Are you a member of the PC Brigade?
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some small organisations for instance are told that they must install disabled ramps and toilet facilities, which in principle is an excellent idea, but i have heard of a few instances where the cost of installing such facilities is absolutely astronomical and simply cannot be afforded.
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Ben6899 wrote:No.
I hanker after the days when I could air small minded prejudice safe in the knowledge that enough other people were similarly small minded (nasahapley 2010)
I have to say I'm quite pleased to have posted something that somebody else feels warrants quoting in not one but two threads, even if that someone else thinks what I've written is tosh! On that basis, Willhub must be made up right now!
Apparently I'm a member of a lot of brigades - Im losing track tbh. The PC brigade is probably the most well known and all of us here are in the lycra lout brigade, but the best brigades I've been told I'm a member of are the 'perverts brigade', the 'rice rocket brigade' and, just yesterday in fact, the 'red braces brigade'.0 -
rake wrote:some small organisations for instance are told that they must install disabled ramps and toilet facilities, which in principle is an excellent idea, but i have heard of a few instances where the cost of installing such facilities is absolutely astronomical and simply cannot be afforded.
what should you do?
Rants against this sort of thing should properly be directed at the Health and Safety brigade, not the PC gone mad brigade.0 -
agreed.0
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nasahapley wrote:rake wrote:some small organisations for instance are told that they must install disabled ramps and toilet facilities, which in principle is an excellent idea, but i have heard of a few instances where the cost of installing such facilities is absolutely astronomical and simply cannot be afforded.
what should you do?
Rants against this sort of thing should properly be directed at the Health and Safety brigade, not the PC gone mad brigade.
yes, quite right, employers should be free to harm or kill their employees! :shock:'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0 -
Its not health and safety, it is the Disability Discrimination Act, which has the outrageous assumption that people with disabilities should not be barred from access to public buildings. I know its a bike forum, but that shouldn't preclude signs of human decency and empathy for those who have greater difficulty with day to day life. Still, I suppose you have no disability, so why give a stuff???nasahapley wrote:rake wrote:some small organisations for instance are told that they must install disabled ramps and toilet facilities, which in principle is an excellent idea, but i have heard of a few instances where the cost of installing such facilities is absolutely astronomical and simply cannot be afforded.
what should you do?
Rants against this sort of thing should properly be directed at the Health and Safety brigade, not the PC gone mad brigade.
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read again. i said in principle is an excellent idea. sadly not everything excellent is viable.alfablue wrote:
Its not health and safety, it is the Disability Discrimination Act, which has the outrageous assumption that people with disabilities should not be barred from access to public buildings. I know its a bike forum, but that shouldn't preclude signs of human decency and empathy for those who have greater difficulty with day to day life. Still, I suppose you have no disability, so why give a stuff???nasahapley wrote:rake wrote:some small organisations for instance are told that they must install disabled ramps and toilet facilities, which in principle is an excellent idea, but i have heard of a few instances where the cost of installing such facilities is absolutely astronomical and simply cannot be afforded.
what should you do?
Rants against this sort of thing should properly be directed at the Health and Safety brigade, not the PC gone mad brigade.0 -
I'm not a racist but...... why do they let xc people from Surrey on these boards is beyond me, political correctness gone mad, segregate the buggers 0
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I voted no, bearing in mind I hate almost everyone including myself.0
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ratsbeyfus wrote:
Says you, living in Brighton. King poo of plop mountain, thats you that is.
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I don't own a cat any more.Can I still vote?bagpuss0
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johnfinch wrote:dmclite wrote:Says you, living in Brighton. King poo of plop mountain, thats you that is.
Yeah, you tell him!
We shouldn't take anything like that from someone living in Sodom-on-Sea.
Thanks to our new Green MP when you're going to hell in your diesel powered, polluto-mobile, passing the bloodied corpses of baby polar bears, tigers and natter-jack toads accompanied by your excma addled, UV scorched, GM modified, pamper clad scrote babies, we, the lycra clad citizens of 'B-right-on', will be living in a green, pollution free organic utopia where everday folk of any class, creed or colour can walk the streets proudly wheeling their green carbon framed bicycles without fear of being cyber-molested by dim wits.
At least, that's what it said on the Green party leaflet that got shoved through my letterbox.0 -
ratsbeyfus wrote:johnfinch wrote:dmclite wrote:Says you, living in Brighton. King poo of plop mountain, thats you that is.
Yeah, you tell him!
We shouldn't take anything like that from someone living in Sodom-on-Sea.
Thanks to our new Green MP when you're going to hell in your diesel powered, polluto-mobile, passing the bloodied corpses of baby polar bears, tigers and natter-jack toads accompanied by your excma addled, UV scorched, GM modified, pamper clad scrote babies, we, the lycra clad citizens of 'B-right-on', will be living in a green, pollution free organic utopia where everday folk of any class, creed or colour can walk the streets proudly wheeling their green carbon framed bicycles without fear of being cyber-molested by dim wits.
At least, that's what it said on the Green party leaflet that got shoved through my letterbox.
You have a letterbox ?, Letterboxes are the work of capitalistic, bourgeouis, aristocratic, fossil burning Empire builders, you Freakin' Nazi. :shock: 0 -
Yes, I do have a PC.
Mac users really piss me off."I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson0 -
nasahapley wrote:Ben6899 wrote:No.
I hanker after the days when I could air small minded prejudice safe in the knowledge that enough other people were similarly small minded (nasahapley 2010)
I have to say I'm quite pleased to have posted something that somebody else feels warrants quoting in not one but two threads, even if that someone else thinks what I've written is tosh! On that basis, Willhub must be made up right now!
Apparently I'm a member of a lot of brigades - Im losing track tbh. The PC brigade is probably the most well known and all of us here are in the lycra lout brigade, but the best brigades I've been told I'm a member of are the 'perverts brigade', the 'rice rocket brigade' and, just yesterday in fact, the 'red braces brigade'.
Firstly; you're welcome.
Secondly; there's never any smoke without fire, sugarpants.Ben
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nolf wrote:Mac users really wee-wee me off.
Racist!Ben
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johnfinch wrote:nolf wrote:Yes, I do have a PC.
Mac users really wee-wee me off.
Macs are for proper people.
Mac users:
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Rick Chasey wrote:johnfinch wrote:nolf wrote:Yes, I do have a PC.
Mac users really wee-wee me off.
Macs are for proper people.
Mac users:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12JTDp6xm18
I don't go to Starbucks though.
Coffee is wrong.0 -
Be careful of men wearing macs....Can I say that :?: News FLASH :!:bagpuss0
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Ben6899 wrote:No.
I hanker after the days when I could air small minded prejudice safe in the knowledge that enough other people were similarly small minded (nasahapley 2010)
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Another phrase is "Nanny State", usually voiced by those who often say "something should be done about..." Social norms have changed over the years and people are less inhibited about expressing themselves, which is a "good thing". Sadly this is sometimes taken as an opportunity to be offensive, the claim that everything can be covered by "good manners" is often made by people with bad manners but no realisation of that fact.
Unfortunately some people, feeling themselves part of a persecuted minority, act offensively, either to emphasize their status or excercise prejudices of their own; demanding a freedom from criticism but denying it to others. I think that it is a British characteristic to be tolerant of others, oddly there are many who take pride in their Britishness who seem to have little tolerance.
Much of the H & S madness is due to our weaselly insurance industry and the risk-averse premiums applied to events such as bike races on the open road.
There you go, we got a cycling reference in eventually
The older I get the faster I was0
