Law on bathwater

[Denny Crane!]

Legislation has been proposed for regulating hot water temperatures down to a safe temperature quoting the need to stop the 600 accidents a year where people are burned. So they will legislate for 60000000 people based on something that happens to 1 in 100000.

What are the side effects of this legislation to you or I? A regulator that costs £80 to buy and god knows how much to fit, which limits your water temperatures to what is considered a safe margin. Scotland (in the spring) and Canada as far as I know already have these laws just to show I am not opining that England has a monopoly on insanity.

Madness.

Be very afraid of the taps of mass destruction
Simon Jenkins (the times opinion column)



I knew it. Turn my back for half a minute and Tony Blair is into my bathroom pointing at the basin and shrieking. There is terror in the taps, fear in the faucets, panic in the plughole. He orders his Health and Safety Executive stormtroopers to kick down my door and take a sledgehammer to my brass-necked weapons of mass destruction. They constitute a major and imminent threat.

Mr Blair, fountainhead of global safety, has added water taps to the hierarchy of terrors facing the British people. Intelligence dossiers tell him what he most dreads, the water can sometimes run too hot. In future mixer-taps are to be compulsory. Nor can the British people be trusted to turn on the cold before the hot. These potentially lethal weapons must have compulsory thermostatic controls. Any Briton caught turning on hot before cold will in future be committing an offence — and we know what that means these days. ………

Peter

[Lusted]

That is insane, but entirely what i've come to expect from Mr.Blair and the HSE.

ps, Eddie Izzard rocks!!!!!!!

[internationalist]

ps, Eddie Izzard rocks!!!!!!!

Do you have a flag!?!?!?

[Tom Paine]

Its not Blair or the HSE, its in fact a private member's bill. See, there are benefits to listening to Today in Parliament, like knowing the Times needs to check its facts.

[Denny Crane!]

Its not Blair or the HSE, its in fact a private member's bill. See, there are benefits to listening to Today in Parliament, like knowing the Times needs to check its facts.

Its satire SM breath deeply and calm down, if you check up for the actual article in the times you will find it is very factual actually.

It does fit in with Labours core ideas of tax, spend, legislate and regulate.

Lusted: You've got to love Izzard, just started rewatching his shows again.

Peter

[Tom Paine]

Given that a) I'm not running out to buy a Times, my local newsagent being shut, and b) it isn't on their site as far as I could find, I had to take a guess...

Personally i think its foolish. People run their baths too hot? Their problem.

[John I Tzimisces]

This smells of people sueing mcdonalds because they don't realize its unhealthy to eat disgusting food every day.

[Denny Crane!]

This smells of people sueing mcdonalds because they don't realize its unhealthy to eat disgusting food every day.

Or burning their mouths on hot coffee :disgust

[Yorkshireman]

Yes, i've heard Prescott mumbling on about this one before. How do they intend to enforce it though, send tap inspectors round to force entry to your property. But then again with this government it's not beyond the bounds of possibility. They can probably create some more jobs for the boys out of it.

[Tom Paine]

Tap inspectors are no wierder than gas meter readers...

[Ahiga]

Hogwash.

Let people who want hot baths have hot baths and people who want cold ones have cold ones. These types of rulings are truly insane. As if we are going to blunt knives and remove heat on ovens because someone might be burnt.

[Yorkshireman]

As if we are going to blunt knives and remove heat on ovens because someone might be burnt.

Don't say that too loud or somebody might get an idea !

[Somethindarker]

:disgust WHAT you mean that your congress is gonna actually waste time and money on something sooo insignificant. this is what i mean!! we really need to re-organize our government post haste! we need younger senators, congressmen, presidents everything. OMG what is our planet coming too when instead of worrying about wars, public security, school systems, our infrastructures they cater to what happens to 1 in a million people.. jesus. mary and joseph....

edit: oooh i just hit the 150 posts YAY!!! :laughing:

[Tom Paine]

This is the British Parliament, and this is going to get thrown out in its first reading.

[Denny Crane!]

This is the British Parliament, and this is going to get thrown out in its first reading.

I would not be so sure it has a lot of support, support among the general public is not neccessarily a factor, support in parliment is.

Peter

[Tom Paine]

Most of the rest of the Parties hate it, and many Labour MPs think its pointless and may well rebel. Or just too few turn up to let Labour win.

[Lusted]

A flag?

[Denny Crane!]

A flag?

We stole countries! That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain." And they're going, "You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us." "Do you have a flag?" "We don't need a flag, this is our country you bastard!"

[internationalist]

We stole countries! That's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain." And they're going, "You can't claim us. We live here! There's five hundred million of us." "Do you have a flag?" "We don't need a flag, this is our country you bastard!"

No flag No country! Those are the rules...that we just made up

[stop-3]

I burned my flag in 1997. Come to think of it, it was a liberation. Thank you to our dear leader!
Last week I went to my dentist for my check-up. He pronounced all fine and well, see you in a year's time! Thank you very much I said, but wait - what hapenned to six-monthly check-ups? 'Oh' he said, 'we young ones like it this way'. I quizzed him as to whether this had come from up high. He denied it. Such lies! Thank you dear leader for turning my dentist into a liar!
All the time new rules and regulations turning peoples mind's inside out and upside down. Such exciting times.