Just read an interesting article in the paper by Luke Johnson. He complains that Britain is becoming a neurotic place with an obsession that everything must be "SAFE". In my view life is a risk and this fact should be accepted, endless stories about deaths and deadly risks are just scaring people. Most of us who ride motorcycles are already risk takers and just accept it as a fact. The do-gooders would like to stop any form of risk in the hope that we all just die of old age after a dull life!
He has a weekly article in the sunday times business supplement. Probably some sort of journalist. No relationship with the PM. (I believe)
One and the same. I think to summarise his position we're all namby pambys that shouldn't be afraid of Coronavirus and should all just get back to work. I can't be sure, but somehow I doubt his work involves getting up close and personal with 40-odd schoolchildren every day.
I think that there is a huge distinction to be drawn between the risks that we, as motorcyclists, sailors, climbers, horse riders, etc. undertake voluntarily, balancing the pleasure against the risks, and the risks which employers might want to force upon us in the workplace for their own profit..
indeed, by attempting make everything 'safe' to protect the stupid, it is removing one of the greatest forms of population control, natural selection.
I agree , but l think part of his point is that UK society is now becoming too risk averse and l have some sympathy with this view.
If everyone had taken Mayor Larry Vaughn's advice that, for the good of the economy, they should go in the water Jaws would have been a very different film. I mean, the poor swimmers are likely drown anyway and there's got to be a limit to the number of people a shark can consume.
Your picture illustrates the point,,l grew up in a rural environment: guns, farm machinery and animals were part of life, we were told of the dangers but the rest was up to us . The important point was that we usually had asess risk for ourselves and from what l have seen the " nanny state " is robbing people, particularly children of this ability making them over cautious.
Yes, that's a very silly sign: we don't want signs that point out the obvious to the stupid. (Like the brainless stickers on the petrol tanks of new motorbikes.) However, it doesn't look like a UK sign to me. From the USA perhaps? They're very litigious over there.
If signs where only used for real dangers, the roads might be safer. I remember reading a couple of things like this a while back: https://www.dw.com/en/european-towns-remove-traffic-signs-to-make-streets-safer/a-2143663 ...however is seems like here in the UK we took no f#cking notice, as more and more crap signage stating the bleeding obvious appears almost daily
The town where I used to work had lots of traffic lights. Sometimes they would break down. When they did, I always noticed that the traffic flowed better and people gave way to each other. Road engineers, eh?
If you were a cynic you might think that the proliferation of signage there is to distract you from the speed camera, so the robbing bastids can earn a bit more
