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belchingmatt wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
It must have been a Daily Mail headline that I remembered. :oops: I never experienced any problems playing conkers when I was younger.


I threw a great plank of wood into a tree to get some fresh conkers down, the plank had a large rusty nail at one end that tore open my thumb. So not playing conkers, but certainly related. :lol:

Yes but you cannot legislate against stupidity. :lol:

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I would call it education. It was the only time I've ever cut myself on a rusty nail.

Pick yourself up, learn from the experience, move on.

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I would call it education. It was the only time I've ever cut myself on a rusty nail.

Pick yourself up, learn from the experience, move on.

Yes when I was a kid I had plenty of accidents never considered suing over it. Last year I slipped on some ice, yet still never considered suing. It was an accident not a failure of someone to clear the path.

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Another sensible (IMO) judgement

Are we finally moving away frm the compensation culture ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-14387945

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A woman who hit her head on the bottom of a swimming pool during a late-night party in Surrey has lost her claim for £6m damages in the High Court

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TBH it looked like it was her own incompetence that made the incident worse. Drink is never a good thing with a pool close by. If the pool was full then it would have been safe for normal use.

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Apparently she wasn't drunk, though no idea if she's been drinking. In the end, this was her own fault - she didn't have to enter the pool and she didn't have to dive.

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