Mike wrote:
> Old Codger wrote:
>> Blah wrote:
>>> McTractor wrote:
>>>> I've seen a McDonalds advert today which has simply left me
>>>> speechless. Children aged under 8 or so playing in a farmyard, playing
>>>> on tractors, playing with tractor wheels and sitting in tractor tyres,
>>>> all in an idyllic rural setting and with the promise of a Happy Meal.
>>>>
>>>> Am I the only person in the world who can remember a child being
>>>> killed when he dislodged a tractor wheel that was leaning against a
>>>> wall?
>>> Perhaps the only one that is paranoid enough to link it to this
>>> campaign and worry enough to create a fuss.
>>>
>>> After all - number of kids killed by tractor wheel - 1
>>> Number of kids that will go on to develop fat related diseases after
>>> eating Crappy Meal and die eventually - most of them..
>>>
>> We *all* die eventually, nobody gets out alive.
>>
>> I am with McTractor. Farmyards are work places with many very real
>> hazards. Children should not be encouraged to play in them.
>>
> As am I. Something that townies seem to overlook is that a farm/field is the
> rural equivalent of a factory. Would they let their children play in a factory?
>
But they are not *likely* to... Townies don't take their kids into the
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