Brilliant

Maz

www.theonion.com for those of you who keep a sharp eye on the happenings across 'the Pond'

lemonjelly

Maz wrote: »

www.theonion.com for those of you who keep a sharp eye on the happenings across 'the Pond'

IIRC on september 12 2001 the onion ran a headline that read "holy forkin !!!!!! we're under attack!"

Brilliant!:D

nickmason

Cleaver wrote: »

Before reading it I couldn't quite summerise why I hate modern politics so much. And this made me realise what it is: they need to stop just d*cking around with everything.

I absolutely agree - not just because d*cking around with everything is so annoying, and often petty - but it's also SO expensive. I have a favourite metaphor for this - in rowing, you only adjust the course occasionally because applying the rudder causes drag.

So it should be with politics - instead we have continual change at a micro level (all in the name of "something must be done"). All that change is drag on productivity in the private sector, and drag on the economy as a whole as the public sector expands to implement/deal with it (no doubt with expensive change consultants).

Of course, what then happens is that the original problem morphs into something else, through a loophole in the badly drafted legislation - and the cycle starts all over again...

Incidentally I also think the amount of legislation is absurd, with most people - from attorney general down - not knowing what is and isn't within the law - but that's another matter.

StevieJ

Not sure what is wrong and expensive about the provision of healthy eating advice, the mash satires are sometimes funny but not this one for me.

Cleaver

StevieJ wrote: »

Not sure what is wrong and expensive about the provision of healthy eating advice, the mash satires are sometimes funny but not this one for me.

I think that the site is using the idea of a chip shop and healthy eating to make a point about the way the current government acts and behaves, rather than saying that healthy eating advice is a bad thing.