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heatwave weekend 11-Jan-2010 At 10:15:19 AM hero

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What if you work in the National Park? Then you're in trouble.

PS: to Jacq "anyone who is not paranoid lacks imagination."

To describe contemporary western politics as a nanny state is not to subscribe to a conspiracy (god, they're mostly too stupid to conspire) but as a descriptive term of what is happening, where supposed altruism gets twisted into over-protective behaviour.

For example, there is a big poster in my local pool that says "Don't swim alone"

(not even, "we recomend that you don't")

I have no friends therefore if I never swam alone I'd never go swimming. I take responsibility for my own actions and there is very little pressure on people to do that now. Better to tell them what to do all the time.

But good to see you toeing the official line.