- Skirting the issue: A headmistress ruled in June that girls at her Dorset school must wear trousers at all times.
- Bible ban: Hospital bosses in Leicester concerned about offending non-Christians...
- Punch is knocked out A council in Cornwall banned a Punch and Judy show after women's rights activists mounted a protest
- Happy 'special person' day. For generations schoolchildren have loved making Mother's and Father's Day cards to take home. But the country's biggest counselling service now encourages pupils to make 'special person' cards
- Bonkers over conkers: A band of headmasters defied the national upsurge in school conker bans - and even cancelled lessons to hold conker championships
- Rememberance poppies a 'fire hazard': After decades of appropriate commemorations to our war dead, a shower of paper poppies at a Remembrance Day service was banned - because they were a fire hazard
- Grandad banned from bingo: A grandfather was lost for words after he was banned from his local bingo hall because he shouted too loudly when his numbers come up.
- Red ink crossed off: Teachers at one West Midlands primary banned the practise of marking in red ink because it was too upsetting for the children
- Peril of the petunias: For the last seven years Ian Collins adorned the front of the Ring of Bells pub with a stunning display of hanging baskets and window boxes. But the 47-year-old was forced to cancel his pub's prize-winning flower display after his local council ruled his blooms were a danger to public safety.
- It's snow joke: Three teenagers were suspended from school - for throwing snowballs at one another.
And of course today we hear of a hospital where they have been overdosing on stupid-pills:
A hospital has banned visitors from cooing at newborns. The reason? It could infringe on the babies' human rights
Utter, utter, utter, utter, utter stupid.
[File under: Stupid, PC,Whimsy]
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