THE NANNY STATE

[Mr. Tea]

I've just, belatedly, found that you can no longer get proper San Pellegrino with an adequate amount of sugar in it, due to the government's idiotic and regressive sugar tax. All you can get now is this garbage with "stevia" in it, whatever the fuck that is, and it tastes like a tramp's arse.

What gives? I thought the Right was supposed to be all about personal choice and responsibility? Isn't this a stick Tories have used to beat Labour with since forever?

Shit like this makes me want to go full libertarian. If I want to juggle live hand grenades while ripped to the tits on 300 micrograms of Hofmann's finest then that's my own fucking lookout, OK?

 

[luka]

that's bad.

 

[Mr. Tea]

that's bad.

I know, it tastes bloody awful.

 

[craner]

Nightmare.

 

[slackk]

"original recipe" - they sell it in the asda

 

[Mr. Tea]

Point-of-sales taxes are a shitty idea anyway, because they're the same for everyone, so they affect poor people the most while to rich people they make basically no difference at all. The idea that we can all be gently nudged in the direction of being perfect citizens by being selectively made a little bit poorer in one way or another.

 

[IdleRich]

So can you get the high sugar one and pay more tax or is it just removed from the shelves?

 

[luka]

"original recipe" - they sell it in the asda

they sell it in the Asda

 

[IdleRich]

So what's Ollie moaning about? Or does he only go in Waitrose?

 

[Leo]

fuckin' hell, that's rough. hang in there, tea.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Don't mind Stevia.
Do mind fatty liver and cancer.

Hah, my son just called this place "disenseless" when he saw me tapping away.

 

[luka]

im even more concerned about how the nanny state is conspiring with the tech giants to hide information about flat earth and beyonce being in the illuminati. its the erasure of our cultural and intellectual history.

 

[luka]

if you want to understand how we got here you need access to that information

 

[version]

Tea's a sugar cultist. The sugar god showers you with treats in exchange for your mind and body. He takes the teeth first.

 

[version]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Tea's a sugar cultist. The sugar god showers you with treats in exchange for your mind and body. He takes the teeth first.

I've still got all my teeth, thank you!

 

[luka]

I've still got all my teeth, thank you!

in a jar by the bed

 

[Mr. Tea]

Granted, I've made them into a necklace, but that's beside the point.

 

[woops]

Don't mind Stevia.
Do mind fatty liver and cancer.

Hah, my son just called this place "disenseless" when he saw me tapping away.

die senseless is a classic padraig line (not u.s.)

 

[luka]

it's tricky though. i don't have principles personally. i want to keep people with no self discipline from getting fat and dying of heart attacks and i want to persoanlly drink coca cola and take all the drugs in the world whenever i feel like it. i want to read all the conspiracy theories while at the same time feeling uncomfortable when my low information mates share them credulously.