Maybe the government can trim back some Civil Service fat to help pay for all these tax cuts by sending out inappropriate e-mails & sacking everyone who doesn't report them.

they took the photoshop of GG coming in thru customs/border control, and added their OWN children at risk images over the top.....

bit fucking borderline IMO

Another massive overreaction from employers who ought to know better.

What a world we live in.

Probably should be criminal proceedings, these people have betrayed a position of trust, and all their cases should be reopened for investigation and to check that they have not abused their position directly.

The costs of this should be borne by the miscreants, involved.

If you have you probably won't be too surprised at the story.

A social worker joke with more than a grain of truth:

How many social workers does to take to change a lightbulb? None. But it takes 15 of them 6 weeks to write a report on "living with darkness".

Let's calm down here folks...as well you all know there are always sick jokes for every disaster and vile occurance which ever there has been (I've heard 9/11 jokes and, while I made disgusted noises and did not laugh, i did not get the joker arrested...) and there always will be. Why? Because we laugh at the following things;

1) Things which we find embarressing and the relief that they are happening to somone else and not us

2) Things we are afraid of (laughing in the face of death etc ) which leads to gallows humour and so forth

3) Things we are uncomfortable with and find offensive

Humour is the strangest thing we have developed and no-one truly understands it but it has some survival mechanism somewhere. PC kills this mechanism when used to excess. As I always used to say; I've heard the best Pakistani jokes from Pakistani's, the best Irish jokes from Irish people, the best Scottish jokes from Scots, the best Jewish jokes from Jews (a la Mel Brooks)....but always we have little Hitlers (oh dear, that's me done for now!) who are just desperate to get offended by something.....these people need to loosen up and regain their sense of humour because otherwise, without their built-in pressure release valve (laughter and humour, since we evolved stress, we've needed a release), they shall explode.....in a wet and unpleasant mess

If you want to be really pedantic then technically paedophilia is the sexual attraction to *prepubescent* children.

An attraction to someone who is under the legal age of consent but who has started puberty is not paedophilic. Not the the Faily Fail or any of the other tabloids care about that - so long as they sell papers!

People in difficult jobs develop a darker sense of humour than those that do bugger all, sit in an office and read the daily mail all day.

People appreciate jokes about the area they work in and need a chance to destress.

My view is if it was just forwarding a joke from else where as some reports i heard say then fair enough, they should be alowed a pressure valve. (imagine spending all day looking at the darkest side of humanity)

However as other reports say they added real pics of the children they work with, that is a misuse of their position and the firing is fair.

After seeign tha timage, i remembered it from somewhere (failblog or something) so i did a search, there's one link here (http://www.errorforum.com/fun-n-light-error/15896-chinese-take-away.html) that's from 2007. Granted, 'shopping some child molester in the pic maybe seen as a little outrageous... maybe. Then again, maybe some manager just had no sense of humor or was still butt-sore from her uncle givingher an enema when she was 12...

Perhaps a reason for the hypersensitivity is this:

"Lanarkshire has been announced as the host of the International Children's Games in 2011."

According to wikipedia