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WhatEvil posted:They should print "smoking causes impotence" if they actually want people (well, men) to stop. That is one of the standard warnings you already get printed on the packet, except the picture they use to demonstrate it is of a buff-as-hell dude so very much a mixed message IMO, especially with how much weight I've put on since giving up.
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Lungboy posted:If anyone here rides a motorbike you might want to contribute to this https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ETVHG5/. Government want to make all aftermarket parts illegal. Then they came for the cans
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quote:The proportion of adults in the UK who smoke has fallen over recent years to 14.1% – the lowest figure ever recorded – as a result of tightened restrictions on the marketing of cigarettes and campaigns reminding the public of the dangers they involve. Those in turn took off due to indoor smoking bans and greater awareness of smoking cessation and then later due to NHS promotion, but each is a key part of its complement, it's not just as if they put the scary words on the packet and everyone stopped smoking.
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Deketh posted:Then they came for the cans Cans are the obvious ones, but also screens on naked bikes, better mirrors, different seats etc. Knowing the government they'll word it to cover tyres too.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:00
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Lungboy posted:Cans are the obvious ones, but also screens on naked bikes, better mirrors, different seats etc. Knowing the government they'll word it to cover tyres too. I can understand some of the after market cans because they can get stupidly loud. But there's something very classically ill-informed about the rest. I mean, when I was commuting on bikes, not being able to fit a decent screen would have been brutal. And some stock mirrors were total garbage, so that's 2 safety enhancements right there. Banning things like those would be so stupidly unnecessary.
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Deketh posted:I can understand some of the after market cans because they can get stupidly loud. But there's something very classically ill-informed about the rest. I mean, when I was commuting on bikes, not being able to fit a decent screen would have been brutal. And some stock mirrors were total garbage, so that's 2 safety enhancements right there. Banning things like those would be so stupidly unnecessary. Yeah it's bonkers. The reasoning behind it is twofold apparently. First, they don't like that bikes are altered so much they no longer comply with the emissions limits that they need to adhere to when they come out of the factory, which I can understand from a legal point. The second is to do with autonomous vehicles, and that modifying them could screw up their interactions with other vehicles or their own software. Simply banning all mods does solve both issues but is a massive overreaction. It doesn't help that bikes and cars are all lumped in together.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:13
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Sajid just held a little press conference to say they're going to do gently caress all, (remain vigilant!) as the ticker scrolls saying deaths are up 21% this week.
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WhatEvil posted:They should print "smoking causes impotence" if they actually want people (well, men) to stop.  STOP SMOKING OR WE'LL SHOOT YOUR loving COCK OFF
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He just said "we'll be doing everything we can" 3 mins after saying we won't be using plan b
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Lungboy posted:Yeah it's bonkers. The reasoning behind it is twofold apparently. First, they don't like that bikes are altered so much they no longer comply with the emissions limits that they need to adhere to when they come out of the factory, which I can understand from a legal point. The second is to do with autonomous vehicles, and that modifying them could screw up their interactions with other vehicles or their own software. Simply banning all mods does solve both issues but is a massive overreaction. It doesn't help that bikes and cars are all lumped in together. Interesting, I hadn't considered the vehicle recognition software bit. If that really precluded any aftermarket kit from being usable as they currently exist, the industry would need to collaborate with the vehicle manufacturers to figure out what is and isn't possible. Otherwise that entire market is gone. So yeah, massive overreaction. Anyway, I will Have My Say and do the survey thing
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Oct 20, 2021 17:23
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Government to take action after the thing taking action would have prevented has happened.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:23
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I'm not sure you can put the word DEATH on cigarettes any more than you already have. Perhaps they could legislate that all name branding must be from a preapproved list of terms with negative connotations. I'll have 20 of the DeathMurder DoomNonce's please.
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All the data this woman is going through in the press conference right now is basically screaming for action to be taken, right after Sajid said they're not going to do anything.
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OwlFancier posted:I'll have 20 of the DeathMurder DoomNonce's please.
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There used to be a "smoking causes impotence" packet where the image was a cigarette half burned down with the ash not yet flicked off. The ash was just drooping and waiting to fall.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:30
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Do a public health campaign linking smoking to being a peado. Use photos of famous paedos smoking, like Jimmy Saville or Rod Liddle. Have the slogan be sonething like 'most paedos are smokers, don't be like them'.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:41
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Just make cigarettes really big or something so they're too unwieldy to actually smoke and everyone will give up as it's too much hassle and you look a pillock trying to do it.
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https://twitter.com/tomhunt100/status/1450798377252397058?t=fVaSF82upPblmlXEDMbSpg&s=19 Quite interesting, though broadly what you'd expect.
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keep punching joe posted:Do a public health campaign linking smoking to being a peado. Use photos of famous paedos smoking, like Jimmy Saville or Rod Liddle. Have the slogan be sonething like 'most paedos are smokers, don't be like them'. Dammit, PrisonPaul has changed his profile pic from the "SEE! I;M SMOKING! TRIGGERED YET LIBS?!?!?!?" one he had for a while, presumably because his mum found out.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:56
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Death has been kind to Max Mosley I see
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Just make cigarettes really big or something so they're too unwieldy to actually smoke and everyone will give up as it's too much hassle and you look a pillock trying to do it. Limit one per customer.
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My wife's school is closed as of today, back to remote learning only, because so many of the staff and kids are off either tested positive or symptomatic - seems like we're slowly walking into another lockdown by default as things are getting so bad everything is starting to shut down regardless of whether the government says it should or not. This was a school that got through all the previous lockdowns without so much as a burst bubble by the way, in an area of the country with relatively low case levels (relative to the insano levels of the rest of the country at least), so I can't see it being long before things have to change significantly, in schools if nowhere else.
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hmmmmm https://twitter.com/richardgaisford/status/1450860062898102282
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WhatEvil posted:They should print "smoking causes impotence" if they actually want people (well, men) to stop. One of the standard warning labels on tobacco pouches is a shirtless guy looking down at his dick, hand on mouth, and just below him is the label reading SMOKING MAKES YOU IMPOTENT I bear a strong resemblance to that dude, as my friends loved to point out when the packets were changed. All it makes me feel is sad that my lookalike is now Impotence Guy forever.
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One person is killed by a knife and the government wants to redesign the internet but tens of thousands forecasted to die on their watch from preventable illness and it's nothing to do with them, people just have to be sensible about it.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Just make cigarettes really big or something so they're too unwieldy to actually smoke and everyone will give up as it's too much hassle and you look a pillock trying to do it.   We must all play our part. My part is to sit here and make money. Your part is much less pleasant.
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Hmmmm yeah getting a bit nervous now, really not fancying the horsies at this point, think I'll be sending that whatsapp message tomorrow
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Just make cigarettes really big or something so they're too unwieldy to actually smoke and everyone will give up as it's too much hassle and you look a pillock trying to do it. ... stop them being sold? What do you think we are, communists?"
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Bobby Deluxe posted:we put big pictures of horrifying conditions resulting from using them That one kinda backfired... 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
I honestly thought that was a woman. So it's "Stop smoking, you might set fire to your partner's cunny".
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Came here to postPayndz posted:Queen Elizadeath. Queen Elizadeth Or maybe Queen Elizädeth
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Has Queen.
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Clarence posted:Has Queen.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:My wife's school is closed as of today, back to remote learning only, because so many of the staff and kids are off either tested positive or symptomatic - seems like we're slowly walking into another lockdown by default as things are getting so bad everything is starting to shut down regardless of whether the government says it should or not. We're going to have the exact same situation as last year, where the government brings in some hasty restrictions so that everyone can have a lovely half Christmas instead of either it being completely cancelled or everyone's gran dropping dead before new year's day.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:gran dropping dead before new year's day.
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peanut- posted:Also idle curiosity about how quickly supporting Jeremy Croblyn and mild social democracy becomes extremist content. Isnt it already? I seem to remember "membership of left wing groups" being included in one of those Prevent how to spot a terrorist things
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How much is 20 smokes in the UK now anyway? Think it's 15 something eurons in Ireland now
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Failed Imagineer posted:How much is 20 smokes in the UK now anyway? Think it's 15 something eurons in Ireland now Last time I bought 20 richmond for a workmate before all this apocalypse shite they were about £12. Think I quit when they first hit £8.
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