Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and on your marks.
Mr Bell has clocked up over 25,000 race starts in his career and even famously false-started world's fastest man Usain Bolt at the athletics World Championships last year.
The 61-year-old had agreed to start the primary school race as he has family near the affluent Scottish village, and had previously officiated at hundreds of primary school events.
One parent, who did not wish to be named, told a Sunday newspaper: 'It was ridiculous. We were told that the children would be distressed by Mr Bell firing his starting pistol.
h/t Anthony
No linky
Those same kids will be distressed by the sound of the starters whistle or bell. It's not the sound that's the problem, it's a failure to learn how to deal with simple stress.
I know what to do! Line the little schmucks up and then suddenly reveal an X-box at the far end of the track!
Next time let's feed the bat-shit crazy English to the square heads. A race that would pee their pants with a starter gun once ruled the world. Hard to imagine.
Ah yes, public education Dumb By Design.
The only thing scaring the kiddies is the teachers with global warming crap and questions like have you ever been afraid to go to the bathroom.
See Charles Adler for story on bathroom question.
READY.... Steady... Whenever you like!
The people of Not-so Great Briton have a history of shooting themselves in the foot(see Churchill after WWII,Thatcher removed,etc). This time, we in NA should just let them shoot themselves in the head,and get it over with.
Well if they are frightened from the noise of a harmless toy they can all become "health and safety council officials" It's a lot more fun to read every news story from the UK with the Benny Hill theme song as backdrop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jKvgS7olo&feature=related
What a bunch of panty waists, the nation that gave the world Churchill, is afraid of a starter pistol...
This article makes it sound like the starter was using live rounds and pointing the pistol at the children.
Great way to start the 2012 London Olympics...face palm :)
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
England still allows races?
The travesty..the shame!!!
I thought the kiddies would line up, wait for the starting "hummmmmmmm", then join hands and skip to the "equal-opportunity-everyone-is-a-winner" line, almost at the end of the track and jump onto that 5 foot wide line all on the count of "3" so everybody could be the winner!!
Then everybody could step up onto the 30 foot wide 1st Place Podium to all get their Gold Medals.
Britain is indeed a lisping ghost of what it used to be, but I'm afraid the culprit here is modern 'journalism' - rather than than the old de-balled lion.
"We were told that the children would be distressed by Mr Bell firing his starting pistol."
That's the line that should have been followed up on.
Who is 'we', who told it to 'we', and, what did the teller base it on?
Dunbartonshire is in Bonnie Scotland on the Bonnie Banks of Clyde. It's the Scots who are batshit crazy for once. If you doubt me go to Dunbartonshire and tell them that they are English and see how long you live.
Ready. Set. Allahu Akbar!!
the scary thing is the other link on the page...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160534/A-ban-bangers-Hundreds-school-pupils-denied-pork-religious-reasons.html
A ban on bangers: Hundreds of school pupils denied pork because of 'religious reasons'
Pity I have hamburger thawing for my supper....because now I have a craving for bangers and mash....
This starter pistol thing....
Reminds me of "The Song of the Temperance Union"
"We don't use tobacco because we do feel.....
that the people who use it are likely to drink...."
Pity I have hamburger thawing for my supper....because now I have a craving for bangers and mash....
This starter pistol thing....
Reminds me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Pl4hVmZjs&feature=related
"We don't use tobacco because we do feel.....
that the people who use it are likely to drink...."
How the mighty Scots have fallen.
Sick Sick Sick - the UK will be the globe's punl bitch within a generation with the nanny state pacification churning put pussies who fltnch at loud sounds and shadows - BOO!! You faint hearted pussies.
You would never know today that the Scots where the Worlds most used mercenaries. Particularly from the 12th century to the 19th. Just sheep now run by cowed avowed cowards..
Not to be Censored
Is the cancellation/prohibition even SIGNED?
By some BRAVE saviour?
I didn't think so.
NTBC....as Kate has explained,all the crazy bat-shit lefty crap started with Blair.And surely you know that the "conservatives" in not-so great Briton are as far left as you can get without calling yourself a liberal.
Allowing races is clearly racist.