Tony Blair's Britain

..whaddabout them long pointy shoes I see some guys wearing.

Is that the 'in' style now? Egad, they look so retarded on the poor blokes.

Whoops, I mean 'mentally depreciative' on the inept male gender.

For Krusty's sake,what's next?

If they only knew who the real clowns where.

About forty years ago, I was walking in downtown Vancouver, and a lady coming out of Woodward's opened her umbrella rather violently due to the rare and unusual rain storm, and almost stuck me in the eye with the pointy end!

I wonder if England has ever enacted legislation to deal with THIS deadly accident-about-to-happen!

"Citizens For A Dull Community strike again."

Sad but true.

Left-wing, nanny-state moonbattery once again proves truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.

What are the politicians going to where?

To be clear, and for the record, according to the Telegraph article linked by the link supra, it is the Moscow State Circus management that is discontinuing Mr. Kashkin's clown shoes, not the government. Clown shoes have not been banned by the government, this is not a matter of the Ministry, it is, as Paul Archer, General Manager for the Moscow State Circus said, a matter of litigation (and more likely, it's a matter of insurance).

Sorry to spoil your enjoyment.

Ranks up there with padding the lamp posts in Brick Lane in London. Estimated 1 in 10 texters walk into the lamposts..slow learners.

Hey, wearing high-heeled, pointy-toed shoes is stupid, too, and can cause women to fall and hurt themselves. Not to mention being very bad for their feet in the first place.

Maybe they oughta forbid such shoes, too.

Vitruvius is correct. The story has nothing whatsoever to do with Britain, except that the circus was there when the injury occurred.

It was the Moscow Circus who told the clown to change his shoes, not the British government.

Tomax7, the long, pointy shoes of which you speak, they're probably the latest fad in silly, extreme left wing "metrosexual" chic. Kind of like the hairstyle in which one gels one's hair up to a point at the top of the head, as if they were a little kid being shampooed and having their picture taken while sporting the same funny look. Sheesh! That awful hairstyle oughta be banned, using the rationale that they could poke somebody's eye out or something by head-butting them...

Why don't cannibals eat clowns?.....They taste funny.

Where is the Monty Python group when you need them?

The Brotherhood of Mimes (local #574) is behind this.

Although this story is laughable, it has a very serious side.

Politicians and government bureaucrats now believe that it is their right and duty to tell citizens how to run their lives in almost every detail.

At one time they were known as "civil servants". Now they are our civil masters.

I caught that too Vit, although it is good for a laugh.

hey, will wearing clown shoes help with my heel spurs?
Seems they might have some extra padding and space which would help to take the preasure off my plantar fascia...
Can't be any worse lookin' than the splint thingy my doctor suggests I wear to relieve the muscle tension...
Does anybody know if OHIP will cover the cost of this neccesary footwear? I assume clown shoes will be goin' cheap over in England soon...
If not maybe I could apply for the already fully funded gender reassignment surgery and see if wearin' stilettos would make it any better...

Now can you ban clown shoes if the wearer is also wearing a burka? Wouldn't that be a violation of someones religious rights if they did?

And please would someone let me know when the first tartan burka comes to Scotland. It can't be too far off.

This place is surely and truly mad as bizarro world. Technocratic statist socialism has made neurotic nannies of its officialdom. Mock its civil retardation and never do business such fools.

When some Canadian nanny state buffoon starts chirping about how we must become more like Britain, slap him back to reality with a giant rubber chicken and present him with his official rubber Bozo nose.

...somewhere, out there, in the dark, a dog is howling.

I knew it, 'snivel serpents' don't even know that your supposed to laugh when clowns fall down.

If you were a smart clown, you would remove your shoe and paddle the bureaucrat properly on the posterior with elan!!

Now that would be worthy of laughing at.

Where is my grandfather's horse riding crop when you really need it? Oh yes mounted on the wall, so it is easily reached to give the mutton-heads the thrashing they so richly deserve.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

If you read the latest Britsh Government's budget for 2008, particulalry chapter 7, then you would realise that the country is actually run by clowns, and therefore they know of what they speak in this instance.

To answer Wally J's question about what's next, on Roy Green's show today he was talking that fines will be levied in the UK if you're driving with a cup of coffee in your hand.

I kid you not!

Actually this is in the same category as seat-belt and helmet laws and many others we Canadians enjoy.

Vitruvius said: "...it is the Moscow State Circus management that is discontinuing Mr. Kashkin's clown shoes, not the government."

Yes. Having set the environment, they can leave the detail work to private contractors.

From the Telegraph article we have the expanded quote:

"Rejecting that it was a case of health and safety gone mad, Larry Dewitt, Health and Safety adviser to the circus said: "I'm not a believer in political correctness, or doing things for the sake of doing it however. ... You have to take a common-sense approach with these things – if it's stupid, don't do it."

The British government has succeeded in creating a legal reality where the Moscow Circus needs to hire a "Health and Safety adviser" to tell them clowns can't wear clown shoes.

Its only common sense, you know.

Would some minion of the British health service have banned clown shoes if they'd thought of it first? Maybe, but they don't need to because they have Larry Dewitt to think of it for them. When you set out to regulate every tiny little godd@mn thing in life, you need guys like Larry to get into all the cracks and corners.

Thanks Larry.

From above:

the hairstyle in which one gels one's hair up to a point at the top of the head. . .

And pointy shoes too

Does Sideshow Bob know about this? He'll be speechless - I know I am.

Gee, I hope this sillyness doesn't spread to over here!
Why, just last week our caucus flunky placed a huge order with Klowns-R-Us for ten dozen squirting daisies, twenty-eight yellow baldy wigs w/red bulbous noses, a gross of fartycushions and a Chrysler KlownCar for me and Olivia and my whole cabinet when I get to be Prime Minister.

We were going to order a whole bunch of those big funny shoes, but Bob Rae was kind enough to let us clean out his closet since he's no longer a dipper, ya know? Libby and Judy 'Wascalashallaliecs (gee,are we done yet?)laleisc' would have none of it since they weren't union made. Thomas Unclear said they fit pretty well, but he'd rather have them in purple. Don't ask me why?? And Dawn Black, in true form said to get out of Afgani and tax CO2 and Harper's a dink.

In the same vein of gov't nuttiness, I just came back from Ucluelet (Van. Island) where I observed something uclueless.

The lighthouse along the WestCoast Wild Trail has a big sign posted on the door, warning of 'lead based paint'.

Too many people on the trail must be licking it, I suppose.

No Guff - get real ... the sign was for the squirrels.

Heh..."when he fell from a three metre high slack wire, injuring his foot."
Never mind the fact that he fell off the slack wire; blame it on the shoes. Think of someone riding a unicycle backwards, in rush hour traffic...and giving him a ticket for not wearing a helmet. ;)

"Rules CONTROL the fun!"
-Monica Geller

About forty years ago, I was walking in downtown Vancouver, and a lady coming out of Woodward's opened her umbrella rather violently due to the rare and unusual rain storm, and almost stuck me in the eye with the pointy end!

DMorris, I'm so sorry, that was me! I've been very careful ever since. I never bought a pointy end umbrella again. I was in a hurry to catch the #14 Hastings bus to make the trip up Granville to have coffee at the Aristocrat. Furthermore, exiting those department stores, (Woodwards, The Bay) taught me to always look back to see who's coming through a heavy door behind me before I release it to avoid knocking over someone fragile.

Useless post ?....sure. But I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I love the old Vancouver. And I really did poke someone with my umbrella.

Coming soon -- the long shoe registry.

From my cold dead floppy big feet.

What next? ... flippers?