160 years of tradition at risk

bobmac

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Just picture it.
It's a warm Sunday summers evening.
You've shot 65 net in the medal and you're now home playing with the kids in the back garden or having a relaxing glass of something with the missus when suddenly, you hear it.

THE ICE CREAM VAN :) :D

Now I know some parents tell the kids "if they're playing the music that means they've run out of ice cream" (no names)
But to most parents and children for the last 160 years it's the sound of summer.
Out you go with the kids and chat happily with the neighbours while you wait your turn.
The jolly soul hands down a 99 to your kids whose unturned expectant faces make your heart feel warm all over and life doesn't get much better. :cool:

Well, if if the numpties and twits at Harrow council get their way the Ice-cream van will be a thing of the past.

A council spokesperson said "they are a nuisance and make children fat"
My question is "are they right or are the twits sticking their interfering noses where they don't belong?

My second rant is who makes these decisions in the first place?
Who has the right to tell us, the tax payers who pay their inflated wages to be told what is good for us and what isn't.
And if we don't agree with them, what can we do to reverse these stupid decisions.

Whether its councillors, Mps, judges etc, who do we complain to?

Now if we have a complaint against a business, we can complain to the office of fair trading.
If we have a complaint against the school system, we can complain to OFFSTEAD
If we have a complaint against BT, we can complain to OFFCOM and so on but when we have a grievance against these twits where do we turn? :mad:

My suggestion is we form a select committee formed up of sane people with a bit of life experience and common sense.

OFFTW*T

Twit I mean :eek:

Anybody want in?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ns-streets.html
 

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The Daily Mail?? I thought more of you Bob.

I doubt the world would be a worse place without ice cream on street corners!!

Is it more that you've got a bit of a sweet tooth?? :D
 

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I'm definitely in Bob, this country is turning into a complete "Nanny state" and I for one am completely fed up with "do gooders" who think they can run our lives for us.




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The world went mad a long time ago, it's just another in a long line of absurd decisions made by people who either want some publicity or feel they have to justify their wages.

I'm a parent. If I think my kids deserve an ice cream I'll get them one. If they've had enough 'sweet' things then I won't.

Lack of exercise is more to blame that eating the wrong things.

How hard can it be :D :D
 

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much prefer OFFTW*T

first prize in the tw*t of the month competition is a public flogging - though come to think off it, they'd probably enjoy it too much.
 

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I think it's petty minded bureaucrats gone mad. Having said that I pass a primary school a few times a day in Leeds on my way to the merchants and at 3ish I'm always disgusted to see an ice cream van parked outside on the pavement waiting for the kids to appear on their way home. That does want stopping.
 
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