A shop assistant refused to let a six-year-old girl help her mother buy a box of Christmas crackers – because of laws banning the sale of "explosives" to children

More on this story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... rites.html

Crackers 4 sure I've never heard of any instances of anybody being injured while pulling a cracker.
One might presume now caps are out of bounds to the under 18s and probably spud guns to
what next pea shooters

Dunno about pea-shooters yet but here is another example of our over bearing state: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... lergy.html

Loads and loads of other examples of so-called "do-gooders", trying to stop conker fights for various other nebulous reasons around too

And there are more, loads more. Apparently girls, or boys, shouldn't make daisy chains these days because of the terrible (potential?) risk involved with Children contacting plants, which might be a bit dirty

Hopscotch, marbles and leapfrog amongst other games are now taboo according to: http://www.britishcouncil.org/poland-tr ... onkers.htm

It just makes me pleased that I grew up before all this rubbish came about. I really feel sorry for the present generation of Children who will be deprived of the fun we had as kids

Recently a news report highlights a issues surrounding criminal gangs set out to defraud.
Criminal gangs are cold calling over the telephone inviting individuals to purchase virus protection software.
Posing as a legitimate software organisation they offer fake security software that can be downloaded for around £30.
Combined with the credit card information gained from the sale along with stolen personal info
(eg) passwords & banking details they then set out to defraud the customer or commit more complex scams.
'Pickings are many' resulting in some gangs having even set up scam call centres employing as many as 400 staff to defraud en-masse.
Even some web masters have been tricked to advertising fake software online, fraudsters are paying as much as 80k to the advertisers
indicating that the scam profits must be greater than this amount.
Be Aware

Wagbo !
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Enhanced Pat Down Techniques
Have we have become so spooked by “terror threats” that now we will submit to just about anything in the name of security ?
It has been suggested that, we are allowing ourselves to be treated as little more than cattle.
Procedures that would once be considered offensive and an affront to our human dignity, are now accepted as 'the new normal'.

If you want to get on an airplane in America today, you must either go through one of the incredibly intrusive full body scanners that are going into all U.S. airports and let airport security gawk at your exposed body, or you must allow airport security to feel you up using the new 'enhanced pat-down' techniques.

It has been said that if anyone tried to touch us in this proposed manner on the street they would be put in prison.
But is this the new America where we must give up our right to privacy and dignity so that everyone can feel a little bit safer.

Up until this week, many Americans were not that concerned about the new full body security scanners going into airports across the nation because they still had the alternative of opting for a minimally intrusive pat-down. But now that has all changed. It turns out that too many Americans were opting for the pat-down, so now the TSA is rolling out their new “enhanced pat-down” procedures.

Previously, airport security officials used the backs of their hands to pat down passengers, but now they are being required to use the fronts of their hands. This includes directly touching some body parts that would just receive only a quick brush over with the back of the hand before.

If you want to get on a plane in America today, the following examples are the kind of things you will be going to have to endure. Nobody is exempt.

A recent story in the News featured an expert explaining what these changes will mean for a female passenger….
“You go down the body and up to the breast portion,” said Charles Slepian of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center.
“If it’s a female passenger, you’re going to see if there’s anything in the bra.”

These new procedures are so highly intrusive that even those who work for the mainstream media are starting to seriously complain.

For example, CNN employee Rosemary Fitzpatrick was absolutely horrified when she was recently patted-down by airport security. According to her, the airport security official ran her hands around her breasts, over her stomach, buttocks and her inner thighs, and even touched her most private areas. The following is how Fitzpatrick described how she felt about the experience to CNN….


An airline pilot based in Memphis who recently refused both the enhanced pat-down and the full body scan was barred from flying.

Things are getting completely and totally ridiculous.
(prison planet TV)

That's my boys
One son bets the other that he can't stand on a pouffe for 2 hours. The bet? £40.
The son standing on the pouffe neglected to get his beers and the remote before he started. So sad. Lol xxx
But the his determination to win the bet was commendable and he won the bet 2 hours on a pouffe £40
Although he owed nova £60 anyway so no money changed hands.
But well done mozza21 your a winner