The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98576 Message #1953562
Posted By: Scrump
31-Jan-07 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: What's happening to us? (UK)
Subject: RE: BS: What's happening to us? (UK)
When my kid went to school, especially once he became a teenager, he probably used to eat junk food at lunchtime. But he always ate healthy foods at home, for breakfast and in the evening, when we always had a proper meal. So we didn't mind if he did eat burgers or chips sometimes, as we knew it was just part of his diet.
In those days (not all that many years ago) I would have been flabbergasted and annoyed if the 'food police' had come after me because my son had been seen eating a Big Mac with fries. My attitude is it's nobody's business but mine and my sons. This is what I object to these days, the interference with normal people's everyday lives. It seems to have become the norm nowadays for this sort of thing to happen, and we all just accept it as part of 21st century life. Have we all taken leave of our senses? Twenty years ago - or even ten - we would have laughed if anyone had predicted we would end up like this today.
I just wish the government would focus on the things that matter instead of making ordinary folks' lives a misery.
As indicated by guitar above, I can see "nanny's" rolled-up umbrella slowly turning into a truncheon :-((((