Saturday 12 November 2011

I Don’t Know, Joby, When Are They?

Speaking after the hearing Mr Payne's brother, Joby, called for the Parish Council to install safety fences along the stretch of the river.
'When I was younger I nearly drowned there and my daughter nearly drowned there. When are lessons going to be learned,' he said.
Wait, hang on a minute there! You knew it was dangerous, but failed to pass that knowledge on to your daughter, and the rest of your family were similarly unaware of your daughter's close shave?

Yet you want to know when 'lessons will be learned'?

Well, considering your family were clearly unable to learn any lessons from their own experience, I’d say, ‘never’….
'How many more lives must be taken? How many more people have to go through the grief we are going through?
'There should be a fence there to deter people going down there to swim.’
Translation: ‘My family are so dim they need a fence in place to remind them that their own members were nearly killed on this river’…

*golfclap*

Mr Payne, you are a product of today's society where everything is someone else's fault, and someone who has suffered a personal tragedy, no matter if it's their own fault, must never, ever be criticised because it's 'insensitive'.

11 comments:

manwiddicombe said...

Sometimes I wonder if you're making this stuff up? No-one could be that thick .... could they?

Anonymous said...

And when are they going to sort out that Pelican crossing on the M6

Dick the Prick said...

What a dick. My brother and I were taught to swim from birth, almost, and won medals and stuff but our old dear would've grounded us until pension age if we swam in the local resevoir let alone a river which changes into a tidal estuary.

How can you have instructions for things no normal person would ever think about? Don't eat cats with all their fur on! Tosser.

Tattyfalarr said...

Abolish Health & Safety, shoot all the lawyers, take all the safety labels off everything and let people do exactly what they what.

Let's end this madness right now.

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX When are lessons going to be learned,' he said. XX

Swimming lessons?

Captain Haddock said...

"Joby" .. says it all really ..

Though, I reckon he's more of a "Jody" ('cos someone might just come along & take umbrage, if I call him a Mong) .. ;)

MTG said...

O/T
Ed's derrière and dignity have both sustained a cowardly size 13 kick, on Gadget. How could you be tying shoelaces on this blog, Julia? Even 'muslamic ray guns' showed more sense. ;)

Woman on a Raft said...

There is a history of swimming at Odney Wier just by Cookham. The wild swimmers go there even now.

http://www.rupertwilloughby.co.uk/archives/321

Apparently even Baden Powell himself nearly drowned in a boating incident there, but I'm not sure exactly where that stretch is, only that it is by Cookham and is described as having a fierce current in the middle which can trap the unwary. On Page 5 of the Centenary Hike, there is a story about Odney Pool.

The pool appears to be simultaneously known as a bathing point and known to be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.

Subrosa said...

What an unfortunate name. In the west of Scotland he'd be ridiculed.

JuliaM said...

"Sometimes I wonder if you're making this stuff up?"

Sadly, it's all true. There really is a sucker born every minute, it seems.

"How can you have instructions for things no normal person would ever think about?"

Pretty soon we won't even be able to move for signs...

"Swimming lessons?"

SNORK!

"O/T
Ed's derrière and dignity have both sustained a cowardly size 13 kick, on Gadget."


Heh! I'm used to it. You know when you've hit a nerve, though... ;)

"The pool appears to be simultaneously known as a bathing point and known to be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing."

I fully expect to see a campaign to ban bathing entirely. In fact, in summer on the Tubes, I could swear it was already in place...

"What an unfortunate name. In the west of Scotland he'd be ridiculed."

I expect, at school, it was often spelt with an extra 'b',,, ;)

blueknight said...

Abolish Health & Safety, shoot all the lawyers, take all the safety labels off everything ...

Yes, one of the consequences of the Nanny state is that no one takes personal responsibility anymore. No barrier or fence = not dangerous.