To start, I noted with passing interest how quick the media was to report the full details of those fellows arrested for being members of some banned far right, extreme right, ultra-hard right, take a right then right again neo-nasty - take your pick - club. Surprisingly, there was no hint, as is usual with this sort of thing, of their being bullied at school, their love of tennis and the viola, mental health issues or that they may possibly have been radicalised by an extremist officer back on base. Compare that with the mumblingly vague way anything naughty that’s done by one of our newest, bestest ever friends is reported. Let’s see if the BBC can see its way to start reporting, as swiftly, the same level of personal detail pertaining to the perpetrator of the next naughty thing that’s done by the really bad fellows. Breath holding is not advised.
Anyhoo, moving ever onwards, while we were out and about this AM, I grabbed me something to eat for this evening, as you do, and chose a nice lookin’ rump steak. This steak was vacuum packed in plastic and while waiting in line at the cash-out, and for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on, I found myself reading the label on the packaging and wot I found interesting was the included cooking instructions. Even more interesting was the important point that all plastic packaging MUST be removed before frying or grilling. Whoa! Who’d have guessed that then?
If it’s really necessary to put this sort of stunner on plastic food packaging, or any food packaging for that matter, then we’re in an even sadder state than the sad state I thought we were in.
Quote; Tom Smothers.
"Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat - that’s bad for you!"
4 comments:
"all plastic packaging MUST be removed before frying or grilling."
I foresee a time when helpful little symbols are printed on the packaging to make this really, really clear.
One symbol will be a picture of the packaging being dropped into the frying pan. This will have a big red cross on it. The other symbol will be a picture of the steak being added to the frying pan. This will have a big green tick.
A K Haart,
You are obviously a man of great vision.
My advice for what it’s worth? Get those logos drawn up and get down to the Patents Office as fast as you can. There could be money in them-there logos.
A K Haart is, I believe, from my native county of Derbyshire where people are very safety conscious.
In Derby market place there is a "water feature" without any water. The council says it costs £32,000 a year to keep it flowing.
The construction looks a bit like one of those Soviet era saluting bases from which the politburo reviewed the proletariat.
One complainant wrote to the Derby Telegraph to complain. Whilst he was " drink taken" as the Irish say, he had climbed to the top of this structure, fallen and injured himself severely. The council, he said, had a duty to fence such hazards securely. Doubtless a claim for compensation will follow .
Mr Spalton,
You would think that, in these ‘enlightened’ times, a snowflake would’ve found a link, however tenuous, with this fountain and our wicked imperial past and demanded it be pulled down. Then, if a compensation claim is launched against the council, they would go ahead and demolish it rather than build a fence which drunks would be tempted to climb, fall off and claim compensation.
This could then move on to the destruction of all such ‘climbable’ water features around the country with the added bonus of preventing the dam breaking on a full flood of further fountain injury claims.
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