Health campaigners are attempting to block prominent displays of wine and beer in supermarkets this Christmas after stores were banned from promoting biscuits and advent calendars under new anti-obesity rules.
Activists are piling pressure on grocers to rule out bringing more alcoholic drinks into high traffic areas in the stores, saying it risked acting as a “dangerous trigger for people recovering from alcohol dependence”.
No, really, fuck off.
Go build your temperance display with the Methodists – that pile of Christmas Turnips – and leave the rest of us to our wassail.
G’on, git.
Experts again. Gove was right: Experts had previously called for the Government to include alcohol as a “less healthy food and drink” within UK laws
And when you get there, fuck off again.
Who are you calling a Turnip, you outdated dinosaur. Methodists have not been part of the Temperance movement for decades
These would be publicly funded health campaigners and activists, no? Another splendid opportunity to save a few bob.
Roué le Jour
indeed … the DoH sock puppets and lavishly funds an extensive menagerie of ‘elf pressure groups staffed with power crazed prod nosed busybodies.
I’m in the Charles Dickens’ camp.
As a recovering alcoholic never once have I thought it necessary that shops should hide their booze so I don’t get shit faced when I’m buying some eggs. Ive sat in 1000s of AA meetings and never heard this mentioned by anyone ever. who are these activists?
I’ve also met a lot of fat cunts and they’d sniff out the biscuits wherever you hide them
I’m in the Charles Dickens’ camp.
For all of his many descriptions of merriment and good cheer, Dickens himself was actually rather restrained as a party animal.
In every single supermarket I visit alcohol is never in high traffic areas. They are always at the back or out of the way for security reasons.
As a recovering alcoholic never once have I thought it necessary that shops should hide their booze so I don’t get shit faced when I’m buying some eggs.
Same. I found the best way to stop drinking was to no longer buy, accept or consume alcohol. It’s my One Step Plan and I’m proud of it. There’s no need for other people’s responsible enjoyment of alcohol to be ruined just some of us have addictive tendencies.
“For all of his many descriptions of merriment and good cheer, Dickens himself was actually rather restrained as a party animal.”
Today’s Times… While alcohol flowed freely through the pages, the author’s relationship with drink is perhaps less well documented. A letter to his wine merchant in 1845 has now come up for sale that puts this relationship under renewed scrutiny.”
Dickens’ daily consumption, as detailed, looks pretty impressive to me.
Bernie G.
From the article, during 1838-1834
Top, top work.
Jimmers
And still found time during the same period to write eight novels including Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol and Martin Chuzzlewit. Here’s mud in your eye!
Dear God, Dickens was a lousy writer. Except for A Tale of Two Cities – was he maybe sober when he wrote that?
Given life expectancy in the general UK population at that time (born 1812) was around 40 years of age, he also lived to celebrate his 58th birthday.
I’ve found the best way to cut down drinking is tequila. Half a bottle of that & you don’t want touch alcohol for three or four days. A week sometimes after a particularly bad session. Pushes one’s average alcohol consumption way lower. Absinthe’s even more effective but I’ve a strong suspicion it could be fatally so.
Life changing health advice I’d recommend to anyone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSGHKixLfQ
BiS @ 12.57, ‘Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder’, or something like that….. And that link has to be the best advert that doesn’t include burgers, chicken, ribs, lingerie clad young ladies, rock music or fast mortecycles (sic)……
Piss off. Anyone who thinks that alcoholics can avoid all sight of booze needs their head read. I’m having a major cutback now (it had got slightly out of control), what am I supposed to do if I go out for dinner with family? Demand they all go teetotal for the night? I had some time away from my local to get used to the new normal, but I have lots of friends there. So I’m back with strict (self imposed) rules, drink slow, water between drinks, upper limit. Booze in supermarkets is the least of my worries.
On the topic of obesity, isegoria is running a series of posts. This particular hypothesis, that obesity is caused by environmental contaminants, doesn’t entirely pass the sniff test, but it would be nice to have something out of our control to blame: https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/environmental-contamination-by-artificial-human-synthesized-compounds-fits-this-picture-very-well-and-no-other-account-does/