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August 15, 2007
Are These People Insane?
One moment all was quiet, and the next, a disembodied voice was bellowing from somewhere in the vicinity of the begonias. Strictly speaking, it wasn't actually addressing me, and I know this because it said: "this is a no smoking area. Please put your cigarette out. A member of staff has been informed" and I gave up smoking six weeks ago. But really, how Orwellian is that? The smokers looked understandably alarmed, glanced furtively around, and then scarpered. I can't help questioning the wisdom of installing a talking flowerbed to tell people off in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, of all places.
Yes.
It's not helping the nutters either.
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They do that at Tameside hospital in Manchester too. A friend saw some poor woman drag hereself outside for a fag in her dressing gown pulling a drip, and no sooner had she lit up than she was ordered to put it out "in the facility provided" immediately.
Posted by: jamie | Aug 15, 2007 7:35:33 PM
All this public effort to stop smoking but what's being done by government to stop binge drinking by feral youth in Britain and their mindless attacks on anyone older who remonstrates - as in these recent tragic cases:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6947440.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6948537.stm
"A UNITED Nations report has labelled Scotland the most violent country in the developed world, with people three times more likely to be assaulted than in America. England and Wales recorded the second highest number of violent assaults while Northern Ireland recorded the fewest."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1786945,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4257966.stm
All part of Blair's enduring legacy.
Posted by: Bob B | Aug 15, 2007 10:17:21 PM
I'm concerned what you were doing near a psychaitric hospital. Comes to us all eventually, I suppose.
Posted by: jameshigham | Aug 17, 2007 6:54:42 AM
