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[Ned @nedsaccount]

@mgtruth I don’t think a credit on a prepaid debit card for use on anything in Lidl except booze would traumatise hardworking and caring parents. I’m a bit jaded today. Sat beside some very poor parenting yesterday in town.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog “Set of”

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog Maybe we need a of “slow drinking” principles like Italy’s “slow food”. Never two nights in a row etc. The brewpub down the road has a 0.5% “pace setter” beer for the running club.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog Good stuff. Hard to displace bad habits without providing better ones.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog It does cause alcoholism for about 1% of us but that’s another conversation.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog You said alcohol causes obesity. I said it doesn’t any more than any other calorific intake and that social isolation and inactivity causes obesity. I’ve also said that when alcohol is part of a ritualised system of social inclusion and activity (like sport) it reduces obesity.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog I don’t think I have to “prove” it. It’s an observable fact that successful sports clubs with active memberships have bars. We’re a small colony social animal and we need our tribal rituals including post training/match pints.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog Fair enough. Pint of Guinness 210 calories. Mars bar 51g 228. I was looking at the /100g number (448). I am biased. Clubs need bars. Societies need clubs. 0% pints are available.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog 8 pints of Guinness = 4 mars bars. Booze drunk right in sports clubs with friends, where you walk there and home, does not make you fat. In fact useful ingredient in a life that keeps you fit and happy. Go back and reconsider your point about “our” social infrastructure.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog You’re very rude.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog Although it was more of a week-end post match binge pattern to be fair. The old age midweek wine habit is probably not good.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@HorseRenoir83 @DtexZero @implausibleblog Eating off our laps and sitting on our holes is what’s making us fat. I did my most heroic drinking when I was at my fittest.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@QuriousMr @Quinnnn31419347 @moving_charlie @T_Y_Khalid Easy. A growing economy needs its productive assets to be managed by people who have shown they can properly look after and grow them. Unlike governments who just piss everything up the wall. Tax consumption not stewardship.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@dave43law “Taking furlough cash” = paying people wages during lock-down. Anyone throwing that in as a criticism isn’t worth listening to.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@premnsikka Problem is too little privatisation. Can’t ride two horses. Mixed economy being stolen by hard left grifters. We have the highest tax take in our history and the more we pay the less we get. 1/3 civil servants do the work, 1/3 building empires, 1/3 waiting to retire.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@robjoe11 @floboflo When Ireland let women into the workplace GDP shot up. There had been a worry before that there was only so much work to go around. Maybe the same would happen f a few civil servants were released into the wild.

[Ned @nedsaccount]

@trussliz @Keir_Starmer Topographic prominence seems relevant here