“And when Gartocharn Primary School in Dunbartonshire secured the services of the London Olympics chief starter for their own sports day, the school must have thought it would be an extra special occasion. But the school had not reckoned with the administrative power of health and safety council officials, who banned Alan Bell from firing a pistol at the event in case the sound frightened the school’s children.” That’s dailymail.co.uk documenting the continued downward spiral of (once) Great Britain. As one sane parent told the Mail, “Anyone who believes they would be frightened by a starting pistol has never experienced the noise at a typical three-year-old’s birthday party.” Drool Britannia.
/headdesk
I heard someone say once that the sound of a starting pistol provided a nice jolt of adrenaline to get you started down the lane, and that the modern day electronic “BOOP” sound just couldn’t compare.
as a former swimmer, i still hear that boop, 6 years out of college.
+1 same here, that thing haunted me
ANd here I was thinking I beat this. All I had to do is read the “boop” and I had to fight the urge to strip down and swim 100 meters. Good times, Co-ed Swim practice was all it took to get me hooked on the sport as an impressionable 13yr kid.
Those kids in the background look so terrified they are about to run screaming…. oh wait…
“Daddy, what’s that he’s holding in his hand?”
“That’s a handgun, son.”
“A handgun? Aren’t they banned?”
“Well yes, dear, but this is a special model. It shoots blanks not bullets.”
“Dad, what’s a bullet?”
“Oh Jeez”
I agree. in a society where guns are common, people realize there is no need to be afraid when a non idiot is using it. (especially a gun with blanks)
For the love of…the more i read articles like this, the more i believe that people nowadays are spiraling further downward into a bottomless pit of stupidity…”cant have pencils in school, sharp point could hurt someone”…
To be fair, I’ve never injured myself with an unsharpened pencil.
Haha touche sir.
Be honest, did you have to try REALLY hard to do that one ?lol
Devolution
We are devo, D – E – V – O.
From an empire so vast that the sun never set upon it with hardy people who kept the stiff upper lip through WW2, to a global laughingstock.
As the saying goes, it can happen here too.
after hearing all of the bs “its bushes fault” once again with this F&F i sincerely believe this is the direction some in this country want to take. i listened to Washington journal call in program on cspan radio this morning driving to work, and there were numerous callers asking for the assault weapons ban with the most ridiculous reasoning for it.
“bush’s”, god please bring back the edit function.
I blame everything on the bushes.
Yes, well, as the Gallup poll from September 2011 showed, 46% of adult males in the country own at least one gun and 23% of adult female do as well. Seeing the current trend, by the end of this year I’d say 50% of males and 30% of females wouldn’t be an unrealistic expectation.
The Rome of Cincinnatus became the Rome of Caligula and Nero.
[sigh]
Oh, Britain. For fvck’s sake.
Wasn’t there an article about Colombian cocaine growing operations posted before this one? It’s not listed anymore.
agreed, i was just about to read that one..
More confirmation of the wisdom of our Declaration and War of Independence.
Amazing. Just when you think the Brits can’t get any more dickish…
George Orwell, who despised authoritarianism and pervasive government surveillance (and who once shot an elephant as a colonial policeman) is turning over in his grave.
I’m sure many others, among them Winston Churchill, are doing the same.
I don’t know if these people are seriously stupid or hate fun.
Just wait until they ban starter guns at this summer’s Olympics. Wouldn’t want to start a stampede.