Here are just a few thing in the papers over the last few days;
1- A charity raft race which has never suffered a serious accident in its 27-year history has been sunk by the health and safety demands of police and council risk assessors.
They included a requirement that competitors should wear £35 sea-going life jackets, provision of lavatories for the disabled and a suggestion that the 3.75-mile course should be fenced to stop spectators falling in.
'It's a race in which people build their own rafts, float them down the river, have lots of fun and generally get wet, because water is wet, ' said Robin Shapland, organiser of the River Rother raft race at Midhurst, West Sussex.
Scuppered: The charity event has taken place for 27 years on the River Rother
'But so many conditions have been imposed on us that we decided to call it a day.'
The race, held on August Bank Holiday at Midhurst, West Sussex, this year raised £13,000 for Macmillan Cancer and other charities.
Mr Shapland, 59, a balloon pilot, said: 'We have always insisted that competitors wear buoyancy aids but we are told this is not good enough even though all people are basically doing is paddling a raft down a ditch.'
Looks like you cant have fun in West Sussex, unless you fence your self in, and carry a loo.
Why cant they just put a sign up, saying you enter this site at your own risk.
Its a bit of FUN, and they raise a good few bob for charities, as Dell boy used to say "what a plonker"
2- Given the subject is society's attitudes towards disability, the censors might just have thought it wise to take a little extra care in their comments.
But when the British Board of Film Classification gave a 12A certificate to the low-budget comedy Special People, it tagged on a warning to viewers that the film contained disabled people.
I'm I missing something here, the film has disabled people in it, WOW, I'm shocked
Sack this plonker from the British Board of films, and tell him or her to get a life.
3- Poor men. All that time and effort wasted. A study has shown that foreplay adds little to a woman's overall enjoyment of sex.
The main event itself is far more important, the researchers found.
Their findings contradict traditional bedroom etiquette, which dictates that men must take it slow.
More than 2,300 women were quizzed about their sex lives for the study. Questions covered areas such as the division of time between foreplay and intercourse, and how often the women had an orgasm.
Foreplay lasted for an average of 15.4 minutes and intercourse for 16.2, the Journal of Sexual Medicine reports.
God us blokes cant win, maybe the women don't like forplay, but us blokes do
15.4 Min's on forplay, 16.2 Min's on intercourse, that's 31.6 Min's, GOD in that time I have had intercourse, had a cup of tea, had a shower, and fell asleep.
Who gets these jobs, do they stand there with spot watches, where do I put my name down
Do you have any more stories of MAD Britian.
