People banned from being naked near children - IT'S HEALTH AND SAFETY GONE MAD

Right, I haven't plumbed the depths of idiocy contained within the Daily Mail website for weeks now, so I have a double dose of rubbish from the last couple of days for you to enjoy... starting with a familiar case of double standards.

This story of the local pool where people were asked not to shower naked is full of the usual Mail hypocrisy. The headline is:

"Swimming pool users banned from showering naked in case children are offended"

This seems to suggest that it was a pre-emptive PC gone mad type of banning, done 'in case' people who may or not be offended are. However in the second paragraph it goes on to say that...

"Bathers have been told to keep their swimming costumes on while using the showers following complaints from local schools that pupils were offended by 'open nudity' and needed 'a certain amount of privacy.'

Which clearly states that the ban was enforced AFTER complaints not IN CASE OF complaints.

Still the Mail continues with its dog whistle journalism, even managing to stick in this gem.

Swimmers who regularly use the Torridge Pool in Northam, Devon, described the rule as 'health and safety gone mad.'

Surely it's PC gone mad, you've got your 'gone mad's' mixed up there because I can't see any way this is a health and safety issue.

"Local councillor Hugh Bone said the decision was 'ridiculous' and vowed to fight the ban by continuining to showering in the nude.

Grandfather-of-four Hugh said: 'This surely is ridiculous. People should not believe that we are all perverts.

'Boys and men as well as girls and women have always changed in front of each other and this is part of the growing up experience."

Apply this quote to another Mail article, say this one... and we have a paedophile, ready to be vilified for exposing himself to children. You see, the Daily Mail are brilliant at taking quotes out of context.