The World Gone Mad

[MrsC]

i use my toes! btw - will try the caps lock 1 day

[Peter]

I think someone has misinterpreted the rules (maybe a tad over-zealous?). You have to be very careful when selling "prepared" foodstuff and edibles such as cakes, jams, preserves etc as you probably need to prove what's in it, where it was made, and whether or not the maker holds a food hygiene certificate, but I've never heard of any restrictions on selling home-grown plants (except cannabis, SORRY LJ)

Is LJ still having trouble then?

[TonyF]

Thank God I live in France, none of that bloody PC rubbish down here - you make stuff to eat, sell, buy whatever.

Every year our commune has a Fete de Pain where everybody in the village makes and takes to share with everybody else, nobody bothers about the rights and wrongs of the food police. And if the gendarmes turn up, it's cos they want something to eat and drink, not to check who's doing what and to whom. Local walnut growers make walnut cakes and sell them on the market. Fruit and veg sellers also sell plants.

I once worked for a local government organisation that took over funding voluntary sector groups from the old GLC - even back then, bloody PC nightmare and from what I understand, even worse now.

Some sad b*star* at the local authority want to get a grip I think.

[bubblewrap]

Just herd this on BBC breakfast news.
If you are riding your cycle on the road & there is a cycle lane you will be "prosicuted"! What next walking on the footpath??

[zebedee]

By all accounts this is a true event. It was reported on a local radio station. A farmer complained to the Council, because they had left piles of grit in various places for the winter (roads) and his sheep were eating it!!!. The Concil's considered response? A notice was posted that said, I kid you not, "Sheep must not eat the grit".

I rest my case.

[jacob marley]

By all accounts this is a true event. It was reported on a local radio station. A farmer complained to the Council, because they had left piles of grit in various places for the winter (roads) and his sheep were eating it!!!. The Concil's considered response? A notice was posted that said, I kid you not, "Sheep must not eat the grit".

I rest my case.

It was probably the salt that the sheep were after the council might charge him if he's not carefull what language was the notice printed in!!!!!!!!

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I once saw a sign which read "Do not throw stones at this notice"

[terrier]

We have a public right of way across our paddock and a local wanabee complained that our horses were "leaving a mess" on the path! The same person also complained that she was being nettled on local footpaths. Oh dear. I wonder if she subscribes to this forum!

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We have a public right of way across our paddock and a local wanabee complained that our horses were "leaving a mess" on the path! The same person also complained that she was being nettled on local footpaths. Oh dear. I wonder if she subscribes to this forum!

You could always ask or train the horses to s**t in the same place & collect it weekly

[SarzWix]

My friend's Ma & Pa have a pub on the edge of our village, surrounded by farm land. A couple of women from 'the city' bought a house opposite the pub, very historic, with a stream running underneath it. Since they moved in they have;
Complained so vociferously to the council about noise from the pub that they have had to pay ££££s for soundproofing just to hold a 'bingo nite' - why live next to a pub?
Complained to the farmer and the council about the noise of sheep baa-ing (I kid you not..) and the muck spreading - why live next to a farmer's field?
Best of all, they have applied to the council/environment agency to change the course of the stream so it doesn't run under their house (or the 3 next to them, who quite like it) anymore 'because it's a bit damp and smelly'.... WHY BUY A HOUSE WITH A BL**DY STREAM UNDER IT??!!

Luckily most of the locals have decided to treat them as a joke/circus sideshow, or they'd have been lynched by now...!!!

[Paulottie]

Our local residents organisation has a stall at a local "event" & has been informed that we are not allowed to sell tomato plants (grown by Madderbat)as they are "edible"?

Tomato plants are not edible- infact they are quite poisonous

[HeyWayne]

Beware the tomato police.

I think this is all one big missunderstanding.

According to The Bill, "Toms" is Police slang for "ladies of the night". I'm sure if you clarify that they are not one and the same, the whole matter can be resolved quite amicably.

[Flummery]

I thought the collective noun for 'Ladies of the night' was an anthology of pros!

[bubblewrap]

I think this is all one big missunderstanding.

According to The Bill, "Toms" is Police slang for "ladies of the night". I'm sure if you clarify that they are not one and the same, the whole matter can be resolved quite amicably.

I came across this term when I was living down"The smoke" in the late 60's & early 70's & it was nothing to do with tomatoes

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Now our great freedom loving government is now talking of DNA testing for droping litter. What next farting in public??