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Completely Conkers: What Drives you Nuts About Modern Britain
Author(s): Will Jackson (Author), Jon Stroud (Author)
- Publisher: Summersdale
- Publication Date: 5 Oct. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849530041
- ISBN-13: 9781849530040
Book Description
Who would live in a country where no child is allowed to win a race on sports day and you can lose your job for forwarding an ‘Irish joke’ email? About 60 million Britons, that’s who!
This laugh-out-loud collection of ludicrous laws, political correctness gone mad, moneywasting council schemes and ridiculous red tape reveals how:
- Trapeze artists were told by insurers to wear hard hats in accordance with the European Union’s Temporary Work at Heights directive.
- After falling in the prison shower, a career criminal was compensated £248,000, including a substantial amount ‘for lost earnings’.
- A phone contractor was not qualified to dig a six-inch-deep trench because he did not have ‘underground capability’.
NB: This book doesn’t come with a safety warning. If you cut yourself on the paper, you can sod off.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`Turns the spotlight on ludicrous laws and ridiculous red tape.'
--The Field, November 2009
`You wouldn't believe some of Britain's barmiest regulations.' --The Scottish Sunday Post, 15th November 2009
`Laugh out loud... this book should come with a safety warning... because you're chortling so much!'
--Wiltshire Life: The Top 10 Reads of 2009, December 2009
`Read this books and laugh/rant, whichever suits your mood.' --Scottish Home and Country, January 2010
`Hilarious tales from our age of madness.' --The Lancashire Evening Post, 5 December 2009
`Will have you fuming with rage or laughing out loud at the sheer lunacy of nonsense rules and laws.'
--The Derbyshire Times Series, 10th December 2009
