From when children weren't treated as passive imbeciles by broadcasters - Merry Christmas

An excerpt from "Pinky and the Brain" season 1, episode 48:

'KS: I am honoured by your visit. Let me show you our assembly line. First, sheets of sheer synthetic sheepskin are slit into several Kicky-Sack shoe shapes in shapely shoe sizes by six sitting sheet slitters. B: I only see five sitting sheet slitters. KS: The sixth sitting sheet slitter's sick. His son Sammy's subbing 'til the sick sixth sitting sheet slitter's back, sitting pretty. P: You're not the sheet slitter? S: No, I'm the sheet slitter's son. P: Well.... You keep on slitting sheets until the sheet slitter comes. Haheheheh! Whooohaaah. [View of a machine labelled "Sheet Slitter Shoe Shaper".] KS: The Shoe Shaper then shapes the slit synthetic sheepskin sheets, and shoots out shoes through the chute. KS: Now, this is Mr. Plunkett, the new khaki sock plucker. (I had to fire our previous sock plucker. He had a bit of an attitude.) B: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker? KS: The second cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker I sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick. [Lights dim. Machine whirs and slows down.] KS: Whoops! Don't worry; just an electrical problem. One of the Kicky-Sack sack pickers will have to flick the plug. P: Not the khaki sock plucker? KS: Oh, _my_, no! The Kicky-Sack sack pickers flick the plug. The khaki sock plucker can't reach the socket over the latex child perambulator fenders we use to line the treadmill. B: It might make more sense to have the sixth sitting sheet slitter's son flick the plug, if the sack pickers and the sock pluckers are behind the rubber baby buggy bumpers.'

Australia to Ban Blowing Out Birthday Candles

If true then file under oh ffs

'Australia to Ban Blowing Out Birthday Candles'

'Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council has put forth guidelines barring groups of kids from blowing out birthday candles together. The reason? They "could be puffing germs onto one another."

The guidelines suggest that any kid who feels he absolutely has to blow out candles should bring his own cupcake with a candle in it, that he can step away from the group and blow it out.

In fact, the guidelines stipulate that the birthday child should always have his or her own cupcake for this purpose.

The new rules also require children to wash their hands "with alcohol sanitizer" before and after playing in a sandbox.

Australian Medical Association President Mr. Steve Hambleton sees the new requirements as outrageous: "If someone sneezes on a cake, I probably don't want to eat it either--but if you're blowing out candles, how many organisms are transferred to a communal cake, for goodness sake?"

Hambleton alluded to the fact that kids need exposure to "a certain amount of environmental antigens" in order to build up their immune system. These new regulations may slow or hinder that build up. '

More at  BreitBart


However did I make it through childhood? I travelled in cars without seat belts, with drum brakes & cross ply tyres. I scraped my knees & didn't get antiseptic applied until I got home hours later. I cycled the mile or so to the park where I played all day. I had no mobile phone but I did have 2p, later 10p,  for 'emergencies'.

My friends & I all blew out candles on cakes, played kiss chase and later found other ways to expose ourselves to each others germs and yet we're all still here.


Maybe children in Australia are particularly delicate or the doctors particularly stupid.