/ Most librarians will shoot you if you bring food or drink inside their beloved domain

Only in the Nanny State could this happen. Despicable.

When I'm in the library (and admittedly it's been a long time) I don't want any kid under 18 even coming near me, because the slightest incidental brush or bump could label me as a child molestor.

That's how crazy society has gotten. Keep your f--king kids far away from me, you paranoid, litigious parents. Maybe then I can read a book and drink a cup of coffee without fear of going to prison.

Ha ha, die Western puritanical culture, die.

Won't somebody ignore the children!

I'm more worried about the books. Think about the damn books for oncce and maybe the kids will learn something. Don't brink that latte in here.

Fark You, Nanny State!

Golly, next thing you know England will ban households from having stoves in houses where children live. Scissors should be banned. When does a lawnmower ban take place? Lets outlaw cars because cars are the number one reason for car accidents.

Oh well. One could say this is a problem of another country, those who live outside of England, however, this same madness will be coming to where you live soon.

They should close the library entirely, some kid could choke on a book or get an infected paper cut! They need to act on this immediately.

Decaffeinated section please, I'm a bleeder.

Oh fark it, just ban everything, including people. Then they will truly be safe!

You want my shoes as I enter the library?
Cuz I might kick some kid in the ass.

Good 'ol Daily Fail, never ceases to enrage the general public.

/approves

However, we understand that is not the case at all, because we have always finished our drinks before the children even arrive, and that it is the case that the librarian doesn't want to wash up extra cups.

Meh. That kinda blows the whole premise for this thread out of the water.

Ban the bathroom too. The kids could fall in the toilet.

and for an encore

i shall strike you with this flapJaCK

What's a coffee morning? Is that like a whole morning dedicated to coffee?

..or they could just make iced coffee.

submitter: At least they're thinking of the children

Oh, fark the children!

/My true feelings...or Michael Jackson's personal motto?

When they came for the coffee, I said nothing.

It's a library not Dunkin' Donuts.

I suspect that the real problem is that the library doesn't want a bunch of people treating the place like their personal kitchen. But you can't tell the members of the senior citizens coffee club that because they'll get offended and claim they never make a mess and always clean up after themselves. So what to do? Use toddlers as an excuse instead. Toddlers are well known to run around recklessly so the excuse becomes plausible even if it isn't the true reason.

Someone should start up a fruit smoothie drinking club at the same library and see what happens since toddler-smoothie collisions, while messy, aren't generally dangerous. The library's response would be interesting to see.

As long as my penis is allowed in libraries, the spilling of warm liquids on young children will continue.

I wish they would ban hot drinks in the Subway. Clumsy idiots are always spilling stuff on the floor and I'm always paranoid that someone will spill hot coffee on me. Of course, that person is going under the train. But still, I'd rather it not happen at all.

If you want to avoid "nanny state" laws, you need to encourage the people who don't know WTF they're doing even with something as simple as holding a cup of coffee to stay out the way so the rest of us can live.

Can I still burn them with an iron?

Oh and the libraries are not your personal day care centers. Instead of dropping your kids off while they do their *ahem* homework, stay with them, MONITOR THEM, and maybe read some yourself. Thats the only way they'll learn proper decorum without raging at a librarian for "shushing" them.

/once watched a librarian get jumped on by two large parents for daring to shush their kids who was playing a violent video game on a public computer with the volume at full. I was about to reenact the video game on the parents. THATS NOT WHY YOU BRING YOUR KID TO THE LBRARY ANY WAY RAWRRR!

They should ban fat people too because one of them might trip and fall and crush a child.

JRoo: Can I still burn them with an iron?

Only if you have a permit.

EngineerAU: It's a library not Dunkin' Donuts.

I suspect that the real problem is that the library doesn't want a bunch of people treating the place like their personal kitchen. But you can't tell the members of the senior citizens coffee club that because they'll get offended and claim they never make a mess and always clean up after themselves. So what to do? Use toddlers as an excuse instead. Toddlers are well known to run around recklessly so the excuse becomes plausible even if it isn't the true reason.

Someone should start up a fruit smoothie drinking club at the same library and see what happens since toddler-smoothie collisions, while messy, aren't generally dangerous. The library's response would be interesting to see.

FTFA:
'Nearly four years ago we set up a coffee morning at Eye Library after the librarian at the time came up with the idea, and since then about seven of us have been going there every Tuesday.

the only thing more annoying than the Nanny state being all Nanny state is the stultifyingly reflexive use of the term 'Nanny state' in anything related to the U.K.

imbrial: the only thing more annoying than the Nanny state being all Nanny state is the stultifyingly reflexive use of the term 'Nanny state' in anything related to the U.K.

yeah, well in this case the shoe fits.


quit yer biatchin'

This is another lame attempt in a string of lame attempts by a western state to legislate against accidents. This reminds me of the Canadian Public Service Announcements that were recommending people stop having accidents which suggested that the Canadian government had a fundamental misunderstanding of the word's definition.

A reminder for those who forgot: Warning, a bit graphic (new window).

Barakku: JRoo: Can I still burn them with an iron?

Only if you have a permit.

I have fish license.

Froman: I wish they would ban hot drinks in the Subway. .

Jared would not approve.

T-Luv: They should ban fat people too because one of them might trip and fall and crush a child.

I believe this has actually happened. Maybe not in a library, but it's happened.

Had boiling water spilled on me by a teacher when i was a kid, so I'm getting a kick, etc..


/scars to prove it, 20+ years later

spleef420: yeah, well in this case the shoe fits.

Except that the article itself says that nannyism isn't the real reason for the ban.

Froman: T-Luv: They should ban fat people too because one of them might trip and fall and crush a child.

I believe this has actually happened. Maybe not in a library, but it's happened.

It's a pretty good idea to keep fat people away from kids. They might catch teh fat and be doomed to a life of being a virgin and living in their mother's basement.

Phantom_Spaceman: Had boiling water spilled on me by a teacher when i was a kid, so I'm getting a kick, etc..


/scars to prove it, 20+ years later

Did you sue her? I hear teachers make a ton of money. You would have totally cleaned up!

I sure hope that those children have on all their helmets, guards, pads, and cups just in case they trip or bump into something. Better cover them in a layer of bubble wrap just to be safe.

binnster
Except that the article itself says that nannyism isn't the real reason for the ban.

I read it a little differently.FTFA:
"The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has called for sensible risk assessments to be made.
'While the last thing anyone would want is a toddler getting scalded, risk assessments shouldn't only be based on hazards,' said the group's spokesman Carl Christopher.

'They should also be based on the probability"

T-Luv: Froman: T-Luv: They should ban fat people too because one of them might trip and fall and crush a child.

I believe this has actually happened. Maybe not in a library, but it's happened.

It's a pretty good idea to keep fat people away from kids. They might catch teh fat and be doomed to a life of being a virgin and living in their mother's basement.

Phantom_Spaceman: Had boiling water spilled on me by a teacher when i was a kid, so I'm getting a kick, etc..


/scars to prove it, 20+ years later

Did you sue her? I hear teachers make a ton of money. You would have totally cleaned up!

When someone sues a teacher, their insurance policy covers it. Think my wife is insured for like $2 miilion if some snowflake sues her for whatever reason. Teaching math, doubt there is much danger of her getting sued.

They're right. Hot Coffee isn't for children.

FTFA:But council officials have now axed the meetings claiming that toddlers from a nearby nursery who use the library at the same time could be injured if hot coffee spilt on them.

Every week, down from every DAY the librarians had to call the police because parents were leaving their children unattended in the local library. The librarians were complaining that babysitting was not part of their job description.

It wasn't so long ago when you couldn't eat/drink in any library, though.

spleef420: imbrial: the only thing more annoying than the Nanny state being all Nanny state is the stultifyingly reflexive use of the term 'Nanny state' in anything related to the U.K.

yeah, well in this case the shoe fits.



Only if in your bizzaro dictionary the definition of "state" is "one small building whose manager makes many decisions about what to allow within the building independently of both local and national government"

Somewhat more of a "Nanny Library" maybe.

However, to put this into context somewhat it isn't that long ago that a pre-school child at a UK playgroup permanently lost the use of a hand after sticking it into a cup of tea that had been (rather foolishly) tucked under a chair by the adult sitting on said chair. And that adult was an employee who should have known better - even more potential for accident from a bunch of random members of the public.

Maybe they need more warning labels.

Warning labels make everything safer.

Will someone think of people other than the children?

Psychomancer: Ban the bathroom too. The kids could fall get raped in the toilet.

FTFY

/my public library has you sign out a bathroom key for this very reason
//it's also why I do patrols during the late night shift at the university library where I work

I've masturbated in the library before. Who hasn't?

okami36 Psychomancer: Ban the bathroom too. The kids could fall get raped in the toilet.

FTFY

/my public library has you sign out a bathroom key for this very reason
//it's also why I do patrols during the late night shift at the university library where I work

You patrol the library for people to rape?
Dude that's just sick.

This is why all stimulants should be in pill form