The Only Garbage Here Is Handing Out Fines

This is the start of the post, which means it’s the part where I say something about not wanting to pick on the UK so much but I have to because they leave me no choice. With that out of the way, we move on to the part where I explain the latest beyond ridiculous …

Come On, Let’s Play A Game! The Winner Gets A Pint And A Toy

You are faced with the growing problem of drunks causing trouble in your town. Your solution is to station police outside of bars on Saturday nights to hand out those little brightly coloured bubble blowing pens like we all used to play with when we were kids. Based on this information, you are:A. Developmentally delayed.B. …

Let’s Put Them In Parliament while We’re At It

What? Now kids in the UK are being given wide-ranging decision-making powers over their schools? Yup, the UK is really going to hell. Can you imagine walking into a school for a job interview for a teaching position and finding out your interview panel consists of the kidlets you could be teaching? I’m all for …

Train Bound For Stupidity

This horible excuse for customer service should have happened on british Airways. Well, at least the British part is correct. Lena Ainscow, a 75-year-old woman, bought an £11.50 ticket to go visit her grandchildren. But because train personnel put her on an earlier train, a bonehead of a conductor told her her ticket was invalid …

Ooo! Poetry Is So Dangerous!

Yee ha, let’s just keep hammering the UK. Sounds like jolly good fun. There’s a pub in Britain who hosts a poetry group. But because they don’t have a license for spoken word entertainment, only singing, the poets must go. Apparently, this is because every license has its own safety concerns. Come on! How many …

What’s The Latin For "That’s Stupid?"

Let’s pick on the UK some more. Damn it! I used to think the Plain English Campaign people were cool. Now, I’m not so sure. Bournemouth Council has decided to ban abunch of latin phrases because they’re apparently too complicated for your average Joe, they sound elitist and immigrants might find them confusing. They’ve come …

Whoever Decided This Was A Good Idea Should Get The Boot

Yup, Britain’s gone nuts. Lambeth Council has come up with a new way to deal with badly-behaved kids. Give ’em a foot-massage! Because they read somewhere that reflexology claims to relieve aggression among other things, they’ve hired reflexologists to come in and rub the feet of bad kids. I know if I were a kid …

We’ll Take Less Care Of You

Airline ignored wheelchair requests, ordered senior to walk, family alleges I’d expect nothing less from British Airways. After all, they’re the same group of compassionate souls that onceforced a guy to sit next to a corpse for the better part of 9 hours and then told him to get over it when he complained. I’d …