yeah that anti gambling remake is great, just the kinda thing for the Libz i reckon.

My two pet hates on the TV are that stupid "abuse -it's not okay" ("because it is
our problem) and the other ads on TV about abuse. Why the hell should
we hear, night after night, lazy twits on TV talking about how they
beat up their wife and family.

Well, its just like the anti-smacking bill. It isn't as though you're going to see a child abuser go, "gee, I better not beat my kid into the inch of his life now that section 59 has been repealed!"

There will be regulations on how much you can buy. The Ministry of
Health are thinking of taxation for unhealthy foods and subsidies for
healthier foods at present. It's already happening at university. We
have half price for any fruits we want to buy for our lunches.

Then again, how do you define 'unhealthy foods' when nutricianists themselves say that anything when taken to the logical extreme can be unhealty; heck, eating 5 kgs of apples per day can be unhealthy given the calory intake will be higher than what is required. 

My two pet hates on the TV are that stupid "abuse -it's not okay" ("because it is our problem) and the other ads on TV about abuse. Why the hell should we hear, night after night, lazy twits on TV talking about how they beat up their wife and family.

I'm sure those ads make the day for most abusers -after all, it isn't their fault.
The rest of society will go and hang itself now.

"Socialism may be dead, but its corpse is still rotting up the place." -Ayn Rand

The interesting thing about the gambling advertisement is that you could substitute 'social welfare' as causing all the same issues.

"Problem gambling: our communities, our families, our problem."

Still, someone made good use of it...

Especially the anti-discrimination advertisements on mental health.

Namely, the Ministry of Health’s Like Minds, Like Mine television campaign. "Challenging friends, whanau, family and employers, to ‘make the difference’ by being more inclusive and less discriminatory towards people with experience of mental illness."

Yep, use less judgement and Less discrimination like the police will be doing when they issue firearms licenses. Just like airlines and hospitals who will not be discriminating against mental health when employing pilots and health workers. And more so us. That we should dare use our judgement when Clark lets more convicts with P' addled brains loose on the streets or out on bail.

This woman for example, was ordered "200 hours of community service but managed to escape a prison sentence after her lawyer produced a detailed history of mental health"

I'm a real news hog, however, I can no longer bring myself to watch either Sainsbury or Campbell: life's to short for the frustration they cause me.

At the same time, One Foot in the Grave is on UKTV, so I watch that with a beer. Laughter is good.

That was an 11 minute section, filled in with "Joe/Jane Opinion" street sound bites, 2 patsy interviews (health council and quitline), and all of about 2-3 minutes of studio interview ineptly spread between 2 guests.

After your history with TVNZ it must be agony to watch a goose like Sainesbury talk this stuff. Brain Dead was kind. Hitleresque is fitting, but of course they wouldn't get it... that may take another decade or three.

There will be regulations on how much you can buy. The Ministry of Health are thinking of taxation for unhealthy foods and subsidies for healthier foods at present. It's already happening at university. We have half price for any fruits we want to buy for our lunches.
kkulak

First it is banning smoking in businesses, then the streets, then in peoples houses - heck, what next - are we going to have limits on what we can buy? Maximum of 75g of chocolate per week? maximum of 50g of butter per week per person?

Heck, if you said 10 years ago that smacking would be banned - people would have laughed. Well, here we are, in all of the politically correct glory of Aunty Helen's and Uncle Michaels Brave New World.