Thread: Bugger the road toll......

Originally Posted by d2dave

There is no sugar in beer and very little salt, so tell her to bugger off.

Beer is low in vitamins too so you have to drink a lot to get your daily quota of them

Mick,
I'm not sure I can follow the salt licence and salt police thing. But that's OK as I find life more confusing the older I get. We may need a domestic violence police as well cause 2 women die per week from it, and it has no specific money allocation for it's prevention at all.

Ramblingboy
It's no secrete why manufactures make labelling small, or fail to put what's in there. They just don't want to tell you full stop.

67 Hardtop.
Coke, fanta, lemonade call it what you want. It's all laced with truck loads of sugar. I have in the past counted out 14 teaspoons of sugar in front of the kids, and asked what flavouring do you want with your soda water. They think I'm nuts and joking. Coke just market it as fun.

Choice is one thing, but when just about everything that comes in a can or packet is laced with sugar, salt, fats, or oils; choice become very limited. Modern day diets are causing so many health issues no government will be able to keep up. No health insurance policy will be able to be retained from rising costs. My sic and accident police rose 15% every year until I was priced out of the policy. Doctors of stress leave was the reason I got for its increase.

funny old world.

Originally Posted by newhue

I'm not sure I can follow the salt licence and salt police thing. But that's OK as I find life more confusing the older I get. We may need a domestic violence police as well cause 2 women die per week from it, and it has no specific money allocation for it's prevention at all.

I think you understand it better than you think.
Why is it we have a "road toll" that is reported regularly in the news as if it is a blight on society where the "salt toll" and "domestic violence toll" are largely ignored?
Why is it that we are making road related penalties more severe each year and yet the penalties for family violence are rarely upheld and penalties for excessive salt consumption are non existent?

(rhetorical questions)

Mick, perhaps it's because only one individual i.e. the salt taker, is deceased whereas, with a road incident there's probably more than one person involved, plus the unpleasantness of the scene to all involved.
Also, I believe that the general public can "Tsk, Tsk" more at road incidences
so it's good for the government & media!
Steve

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Why is it that we are making road related penalties more severe each year and yet the penalties for family violence are rarely upheld and penalties for excessive salt consumption are non existent?

(rhetorical questions)

Because the government makes money out of road related penalties.

It costs money to police crime.

Rhetorical question meaning:

A Rhetorical Question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point, rather than to elicit an answer.

But, you both have confirmed to me that it is more about the people who are concerned with the road toll than the deceased in the road toll.
It's more about people feeling good they are doing something about a less difficult problem that has less per capita deaths.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Rhetorical question meaning:
Quote:
A Rhetorical Question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point, rather than to elicit an answer.

really?

Originally Posted by Eevo

really?

Eevo, that's GOLD