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By dmg (Sat Jun 28, 2008 at 08:19:24 PM EST) (all tags)

I need more micromanagement of my life not less!

Is there ever going to be any end to the stupidity? Or am I just going to have to endure it? Up to this point, I've always thought that Nu Labour's ridiculous social engineering experiments would eventually be rejected by the lumpen proletariat, just like Maggie's Poll Tax.

Where is the street rioting? Do we really support Gordon "Dour Incompetent Scottish Cunt" Brown that much?

Where will it end?

I need somewhere to emigrate to where this sort of shit does not go unchallenged! France perhaps?

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Think it's a general trend by jump the ladder (3.00 / 2) #1 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 02:41:32 AM EST

In most Western Countries as the European wide smoking ban would indicate. Govts have decided they can't protect your economic security so they're casting around for other roles to justify their existence and keep the bureucracy going. Plus they save money on healthcarte costs ion the long term.

France might be better on stuff like this but it's a bureaucratic nightmare in lots of other respects and even more statist. Spain is better and is the only EU country I woulkd consider setttling in.

: The thing is by Herring (4.00 / 1) #2 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 08:48:11 AM EST

projections indicate that by 2020 (or earlier) we'll have over a million people in the UK suffering from dementia (insert joke about them all working in government). Many of those will require very expensive nursing care. Now, if those people had died from lung cancer, cirrhosis, heart attacks, traffic accidents etc. then it would save a shedload of money.
As it is, by mid century, half of the tax take will be being spent on nurses to wipe up dribble and Werther's Originals.

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: Agreed. by dmg (2.00 / 0) #5 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 01:12:10 PM EST

Although I think the health benefits of making it slightly more inconvenient to drown one's chips in salt may be overestimated...
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Nevermind that by ucblockhead (4.00 / 3) #3 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 11:27:46 AM EST

There evidence that low-salt diets help people with high blood pressure is weak and that the evidence is that normal amounts of salt have no negative effects on people without high blood pressure.
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Yup. by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #4 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 12:12:34 PM EST

It gets real old explaining to people that salt doesn't cause high blood pressure. "But sodium is bad for you!"

Well, no, it's not.

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Yep, sodium is bad for you. by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #6 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 01:50:25 PM EST

How many people can correctly answer the question "Which is the most important metal to have a sufficient amount of every single day?"?

Well, don't have any calcium or iron for a week, and you're fine. Try that with sodium.

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: Take your sodium daily by Herring (4.00 / 2) #7 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 02:55:13 PM EST

in 1kg lumps in the bath.

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Chippy salt shakers pour way too fast by gpig (4.00 / 1) #8 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 05:03:24 PM EST

if you only like a little bit of salt on your chips (as I do).

So they're doing the right thing for me, but for the wrong reason ....

As far as 'too much salt' goes, how much does that matter exactly if you're about to eat a chippy?
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: The problem seems to be by dmg (4.00 / 1) #9 Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 06:05:14 PM EST

A misconception about the public's ability to apply an appropriate amount of salt to their chips.
I think we need a programme of education, and local 'community salt wardens' to empower us to implement a healthy salt/chip solution.
Oh yes, and fixed-penalty on-the-spot fines for anyone who has "too much"* salt on their chips.
*(Amount to be decided by panel of govt-appointed "experts").
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People are no more complacent now by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #10 Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 08:45:09 AM EST

They just protest about stuff they care about, hence the size of the Stop the War marches.

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