On 30/06/2015 14:32, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:46:14 UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:
On 30/06/2015 01:57, Tudor Hughes wrote:
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I'm not advocating a return to the cavalier attitudes of Edwardian
times (before anyone starts shouting)
but the present attitude is unhealthy and points to a loss of bottle.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

The problem is that the general public are on the whole pretty stupid
and will drink themselves legless then fall asleep in the sun without
sunscreen and end up frazzled to bright pink and flaking. I describe
here the typical young sun seeking Brit on holiday on the continent.

On the rare occasions it happens in the UK you get the same and
unfortunately also a few people drowned due to thermal shock jumping
into cold deep water. Much as a hate to quote the Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...eaches-14.html

In the desert regions of the US there are fines for travelling without
the right amount of bottled water in your car. It seems people are more
afraid of the police fining them than they are of dying by dehydration.

And you believe the kind of people that will get absolutely sozzled and fry as
they sleep in the sun or drown as they jump of a bridge will heed any
warnings ?

No. But you have to at least try and save their lives.

Round here there are a couple of dangerous tight bends and they drop the
indicated speed limit by 10mph each time there is a fatality. The bend
is good for 50+. We will have to go round them in reverse soon.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/lo...-house-3702602

This spectacular one isn't even a particularly tight bend - it is just
at the end of a long straight. Would you want to live in that house?


This is the problem, society is now geared to catering for the profoundly ignorant
and thick and we all have to jump through the same stupid hoops as them.

For once Lawrence I agree with you. And it is the Express and Mail that
cater for the the wilfully ignorant (if they read anything at all).

The temperatures predicted today do pose an increased risk of mortality
for the elderly due to dehydration. One thing I didn't know was that
according to the medic on the Today programme tepid water is better than
cold water for cooling someone down who already has heatstroke.

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Regards,
Martin Brown