Nature charities joined fire chiefs in calling for a ban on disposable barbecues yesterday, branding them a menace to the environment.Aren't they just as much of a danger? Given disposable barbecues tend to at least stay put, while lanterns go whereever the wind takes them?
I wonder why you aren't calling for a ban on those? Still, I guess the majority of fires must be being caused b...
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Around 4 per cent of serious accidental fires are ‘robustly linked’ to barbecue use, Home Office figures show.
To stop 4% of fires, we should inconvenience 100% of customers?
A petition demanding a ban had last night gathered more than 14,500 signatures.
It's probably far exceeded that now, as every Karen and misery-guts and Virtuesignaller in the country flings themselves on the bandwagon as it trundles by...
"To stop 4% of fires"
ReplyDeleteProbably only 1% tops, if the term, 'Robustly Linked', is anything to go by
"To stop 4% of fires, we should inconvenience 100% of customers?"
ReplyDeleteBut of course! Collective punishment is the *only* answer that ever appeals to these types...
My personal preference is to use my kitchen for what it is intended. If the weather is agreeable I might dine al fresco, although some summers the stench of burning grease makes that into an ordeal. Having said that, I never complain as people have the right to cook outdoors. Unfortunately, this being a free country gives people the right to ban what they wish to. In the process life becomes poorer for us all
ReplyDeleteBut you just don't understand. Only chavs buy 'disposable' barbecues, all the 'special' people have theirs either catered, cooked by one of the immigra... I mean servants, or at the very least own a bespoke model.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the betting someone in the 'charity' owns shares in, or is related to the owner of, a company that produces ... barbecues?
100% of accidental fires are caused by Richard's and Karen's (although disproportionally it's, Tarquin's and Felicity's) messing with things they're too stupid to manage ... as here.
Only 4% (guesstimate) of serious accidental fires.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the serious deliberate fires.
The flippant accidental fires and the flippant deliberate fires.
And the alternative would be - take your big old steel baking tray and cooker grill grid, a bag of charcoal, some lighter fluid and Robert is your father's brother.
Unintended consequences.
Next will be the banning of disposable foil baking trays as people realise they can just make their own disposable BBQ with one of those, some charcoal soaked in BBQ fluid and some mesh from toolstation.
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