30 Jan 2024

And Then Ban It…

   Well, so, it comes as no surprise to see those that would rule over us have their priorities laid out and they sure are important plans considering that, according to the fear brigade, we’re on the eve of World war whoopee.
   So wot’s planned for us down here? It’s been a while coming but ‘they’ plan to make disposable vaping thingies illegal. Then all vaping kit? The other is the plan that by year x it’ll be illegal to sell tobacco to anyone born after year y thus slowly
making tobacco redundant.
   It’s good ‘they’ are giving every hook, crook and comic singer involved in smuggling and selling on the black market some time to fully get their nefarious{?} act together, eh?
   Wot next? Coming soon; any drink or food item that requires agitating by the process of stirring must be stirred to the left and stirring to the right will become illegal and all those ‘security’ cameras and talking tin cans will be watching and listening for all miscreants.
   I repeat myself but if those up there continue to try to hold everyone’s hand, soon, nobody will ever learn to walk on their own. Thinking that through, that’s probably the plan...

Quote; Tapan Ghosh.

“Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.”  

          Alberto Manguel.

“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.”

7 comments:

DiscoveredJoys said...

In a Wikipedia article about Gulliver's Travels:

The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after his son cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions ... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu.

Our current set of politicians would probably ban eggs altogether in support for community cohesion and Net Zero. It takes a lot of power to boil an egg you know.

Doonhamer said...

However, I have a suspicion that the sisha, or hookah would get a pass.
And the vape stasi would be coming down heavy on the asthma inhalers.

Mac said...

Discoveredjoys,
I like that; nice find. Front and centre soon.
Yup, ban eggs to save the planet and chickens...

Mac said...

Doonhamer,
Very true. I like the comment above regards eating eggs.

Ripper said...

Mac,
You can thank for this one Linda Bauld, working (some ago) for ASH UK. You might remember that name - the same Linda Bauld (in 2020 during the coof) working in the government SPI-B (Nudge Unit), modify public behavior of the all fools to get those 'unsafe and non-effective' jabs. This called is 'scaremongering', together with Boris, should have his balls cut off (if he has any) before he gets hanged style Mussolini moment.

Luckily, I knew this name, you can tell when she is lying - because her lips were moving.

Some of the bullshit 'facts' from ASH years ago, for justifying bans and rent seekers...

The smoke travels through electrical wiring (evict neighbour if they smoke)
The smoke come in through brick walls
Lungs turn black, shrink and crispy, the picture was stained pig lungs (Bauld probably talk about her's cooking)
Medical porn on packs done in Photoshop, probably.
The fags drip cholesterol/animal fat all over your clothes
Smokers stink (nazi style shaming/embarrassing to change behavior)

When ASH money rent seeking had dried up, they started the same play book on Sugar, Salt etc...

Mac said...

Ripper,
Whatever folks have that they enjoy, there'll always be a nutter opposed to that enjoyment. And who gets the spotlight? Yup, the nutter every time.

Ripper said...

Mac,
Yes, spot on. Thing is, that nutter you mention, is always has the same person.