Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
Yeah, it's about the horrible fascism of completely ineffective, nonsensical "look, we're doing something" "attempts" by politicians which are about as useful as the outrage about our right to have colourful packages being stripped away from us that follows them.Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr
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Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
It's actually about more than that. It's about people deciding what is normal and what is not. That word, "Denormalisation", should have everyone worried. Whether you smoke or not. Who decides what's normal? The government? The local council? ASH? The police?
I don't know either but it's worrying.
They've done the deed on the smokers and are now moving on to "Denormalise" alcohol. After that who knows. Probably fat people. Perhaps people who look a bit different. Maybe even you one day.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
Uhm.... Denormalization is a technical term, IA, it has nothing to do with politicospeak...
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
I never thought I'm normal anyway.
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Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
A junkie, for example, usually hangs out in an enviroment where everyone he knows does drugs, ie. the drug abuse is completely normal. Breaking out of that enviroment and finding a new enviroment where drugs aren't used, is denormalizing the drug use.
But it could be applied to everyone and everything. For example, all your friends could be gamers, and so playing games all day long would be normal in that enviroment. If you wanted to change your habit, denormalizing gaming could be one way of doing that, ie. Changing your enviroment to one where people don't play games all day long.
Last edited by HoreTore; 03-12-2011 at 15:07.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
I see.
Is that done either voluntarily or compulsory?
Again, who decides what is normal and what is abnormal?
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
"What is normal" is objective, not subjective.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: The evil smokers and their fiendish plot!
Could you give some examples of normal/non-normal stuff then?
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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