Off topic I know, but just to add in another twopenceworth, I went to
buy a new ciggy lighter from the local market today (where I bought my previous one). It was just a plain gas, windproof (flame like a mini Bunsen Burner). Discovered that our idiotic government has banned the sale of novelty lighters, i.e. those with flashing lights or look like mobile phones, even the naked lady type ones. The reason being children might play with them and it might make them start smoking.
Ironically, cigarette lighters depicting
cannabis leaves (an
illegal drug)are not covered by this insane new law (came into effect March this year apparently).
Now, excuse me but when I was a kid, I had it drummed into me not to play with matches or lighters. Neither made me want to start smoking.
This law was snuck in the back door and nothing mentioned anywhere in the media.
Nanny state gone from just plain mad to out and out insane. People can't even
buy a silly looking lighter anymore. What are we, little children that's got to be led by the hand everywhere?
Absolutely ludicrous.
It's high time people got a bit of backbone and stopped acting like a bunch of frightened sheep and started standing up to these appalling, stupid diktats of this government otherwise, one by one and two by two any remaining freedoms we have left will be taken away from us until we are nothing but a bunch of government controlled automatons