A bit of what you fancy is good

December 14, 2005
Wednesday

A bit of what you fancy is good

Johnathan Pearce (London) Health

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As Christmas is almost upon us, it is a pleasure to read a nice article by a doughty basher of nanny-state puritanism, Jacob Sullum. Sullum states what many of us probably instinctively know to be true - a bit of what you fancy is good for you. Dark chocolate (yeh!), red wine (yeh again!) and even red meat (thrice yeh!).

So in the interests of good health, I am now eyeing a bottle of fine Rhone red wine sitting on the rack in the kitchen.

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The nanny-state is arriving at our offices next week for an hour's compulsory "Diversity Training". I was wondering if i could ahold of one of Perry's rather fetching "celebrating diversity" T-shirts for the occasion.

Are they on sale anywhere?

Posted by pommygranate at December 14, 2005 02:21 PM

Here you go.

Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 14, 2005 03:18 PM

Pommygranate, I feel for you mate. At my office, we have folks from Weight Watchers turning up to offer advice. Make mine a cheeseburger.

Posted by Johnathan Pearce at December 14, 2005 06:08 PM

This sort of bollocks is more or less inevitable in large organisations, where their inescapable inefficiency allows "human resources" and "marketing" types to build large, gaseous empires.

Posted by GCooper at December 14, 2005 10:20 PM

I thought after years of corporate politics and other nonsense I had escaped all that by running my business from home. But no, recently I received a leaflet from Health and Safety about how to create a safe environment for working in my home.

Needless to say it followed the other ridiculous government leaflets into the round file, unread.

Posted by Nick Timms at December 14, 2005 11:33 PM

Several years ago at my company office in Vancouver, we had a lawyer come from Head Office in Toronto to give us the sexual harassment spiel. One of our female assistants, a real outgoing personality, decided in the meeting to have that lawyer's body that night, and she did.

Posted by tranio at December 15, 2005 02:41 AM

Beer is good for you, too.

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- Josh

Posted by Wild Pegasus at December 15, 2005 12:29 PM

tranio, that's beautiful!!!

Posted by Johnathan Pearce at December 15, 2005 12:45 PM

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