Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[I, Cosh]

I  missed University Challenge tonight and I'll have to wait some hours until it's on iPlayer. Life is hard.

[Rog69]

My Daughter's class were shown a video today about the dangers of playing on building sites and now I can't get her to go to sleep because she is traumatised by images of heavy machinery and kids falling off ladders.

Just how big a problem do we have with four and five year olds getting injured playing on construction sites anyway.

[Van Dom]

No way. That's terrible. Reminds me of the old safety ads that were on tv when I was a kid, about the little boy falling into a barrel of water on his grandad's farm and drowning, or the kid climbing the pylon to get his football back and getting electrocuted. They were scary ads man!!!

[Emp]

Reminds mw off an add in the 70's in Norn Irland with a couple of kids playing on waste ground, finding a rattling thermos flask and open it ....BOOM...now that was a H&S advert!

[JOE SOAP]

Reminds mw off an add in the 70's in Norn Irland with a couple of kids playing on waste ground, finding a rattling thermos flask and open it ....BOOM...now that was a H&S advert!

Remember that too, a warning about unexploded ordnance, had a bomb disposal bloke in a crater at the end didn't it?

[Van Dom]

Went looking for some of those ads on youtube and found this one...I remember this used to scare the bejesus out of me...! Still does!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg6IVUvVsAs

[Emp]

Think so all i know was i never picked up a thermos that was laying about....EVER!

[Emp]

There was also one of some guy supposed to be death watching a bloke stagger out of a pub and drive home.......can't find it or the Dave Allan sketch that parodies it.

[strontium71]

Just how big a problem do we have with four and five year olds getting injured playing on construction sites anyway.

Quite big - I live on a building site at the moment as it's an ongoing build , and almost every evening there are kids playing on the site. The eldest being maybe 10 and the youngest around 4 or 5. The little fuckers are just asking for something to happen to them but in all honesty , it'll serve them right. The older kids should know better , let alone bring their younger siblings.

[Van Dom]

Thinking back now, I remember when I was akid, a bunch of us used to go and fuck around in the lower half of our estate, which was only being built at the time. Climbing the scaffoldings, walking along the tops of the walls of house shells, right where the roof was going to go....mad stuff actually, now I think about it. I wouldnt do it now!Also, I remember messing around there on my own one night and having a fall into the foundation area of a new house, rightly fucked myself up. It got very dark very quick and I had to try and drag myself out of there and hobble home, crying the whole way. That was absolutely shit and I'd forgotten all about it til now.

[JOE SOAP]

Same thing happened to Rico(1) Dredd.

[Misanthrope]

Same thing happened to Rico(1) Dredd.

What, he injured himself playing on a building site? Was it when they were building MC 1?

(I do know what you are talking about, really.)

[JOE SOAP]

HISTORY LESSON:

BLOOD CADETS

[TordelBack]

I often forget just how much I love Simon's art on Blood Cadets - absolutely superb.  And that line: "We better go report ourselves for fighting". What a great story that was.

[worldshown]

Just how big a problem do we have with four and five year olds getting injured playing on construction sites anyway.

I was in school with someone who, at the age of seven, broke into a building site to play and lost a toe when a pile of bricks collaped onto his foot.

Got a sizeable compensation from the builders, and his parents eventually moved onto that estate too.