I am all for compulsive wearing of party hats. The false nose will be a difficult as I already have a large nose. Perhaps having a big nose will class me as medically exempt?
I am all for compulsive wearing of party hats. The false nose will be a difficult as I already have a large nose. Perhaps having a big nose will class me as medically exempt?
Banning sales of tobacco products to minors in NZ has been discussed and debated on Sunday Morning Live on BBC 1 this morning, and people are already deriding such proposals, believing it's the nanny state going too far and such legislation won't be practicable to enforce, etc, even many of us Brits alone, despite it not really being our problem what the authorities in NZ choose to do in this particular instance.
I've heard these same old feeble excuses trotted out time and time again here in this country alone, not only the smoking in vehicles with children present, but also England's refusal so far to give up domestic corporal punishment of children.
Not only the 'never did previous generations any harm' hyperbole regarding both smoking around children and physically chastising them, but the other 'whataboutery' such as how will policing such legislation be practicable with not enough police officers, social workers, etc, plus what about the fact that we do plenty of other unhealthy things on a daily basis like eat fried breakfasts, consume alcohol, breathe in traffic exhaust fumes, etc, to deflect from the argument.
But whether it's restrictions on underage sales of tobacco products in NZ, restrictions on smoking around children and domestic corporal punishment of them in this country, surely the vast majority of the populations would still obey said legislations, regardless of whether they actually agreed with them or not.
But of course, we almost always seem to end up pussyfooting around the 'simpletons' and serial 'non-believers' of this world!
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I bought thermals, a down coat , waterproof everything and neoprene insulated wellies last year in anticipation of having to socialise outside through the winter. Then we were locked down.
The Lib Dems won yesterday's North Shropshire by-election with a significant landslide. A truly remarkable result for an area that has reportedly been a safe 'blue wall' constituency for over 200 years, but obviously no longer.
Boris eat your heart out!
Well I bet that will make a lot of the nostalgics happy on the Big Day and provide some kind of antidote to the oft-perceived 'crapness' of modern-day Christmas TV.
But of course stuff like M & W hails from a time when and where there was very limited choice on the box all year round, let alone Christmas, but people tended to appreciate and make the best of all that was available, unlike today where not only we're spoilt for choice with tons of channels operating 24/7 (unlike just 3 channels back then with midnight closedown), but also seem to revel in slagging off a lot of today's TV programming, justified or not.
Like I keep saying, less was more on TV, especially pre-90s era.
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