Hrm
1) Bring back smoking in some pubs, with a sort of sliding license scale - so that pubs with no smoking pay slightly less rates/rent to counteract the lost buisness

2) Devote considerable resources to designing tupperware boxes where the lids aren't so loose they fall off in your bag or so tight that you need a screwdriver to get them off.

3) Create a committie of vaugely sane people. Any advert that wants to be shown has to be veiwed by them three times. If the committie decide that it's overly smug or just fucking annoying it's not shown.

4) Have the shareholders and CEO's responsible for Talktalk broadband publicly shot in trafalgar square.

5) To counteract any future peerages for cash scandals, make everyone over the age of 16 a lord or lady.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:33, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I smoked
A lot. Its a filthy addiction that costs a fortune, costs the taxpayer a fortune and kills you. I really liked smoking but after you have been smoking a while all it does is make you feel "normal" I am so glad they banned it in pubs because it really helped me to quit. The next stage is to ban drinking in pubs to combat alcoholism.
( Peej, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:37, Reply)

Yeah I do understand the health implications and such
But pubs realy aren't supposed to be healthy. And unless they're going to go right out and ban tobacco - which in some ways I'd be behind I don't exactly see why banning smoking in pubs had to happen. Like you said, banning alcohol in pubs would certainly make pubs healthier places to be.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:46, Reply)

All excellent ideas, but policy 3 -
wouldn't a committee of total whackos be better? The idea of wildly trippy adverts completely unrelated to the product would be great fun. Ah, hang on, yes I see what you mean now.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:41, Reply)

Ahh but you see, you'd get weird unrelated ads that where realy trippy
Because the commitie would just watch it three times, think - okay that's fucking weird, but it's certainly not smug and not fucking annoying, so I guess we'd better green light it.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:45, Reply)

But they would all end up like car adverts.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:51, Reply)

But then there would be so many fucking weird trippy ads
that weird trippy ads in themselves would become fucking annoying, and the balance would be restored.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 12:53, Reply)