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BUPA prove they really have got nothing to do...
BillieTheBot
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The march of the nanny state continues unabated, but this time, it's not Labour taking the lead. According to Al JaBeeba; "Soap characters with unhealthy lifestyles should be shown reaping the consequences, say doctors. Private healthcare firm Bupa has released its 'top ten' unhealthiest characters, arguing they could be used to hammer home health messages. It said heavy smoker Dot Cotton, from Eastenders, should appear breathless, with heavy drinkers in soaps having broken veins."
I know it's Christmas and there's next to nothing in the way of proper news around, but this is daft. Don't these wankers at Bupa have anything better to do than watching third-rate soaps? Still, nice work if you can get it, I suppose. I think that EastEnders writers should ensure that Dot Cotton lives until she's around 235 just to annoy these whingers.
Where is this evidence that people copy everything that they see on television? The other night, I watched a classic episode of South Park - but I didn't feel like exterminating the Jews afterwards. I didn't feel the sudden urge to go on a shooting spree when I saw someone with a gun on the telly either. Why was that? Might be something to do with me having a brain...
Over to you.
I know it's Christmas and there's next to nothing in the way of proper news around, but this is daft. Don't these wankers at Bupa have anything better to do than watching third-rate soaps? Still, nice work if you can get it, I suppose. I think that EastEnders writers should ensure that Dot Cotton lives until she's around 235 just to annoy these whingers.
Where is this evidence that people copy everything that they see on television? The other night, I watched a classic episode of South Park - but I didn't feel like exterminating the Jews afterwards. I didn't feel the sudden urge to go on a shooting spree when I saw someone with a gun on the telly either. Why was that? Might be something to do with me having a brain...
Over to you.
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yet you rarely if ever see the negative side effects. To someone our age I doubt it's a problem, but you have to remember young kids watch tv shows like this and are influenced by them.
Bollox.
Most smokers i know really don't have viens sticking out their heads.
Most pot heads i know have very ordinary lives.
Most lager drinkers work hard and raise a family and live to a ripe old age ...but no ...don't show the people this!
A significant proportion of smokers die from smoking related illnesses. Others suffer from them.
A rising proportiong of pot smokers are suffering from extreme psychosis PLUS the problems above.
You're right, a significant majority of people are responsible drinkers. A large number aren't. Nothing bad ever seems to happen to them on TV, but it does in real life.
It's bad (if bad is the right word) than there is no swearing on soaps, as far as credibility goes. You know characters like Frank Butcher would be effing and blinding every other word. If they sanitise it further by pretending working class geezers don't like a drink and a smoke, the likes of Corrie and Eastenders would be about as realistic a portrayal of life in Britain as Star Wars.