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Yup, just like banning tobacco sponsorship killed off Formula One.BuilderPlumber wrote: »What it will do though is kill off events that bring business to Ireland, create employment and improve the economy. Same if Guinness were not allowed sponsor music festivals. You would see a huge drop in the number of festivals.
I miss Formula One.
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oscarBravo wrote: »Yup, just like banning tobacco sponsorship killed off Formula One.
I miss Formula One.
ALL these types of decisions are made by people who have no clue of how business works and how it contributes to the economies of the world. Less F1 as a result of the ending of tobacco sponsorship.
Healthocracy is a very dangerous movement of recent years. To me, it is the emerging threat to democracy in many countries and it is of the same nature as the current Talibanised 'Islamism'. Healthocracy and Talibanist Theocracy share very much of the same attributes: they both would like to see alcohol banned, tobacco too, also many food types; anything enjoyable/fun is denounced by both in favour of what is not fun; the theocrats can use hellfire and capital punishment or torture (if the threat of hell does not work) to scare people while healthocrats can use words like 'cancer causing' to instill fear; both like to tell us how we should dress; both are arrogant, self righteous and force their opinion of what they think is good down your throat; both try to brainwash us with their views ALL the time.
Absolute monarchies, so-called Christian theocracies, fascist/Nazi dictators, communist one party states, so-called Islamist theocracies, and austerity have/will come and go but I predict that the post-recession threat to the world will be the emergence of a healthocratic dictatorship which will operate exactly like the Taliban but in the name of 'health'.
We see it creeping in in such examples as these:
Smoking bans.
Tea, coffee, sugar, salt and butter being bad for you.
Alcohol limits for the week. 21 units. And the unit being at one stage 1 pint and then it becomes a half point.
Extreme drink driving legislation.
The requirement to list what smoking causes on fag and cigar boxes. The recent gross images on the boxes.
The war on 'fat' and 'carbs'.
So called 'binge drinking': it is considered by healthocratics that binge drinking is drinking 4 or 5 pints in one sitting across a 2-4 hour span. In other words, normal drinking to them is binge drinking. REAL binge drinking is drinking from 5 in the day to 1 or 2 at night or in a shorter period (with 10+ drinks consumed - depending how long the session lasted. 10 pints of Guinness across 12 hours is hardly binge drinking but 10 pints of Guinness consumed in 2 hours definitely is) or downing a bottle of wine, whiskey, etc. in a very short period of time (eg. under an hour for wine, between an hour or 2 hours for whiskey).
Obesity: like binge drinking, notice how liberal the definition of 'obesity' has become. It has come to mean anyone who is even slightly overweight. The term has always implied someone who is grossly overweight like those people who can't get out of bed and eat all day long. But not to healthocrats!0 -
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