Demands for Maude to quit...

[Spinney]

...after this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ans-avoid-shortages.html?ICO=most_read_module

Not that I have any brief for Maude (far from it), but decanting petrol in a kitchen, WHILE COOKING ON A GAS STOVE...

How stupid can you get?

 

[LarryDuff]

Whilst Maude's comments were stupid anybody who decants petrol in their kitchen and then gets badly burnt is 100% to blame herself.

 

[tyred]

Petrol vapour may be flammable. Who'd have thought it?

 

[Night Train]

Petrol vapour may be flammable. Who'd have thought it?

Highly inflammable in fact!

 

[Oxo]

Petrol. Dangerous. Well strike a light!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

While I'm very sorry she has been hurt I have to ask the question; what did she think was going to happen?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

But I liked the comment "This is 100% the petrol companies fault for making the fuel too flammable!!

Da doo ron-ron-ron, da doo ron-ron.

 

[ColinJ]

Poor lady. But I liked the comment "This is 100% the petrol companies fault for making the fuel too flammable!! They should make it less flammable so these accidents do not happen."

Yeah, it's about time that somebody invented diesel!

 

[Red Light]

Highly inflammable in fact!

Make your mind up! Is if flammble or inflammable?

 

[addictfreak]

Make your mind up! Is if flammble or inflammable?

Flammable

 

[ColinJ]

Make your mind up! Is if flammble or inflammable?

Origin
1595–1605; < Medieval Latin inflammābilis, equivalent to Latin inflammā ( re ) to inflame + -bilis -ble


Usage note
Inflammable and flammable both mean “combustible.” Inflammable is the older by about 200 years. Flammable now has certain technical uses, particularly as a warning on vehicles carrying combustible materials, because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix in- of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.” Inflammable is the word more usually used in nontechnical and figurative contexts: The speaker ignited the inflammable emotions of the crowd.

 

[benb]

I'd say she was an idiot. However, she is not the one paid a ministerial salary to not be an idiot, so Maude should definitely step down for issuing advice that was dangerous and illegal.

Regardless of her stupidity, would she have been doing this if Maude hadn't issued his advice? I'd say no, so I'm going to score it 85% her fault, 15% Maude's

 

[addictfreak]

The lady in question, suffered 40% burns. Snide remarks at her expense are a bit unfair to say the least. You would be amazed just how many members of the public do not know the dangers involved when handling petrol.

Hopefully she will make a full recovery.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Back to the subject.I think in the next budget there should be a tax for stupidity.Forget the pastie tax lets have a stupidity tax it would raise millions.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'd say she was an idiot. However, she is not the one paid a ministerial salary to not be an idiot, so Maude should definitely step down for issuing advice that was dangerous and illegal.

Regardless of her stupidity, would she have been doing this if Maude hadn't issued his advice? I'd say no, so I'm going to score it 85% her fault, 15% Maude's

I'll have you know that my MP is not paid a ministerial salary not to be an idiot. He is paid a ministerial salary to be a minister. No amount of money will ever stop him being an idiot.