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Wednesday, March 5. 2008

Padded Posts


And I am not referring to something that Scuzzmonkey writes when he doesn't have an article for today.

Since we have been having a lot of heavy, dark and meaningful articles of interest flying around I thought I would take something more light hearted. But you are going to have to click on that button down there to find out what.


Wasn't so bad was it?

The fact is ladies and gentlemen, that they are padding lamp-posts in London to stop people hurting themselves when they walk into them.

Seriously.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080304/tuk-padding-to-protect-pedestrians-dba1618.html

So what could possibly all the fuss about people who hurt themselves because they walk into a lamp-post?

This is where I would state that someone had sued a local council for not clearly marking the lamp-post, or making it of a soft, face friendly material.

But they didn't

Someone, somewhere found the results of the survey mentioned in the article above (yes I know its another link to follow, but its a short story so it won't take long), and then decided that out of human compassion they needed to soften all of the lamp-posts for those poor texting-whilst-walking pedestrians who collide with them in their efforts to get from A to B whilst messaging someone.

This person, needs to be shaken by the hand.

This, says I, is ultimately human inventiveness at its best. We have a basic problem, we have a simple solution. The solution sounds absolutely daft (it looks it too!) but it works.

This is truly someone who is doing what needs be done. Even if they do need to get out more.

Think what need be thought,
Say what need be said,
Do what need be done.
Posted by Shadow Adler in Humour at 00:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)
Last modified on 2008-03-05 21:05
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Rubbish. It's another one of the government's initiatives to prevent Darwinism! It's showing it's increasingly religious side! DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT! BURN THE PADDING!

ANARCHY!
#1 Berger on 2008-03-05 21:05 (Reply)

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