so the tree they put up was a cone with astro-turf on it? god, that must have looked awful. its hard to say how it looked from the picture of it all lit up, but if the description is accurate... ug.

Damn that is one ugly tree.

Uh, they put it up in the first place for health and safety reasons. dummy.

Christmas trees are shiat anyway

Hey now, moronically illiterate submitters are a Fark tradition.

You aren't against tradition, are you?

KILL THE TREES
KILL THE TREES
KILL THE TREES

Does no one read articles before submitting or greenlighting any more?

It's ok subby, there are a lot of people who aren't bright.

Maybe the English can start electing councils with some balls, you know, just for a change. It's not like there aren't English tough guys...

Eeeebil astro-turf trees are all over the place!!!1!

Link (NSFW-ish)

/actually 2nd hit for GISing "astro-turf"

What the hell, why have you English let yourselves become such wilted lillies?

Seriously every other day I see another display of inneptitude from the British government, be it national or local, and yet seems things are trending towards it getting worse not better.

Guy gets arrested for turning in a shotgun left on his property (granted he was probablly framed but a judge with a brain should have seen this was no crime), I've seen stories of roads changed, trees ripped up, trees replaced, parents banned from parks, etc all in the name of health and safety.

I thought we had helicopter parents here in the states, your whole country has become a helicopter parent. Guy Fawkes had the right idea it seems...

More than 4,000 furious residents joined a huge Facebook campaign calling for the artificial tree to be axed, with some threatening to burn it down.

Uh, oh. People on facebook are angry. Call in the National Guard to subdue this angry mob.

KingPsyz: What the hell, why have you English let yourselves become such wilted lillies?

Seriously every other day I see another display of inneptitude from the British government, be it national or local, and yet seems things are trending towards it getting worse not better.

Guy gets arrested for turning in a shotgun left on his property (granted he was probablly framed but a judge with a brain should have seen this was no crime), I've seen stories of roads changed, trees ripped up, trees replaced, parents banned from parks, etc all in the name of health and safety.

I thought we had helicopter parents here in the states, your whole country has become a helicopter parent. Guy Fawkes had the right idea it seems...

Yeah, and you forgot about the guy who went on a tirade having not read the article. Assholes! The whole lot of 'em.

A town that put up an bizarre fake Christmas tree that was likened to a an giant traffic cone is to replace it with a an traditional fir after a an campaign by residents.

ftfy

ObThreadjack:
Speaking of fake... My kid playfully threatened to Google on "My Dad is mean" so I did out of curiosity.

One of the hits was this http://isitnormal.com/ which seems like it's chock full of trolls.

Am I just a jaded curmudgeon or could any of this be genuine.

/not my site, I have no interest in your clicks

Fluorescent Testicle: Hey now, moronically illiterate submitters are a Fark tradition.

You aren't against tradition, are you?

War on Christmas!

Thats not a fail.

You Still can't beat My Hometowns Tree.


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The headline is completely accurate in no way whatsoever.

Submitter utterly fails at reading comprehension, please place your nuts in a vise until further notice.

Seacop: KingPsyz: What the hell, why have you English let yourselves become such wilted lillies?

Seriously every other day I see another display of inneptitude from the British government, be it national or local, and yet seems things are trending towards it getting worse not better.

Guy gets arrested for turning in a shotgun left on his property (granted he was probablly framed but a judge with a brain should have seen this was no crime), I've seen stories of roads changed, trees ripped up, trees replaced, parents banned from parks, etc all in the name of health and safety.

I thought we had helicopter parents here in the states, your whole country has become a helicopter parent. Guy Fawkes had the right idea it seems...

Yeah, and you forgot about the guy who went on a tirade having not read the article. Assholes! The whole lot of 'em.

NO WONDER THE ISLAMS THINK THEY CAN TAKE THE PLACE OVER!

/wait for it, wait for it
//FTFA: ""'Elf & safety is all well and good but it's gone far too far. " Tee hee.

KingPsyz: Seriously every other day I see another display of inneptitude from the British government, be it national or local, and yet seems things are trending towards it getting worse not better.

This ... from someone living in Nevada

*snicker*

Thats funny

// quick pro tip - news on fark is biased towards the funny and the ridiculous
/ check out your local news dipshiat

Gsm136: You Still can't beat My Hometowns Tree.


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that's a travesty

Slartibartfaster: KingPsyz: Seriously every other day I see another display of inneptitude from the British government, be it national or local, and yet seems things are trending towards it getting worse not better.

This ... from someone living in Nevada

*snicker*

Thats funny

// quick pro tip - news on fark is biased towards the funny and the ridiculous
/ check out your local news dipshiat

I have yet to see the strip shut down for health and saftey reasons trolltard, but good jorb thar.

Today, I learned that Health and Safety Concerns Ltd is actually a very successful business in Great Britan, and there is no escaping it.
The firm has extensive agreements in place with nearly every town council there, and actively seeks to change all those common everyday events we all used to enjoy so much in order to generate cash revenue. If this means causing government money to be spent twice for the same thing, then so be it.
They also are branching out into the food and entertainment areas, and have already made a serious inroads into the food sales locations onboard British Rail.
There is now a serious discussion ongoing about Health and Safety Concerns Ltd taking a position against fast food restaurants unless those same restaurants immediately change the menu to something specified by Health and Safety Concerns Ltd.

Kind of looks like we'll all be wired into the machine soon.

Yep, you look like retarded idiots, Britain.


Take back your country soon, please.

KingPsyz: I have yet to see the strip shut down for health and saftey reasons trolltard, but good jorb thar.

You can hardly hold up Nevada, as a paragon of intelligent government

you live in a farking desert idiot, an artificially created cess pool

... GO to england, then compare it
fark it , just go ANYWHERE

And try not to judge a nation based on fark headlines

... If you think THEIR government is idiotic, check out ours !!!

KingPsyz: the strip shut down for health and saftey reasons trolltard, but good jorb thar

That would have been SO accurate and BURN...
If I had actually said anything vaguely like that

meathead

Brits are strange. Their food is strange, too.

I'm pretty sure those are two boys on the label.

/NTTAWWT

"hyper wank device" would be a great Fark alt.

KingPsyz: What the hell, why have you English let yourselves become such wilted lillies?

Seriously every other day I see another display of inneptitude from the British government, be it national or local, and yet seems things are trending towards it getting worse not better.

Guy gets arrested for turning in a shotgun left on his property (granted he was probablly framed but a judge with a brain should have seen this was no crime), I've seen stories of roads changed, trees ripped up, trees replaced, parents banned from parks, etc all in the name of health and safety.

I thought we had helicopter parents here in the states, your whole country has become a helicopter parent. Guy Fawkes had the right idea it seems...

The Brits should remember this for their next election:

IF IT'S BROWN, FLUSH IT DOWN!

(Seriously, your politicians suck the big ones. They seem to think George Orwell's 1984 is a manual and that the "Home Office" so beloved by the pols.)

This is so totally messed up.

http://www.london-student.net/2009/11/16/not-so-nutt-y-professor/ (new window)

we've been had

Lol, they were climbing up it. No wonder, they don't allow anything dangerous there. If you don't learn what's dangerous and what hurts when you grow up, you do stupid things.

FTA: "It's ludicrous, cost a flipping fortune and makes the people of Poole look foolish, foolish to have voted in such a prissy and extravagant council.

It is not known what will happend with the hated fir-cone tree.

Yes, you do look foolish, Nanny State. You also look extra foolish when you forget ending quotation marks and have basic misspellings in your articles. Stupid and lame is a helluva combo!

Wanted for questioning:

What's scary is there's a decent amount of competition for the I-NEED-a-corn-shaped-vibrator market share.

/and by decent, I mean more than one.

Katie98_KT: so the tree they put up was a cone with astro-turf on it? god, that must have looked awful. its hard to say how it looked from the picture of it all lit up, but if the description is accurate... ug.

Here's what it really looks like in the day. Big piece of shiate.

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