hand if you survived a childhood in the 60s, 70s, and 80s that included one or more of the following, frowned-upon activities (raise both hands if you bear a scar proving your daredevil participation in these dare-devilish events):
1.Riding in the back of an open pick-up truck with a bunch of other kids
2.Leaving the house after breakfast and not returning until the streetlights came on, at which point, you raced home, ASAP so you didn't get in trouble
3.Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the school cafeteria
4.Riding your bike without a helmet
5.Riding your bike with a buddy on the handlebars, and neither of you wearing helmets
6.Drinking water from the hose in the yard
7.Swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes (or what they now call *cough* "wild swimming")
8.Climbing trees (One park cut the lower branches from a tree on the playground in case some stalwart child dared to climb them)
9.Having snowball fights (and accidentally hitting someone you shouldn't)
10.Sledding without enough protective equipment to play a game in the NFL
11.Carrying a pocket knife to school (or having a fishing tackle box with sharp things on school property)
12.Camping
13.Throwing rocks at snakes in the river
14.Playing politically incorrect games like Cowboys and Indians
15.Playing Cops and Robbers with *gasp* toy guns
16.Pretending to shoot each other with sticks we imagined were guns
17.Shooting an actual gun or a bow (with *gasp* sharp arrows) at a can on a log, accompanied by our parents who gave us pointers to improve our aim. Heck, there was even a marksmanship club at my high school
18.Saying the words "gun" or "bang" or "pow pow" (there actually a freakin' CODE about "playing with invisible guns")
19.Working for your pocket money well before your teen years
20.Taking that money to the store and buying as much penny candy as you could afford, then eating it in one sitting
21.Eating pop rocks candy and drinking soda, just to prove we were exempt from that urban legend that said our stomachs would explode
22.Getting so dirty that your mom washed you off with the hose in the yard before letting you come into the house to have a shower
23.Writing lines for being a jerk at school, either on the board or on paper
24.Playing "dangerous" games like dodgeball, kickball, tag, whiffle ball, and red rover (The Health Department of New York issued a warning about the "significant risk of injury" from these games)
25.Walking to school alone
@horse I was born in 1961 and I can proudly say that I did 23 things from your list...
We did shoot at each other with air rifles too AND make gunpowder...And I once hit a railway line warning detonator with a hammer :imrgreen:
And I'm still alive to tell the tales :boogie:
As a kid, I put a shotgun cartridge in a vice & hit the centre with a hammer & nail. :doh: :happy1: Went off alright! could of blown me wee feet off.
To me it was just a bigger fire cracker. I came away unscathed from the shell, the concrete floor had pits in it & my ears were ringing from the shell & the clip I got. :rofl2:
Half my delinquent youth was spent burning, shooting or detonating something got a few scars but am still alive, and I learned from every mistake I made if you let your kids push the boundary's now you will get reported for some form of abuse. No mistakes , no consequences = little to no learning
Horse, great list. Reckon i did all of them. Will try n think of other stuff we got up to.
Does emptying a 12bore cartridge into a saucer & lighting wiv a match count?
Horse, I've got both hands up and a few more besides except number 13 :)
I have even played conkers without full PPE
There's no doubt we have had a great (relatively) war free period (baby boomer) and freedoms kids nowdays dream about. My 22 year old often says he envys our era when I get together with mates and the stupid storys start, he wonders where he's gonna get his storys from in this politically correct world.
The funny part is the "dangers" we faced like dirt and risk made our immune systems stronger and us more resilient and the sad part about it is in hindsight the list of youth folleys I indicated has now probably got me on some watch list , yes the world is very different place than 40 years ago,
Have a great Easter break (woops that's not PC either!!)
Nearly all of them...funny thing is we never gave it a second thought, it was all just part of growing up.
I'm trying to let my kids have the same sort of experiences, just not always possible , so yes, the world has gone bonkers :cheers:
I was born in 63 and yes I've done all those things and more besides like before the biggest housing estate we have it was all empty fields and waste dumps we turned into a scramble track and we would ride anything we could lay our hands on . C50's 70's,90's dt125's,175's , my mate had an old tank of a bultaco which seized mid-air on a jump causing him to be thrown over the handlebars on landing ,no crash helmet,or riding gear , got up dusted himself off and lived to tell the tale . Nowadays if you did that you would surrounded by 3000 cops and a helicopter over head.
Horse - I managed 20. Again born in 63. I'm convinced the human race is mutating. Look at all those dietary things nowadays. In my day - you never heard a thing. Just ate stuff.
Oh. I used to live near a RAF bombing range that was alongside cliffs. We used to go along and hurl these things all over the place. Taking spent shells home. Now? They scour the beach every day with a vehicle. In case anyone comes to any harm - crying out loud what we used to get up to.
Best craze a school. Two bolts. One nut. Fold about a dozen caps. Put in centre of nut. Bolt a bolt either end. And hurl the thing skywards. When it hits the ground it explodes. We survived bolts flying across the school yard...
Basil ,
So called "Bolt Bombs" were a favourite in aus in the 60/70s as well, used to use match heads ,caps were a bit fancy in my day we were probably a little lucky that the resultant projectile never took out an eye but the fact remains no one died from these events.
They cancelled guy fawkes day in the 70s as death was imminent you gotta love being nursemaided to death!!
Rebels all of you ..........how totally irresponsible !!
Years ago Santa was banned from throwing lollies for the kids at the Christmas Santa Parade.
Just imagine if a lolly had hit a kid in the eye or a kid got trampled by some fat bastard parent diving for a toffee.
After the tragic mass shooting in Christchurch NZ has hit the PC button big time.
Quote from: horse on Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 08:53 AM
Basil ,
So called "Bolt Bombs" were a favourite in aus in the 60/70s as well, used to use match heads ,caps were a bit fancy in my day we were probably a little lucky that the resultant projectile never took out an eye but the fact remains no one died from these events.
They cancelled guy fawkes day in the 70s as death was imminent you gotta love being nursemaided to death!!
That's 'em!! Never thought of using match heads. Nice one.
Funniest thing I ever saw. Game of footie at dinner hour. Bloke with a box of matches on his jeans arse pocket - you know what's coming next. Ball slams into his arse. Pocket goes up. It still makes my eyes water thinking about it... non of us got harmed - much... :happy1:
Quote from: froudy on Monday, 15 April 2019, 03:17 PM
@horse
I was born in 1961 and I can proudly say that I did 23 things from your list...
We did shoot at each other with air rifles too AND make gunpowder...And I once hit a railway line warning detonator with a hammer :imrgreen:
And I'm still alive to tell the tales :boogie:
Two years younger than you Froudy and I did 20 of these things - regularly. You can't fix stupid so just get rid of the signs and let those at the shallow end of the gene pool to it. As for suing companies ie McDonald's in the hot coffee debacle, perhaps the courts should be telling these idiots, and their lawyers, to f@ck right off
I recall using a .22LR rifle to shoot targets in my mates garden... from his bedroom window !
No cops. no black helicopters, no neighbourhood paranoia, nobody hurt.
Quote from: mjgt on Sunday, 14 April 2019, 05:51 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6915463/Peanut-butter-brand-withdrawn-shelves-jar-doesnt-warn-contains-nuts.html
I just thought of this thread.
My wife has some sleeping pills that she occasionally uses.
On the box was the warning "May Cause Drowsiness".
No shit Sherlock!!
You'd bloody hope so! That's what you paid for.
In the U.S. (of course) there was a guy who tried to sue the makers of his RV as it crashed when he put it on 'Cruise control' and went for a nap in the back!!! :facepalm:
Me & she who must be obeyed often stop & try any little cafe we come across on our travels, no matter where, so, one day last year we were in a pleasant little roadside eatery, enjoying our whatevers, when behind us some woman started ranting on, loud so everyone heard,
'Well, I don't even have this at home, so I CERTAINLY not having it here', she screams, poor old waitress was getting it in the neck, then the 'chef' came out, he got both barrels as well, & of course everybody bent their necks to investigate.
What was the fuss about, THEY'D LEFT THE FAT ON HER BACON FOR CHRISTS SAKE!! Come on cafes, get your act together, no wonder blighty is up shit-creek.
Quote from: Cykik on Monday, 15 April 2019, 06:10 PM
Does emptying a 12bore cartridge into a saucer & lighting wiv a match count?
I did pour half a container of gunpowder into a bin at school and chucked a match in after it. Impressive result too.
Smokeless powder so not explosive - more flame than noise.
Unfortunately at the root of all this is money.
It is not necessarily about keeping people safe, it is about legislation and not being sued as a business.
If your jar contains nuts and someone with a nut allergy gorges themselves on it and keels over it is not a problem if your label conforms. The chap or chapess bent double on the ground is of little consequence to the manufacturers P&L.