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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[small]Just popped by to see what you crazy people are up to... hope all are well and all.[/small] I remember playing rugby at school... the ball was usually the only thing that didn't get knocked around the pitch! If you didn't want to play rough, you simply didn't play (or one could always choose to play football - soccer to those across the Atlantic - and practice diving instead). Despite a few nose bleeds and bruises, it was all in the name of fun, and what happened on the pitch tended to stay on the pitch. I can't remember anyone ever having been injured while playing tag. I also cannot imagine anyone being so pathetic as to ban such a game. Wouldn't it have been better simply to get the parents to sign a waver that ensured the freedom of their child to participate in a social sport? Those of the "wrap'em in wool" persuasion could simply ignore the waver, and their children could spend their breaks in a knitting class - where of course, all the knitting needles would be blunted appropriately. I am so glad I'm only half human. :p As for lawsuits - there have been an increasing number of adverts on British television for claims services: "Suffered an injury or had an accident at work that wasn't your fault? Call our claims line... blah-blah..." A sorry looking individual then spouts "I was worried about claiming against my employer until <such-and-such> explained that employers are insured for this sort of thing, so I made a claim and... so-on-and-so-on..." This disgusts me. If only life were so f***ing simple. Anyone care to explain to the average dick what premiums are and how they affect your employer's income, therefore the value of one's job? On one level or another, it is this kind of thinking that halts economic growth and contributes to inflation. Blame whomsoever you like - it's these wheedling little morons who make claims for no other reason than that they can who perpetuate it, but unscrupulous claims companies capitalise upon it. You can blame the judges, sure, but they essentially answer to demand - whether that be for justice or the liberty to sue, the growing problem is beyond them. I can well imagine that if one judge throws a case out, there would be plenty of other courts out there willing to take up the torch. This growing culture of (outrageously exaggerated) compensation for every little thing is growing out of all reasonable proportion, and it's no joke that personal liberty is ever-more the victim. It starts with banning tag at school - where will it end? [small][i][b][url=http://www.vectorpark.com/]ZZZ[/url][small][url=http://www.i-am-bored.com]ZZZ[/url][small][url=http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod4/amanita/samorost/intro.html]ZZZ[/url][small][url=http://uploads.ungrounded.net/59000/59593_alien_booya.swf]ZZZ[/url][small][url=http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html]ZZZ[/url][small][url=http://www.kiteretsu.jp/on/grow3/]ZZZ[/url][url=http://www.math.ruu.nl/people/beukers/dawkins/dawkins.html]zzz[/url][url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/23036].....[/url][/small][/small][/small][/small][/small][/b][/i][/small] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4663]White Hawk[/url] on 10-27-2006 16:15)[/small] Loading...
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