Archive for the 'Nanny-Statism' Category

Drugs Cheaper Than Beer In UK

March 18, 2008

The drug war has failed so abysmally in England that not only are drugs freely available, they are cheaper than the legal alternative.
A line of cocaine is now as cheap as a pint of beer after the latest alcohol tax rises took effect.
An average pint in Britain has topped £3 following a 4p rise in [...]

Cricket Fascists

February 7, 2007

The latest ban on the mexican wave at the cricket is just the latest in the slippery slope to make every single public event as boring as humanly possible.
Here’s a short list of things that have been banned at sporting events since I have been a sports fan:
1 Full-strength beer. (However, it is still [...]

Shed Drinking Epidemic Worsens

January 24, 2007

Strangely enough, the draconian smoking bans being imposed across Australia aren’t having the desired effect. Instead of giving up their ungodly habit, smokers are instead staying home and drinking - an approach that has apparently taken the AHA by surprise.
Sly-grogging in sheds, garages and backyards had been reported in about 30 towns across Tasmania, with [...]

Concerned Busybodies Want Coca Cola Ban

January 8, 2007

This post is rated R18+ for sickening nanny-statism. Send your kids to bed before reading.
GOVERNMENT’S have been urged to consider banning the sale of caffeinated soft drinks to children following new Australian research showing caffeine only increases addictiveness.
And yet haven’t been urged to send newspaper journalists to remedial apostrophe classes.

A Melbourne study, published in the [...]