Eh, that’s what Religion does to some people.
Plane fails to pressurize, returns to airport with passengers bleeding from ears and noses.
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pagers? Did they attack the telegraph system too?
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wtf?
Ifyp
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If you’re going to be pedantic, the actual equivalent is - - ·· / · / ··· / ··- - -
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Another longstanding (but questionable) English tradition may soon bite the dust. There is much more interesting information in The Times article but it is behind a pay wall. An excerpt:
“ A Cornish town’s long-held tradition of lifting schoolchildren and bumping their heads on turf-topped boundary stones has been halted by a health and safety row.
The annual beating of the boundaries ceremony in Helston, at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula, is a centuries-old ritual to mark the perimeter of the ancient borough.
But the tradition looks to be under threat after Helston town council unanimously voted to recommend that “lifting of individuals no longer be an accepted practice at the beating the boundaries event for health and safety and safeguarding reasons.”
Could they use bicycle helmets?
I get that the town no longer wants to endorse such stupid traditions and open themselves up to a liability issue.
People can do their stupid culture shit on their own time and risk severe head trauma to their own children. How many of this town’s kids grow up dim-witted but could have otherwise led productive lives?
From a local rag:
Helston Town Council stated that the proposal is not about stopping people from being lifted to tap their heads on the stones.
“Our proposal is that Helston Town Council staff and workers will no longer offer to lift children and adults due to serious safety concerns raised by everyone.
“This proposal would not prevent parents lifting their children, or adults from lifting each other as part of the event.”
Two residents who were present at the full council meeting on Thursday (September 19) had the chance to say how they felt about the proposals to change the method.
Martine Knight told councillors that she believes “that there is a duty to retain as many of our local traditions as possible.”
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Rural Cornwall is like the UK version of rural Kentucky.
Its like going back to the 19th Century in the inner rural areas.
And they very much distrust “outsiders”.
I had good fun with this with one of my SILs as he has Cornish ancestry.
They also bump the kids’ heads against trees and other boundary items as they believe that will help the kids remember where the town boundaries are.
This is slightly shocking because it’s one acute event, but just a few posts later we had a country setting off thousands of bombs as part of an ongoing war with over 40,000 deaths due to religion. 430 people in an event that’s completed and done pales in comparison.
True, but that’s in the news every day. This other incident being so lightly reported was a bit surprising.
Not quite but…
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This is a WTF story (as she was an employee of EY) but is being normalised by an over-work culture that is so pervasive in the Big 4 now.
Incredible Journey?
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…
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Well, it certainly wasn’t this alien…
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