Completely Conkers by Jon Stroud
Who would live in a country where no child is allowed to win a race on sports day and you can lose your job for forwarding an ‘Irish joke’ email? About 60 million Britons, that’s who!
This laugh-out-loud collection of ludicrous laws, political correctness gone mad, moneywasting council schemes and ridiculous red tape reveals how:
- Trapeze artists were told by insurers to wear hard hats in accordance with the European Union’s Temporary Work at Heights directive.
- After falling in the prison shower, a career criminal was compensated £248,000, including a substantial amount ‘for lost earnings’.
- A phone contractor was not qualified to dig a six-inch-deep trench because he did not have ‘underground capability’.
NB: This book doesn’t come with a safety warning. If you cut yourself on the paper, you can sod off.
Will Jackson is Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Leeds, UK. His first book, Madness and Marginality: The Lives of Kenya's White Insane was published in 2013. He is currently researching the history of migrant failure in Southern Africa and Australia.Emily J. Manktelow is Lecturer in British Imperial History at the University of Kent. Her first book, Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier was published in 2013. She is currently researching the social history of gossip in the British Empire.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781849530040 |
| ISBN 10 | 1849530041 |
| Title | Completely Conkers |
| Author | Jon Stroud |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2009-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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