You Couldn’t Make It Up

We are becoming a nation of Wokeflakes

Bet they all read Fifty Shades of Grey when it was released and didn't bat an eyelid

Doodledog

The headline is one thing, but the story makes it perfectly clear. The reporter has interpreted the law on driving without due care and attention to include driving with inflatable shoes or gloves (fair enough, surely?) as they would impede use of the gearstick and/or clutch and brakes. If you wear a brightly flashing jumper or hat, it could distract other drivers, so the same rule of the Highway Code would be breached.

Not quite the same as being heavily fined for wearing a Christmas jumper ?.

Exactly .
As usual a misleading headline which some will take as gospel.

Urmstongran ?

... and there we were thinking snowflakes were a weather phenomenon!!

That was witty Alegrias. It gave me a chuckle.
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This popped up on my Facebook page this morning.

Too good not to share.

The headline is one thing, but the story makes it perfectly clear. The reporter has interpreted the law on driving without due care and attention to include driving with inflatable shoes or gloves (fair enough, surely?) as they would impede use of the gearstick and/or clutch and brakes. If you wear a brightly flashing jumper or hat, it could distract other drivers, so the same rule of the Highway Code would be breached.

Not quite the same as being heavily fined for wearing a Christmas jumper ?.

Doodledog ?

How long until we see the "no Christmas jumpers behind the wheel, it offends the minorities" post. ?

Doodledog

Alegrias1

t's not the same but this morning DH read that you can be fined heavily now for wearing a Christmas jumper when driving.

Maybe ask him to read that again.

Anyone who believes that that is the law should be banned from driving on the grounds of an inability to understand the language.

The headline is there for all to see.

www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/warning-drivers-can-fined-5000-22314758

However I do think the press have rather exaggerated it. I think they'd be clamping down on people wearing inflatable snowmen or Father Christmas outfits and other apparel that could impinge on your driving.

It has made me laugh though.

I think it's inflatable Christmas jumpers ?

How can they tell?

Alegrias1

^t's not the same but this morning DH read that you can be fined heavily now for wearing a Christmas jumper when driving.^

Maybe ask him to read that again.

Anyone who believes that that is the law should be banned from driving on the grounds of an inability to understand the language.

God I am wearing a t-shirt with an owl on it, am I going to be forced to climb our oak tree at 3 in the morning?

A bit like the time when students wanted to do pass hands instead of clapping.

Could you keep the ones you liked best?
I'd like some with long straight fingers (as mine used to be) and beautiful nails (as mine have never been).

t's not the same but this morning DH read that you can be fined heavily now for wearing a Christmas jumper when driving.

Maybe ask him to read that again.

Urmstongran I agree with you - I normally do. It's not the same but this morning DH read that you can be fined heavily now for wearing a Christmas jumper when driving. I thought he was making it up but, sadly, no. The world has gone totally, absolutely mad! Who dreams up all this stuff! People on salaries a lot fatter than my pension that's for sure!

Luckygirl3

What would they say about The Taming of the Shrew I wonder?

A complete ban, in fact I'm surprised it hasn't happened already!

What would they say about The Taming of the Shrew I wonder?

Slightly off topic but browsing the news online this morning I read this police advice in the Manchester Evening News. It made me wonder how Mr Blobby ever managed to drive to work.

Footwear such as high heels or boots can limit the movement of your ankles; shoes with a thick platform sole can impact the use of pedals, especially your vehicle’s clutch. Inflatable fancy dress costumes are extremely popular, but trying to drive in one can seriously affect your visibility and your ability to handle your vehicle’s steering wheel, gear stick and other controls

It isn’t the students themselves who want warnings slapped on
Books or lectures it’s ( as usual) left wing students who run the union.

It isn't the students, it's the students

And what is it about the warnings that prevent those stiff-upper-lip, resilient, devil-may-care non-lefties from reading the material?

A final (?) word quoting Michael Deacon in today’s DT
I wonder whether they’ll add a trigger warning to War and Peace. On the one hand, it contains depictions of war. But on the other, it also contains depictions of peace, so perhaps those balance it out

Part of the University experience is to learn about life, with all it’s joys and faults.To obtain a greater understanding of the human condition.To really think and to reason.
It isn’t the students themselves who want warnings slapped on
Books or lectures it’s ( as usual) left wing students who run the union.They then try and impose what they want and the Universities usually capitulate.

“they don’t stop…”

Warnings are just that, warnings, they op anyone reading a book or watching a programme. They may annoy the unsympathetic and resilient, but if you don’t fall into that category and don’t wish to witness something which may have caused you trauma in the past then the warnings enable you to avoid or be prepared for such content. There would be plenty of complaints if some explicit scene popped up when you were watching something with a child or someone who had a traumatic experience. Just ignore the warnings if you don’t care and let others have the choice without mocking them .

Jazz hands, not pass hands.