Yes this is the type of approach they are using, in New Zealand to control invasive species like Australian possums. I have said for years they should have done more here to control them, Green Parakeets come into the same category, along with signal crayfish.
The Nanny State really has gone totally mad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64315384 What's wrong with people simply saying 'No thanks' to the offer. That's what I did most of the time, although mainly because the 'fashion' at the time was cupcakes with horrible icing and I didn't like them.
I've just got off the phone to my GP surgery trying to arrange blood tests. On hold for 15 minutes only to be told by a very apologetic receptionist that she can't book the appointment because their IT systems are down! These are the superduper new systems which were installed under 3 months ago.
Snow parking The people up the hill from me can't get some of their cars home because they don't put on suitable tyres for the winter so they dump their cars elsewhere and walk. The next street down has a huge open space for parking but they don't park there for some reason and just monopolise our street instead. Then we end up with cars parked everywhere and a slippery road just asking to cause an accident.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Never seen the point of drinking for the sake of it and especially not to get drunk so no need for a dry January. A couple of glasses of wine with dinner a few days of the week do us and sometimes an apéro if it's a special occasion.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I agree with you @Obelixx although I have to confess to becoming accidentally drunk on quite a few occasions in my younger days. I remember thinking - this is nice, let's have more of it, but of course in hindsight it would have been better to have stopped at the 'this is nice' stage - as Adrian Chiles said on the One Show the other day. These days I hardly drink at all - maybe a couple of glasses of wine with a meal if we eat out, or a gin and tonic at the bar when we go to the theatre (that sounds posher than it is, more likely to be our little local community theatre). Not feeling particularly curmudgeonly about anything. What I think of this present govt. goes waaaaay beyond that!
The Govt's worldwide would miss the tax revenue on both tobacco and alcohol - perhaps time to consider using it to help the various "addictive" pogrammes/charities ?
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These days I hardly drink at all - maybe a couple of glasses of wine with a meal if we eat out, or a gin and tonic at the bar when we go to the theatre (that sounds posher than it is, more likely to be our little local community theatre).
Not feeling particularly curmudgeonly about anything. What I think of this present govt. goes waaaaay beyond that!