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banning under 16s from drinking tea
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/16/ntea116.xml
What does everyone think? I've drank tea for as long as I remember and it's never done me any harm. If "health and safety" reasons also mean you could scald yourself on the water surely most things that we use day to day can be dangerous.
What does everyone think? I've drank tea for as long as I remember and it's never done me any harm. If "health and safety" reasons also mean you could scald yourself on the water surely most things that we use day to day can be dangerous.
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I think that once kids get to high school they're old enough to know that hot water hurts. And I thought tea was meant to be really good for you anyway?
We're not allowed to let mothers who want to warm up baby food take the cup of hot water to the table either though. They have to come back when they think it's ready, which is annoying when it's busy
The thing that makes me laugh most is the "minimal nutritional value" of tea and coffee that they go on about. Coffee, yeah, but tea? It's proven to be good for you with the antioxidants in it.
And I didn't realise that water had any nutritional value either.
Unfortunately such policies are actually brought up by the public's shameless actions of suing for just about anything. The infamous case a few years ago of a woman in America who sued McDonalds (and won!) because *she* dropped a coffee on her legs as she was driving and the coffee was "too hot" is as good an example as any.
All this nonsense could be avoided if legislation was introduced so when somebody is taking the piss a judge could rule against them and fine them 1000 times their compensation claim figure for general cuntiness.
You could quite easily give under 16's tea, and mothers cups of hot water without fear of litigation - you just have to take 'reasonable precautions'.
99% of the stories against health and safety are because the laws are written badly and companies dont know what to do.
Well tea is just flavoured water with milk - I'd rather have tea than water any day! It's just silly.
Agree with budda, it's a sensationalism of something ordinary - a report into foods and drinks in schools - and making a big hoohah out of nothing. Despite the title of the article, read the direct quote:
Even though they've spelt coffee wrong, they're talking out of their arses. That would be like me doing a report on health and safety, and saying the potential angers of football were that kids could fall over - and someone reading that and saying 'OMG THEYRE GOING TO BAN FOOTBALL'. It's better to be thorough in reports than dismiss things out of hand, and that's all it was doing.