What: "Alcohol can be a problem, as can doctors", The Independent
When: August 3, 2011
A front-line report from inside the "nanny state":
But the campaign against drunkenness doesn't seem to have learned from the "Just say no" anti-drugs campaign, which connects with hardly anyone as it insists drugs lead rapidly to disaster and aren't fun. But if they weren't fun there'd be no need to tell people not to take them, just as there's no need to tell people "Just say no" to sticking your bare arse into a nest of wasps because no one does it anyway because it's not fun.
Always remember: The "nanny state" needs people who need a nanny state. Without the need, the abstraction disappears. Kind of like God, that way.
Do not be fooled, though, by those who would say we owe gratitude to those who fight against the nanny state. Objecting to something one needs is a lot easier than learning to not need it. We would like to think that people can live without constant supervision, but toothpicks need instructions, and I recall once reading the safety warning on the barrel of a revolver.
There is a woman in Mississippi facing a grand jury because she tried to shoot a puppy, but instead killed her husband. Whatever else one might think to say about the prior sentence, Betty Walker apparently needed someone to remind her that it is not a good idea to shoot two rounds at a puppy that her husband happens to be holding at the moment.
Just, you know ... note for future reference.
And in fairness, the puppy was named Cocaine.
At any rate, something about sticking your barse into a nest of wasps:
Dutch police say a man who pushed his exposed buttocks against a restaurant window as a joke was injured when the glass broke and lacerated his behind.
Authorities say a man, 21, and two others had run down a street Sunday morning with their pants pulled down. The man pushed his behind against the window of a restaurant when it broke and cut him.
Apparently, some people need to be told to not go pushing their ass through a window.
You never know. You never know.
Anyone can protest the nanny state. Insofar as "Britain is getting drunker than ever", the people who do not actually need the idiot simple argument do not really care what it says, anyway. That is, they do what they do, and do not contribute to the problems that lead to getting a doctor's advice before a lager.
Besides, any respectable doctor would tell a patient to skip the lager, anyway, in favor of something less revolting.
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