Monday, 29 December 2014

Why Copy Failure?


Le Loi Evin isn't working well for French adults either.




truckerlyn said...

You forget, Dick, that here, the temperance movement, just like the tobacco lot, are able to 'buy' the results they want!

Just look at the supposed reduction in smoking since their 'glorious' ban! It is as flawed as they are! Let's face it, most of us, at a push, could quit for a month if we had to or wanted to. The NHS Quit service is that fantastic that they have almost 100% success - of people stopping for a month! Just how many of those stay non smokers? Less than a quarter, I would think.

Their rationale seems to be, get them in, get them stopped for a month and they will then stop for good, so that is another tick in success box!

On a cheerier note, I wish you and yours a Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Michael J. McFadden said...


You're being FAR too rational Dick. The numbers don't matter unless they say the "correct" thing. Otherwise it's just "the principle that counts"!

There have been times over the years when I've tried to "make a point" by proposing bans on alcohol sales/ads and sports -- usually pointing out that "Adult sports fans will happily pay double or triple the prices for their tickets or make small sacrifices like having their SuperBowls and World Series and such on by-yearly rather than annual schedules" in order to save the children.

I had no idea anyone had yet begun to push the concept seriously.


Q46 said...

Yet nearly all the population thinks the Nanny State should provide, run and pay for their healthcare, no matter how many thousand it slaughters, lets die or fails to treat, and keep them ignorant of exactly how much each pays for it by financing it from taking sippits from a plethora of direct and indirect taxation and public debt... the all hallowed, all saintly, all worshipped NHS.

Which tells us all we need to know about Britons and their opinions.