Demands for Maude to quit...

[Rickshaw Phil]

Once you pass 18, it's really up to you to understand that hot things burn, heavy things drop and flammable things can catch fire. It is actually possible to have sympathy for a woman with 40% burns, while at the same time feeling that calls for resignation are politically-driven nonsense.

+1. It is about time people started taking responsibility for their own actions rather than trying to blame someone else when they have done something stupid and hurt themselves.

 

[Simon1234]

Thing is Cunobelin, if you want to be in charge you have to understand the people you want to be in charge of.

Maude either didn't or simply didn't care.

There are loads of people who don't know what gasoline can do, even people with lawnmowers. To tell all and sundry to go out and buy a very volatile substance that they have little or no experience of handling outside a petrol forecourt is at best irresponsible.

What would happen if a lesser person of authority had done so, a school teacher for example would you defend them? Or are you just another contributor to this forum mired in their own blind ideological swamp?

Ideological swamp? Did you read what you wrote? By your accounts nobody in authority should say anything given that it could be misinterpreted!

Get real.

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[Wobblers]

Flushed it all down the khazi now, nice and safe!

Don't forget to send us a postcard from Gitmo!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Is that an opinion you would give to her or their face?

There is nothing more insulting than false sincerity.

I've met plenty of people who have had 'accidents' through a moment of carelessness of inattention; it's a part of being human.

Which may be, but doing it in the kitchen next to a burning hob truly IS a complete howler. Sorry.

Whilst I agree the woman was foolish, I can't help wondering how many of those slating her on here for being careless and irresponsible would leap to the defense of a pedestrian who stepped into the road without looking and got hit by a car.

Isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

Pour petrol near naked flames
Step out into the road without looking

Seem pretty similar to me...

Like I say, if I did that, I'd want the earth to swallow me up on the spot.

Once you pass 18, it's really up to you to understand that hot things burn, heavy things drop and flammable things can catch fire. It is actually possible to have sympathy for a woman with 40% burns, while at the same time feeling that calls for resignation are politically-driven nonsense.

She wasn't some silly little kid, she was 46, just a tad above 18.

Yes, she deserves sympathy for all the months if not years of pain and skin grafts she'll have to have, but, at the same time, you cannot take away how she got into that state, so sympathy can only go so far.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Don't forget to send us a postcard from Gitmo!

Just picking out a nice boiler suit, can't decide though - orange or orange.

 

[dellzeqq]

The meedya is very hot and bothered about it.

there's a reason for that. The Coalition has been running around shooting itself in the foot for ten days, and the newspapers are surfing a wave of outrage - the kind of wave they haven't seen for a while, because, while individual ministers are,without doubt, complete twerps, the management of news by the coalition is usually pretty slick.

What started it off was the granny tax. A small wave, probably going nowhere, but the pie tax seemed to co-incide, creating a slightly bigger wave which suggested that the Coalition was out of touch. Then along comes the 3250,000 kitchen 'supper, followed by Francis Maude making an uncharacteristic howler. Cue slightly bigger wave still. I suspect the Bradford West will now divert it somewhere else, but the press will have enjoyed this week, and will be on the lookout for another opportunity.

There's another kind of wave, which is about motivation. The Express hates Osborne because he's a toff, and NI have got it in for Cameron, who seems to have forgotten that Rupert is the boss. To be honest I can't work the Mail out, other than it is, first of all, a circulation hunter, and probably felt it had to compete with the Express, Sun and Mirror. Whether this unhappy confluence happens again is open to doubt.

 

[Red Light]

there's a reason for that.

Murdoch strikes back?

 

[dellzeqq]

Murdoch strikes back?

sorry - tittivating my post - but, in large measure, yes.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

It's the Sun wots dunnit.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It's the Sun wots dunnit.

Yes, it all started several million years ago when the seas were full of little creatures which relied on the sun....

 

[Archie_tect]

All Greggs are bothered about is having to reduce their profit margin to absorb the VAT increase... there's only so much you can charge for a fat-loaded greasy pasty.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Being in Belgium, Mort never EVER wants to see one of these:

http://milltag.cc/

 

[Arch]

Arch, you live in York, she and her family live in York. Is that an opinion you would give to her or their face?

I don't know what us both living in York has to do with it. There are a lot of stupid people everywhere.

No, I probably wouldn't actually call her stupid to her face, like I don't actually call people stupid when they can't understand the difference between recyclable material and cold pizza or dog poo. I rant about them on places like this instead. I'm two faced like that.

Doesn't make her any less stupid though. I was thinking about it this morning, and I can't remember when I first knew that petrol was dangerously flammable. It's just something I took in, probably from all the signs up at petrol stations for a start, and things like 'petrol bombs'. To have got to 4 years older than me, and not realise that decanting petrol next to a lit hob was dangerous implies a shocking level of innattention throughout life.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Being in Belgium, Mort never EVER wants to see one of these:

http://milltag.cc/

Umm, sorry, wrong thread.

I rant about them on places like this instead. I'm two faced like that.

There is nothing more insulting than false sincerity though. I'd rather be told I was stupid so I could at least defend myself. Oh and if you are backstabbing then I'll tell you exactly what I think of you. Too many people are spineless and run away at the first sign of trouble.

I like a good argument see, but some people have said things about me on here in the past and then, surprise surprise, bugger off.
If you can't take the heat and all that....

I am no Gregory House, but I like the philosophy of the character.

Oh and I'll tell you something else, unlike House, I'll at least apologise, credit where it's due and all that. Too many others don't.

Doesn't make her any less stupid though. I was thinking about it this morning, and I can't remember when I first knew that petrol was dangerously flammable. It's just something I took in, probably from all the signs up at petrol stations for a start, and things like 'petrol bombs'. To have got to 4 years older than me, and not realise that decanting petrol next to a lit hob was dangerous implies a shocking level of innattention throughout life.

Yes. Unfortunately the bleeding hearts on here want us not to mock.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I am no Gregory House, but I like the philosophy of the character.

Oh and I'll tell you something else, unlike House, I'll at least apologise, credit where it's due and all that. Too many others don't.

you do know he's... err.... a completely fictitious character right?