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.
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?
Here you go.
Pommygranate, I feel for you mate. At my office, we have folks from Weight Watchers turning up to offer advice. Make mine a cheeseburger.
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.
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.
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.
Beer is good for you, too.
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– Josh
tranio, that’s beautiful!!!