The Low Enjoyment Lifestyle - Scottish Style!

Dick Puddlecote has been writing some excellent stuff recently. Not least in highlighting this piece of class bullshit (aka. a "report") from Sheffield University (from the Telegraph article).

It estimates that alcohol-related hospital admissions and deaths would be reduced by 3,600 per year and there would also be 1,100 fewer criminal offences. For a 50p threshold the respective figures are 8,900 and 4,200.

The report also recognises that even though consumption might fall with minimum pricing, overall spending by consumers would go up. At the 40p threshold, consumers would be spending 3.4 per cent more on drink.

It concludes that a moderate drinker could expect to spend £11 more per year, a hazardous drinker £58 more a year and a harmful drinker £137 more.

Meanwhile, the research predicts a minimum price will also lead to 30,000 fewer absence days from work a year.

It's fairly safe to say that most "harmful drinkers" are likely to not be in work anyway (not in the private sector anyway). And if they're down to save £137 a year, how much are some of these people claiming in various incapacity allowances and whatnots? Secondly, those lighter drinkers who stand to save £11 a year are simply going to buy the supermarket's own baked beans in order to compensate. It's not a big deal. I reckon I could save £150 a year by buying Tesco Value products.

And another point that hasn't really been thought through at all, is that at least some of these people are going to have kids. So the heavy drinkers will end up spending child benefit on booze and then we'll get yet more rounds from the Righteous of "child poverty".

I am also a bit confused by the terminology too. What exactly is a "hazardous drinker"? Hazardous to whom? I can't help but think this has been worded deliberately poorly so as to confuse and alarm.

It's just another tax hike. Let's not pretend. If they were serious, they'd either make drinking illegal or bump the prices up by 500%.

Pretentious cunts!

Now This is What a Call a Study!

Well fuck me sideways with a rancid old tool!

Have you seen this load of shit?

Animals who have close contact with humans pick up the superbug and then leave traces of it around the home where other people can be infected.

A study of homes by researchers at the Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community at Simmons College in Boston, found MRSA in nearly half of the 35 residences they sampled, mostly on wet surfaces like baths, sinks and tap handles.

The study concluded: “The presence of a cat in the home was found to be a strong predictor for the isolation of MRSA.”

Is there also a strong predictor that humans who have close contact with British hospitals are also more likely to get MRSA? Or could it be that people like pets, therefore thou shalt not be allowed to have one? A bit like smoking, drinking and being a fat fucker...

And THIRTY FIVE homes???? They're taking a study seriously that used a poxy 35 homes! Stick a couple of zeroes on that and you might have a leg to fucking stand on. And to cap it off, they found the bacteria on surfaces where virtually ALL bacteria lives! What the pissing piss are we meant to learn from this? It's fake science for knobheads.

Shit a fucking brick! I'm off to pour myself a scotch and watch re-runs of The Sweeney!

Spend With Us if You Want to Live!

I always get curious whenever "research" appears on the scene stating the benefits of a certain expensive pill or supplement. I don't know why, of course. I mean someone only stands to make a fucking packet out of such a claim!

Here's the latest live-until-you're-250-card:

British scientists have developed a groundbreaking pill which provides all the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet.

One capsule of Ateronon taken daily can break down fatty deposits in the arteries and help prevent heart disease and strokes, potentially saving millions of lives.

The supplement, which costs £35 for a month's supply, contains lycopene, a chemical found in the skin of ripe tomatoes.

I am a cynical cunt and whenever one of these articles starts doing the rounds, I find myself wondering in whose best interests it would be, and which previous "research" it completely contradicts (will look into this further).

Why can't the media just accept the fact we're all going to die, regardless of how many fucking happy pills we pop.

Shit happens. Let me drink, let me smoke, and fuck the fucking fuck off, you grasping cunts!