Katy to tackle smoking and drinking if she gets four more years

Chop71 said :

Blow up the pokies!!!!

Having given this issue some thought, I reject my previous view that they should be blown up. I now believe they should be muted – I really believe that if the machines were completely silent, a lot less people would play them.

Blow up the pokies!!!!

kakosi said :

I used to think people were funny but now I think they’re just stupid.

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” [Horace Walpole – apparently]

voytek3 said :

If you really think that encouraging people to stop smoking is an ‘utter embarrassment’ please, take your ilk and don’t come back

Encouraging people to stop smoking in ‘smoke-free public places’, you mean. I’m yet to see any evidence that this actually reduces the number of people smoking cigarettes. It may encourage them to smoke one less cigarette less, though they probably make up for that as they walk to their cars after visiting a smoke-free event/place.

yeah, what a disgraceful policy *rolls eyes*

voytek3 said :

The only solace I can take is that I am getting out of this backward country for good very soon. What an utter embarrassment to not only western society but humanity.

If you really think that encouraging people to stop smoking is an ‘utter embarrassment’ please, take your ilk and don’t come back

Smoking, drinking and fatties!

Katy’s on a roll.

What next?

White commodores?

Hey Katie – go and get stuffed

voytek3 said :

The only solace I can take is that I am getting out of this backward country for good very soon. What an utter embarrassment to not only western society but humanity.

Don’t let the door bang you on the arse on your way out pal.

I just hope you aren’t heading for Russia, China, North Korea, anywhere in the Balkans, Portugal, Ireland, Italy Greece, Spain, Anywhere in the Middle East, Anywhere in Central America, Most of Latin America, Anywhere in Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan in fact any place ending in “stan”, Cambodia, Laos, Burma I could go on an on…

Yes, we do have to put up with Katy and Zed, but that’s not nearly as bad as putting up with corrupt officials who will arrest and execute you to harvest your organs for a profit, or religious nutters who will execute you because you pray to a different version of the same god, or drug lords who will execute you just because they’re feeling a little frisky etc etc

Anyway, wherever you go, there you will be.

kakosi said :

It seems hypocritical to be funding programs to limit or stop use of legal drugs which are freely sold and marketed to the public, while being the source of large amounts of tax dollars enabling the government to govern.

I don’t smoke but I do find it laughable that there are smoke-free outdoor spaces right next to roads where the pollution from motor vehicles is certainly not banned.

I used to think people were funny but now I think they’re just stupid.

Haha true. Not to mention that labour gets huge amounts of income via destroying family’s just as much as alcohol does via poker machines.

It seems hypocritical to be funding programs to limit or stop use of legal drugs which are freely sold and marketed to the public, while being the source of large amounts of tax dollars enabling the government to govern.

I don’t smoke but I do find it laughable that there are smoke-free outdoor spaces right next to roads where the pollution from motor vehicles is certainly not banned.

I used to think people were funny but now I think they’re just stupid.

voytek3 said :

The only solace I can take is that I am getting out of this backward country for good very soon. What an utter embarrassment to not only western society but humanity.

Everyone wins