Lionel Mandrake: Teachers and staff made a dumb decision...where does the "State" enter into this?

It's a dictatorship, everything is enforced by the "State".

I can compete in a 3-legged race all by myself.
/that's right, ladies.

Nanny state crotch-fruit

Damn you strange guitar, I stopped in to say the same thing.

It's The Sun. For our American readers, "It's the National Enquirer."

The decision has been slammed by the Campaign Against Political Correctness group.

Oh that bunch of retarded coonts!

strangeguitar: I can compete in a 3-legged race all by myself.
/that's right, ladies.

You lost your legs?

Wander00: It's The Sun. For our American readers, "It's the National Enquirer."

So this never even happened?

Isn't about time the U.K. gets its own tag, like Florida?

Thanks to the actions of rapacious coonts injury lawyers, private organisations frequently seek to minimise their exposure to liability. More at 11.

Isn't that the whole point of sack races, and three legged races?

I absolutely love that the big risk here was kids falling over. That's just taking bizarre to a whole new level.

/rushes to patent shoe training wheels
//no wheels though, cause that's dangerous!

I wonder who would win a war. Would it be the army made up of Brits who couldn't have sack races at kids because they might fall down and get a bo bo? Or the army made up of people who were born in bomb craters and have been carrying AK47s since they were 8?

Lionel Mandrake: Teachers and staff made a dumb decision...where does the "State" enter into this?

The part where they're state employees at a state institution, maybe? Nah, couldn't be that obvious, could it, farktard?

unholycode76: I wonder who would win a war. Would it be the army made up of Brits who couldn't have sack races at kids because they might fall down and get a bo bo? Or the army made up of people who were born in bomb craters and have been carrying AK47s since they were 8?

Probably the Brits, because I don't think sack races have a great deal of importance with regards to superior military training.

another day another fark story about the uk drawn from the gutter press.

Paulistinian: The part where they're state employees at a state institution, maybe? Nah, couldn't be that obvious, could it, farktard?

RTFA. The person quoted as banning sack and three legged races, Simon Woolley, head of education at Beamish in County Durham, is the employee of a private organisation, not a school.

unholycode76: I wonder who would win a war. Would it be the army made up of Brits who couldn't have sack races at kids because they might fall down and get a bo bo? Or the army made up of people who were born in bomb craters and have been carrying AK47s since they were 8?

Perhaps some practical test could be applied, whereby we send troops with an average age of 22 to fight in the bloodiest conflict seen by British troops since Korea, if not WW2, against an army created to fight the might of the USSR ? We could call it 'Helmand Province'.

They should just regulate the size of the sacks. And prevent the kids drinking alcohol prior to the start of the race.

/smashed collar bone a couple of years back in a sack race. We won the three-legged race though! (all participants were over 30).
//smashed other side of collar bone playing football when I was a kid, but they won't ban soccer will they?

Make everything that can be made out of Nerf material out of Nerf material, ban everything else. Problem solved.

/Bonus: We can re-legalize drunk driving!

Why don't we just wrap our kids in bubble wrap for the rest of their lives? Banning these sorts of activities is going to turn these kids into wuss bags.

Best comment from the article:
Posted by: Haushinka-daz
I'd've understood it more if they thought the 3 legged race was offensive to survivors of chernobyl, but this is rediculous...

why does DREW CURTIS write a book about how awful the media is at reporting news and dealing with the issues and then constantly accept money from THE SUN/ THE DAILY MAIL / FOX NEWS / etc etc

bunch of liars, crooks and thieves, the whole bunch of them would be strung up for treason if 1/100th of what they did came out

untaken_name: Make everything that can be made out of Nerf material out of Nerf material, ban everything else. Problem solved.

/Bonus: We can re-legalize drunk driving!

Except we wouldn't have alcohol because it can't be made out of nerf. Heck, we couldn't have air if it wasn't completely out of nerf!

/What if all the air in the world turned to wood?
//Oooooooh

More dangerous to walk on the sidewalk in London at times with all the chavs and teens with pocket knives running about.

They banned the 3 legged race and the sack race for fear of injury, but they can throw ping-pong balls.

Wouldn't it be ironic if one of the snowflakes choked on said balls.

liberalish: Wander00: It's The Sun. For our American readers, "It's the National Enquirer."

So this never even happened?

Are you insinuating that The Sun, The National Enquirer, etc., fabricate stories? Shocked I am! Shocked and horrified!

Wander00: It's The Sun. For our American readers, "It's the National Enquirer."

You've never actually read the National Enquirer, have you? They aren't comparable at all.

The British should just start learning Farsi now. It's only a matter of time.

I used to work for a private school in Australia (not the Nanny State, but we have our moments), so I'm really getting a kick etc.
We started to have to write out "risk assessment forms" for any kind of outside activity, whether it was sky-diving or going to the McDonalds across the road. This entailed actually going to wherever we were taking the kids and.. well, have a look round for hazards like man-eating tigers, pedophile gangs or something like that, I guess...
My solution, as with any ridiculous beauracracy, was to simply no longer take my students on excursions. I didn't make enough money to fill out useless paperwork.
tl;dr No one trusts anyone else anymore, organisations are scared of being sued, shiat sucks etc.

Paulistinian: Lionel Mandrake: Teachers and staff made a dumb decision...where does the "State" enter into this?

The part where they're state employees at a state institution, maybe? Nah, couldn't be that obvious, could it, farktard?

If you actually had a clue what you were talking about you wouldn't look like such a retard. Nah, couldn't be that obvious could it, farktard?

\Love it when knobheads get shown up.

Paulistinian: Lionel Mandrake: Teachers and staff made a dumb decision...where does the "State" enter into this?

The part where they're state employees at a state institution, maybe? Nah, couldn't be that obvious, could it, farktard?

I didn't realise that the Beamish Open Air Museum was a state-run organisation.

But Rugby is still entirely safe.

However, all the would-be participants will still get a ribbon to avoid a lack of self-esteem.

They have a school named after a U.S. President?

CarnySaur: They have a school named after a U.S. President?

John F. Kennedy toured Washington in the run up to it becoming a 'new town'. As this was shortly before his assassination (and was the most exciting thing to happen in Washington ever, at least until ASDA Walmart opened), there are quite a few things bearing his name including the former Colliery School, which was one of the sites he visited.

I can haz punctuation ?

/preview is waisted on me

RubberFootMan

Mimimal research has shown that the url for Beamish open air museum is http://www.beamish.org.uk/ which implies it is state run actually.

note - minimal research. So don't post some smug response about how wrong I am if I am.

/doesn't really care

Mart Laar's beard shaver: Isn't about time the U.K. gets its own tag, like Florida?

How about a "Nanny State" tag?

Swiss Colony: So don't post some smug response about how wrong I am if I am.

"..."

Is there anything fun that one can do in the nanny state that doesn't involve a padded room? (or is that to dangerous?)

But then where is the strategy? next thing you know, they can't kick a ball in soccer, someone might get tripped.

my folks made me fap with a nerf glove

this is the result of government health care. i'm waiting for the government to start suing citizens for injuring themselves.

BunkyBrewman:
/history will always repeat itself
//do I *really* have to explain this?

i am really interested to hear your theory of how sack races are vital training for combat operations. please enlighten me.