Y’know, anything that may be fun is to be discouraged and our lives are to be dull, interminable and tedious until we shuffle off the mortal coil dribbling, incontinent and uncared for, having lived almost forever – and if it isn’t forever it will bloody well feel like it. Then, and only then, will the puritan bansturbators be satisfied – and should that grey day come to pass in the near future, they will be looking at any slight hint of people enjoying themselves so that they can decree that it is inappropriate, unhealthy and therefore must be discouraged.
US doctors say children should be discouraged from using trampolines because they are a health hazard.
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The renewed advice from the AAP says paediatricians need to “actively discourage” recreational trampoline use.
At the moment, this miserly advice is being resisted this side of the pond with RoSPA coming out with sensible guidance and suggesting adult supervision. How long can they hold out against the forces of darkness, though?
Is there nothing in this world that the mean-minded, petty, pusillanimous, soulless bansturbatiors will not try to discourage, regulate and ultimately ban in their grey and dreary utopia?
Yeah, yeah, I know the answer to that one.
Following the links on that BBC page, you can see the progression:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4728645.stm (2005) – Warning about the possible dangers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4885000.stm (2006) – Guidelines are “needed”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7633380.stm (2008) – Ban for the under fives.
Thankfully nothing came of it or by now we’d be looking at a ban on sales to the general public. Maybe this is their attempt to restart the campaign.
And as with so much of this crap, I hold the BBC and the rest of the MSM media partly responsible for it because they give it air-time/column inches and seldom offer a serious dissenting opinion.
I can’t recall hearing of RoSPA before this piece but a quick look through their accounts reveals they appear to be a fake charity – they get income from the Scottish government, the Welsh assembly, the NHS, the HSE, the departments for transport, health, education, and business.
The BBC are just reporting this.
Be thankful that it IS reoported – so that it can be opposed.
I mean, if it was sneaked through without notice, you’d blame the BBC for NOT noticing/reporting, wouldn’t you?
RoSPA used to be a genuine charity, doing good, useful work (they were certainly around in the 50’s) – but …
I suspect, however, that they have been hollowed-out & taken over by the “Ban everything” idiots.
I was working on the idea that if this sort of stuff wasn’t covered by the MSM then it would simply be ignored.
They seem far too eager to uncritically report every scare, with the vast majority being laughable. The sad thing is, there seems to be a growing number of people who actually believe all this rubbish.
But as you say, it does provide a useful tool to know what the enemy is up to as they will push ahead regardless of publicity.
My cousins daughter recently came off a trampoline and broke her arm – the hospital said it was the third such case they’d had that week.
I guess they would have said the same thing about skateboarding accidents when I was her age.
Anyway, it didn’t stop me from taking young one year old Saddam for his first bounce whilst on holiday recently.
Oh the trauma that poor lad will go through in later life due to the endless cycle of abuse I put him through!
I am not sure about the rights and wrongs of the BBC reporting this but I do believe that it is wrong to use of the words US doctors in both the headline and the opening paragraph. The implication is that this is an initiative supported by US medics in general rather than the outpourings of a minority group with nothing better to do. The BBC consistently uses “doctors” as a lazy substitute for whatever medical establishment activists it is actually writing about.
Shuffle off the mortal coil dribbling, incontinent and uncared for …
You wrote my endscript. 🙂
Can’t see my daughter taking any notice of articles like that. As far as she’s concerned the trampoline is an absolutely essential piece of equipment for draining the energy levels of two very active young boys.
Mrs M! has the exact same feelings about me and young Saddam.
“Bugger off out the pair of you and don’t come back till you’re both too knackered to give me any grief.”
The BBC is happy to label sociologists as ‘experts’ and ‘doctors’ when ‘public health’ activists are on the warpath.
Rob, I wouldn’t trust a sociologist to be an expert in anything.